Last year I joined a homeschool association just to be able to attend the 
fair and see what it was all about. With it comes the newsletter. Though I 
don't homeschool on a permanent basis at this time, I can see there are many 
good things about homeschool newsletters. One of them in ours is a column 
called "Trading Teaching Tips".
This month's column was really interesting. One mother told how she uses 
dominoes and dice for math practice - from counting to number facts (+,-,x 
and divide). Multiply the two dice together. If you need higher facts (after 
all, dice only go to 6), either add dots with a permanent marker or make your 
own from wood cubes.
Another mom gave some good Internet web sites, and what's good about them:
    http://www.ictheweb.com/hs-web - this one is The Homespun Web of Home 
Educational Resources, such as Ask an Expert, Events, Classified Ads, and How 
To.
    http://www.cyberchurch.or/htsn - this site links up to International 
newspapers, The Jason Project (Titanic discovery) and The Library of 
ngress.
A third mom wrote an inspirational piece about remembering goals for 
homeschooling, how it is tempting sometimes to scrap the curriculum being 
used in favor of something else, but how that may not be completely 
ssary.
                                 -donna
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