Summer 2013 Archives - North Carolinians for Home Education

Kevin’s Kluge: What’s in a Name…?

by Spencer Mason | Sep 11, 2013 | Summer 2013, GREENHOUSE

11 Sep 2013 Greetings readers! My name is Kevin McClain, and I am NCHE’s newly-elected president. Previously, I served as the organization’s education VP, who oversees publications, including this magazine. So, some of my writings have appeared here...

Summer Fun with Family Filmmaking

by Spencer Mason | Sep 4, 2013 | Summer 2013, GREENHOUSE

4 Sep 2013 Searching for something fun (and shhh…educational) for your family to do this summer? Why not try filmmaking? That’s what the homeschool family of Gary and Shannon White of Cliffside did. However, their summer project turned into a year-long endeavor....

$The Math around You: Helping Young Children Learn to Think Mathematically$

The Math around You: Helping Young Children Learn to Think Mathematically

by Spencer Mason | Aug 18, 2013 | Summer 2013, GREENHOUSE

Summer 2013/ Alexa Carter Despite popular opinion, math is not a creation of evil masterminds plotting the demise of students and mothers everywhere. I often get the feeling from comments I hear and read that many people think that math isn’t a natural part of our...

Why We Love Classical Education

by Spencer Mason | Aug 14, 2013 | Summer 2013, GREENHOUSE

14 Aug 2013 “[T]he tools of learning are the same, in any and every subject; and the person who knows how to use them will, at any age, get the mastery of a new subject in half the time and with a quarter of the effort expended by the person who has not the tools at...

Ten Fundamental Reasons to Homeschool

by Spencer Mason | Jul 24, 2013 | Summer 2013, GREENHOUSE

24 Jul 2013 Each year at this time, I think about why I homeschool my children. It helps me remember the benefits and blessings when I am prone to feel most like a failure. It was finding a link to a recent article on the ChildrensMD website by medical doctor Kathleen...

NCHE Conference 2013

by Spencer Mason | Jul 17, 2013 | Summer 2013, GREENHOUSE

17 Jul 2013 “In thirty years of speaking at homeschool conferences, I had never attended the NCHE conference until this year. I was blown away. The cost of the conference was underpriced; the location was central; the vendor hall was full of more than anyone could...