Recommended Homeschooling Classes, Fall 2008 and ongoing
Classes are held at the EIE Resource Center unless otherwise indicated: 2640 S. Myrtle Ave.Monrovia, CA 91016 (626) 821-0025. Some courses may also be offered online.
Many classes are ongoing with open enrollment. Please contact the individual teacher for enrollment questions, and online class availability.
Homeschooling in Action
Consumer Math
This class will include many hands on activities to let students practice and strengthen their basic math skills in
concrete real world situations. Along with money skills such as balancing a checkbook, calculating tips and taxes,
the class will be working with symmetry, time, charts, graphs and scale drawings. There will be a strong emphasis
on problem solving, logical reasoning and estimation.
WHEN: CALL
COST: $160 per semester
CONTACT: Katinka at (626) 798-9657
or email:
eieclass@abacus-es.com
Some great thoughts for homeschoolers.
Homeschooling in Action
What is essential is to realise that children learn independently, not in bunches; that they learn out of interest and curiosity, not to please or appease the adults in power; and that they ought to be in control of their own learning, deciding for themselves what they want to learn and how they want to learn it
- Holt
Homeschooling in Action
When they learn in their own way and for their own reasons, children learn so much more rapidly and effectively than we could possibly teach them, that we can afford to throw away our curricula and our timetables, and set them free, at least most of the time, to learn on their own.
- Holt
Homeschooling in Action
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
- George Bernard Shaw
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