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May 06 2013
Roots, the Traditional Home Education Program for Alberta Christian Schools
Heritage Christian Online School in an evangelical Christian program which has faithfully served the Christian British Columbia community for many years. For the 2013-2014 school year Heritage is expanding to Alberta, and they have asked Roots to be their Alberta…
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May 01 2013
Learn More About Roots: Supporting & Assisting Christian Home Educators
Would you like to learn more about the Roots Homeschooling Program or about home education in general? If so, you will want to attend one of our information evenings. On Thursday, May 30, 2013 you are invited to an informal…
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April 03 2013
Learn to Program with Hackety Hack
by Andy Harris
There are many great things you can do with computers: play music, view websites, do research, interact with people, and much more. Of course, computing gets more interesting when it is about creating things: writing your own…
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April 03 2013
Kitchen Lab
Are you looking for something fun to do for science? Or, maybe you would like to add some fun, edible experiments to your science program. This article has lots of ideas.
The Old Schoolhouse Oct 2012 - Kitchen Lab…
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November 20 2012
Apps in Home Education
Does your family use apps as part of their home education program? An increasing number of mothers post on Roots-talk that they’re looking for apps for specific purposes. This article from The Old Schoolhouse Magazine reviews some interesting educational apps. …
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October 31 2012
Creating Brilliant Students
This fascinating article follows some of the same research our facilitator Laural was investigating last year. We are definitely beautifully and wonderfully made.
The Old Schoolhouse, Feb 2012 - Creating Brilliant Students
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September 26 2012
The Way They Learn
The Way They Learn
Christian parents want to train up their children in the way they should go. Christian home-schooling parents take on an additional challenge: to teach their children in the way they should learn. In her book,…
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September 04 2012
M3 = Mom x Math x Monopoly
by Lori Lynn Lydell
I have used games to teach many subjects over the years, but in our home math is the subject that is reinforced with games most often. Once a month, our boys are allowed to pick a…
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August 23 2012
Be sure to Fail a Little Every Day
by Amy Barr
Do you grant lots of do-overs, re-tries, and mulligans? Does your child get second, third, and fourth chances on every assignment? Do you set deadlines for academic projects and then move those goals back two or three…
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August 23 2012
Preschool 101
By Kendra Fletcher
One of the beautiful things about homeschooling preschoolers in this decade is that so many have gone before us. You may even be one of those homeschoolers who has been at it for a long while and…
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July 12 2012
Someone to Lean On
by Nicole Neeley
Each year, our local homeschool group holds an annual used book and curriculum sale. I look forward to this day all year long, and I am never disappointed. A large group of ladies bring all sorts of…
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July 12 2012
An Education in Relationship
by Heather Berryman
After spending most of six years as an overtime student and frantic job hunter, my relationship with my two children had suffered damage, as had my relationship with Christ. The truth is that I was choking on…
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May 01 2012
Roots Parents Talk about the Fine Arts
Hearing how the AISI Fine Arts project has affected so many families is thrilling. Here is what Roots parents have shared.
Roots Parents Talk about the Fine Arts
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April 30 2012
The Gift of Boredom
By Carol Barnier
A 10-year-old boy takes a mental survey of his “electronic entertainment” options in a matter of seconds. Uninterested, he snaps the power button to “off” and tosses the gadget onto the couch with an exasperated sigh. He…
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April 12 2012
Three Easy to Remember Opportunities for Living the Educational Life
By Karen Andreola
A home teacher wanders through a maze of options. The complexity she faces can easily put her in a muddle. Decisions of all kinds must be made. Upon entering the maze it is good to pause…
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January 26 2012
AHEA Homeschooling Conference
Are you interested in attending Alberta’s province-wide homeschooling conference? AHEA (Alberta Home Education Association) annually provides a large conference, a great opportunity for Christian support and encouragement! If you come, stop by the Roots booth to say ‘Hi’. http://aheaonline.com/index.php/convention-2012…
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January 26 2012
The Ordinary Homeschooler
By Deborah Wuehler
There is nothing out of the ordinary about our family. We are your average, middle-income, American family. We just happen to have more children than the average (8), and we just happen to have this “against the…
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January 26 2012
Give Thanks! A Unit Study About Gratefulness
As homeschooling families, we have the opportunity daily to nurture Godly character in our children, both by example and via instruction. Gratefulness is a character quality that is pleasing to God. We know this because throughout His Word, in both…
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November 08 2011
The Impatient Homeschooler
As a follow-up on Gail’s recent support group presentation on how we as Christians deal with anger, I encourage you to read this article. As Gail wisely instructed us, we need to learn how to deal with our own anger…
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October 20 2011
Teaching Your Right-Brain Child: Plan B By Dianne Craft, MA, CNHP
God has a wonderful sense of humor, I believe. He wants us to grow and stretch. One of the ways He does this is to give us children who are very different from each other. Just as it is very…
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September 20 2011
Steve Demme - A Homeschool Journey
Steve Demme—A Homeschool Journey
By Liz Koon
God began leading Steve Demme to homeschool in 1976, even before he had children or was married. A class he attended in seminary led to the beginning of his homeschool journey and…
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September 20 2011
Research Revelation about Homeschooling
Research Revelations About Homeschooling
By Brian D. Ray, Ph.D., President, National Home Education Research Institute
Parent-led home-based education continued to be common, if not the norm, for most of the time for most children’s lives through the nineteenth century.…
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August 17 2011
Families Interested in Joining Roots
Families interested in joining Roots are strongly encouraged to get their paperwork submitted soon. As families are accepted into the program, two things happen. First, they are assigned a facilitator. Roots has a limited number of qualified facilitators. Submitting your…
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March 17 2011
Independance
http://www.jeanniesjournal.com/2008/09/independence.html
Did you know that homeschooled students perform better in college than their institutionally schooled counterparts? One thing that makes homeschooled students perform so well in college is the fact that they are used to being autonomous and independent…
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November 02 2010
Interviews with Christian Artists - Part 1 & 2
Anna Van Hooft, a TV and movie actor, interviewed fellow Christian artists with the goal of sharing a little of their journeys with Roots families. Since the volume of information was too extensive for our newsletter, she has divided her…
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