California Homeschool Network Family Expo

This will be a fun, playful session where whole family attendance is encouraged. We’ll talk about the wonderful world of Deaf Culture. As a hearing person serving the Deaf, I can answer some questions, and give insight on how to step out and find a place to meet and socialize with the Deaf in order to learn more from the heart of the community. In addition to a discussion about Deaf Culture, we will learning some basic signs to use for interpreting the song “What a Wonderful World,” by Louis Armstrong.

Discover how great Scouting can be for homeschool families.  Get an overview of the many Scouting resources and how they can be used as curriculum whether or not you are involved in a specific Scouting program.  Discover how to find the place for your child in Scouting.

Our brains are wired to remember things that are interesting and exciting which is why learning from dull, dry textbooks is so painfully slow. Education at its best is really a lot of fun. Even learning math, grammar, science and geography facts can be painless if you have the right tools for your unique children. Learn how to use games and activities as an integral part of your curriculum. Learn how to select and use games to meet your children’s individual learning needs. Discover all the possibilities in games you already own and learn to adapt or even invent games to fit your family’s needs.

This session will teach a methodology for exploring Shakespeare using samples of text (provided), and showing how parallel texts and summaries are not only NOT needed, but can be harmful.  We will examine Cymbeline and Romeo and Juliet.  Cymbeline, classified as a romance, or tragic-comedy, is little known today, and offers wonderful “morality lessons” as well as humor and adventure. In contrast, Romeo and Juliet, one of his most famous tragedies, has been battered and inverted by modernity.  It is a play resplendent with valuable lessons for both parents and children, which current culture tends to devalue and overlook.   A look at its text, along with commentaries of the period is very valuable for the serious student of Shakespeare who wishes to understand what Shakespeare actually wrote, rather than what artists and scholars have created.