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Wanganui Home Educators Workshop 21 February 2009

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Wanganui Home Educators Workshop

Date: 21 February 2009

Venue: Wanganui East Baptist Church – cnr Nixon and Moana Streets

Cost: $10.00 per person or $15.00 per family or $5.00 per session

Time: 9am to 5pm

Programme:

9.00am Registration and view resource tables

9.15am    Welcome and Notices

9.30am    2 Electives

1. Erena Fussell of LearnEx – Living Room Adventures

Make history come alive in your own home! Hear how to learn history with literature and enliven your study and your children’s mind

2. Craig Smith – Getting Things Into Perspective

Including Dad’s essential role in Home Education and how we can reform the future through home education

10.30am    Morning Tea

11.00am    2 Electives

1. Barbara Smith – Avoiding Burnout

Keeping going when the going gets tough

2. Craig Smith – Changing the heart of a Rebel

For preventing rebellion and dealing with it – Christian presentation


12.30pm Lunch – bring your own, hot drinks provided

1.00pm    2 Electives

1. Craig Smith – The Importance of Reading Aloud

2. Barbara Smith – Training our Children’s Minds

Learn the tools of Learning and Motivation and how to teach using the Trivium method

2.30pm    Afternoon Tea

3.00pm 2 Electives

1. Craig Smith – Home Educating the Secondary Years

What to do in the Secondary years and preparing for Tertiary and  the Workforce




2. Erena Fussell – Early Education


Resource Stands:

Dayspring  http://www.schools.roadshow.org/dca/

Geneva Books http://www.genevabooks.org/

Home Education Foundation https://hef.org.nz

Learnex  http://www.learnex.co.nz/

Contact and please pre-register with: Lisa  neil.lisa [at] xtra.co.nz 06 345 8645

The Thinking Toolbox

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The Thinking Toolbox

Thirty-Five Lessons That Will Build Your Reasoning Skills

NZ$38.50

by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn

This book is like a toolbox, full of different kinds of tools you can use for different thinking tasks. Just as you use the wrench in a regular tool box to fix the sink, so you can use the tools we give you in this book to solve thinking problems.

  • When it is dumb to argue
  • Using the scientific method
  • Five rules of brainstorming
  • Who has a reason to lie?
  • How to analyze opposing viewpoints
  • How to analyze evidence and sources
  • How to list reasons why you believe something
  • And much more

We wrote this book for children and adults who want to learn logic and critical thinking skills. The Thinking Toolbox follows the same style as The Fallacy Detective with lessons and exercises and an answer key in the back. Parents and teachers, as well as anybody who wants to learn logic, will find The Thinking Toolbox easy to use and practical.

Features:

  • Fun to use – not dry like a math textbook
  • Can be used after The Fallacy Detective
  • Introductory – teaches skills you can use right away
  • Self-teaching format
  • For ages thirteen and older
  • Over 60 cartoon illustrations by Richard LaPierre

See Also
Trivium Pursuit

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/hef/

Wanganui Home Educators Workshop 21 February 2009

Posted on by

Wanganui Home Educators Workshop

Date: 21 February 2009

Venue: Wanganui East Baptist Church – cnr Nixon and Moana Streets

Cost: $10.00 per person or $15.00 per family or $5.00 per session

Time: 9am to 5pm

Programme: Coming soon

Speakers: Erena Fussell, Craig and Barbara Smith

Resource Stands:

Dayspring  http://www.schools.roadshow.org/dca/

Geneva Books http://www.genevabooks.org/

Home Education Foundation https://hef.org.nz

Learnex  http://www.learnex.co.nz/

Contact and please pre-register with: Lisa  neil.lisa [at] xtra.co.nz 06 345 8645