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Reading for Life: Te Lost Arts of Making and Mending© Beverley Paine, 2004 In the homeschool we provide plenty of opportunity to develop craft skills through exciting projects that captivate the children's imagination or provide suitable props for their many games. There's a more practical side to developing craft and technology skills though; we're preparing our children to be self-reliant, teaching them self-sufficiency and conservation skills that will save valuable resources and help them to become independent and useful members of society. There are oodles of craft books full of wonderful activities that teach, step by step, how to make anything from a woollen scarf to a kitchen sideboard, to a robot carrying a snack tray! Find books or kits that excite and interest your child, or you. When you are engaged in craft or technological projects, even if you don't involve your children, you are modelling valued life-skills. In time they will emulate your example, even if they aren't interested at this stage. Always invite them to join in, but don't feel the need to coerce or bribe them. Get involved in their projects too, with real enthusiasm, in whatever way you can, without taking over completely! If you're like me, you read the packaging and instructions to just about everything you buy. A long time ago I grew tired of watching other people struggle to put together something new, give up in frustration when they hit a snag, then dig out the directions. I've always been a great believer in 'reading the instructions first'. I love instructions. It's a quick and easy way to learn new skills. Sometimes I need to ask about a term or find a definition for new words in the dictionary. I can't imagine a home without one, two or three dictionaries of different sizes scattered throughout the house or shed! We have books that show us how to build a garden wall that won't fall over, how to repair the plumbing under the kitchen sink, how to change a light bulb. We have books that show us how to crochet, knit, sew and embroider. We have building books, gardening books, cooking books, home repair books, and books that show us how to build up, identify and label elaborate collections. We also have books that show us how to solve problems on the computer, how to use the programs, how to surf the Internet and find instructions on how to do just about anything we'd ever want, or need, to do! I know that I am continuously demonstrating that I am reader and that the written word is an integral and powerful tool in my life. My children want to become readers to be able to access the information they need to do what they want, as well as an enjoyable past time. We don't need to invent reading-related jobs or chores around the house or copy contrived classroom antics to encourage children to read. On those long days when there doesn't seem much to do and we're all bored with what we've been doing it's time to dust off some of the jobs we never get around to doing. Here are some reading-rich examples of activities that you can share with your children:
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.
Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and since then continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home.
In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and was a committee member for three years during which time she edited and produced the HEA Newsletter, Stepping Stones for Home Educators magazine, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications.
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