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Curriculum Advice from Victoria Botkin Volumes 1 & 2

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Curriculum Advice from Victoria Botkin Volumes 1 & 2


Curriculum Advice from Victoria

Botkin Volumes 1 & 2

$35.00

Curriculum Advice from Victoria Botkin, Volumes 1 & 2 BUNDLE

Homeschooling. Lots of families have done it. But can you do it? How hard is it? What does it actually look like? How do you know if you’re on the right track for success?

Victoria Botkin has seven well-educated children who love home education and who plan to continue the tradition when they have children of their own. This inspiring home educator will tell you how you can teach your child ­ at home ­ successfully, inexpensively, calmly, and with the powerful confidence that you are doing the right thing before God.

Her advice will give you not only practical ideas, but confidence, enthusiasm, and a vision for the importance of your labors. If you want to combine a godly home life with high academic standards, listen carefully to these CDs.

In Volume 1, learn about:

  • Developing the right attitude
  • Choosing materials
  • Choosing curriculum
  • Inspiring them with creativity
  • Turning your home into an incubator of curiosity, exploration and discovery
  • And much more!

    • In Volume 2, you will also hear from Victoria’s seven well-educated children as you learn about:

  • Guiding children into character, maturity and integrity
  • How children can take responsibility for their own education
  • Teaching children to love writing
  • How to use the media
  • Helping your child develop a vision for the future
  • Recognizing and encouraging your children’s gifts
  • Teaching life skills
  • And much more!

    • This message is also available as a US$14 digital download.

    To order do one of the following:

    send email to sales@hef.org.nz with visa number

    post cheque or visa number to PO Box 9064, Palmerston North

    fax 06 357-4389

    phone 06 357-4399

    order here:   

    http://www.sella.co.nz/user/BarbaraNZ/

    Information from: http://firstpacificmedia.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=25

    Father to Son – How to Talk to Your Sons – 6 DVDs

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    Father to Son

    $130.00

    430 minutes in length
    Widescreen NTSC, all regions
    103 pages of study materials

    Fathers need to begin speaking to their sons. But the conversation can’t be aimless or trivial. Fathers need to talk in manly and specific ways about the duties of Christian manhood. This six-part DVD series is designed to provide fathers and future fathers with simple examples of manly discussion. Where does a dad begin? With the pressing issues that weigh on young minds, these informal, unrehearsed conversations between Geoffrey Botkin and his five sons show how it can be done. Click below to watch the trailer:

    Each episode tackles an age appropriate discipline of manhood and how it is developed with fathers. Sons learn the disciplines of manhood through hard work. Fathers interpret the world for sons through shared adventures. Sons learn leadership duties through worship. Sons learn to conquer the world by dominion and to hold the ground they take through spiritual battle. Each rich conversation is broken into short study segments, and thorough Bible-study notes are provided as PDFs which can jump-start family or Bible-study discussions. Also included is the sixth bonus DVD: How To Talk to Your Sons.

    I’d like to prescribe this series for every father in America (and Australia and New Zealand). Fathers desperately need to turn their hearts to their sons. This series will give them confidence to do it.”
    — D. Matthew Clark, M.D.

    To order do one of the following:

    send email to sales@hef.org.nz with visa number

    post cheque or visa number to PO Box 9064, Palmerston North

    fax 06 357-4389

    phone 06 357-4399

    order here:  http://www.sella.co.nz/user/BarbaraNZ/

    Information from: http://firstpacificmedia.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=27

    The Importance of Second Generation Home Schooling-16 April-Hamilton

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    Visionary


    Meeting



    Thursday, 16 April

    2009


    The Importance


    of


    Second


    Generation


    Home Schooling


    Venue: Trinity Reformed


    Baptist Church, cnr Miro and

    Matai Sts, Maeroa, Hamilton


    Cost: Free, Voluntary Donation;

    and please bring a plate.


    Time: 12 noon

    Who can come: Parents, youth and quiet children welcome.


    Speaker: Isaac Botkin


    Contact: David Marshall,


    marshall.family@orcon.net.nz,


    Ph. (07) 843-7554

    Isaac Botkin

    Director & Associate Producer

    Isaac Botkin

    A group of 15 Christian home educating fathers is coming from the USA to investigate New Zealand as a possible place to which to re-locate their families.

    They are eager to meet with other men living in New Zealand to learn about the country, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities, financial institutions, health and welfare issues, how home education works here and what the home education community is like.

    Four public meetings are planned in order to facilitate this, and each meeting is also featuring a formal talk by either Geoff or son Isaac Botkin. These should be of particular interest and benefit to New Zealand Christian home educating fathers, as well as mums, to enhance and encourage their own vision for what home education can and will do for their families, the Church and society as a whole.

    The Botkin family lived near Snells Beach and then in Christchurch for six years, making it their business to meet and get to know as many leaders as they could in the Church, the media, economics, politics, home education, etc. Do strive to come to whichever of their meetings you are able.

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    Isaac Botkin has worked on the cutting edge of production technology since 1995. He has created both classified material for the U.S. Department of Defense and animation for mass media seen on The Discovery Channel, CNN, NET, CBS World News Tonight, National Television of New Zealand, and on broadcasting outlets in Europe and Asia. Television and filmmaking credits include creative director, co-writer, editor, visual effects supervisor, assistant director of photography, art director, and associate producer. His work as a supervising animator has brought him into professional association with the world’s leading visual effects professionals, including the team at Weta Workshop. He is currently a director at First Pacific Information Technology Ltd in New Zealand. Isaac is the author of the book Outside Hollywood.

    Free Range Robotics joint winners at the Vex Robotics 2009 Competition

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    On Saturday 21 March the home school robotics team, ‘Free Range Robotics’, competed in the New Zealand National Championships of the “Vex Robotics 2009 Competition” against high school teams from various parts of New Zealand.

    The competition brief was to design and build a robot to play a game called Elevation, in which the robot collects three-inch cubes and puts them into a variety of ‘goals’.  The game is one of strategy as well as designing, driving, building and programming skills.

    Free Range Robotics came up from behind to come joint FIRST with Avondale College!!!

    The tournament first prize is the right to compete in the World Championships in Dallas at the end of April 2009, as well as airfares paid for six team members.

    These teenagers have done something remarkable by winning the New Zealand Championship at Massey University without the financial backing or support of a school. They are a group of home-educated individuals who, with the support of dedicated parents, have worked together as a team to design, construct and programme a remote-controlled robot to take part in the game. They have done everything from robot design and building, fundraising, PR, uniform design, programming… You name it they have done it.

    They have been told they have a fair chance of doing well in the World Championships. But because they do not have the backing of a school or a major sponsor, raising finances for their team to go is a very real challenge. They are now working on fundraising to pay for the rest of the trip expenses and for more team members to go.  Unfortunately the dream of the whole team going is just a dream. But the more team members who can go, the stronger the team will be. Check out their website at : http://www.robotics.org.nz

    The team is now working on fundraising, and they are also looking for sponsors.

    ** If you know of any source of sponsorship for the team can you let us know?

    ** Also, if you would like to congratulate the team and encourage them please do – they would very much appreciate your encouragement.  Please send a reply to me that I can forward to the team to go on the website.

    Thanks.Stephanie for this report.

    Meetings to strengthen the Family

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    Talks specifically for Christian Dads –Parents, youth and quiet children welcome.

    A group of 15 Christian home educating fathers is coming from the USA to investigate New Zealand as a possible place to which to re-locate their families.

    They are eager to meet with other men living in New Zealand to learn about the country, employment and entrepreneurial opportunities, financial institutions, health and welfare issues, how home education works here and what the home education community is like.

    Four public meetings are planned in order to facilitate this, and each meeting is also featuring a formal talk by either Geoff or son Isaac Botkin. These should be of particular interest and benefit to New Zealand Christian home educating fathers, as well as mums, to enhance and encourage their own vision for what home education can and will do for their families, the Church and society as a whole.

    The Botkin family lived near Snells Beach and then in Christchurch for six years, making it their business to meet and get to know as many leaders as they could in the Church, the media, economics, politics, home education, etc. Do strive to come to whichever of their meetings you are able.

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    AUCKLAND Public Meeting
    Date: 14 April Tuesday
    Venue: Ngaire Ave Bible Chapel
    3 Ngaire Ave, Epsom, Auckland 1003

    http://www.google.co.nz/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GZAZ_en-GBNZ315NZ315&q=map+of+ngaire+ave+newmarket+auckland&safe=active
    6:30pm Public meeting
    Speaker:: Geoffrey Botkin
    Topic: New Zealand‘s Future Role in the History of Christianity

    Admission: Free, with voluntary offering

    For more information:

    Contact:: Chris and Erin OR Craig and Barbara Smith
    Email: cjanderin@maxnet.co.nz OR  barbara@hef.org.nz
    Phone:     (09) 579-4877 OR (06) 357-4399

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    HAMILTON Public Meeting

    Date: April 16 Thursday, 12 noon

    Event: Bring and Share Lunch

    Speaker:  Isaac Botkin

    Venue: Trinity Reformed Baptist Church

    Cnr Miro and Matai Street, Maeroa, Hamilton

    Topic: The Importance of Second Generation Home Schooling: Isaac Botkin

    Admission: Free, with voluntary offering

    For more information:

    Phone: 07 843-7554

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    TAURANGA Public Meeting

    Date: April 16 Thursday

    Venue: Mt Baptist Church

    cnr Ranch Road and Tui Street, Mt Maunganui

    7:00pm  Public meeting

    Topic:The Three Greatest Issues Facing the Men of New Zealand: Geoffrey Botkin
    Question and Answer

    Admission: Free, with voluntary offering

    Phone:  07 575-5787

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    CHRISTCHURCH Public Meeting

    Date: April 20, Monday
    Venue: Middleton Grange School, 50 Acacia Avenue, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 8041

    7:30 pm Public Meeting

    Speaker: Geoffrey Botkin

    Topic: How Men Can Strengthen Their Families in the 21st Century, And Why This is Important

    Admission: Free, with voluntary offering

    For more information:

    Contact:  Calvary Office OR Craig and Barbara Smith

    Phone: (03) 341-5223 OR (06) 357-4399

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    Geoffrey Botkin
    Writer, Director, & Producer
    Geoffrey Botkin

    Veteran producer and IT pioneer Geoffrey Botkin serves as an advisor to the Western Conservatory of the Arts and Sciences. He has written and directed some of the most controversial and widely watched public affairs films of the last twenty years, reaching viewers across the U.S., Russia, Europe, and Australasia. He has produced or executive-produced more than one-hundred documentary films, television productions, and other media projects.

    In addition to time spent as CEO of an experimental international print/broadcast/Internet media conglomerate, Mr. Botkin has invested many years into the training of young media professionals, primarily at Deerwood Studios in the U.S. and the Family Television Network of New Zealand.

    Mr. Botkin has lectured on philosophy and history at Hillsdale College, on politics at the Heritage Foundation, and on theology at worldview conferences in the U.S. and New Zealand. With his wife and seven children, he is currently researching the future of the feature motion picture.

    Family websites:

    http://westernconservatory.com/

    To hear some of Geoffrey’s talks:

    Geofreyf’s daughters (Authors of So Much More) blog:

    Return of the Daughters DVD
    https://hef.org.nz/2008/2720/

    Geoffrey’s oldest son’s blog – Isaac will be speaking in Hamilton

    https://hef.org.nz/2009/hamilton-meeting-the-importance-of-second-generation-home-schooling/