New Help for Homeschoolers in High School

A long-time acquaintance of mine has successfully navigated her way through the educational process with a highly gifted son and come out the other side as an educational consultant.  Her new website offers invaluable information for those who are preparing to homeschool for the high school years and who would like to maximize college acceptances and scholarships.  I hope that you will take a look at this great resource and pass it along!

Her business is called Homeschool Success and here is the website:

http://homeschoolsuccess.com/about-me/

Regena

Murder, Mystery, and Mayhem, Oh My!

One of the classes I'm working on for fall involves exploring beginning logic topics using detective stories, among other things.  The children will be reading from Illustrated Junior Libraries The Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, and The Father Brown Reader, Stories from Chesterton, adapted by Nancy Carpentier Brown.

     


http://www.amazon.com/Mysteries-Sherlock-Holmes-Illustrated-Library/dp/0448409577/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342621848&sr=8-1&keywords=illustrated+junior+library+the+mysteries+of+sherlock+holmes

http://www.amazon.com/The-Father-Brown-Reader-Chesterton/dp/0976638673

We will practice using deductive (or inductive) reasoning skills as they read.  I am creating info on some things for them to look for in their reading each week, and also using some of the handouts from the Scholastic site regarding detective stories:

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/exploring-mystery-genre

In class, we'll be using A Case of Red Herrings and the Mind Bender Warm-Ups books to train our brains.  I'll be sending home some of the puzzles from Mind Bender A1 through 4 for them to work on as we move through the course, as well as providing links to online logic games and puzzles.

     


http://www.amazon.com/Case-Red-Herrings-Mysteries-Questioning/dp/089455462X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342622018&sr=1-1&keywords=a+case+of+red+herrings  (this is an updated version of what I own....)

http://www.amazon.com/Benders-Grades-Deductive-Thinking-Anniversary/dp/B003ZOLGZG/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342622165&sr=1-7&keywords=mind+bender+warm+up

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Benders-Deductive-Thinking-Skills/dp/B004RHLX30/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342622220&sr=1-2&keywords=mind+bender+A1%2C+A2%2C+A3  (these are an updated version of what I own....)

We'll also be discussing elements found within the Bluedorns books The Thinking Toolbox and
The Fallacy Detective.

       

http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Toolbox-Thirty-five-Lessons-Reasoning/dp/0974531510/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342622308&sr=1-1&keywords=the+thinking+toolbox+thirty-five+lessons+that+will+build+your+reasoning+skills

http://www.amazon.com/Fallacy-Detective-Thirty-Eight-Recognize-Reasoning/dp/0974531537/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342622357&sr=1-1&keywords=the+fallacy+detective+thirty-eight+lessons+on+how+to+recognize+bad+reasoning


We may dabble in some more mathematical forms of logic using the game of SET and The aMAZEing Labyrinth:




http://www.amazon.com/SET-Enterprises-100-Set/dp/B00000IV34/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1342623376&sr=1-1&keywords=SET+game



http://www.amazon.com/Ravensburger-Labyrinth-Anniversary-Edition-Family/dp/B004G8QNO4/ref=sr_1_cc_2?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1342623190&sr=1-2-catcorr&keywords=the+amazing+labyrinth+game+ravensberger

I also have a Wishbone game, a Crime Lab kit, a Fingerprint kit, and other logic related puzzles we can delve into as we go along....

Regarding Sherlock Holmes, I'll be using these Dover resources as well:

So that's my idea for studying logic this fall... how do you like it?

Regena

One of my Culture Swap Packages Arrived in the Phillipines!

Yeah!  One down and two to go.  I hope everyone receives their packages intact.  Read about it here:

http://gensanmommyjournals.blogspot.com/2012/07/worldwide-culture-swap-group-62-from.html?showComment=1342614742010#c2325971543024728028

And if you'd like to participate in a cultural exchange, you can find information about that here:

http://www.worldwidecultureswap.com/

I will caution you to read carefully their cautions about attempting to protect yourself from getting burned, as it has evidently happened to a lot of folks participating....

Regena