Monday, June 11, 2007
 

Personalized Graduation


One glance at her son's high school diploma and Brenda Heagy's thoughts and emotions were hurled back 18 years.
"I took one look and it was like reading his birth certificate for the first time. This is so heart-wrenching," said Heagy of Fairfield, whose son was one of 17 graduates to flip their tassels Saturday at the North Central Montana Home Education graduation ceremony.Read more...

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Monday, April 23, 2007
 

Choice allows family to fly high


When Margaret and Peter Smith moved from suburban Maryland to Lewistown, Mont., in 1991 with a company relocation, they loved the wide open spaces and natural beauty.
Living seven miles from the town of 6,000, they built a landing strip and hangars for the two airplanes Mr. Smith flies as a private pilot, and had plenty of space for their growing family to explore.
However, Mr. Smith's job in mechanical work often prevented him from spending as much time with his family as he wished. In 1994, Mrs. Smith informed the county superintendent of schools of her intent to home-school...Read more...

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Monday, April 02, 2007
 

Montana bee won by Homeschooler


BUTTE - After nearly four hours, 25 rounds and more than 300 words, Ravalli County's Sarah Harmsworth was crowned the Montana spelling champion in the 42nd annual Treasure State Spelling Bee held Saturday in Butte. The bee is sponsored by Lee Newspapers on Montana.
“I assumed Tim Best would get it,” an excited Harmsworth, 13, said of third-place finisher and spelling powerhouse Best, 13, whose trip over the word “dermonecrotic” opened the door for Harmsworth and second-place finisher Nicholas Peyton of Bozeman. Best, a homeschooler from Joliet, took second in last year's bee. Read more...

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
 

Halt mandatory ed, Montana lawmaker says


HELENA - A bill by the Legislature's lone Constitution Party representative would abolish compulsory attendance for Montana's children at public, private or home schools.
Rep. Rick Jore, of Ronan, told the House Education Committee Monday that current law, which mandates all children ages 7 to at least 16 attend some type of school, presupposes that the state has the final say in a child's education.Read more...

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Mrs. Claus Explains it All

by Elsbeth Claus (Christi Love)
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Reviewed by Kathy Davis

In case you were wondering what happens to all those letters that kids mail every Christmas addressed to Santa: North Pole, Mrs. Claus as second in command sorts and helps Santa answer them. And now she's published, "Mrs. Claus Explains it All", using this bright and lively large hard-cover picture book to answer some of the most common questions they receive every year. Read more...

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Humpty Dumpty Jr: Hardboiled Detective (The Case of the Fiendish Flapjack Flop)

by Nate Evans, Paul Hindman, and Vince Evans
Reading level: ages 9-12
Reviewed by Kathy Davis

In this egg-citing new series Humpty Dumpty Jr. is a wise cracking trench coat sporting detective. He's the egg to call when you need help cause he always "cracks" the case. His office walls in New Yolk City are framed with notes of thanks and awards for his previously solved cases. We got the three little pigs thanking him for saving their bacon, and a Royal Proclamation from Dorothy granting him Emerald Knight of Oz status. Read more...

Posted at November 14 2008 18:16:04 |

Rime to Read (website) http://www.rimetoread.com/

Reading level: Ages 4 and up
Reviewed by Kathy Davis

Rime to Read is a virtual reading program for beginner readings. It consists of 20 books that use "rime" (words that rhyme and look alike, such as sit, hit, lit). Only single syllable short vowels are introduced, along with 46 popular sight words. The books can be read on-line, or printed out, or both. It is a very convenient method for those who have young learners that are just starting on their reading pathways. Read more...

Posted at November 14 2008 17:39:29 |

The Unexpected When You’re Expecting (A Parody)

by Mary K. Moore
Reading level: Adult
Reviewed by Cynthia Clarke

When I was making my way through my own pregnancies, I was never far from the essential “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” manual to guide me from stage to stage. So when I was presented with an opportunity to review this parody I thought it might be fun. Read more...

Posted at November 14 2008 17:17:29 |

Molly's Pilgrim

by Barbara Cohen
Reading level: Ages 6 - 9
Reviewed by Wayne S. Walker

Molly, a Jewish girl, and her family have moved to America from Russia. Her mother says that the reason was to escape religious persecution and find freedom. First they lived in a tenement house in New York and Papa worked in a factory. Then they came to Winter Hill where Papa works in Mr. Brodsky's store and they live in the apartment above. However, the children in Molly's third-grade class make fun of her accent and clothes. Molly even thinks about going back to Russia. Read more...

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