The Home & School Times
"The Interactive Newspaper for Kids"
Edited by some homeschool kids and their mom, The Home & School Times
is a newspaper by and for children and youth. "Its original purpose was
to showcase the works of our talented home schoolers and inform people of
events in the [Barrie ON] area. Some children in the school system also wanted
to participate and so we opened it up." Kids are invited to submit stories,
artwork, poetry, photographs and anything that can be printed. The newspaper
can be delivered to your door. $25 covers the cost of printing and mailing
11 issues each year. It can also be found in libraries around Simcoe County
and Oro Medonte. Editors are home-based learners Andre (teen) and Nicky (pre-teen)
and their mom Beverly. Some articles will be reprinted on the OFTP
website.
PO Box 247, Moonstone ON L0K 1N0
705-835-3256
hs-times@
(add sympatico.ca to complete the email address)
The Homeschooler's Guide
"Connecting Families with Resources" --New as of Fall 2004, this is both an informational website and a magazine available online and in print. Published three times each year with new homeschool articles, activities, products and services. Available online in pdf format. Some of the info is specific to Calgary, but much is relevant to all Canadian home based learning families.
Homeschooling Horizons Magazine
Encouragement and practical ideas for the homeschooling parent. First distributed in Quebec in 1996, it went national in 2000 and now has readers from other countries as well. Published 10 times a year. You can receive a free sample copy to check it out.
Kids' Town - The Newsletter for Homeschoolers by Homeschoolers
Anna Kulczyk from Ancaster, Ontario, is an independent learner who started this newsletter in print form with the help of her sister and a couple of other homeschooling friends. Apparently she was quite young at the time, since by 2003 (when she was 13) the newsletter had been going for 6 years! She was interviewed in Girls' Life magazine in March 2003. That's also around the time when the online version of the newsletter stopped being updated. Hard to know what Anna and Kidstown have been up to since then, as the email address is no longer valid. (Anna, if you're out there, drop us a line!) Neither is the original URL, kidstownglobal.com. The Spring 2003 issue is still online on the Hamilton CommunityNet server, though, so you can check it out to get an idea of what had been accomplished... and what gap you might like to try and fill if you are a Canadian homelearning kid yourself!
Life Learning Magazine
Published 6 times a year by Wendy Priesnitz, author of Challenging Assumptions in Education and other books. Articles to inspire and provide information about self-directed learning and natural parenting.
