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NC Homeschoolers
The NC Homeschoolers list is organized for the sole purpose of sharing thoughts and ideas about homeschooling. This is an inclusive group.
How I Teach a Large Family in a Relaxed, Classical Way: Fine Arts
Ideas for incorporating fine art education into a large homeschool family curriculum.
Free Math Worksheets
Generate multiple kinds of worksheets. Choose from Basic Math, Pre-Algebra, Sudoku, Word Searches, Word Scrambles and more.
Socialization in the Singular
What’s the minimum number of children required to homeschool successfully? If you’ve ever wondered whether you can homeschool an only child, this podcast is for you! HSLDA President Mike Smith discusses socialization for the only child and how you can home educate well.
Soft Schools
Generate free printable math worksheets for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and pre-algebra.
8 Preschool Math Ideas Using Toy Vehicles
These fun math activities use simple toy cars to teach ordinal numbers, sorting, counting, number recognition, subitizing, patterns, colors, and addition.
Five Ways to Make Geometry Memorable
The key to teaching students the basics of geometry is making it memorable. Get them out of their seats to experience geometry.
PBS Kids Math Games
This is a huge collection of online math games for preschool and elementary aged kids.
The Last Word on Homeschooled Children and Their Social Skills: Why and How Our Worry About These Children Needs to End

When talking about socialization, we are referring to children's ability to engage with and function effectively and productively in the world around them. Schooling can play a role, but not the powerful or always positive one so often assume. Homeschooled children are generally found to be well-adjusted and demonstrate fewer behavioral problems than their schooled peers. 

The Battle of H.R. 6
House Resolution 6 of 1994 was a reappropriations bill for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Ordinarily such bills deal with public education and would have little, if any, impact on home educators. But that year, a few small wording changes affected thousands upon thousands of home schooling families, and resulted in over a million phone calls to Congress.

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