Fall 2006 Back Issue

Description

The main themes of our Fall 2006 issue are high school & higher education,a holiday section including lost arts, and a timeline of medical history.

Contents include:

• From Our Family To Yours Meet the publishers of The Old Schoolhouse^®Magazine in Dandridge, Tennessee.
• Editorial JenIg tells you how to make a monster—or not.
• Chapel One thing you can’t live without will cost you all you have.
• Teachers’ Lounge Exchange ideas with and enjoy hearing from other homeschoolers.
• Show and Tell Join us for a visit with homeschooling families who have opened their homes to you!
• HomeschoolBlogger Benefits of Internet blogging and what you need to know about copyright.
• Show and Tell, Too Fine arts focus, the music and math connection, and more!
• Media Spotlight More on unschooling, and homeschoolers using film production for Christian witness.
• Young Patriots Three homeschool students participate in government and politics in three great ways.
• Finishing the Race 33 electives Christine Field evaluated for you; testing information; benefits of portfolio preparation; a transcript checklist, homeschool-friendly college directory, and more!
• Homeschool Valedictoria This homeschool grad shares her experience living and learning abroad for a year after high school.
• Homeschooling 101 Dr. Ruth Beechick explains why two grammar “rules” are really grammar myths!
• Special Feature Offering thanks at Thanksgiving and looking forward to Christ’s nativity with our special 12 days of Christmas!
• Styles The passion behind Christian Cottage Unit Studies.
• Homeschool Units Amanda Bennett brings you a unit study all about the history of medicine in the U.S.
• Little Artists How to draw reindeer, plus lots of interesting facts about them!
• Home Ec Martha Greene shares a step-by-step guide to a home- and heart-warming midwinter gathering, plus a simple but delightful sewing project from Rebekah Wilson.
• Field Trip Tips for travel to the UK!
• The Natural Schoolhouse Preserving the bounty of harvest through canning, plus some simple Christmas gifts from your homestead.
• Contests for Readers See all the prizes we’re giving away in this issue!
• Lab More product reviews by real homeschoolers!
• The Last Laugh Another Haptoon, plus cartoons by a homeschooler.
• Graduates TOS congratulates homeschool graduates!