{"id":152717,"date":"2006-06-18T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2006\/06\/18\/who-convention\/"},"modified":"2006-06-18T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-18T10:07:00","slug":"who-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2006\/06\/18\/who-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">I just attended the Washington Homeschool Convention yesterday.&nbsp; I attended two sessions.&nbsp; <\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">The first was to listen to the Sonlight rep.&nbsp; I was able to get some of my questions answered and feel even more convinced that this would be a good choice for our family, when the time comes.<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">The second session was about using the community to help enhance your child&#39;s education.&nbsp; It turned out to be not what I was expecting, but I did learn a couple things of interest:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">I learned that <A href=\"http:\/\/www.4husa.org\/\">4H<\/A>&nbsp;has a much broader organization that I thought.&nbsp; They have activities for kids in the city, as well as diverse subjects, like forestry, environmental management, living skills, and youth leadership.<\/DIV><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">The <A href=\"http:\/\/washingtonstatemuseums.org\/\">Washington Museum Association<\/A>&nbsp;has a brochure that contains a map of all the museums in Washington state.&nbsp; The include all kinds&#8230;art, historical, cultural&#8230;<\/DIV><\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">I spent the rest of the day in the resource fair.&nbsp; Here are some of the items I purchased, or is of interest to me at this time:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.accountablekids.com\/\">Accountable Kids<\/A>&nbsp; I had a great talk with the owner and designer of this system.&nbsp; I bought this for both the boys and look forward to getting sterted on it.<\/DIV><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.heritagemakers.com\/\">Heritage Makers<\/A>&nbsp; A way to document your special memories, stories, etc.<\/DIV><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.campathome.com\/\">Camp at Home<\/A> Her site is not up yet, but keep an eye on this one.&nbsp; She provides special &#8220;summer camp&#8221; unit studies for the summer.<\/DIV><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.doorposts.net\/\">Doorposts<\/A>&nbsp; I have not purchased their charts yet, but plan to someday.<\/DIV><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.power-glide.com\/\">Power Glide Foreign Language<\/A>&nbsp;It will by a few more years before we consider a foreign language, but I liked what they have to offer.<\/DIV><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\"><A href=\"http:\/\/teachmagazine.com\/\">TEACH Magazine<\/A>&nbsp; Great magazine, and a terrific booth.&nbsp; At this booth, I purchased the books, &#8220;Welcome Home, Daddy: traditional values for modern mothers&#8221; by Lorrie Flem, &#8220;Created to be His Help Meet&#8221; by Debbi Pearl, and a cookbook by Lorrie Flem.<\/DIV><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV style=\"MARGIN: 0px\">Lastly, I purchased the great little set up that a mom made.&nbsp; It is a flexible chalkboard (a fabric) that can be folded up and carried with you.&nbsp; I bought one for each of the boys and look forward to using it in the car.<\/DIV><\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just attended the Washington Homeschool Convention yesterday.&nbsp; I attended two sessions.&nbsp; The first was to listen to the Sonlight rep.&nbsp; I was able to get some of my questions answered and feel even more convinced that this would be a good choice for our family, when the time comes. &nbsp; The second session was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-homeschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}