Khan Academy Highschool

Create and account at Khan Academy. Then come back and click on the highschool subject of interest to access the correct path for the course. Observe the different concepts covered. Then click on the first category and start your journey there. I don't recommend to click on the link that says " Get a personal path through ......"  as it might prove to be very challenging and discouraging for the student. Do it when he/she has done half of the course :
Pre-calculus
SAT Prep

Click image to view a larger image that demonstrates 
an example of how to study with Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers free online lessons in the form of videos and practice concepts marked with a star. My kids are getting to really learn highschool math with Khan Academy and by doing the exercises and completing them  highschool math is sinking in the right way to prepare them for college. I have my kids do the exercises until they pass each exercise challenge marked with a star. The star looks like an empty star, after they complete the exercise challenge the star gets filled in with blue. Give them credit for all the filled stars that go along with the different categories.

Highschool math wasn't my strength when I was in school but homeschooling my kids has really helped me get better at highschool math. There will be times when they need your help so prepare yourself to help them. You can follow along with these courses too! My kids are doing good using Khan Academy, their effort, and their mom's help.


Sing Along the Nations of the World With The Animaniacs

United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama
Haiti, Jamaica, Peru,
Republic Dominican, Cuba, Carribean
Greenland, El Salvador too.
Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela
Honduras, Guyana, and still,
Guatemala, Bolivia, then Argentina
And Ecuador, Chile, Brazil.
Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda
Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan,
Paraguay, Uruguay, Surinam
And French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam.
Norway, and Sweden, and Iceland, and Finland
And Germany now one piece,
Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia
Italy, Turkey, and Greece.
Poland, Romania, Scotland, Albania
Ireland, Russia, Oman,
Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia
Hungary, Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran.
There's Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan
Both Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain,
The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Portugal
France, England, Denmark, and Spain.
India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan
Thailand, Nepal, and Bhutan,
Kampuchea, Malaysia, then Bangladesh (Asia)
And China, Korea, Japan.
Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, Indonesia
The Philippine Islands, Taiwan,
Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand
Then Borneo, and Vietnam.
Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Angola
Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana,
Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, Gambia
Guinea, Algeria, Ghana.
Burundi, Lesotho, and Malawi, Togo
The Spanish Sahara is gone,
Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Liberia
Egypt, Benin, and Gabon.
Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and Mali
Sierra Leone, and Algiers,
Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, Libya
Cameroon, Congo, Zaire.
Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar
Rwanda, Mahore, and Cayman,
Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia...
Crete, Mauritania
Then Transylviania,
Monaco, Liechtenstein
Malta, and Palestine,

Homeschooling resources on The Holocaust

All these recommendations come from homeschooling families at homeschooling with Netflix

Blog with book reviews:
The Children's War 

Movies on Netflix:
  • Forgiving Mengele (good for older students)
  • Shining Through (spy/romance angle to it)
  • Celeste Cassino Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
  •  Sarah's Key 
  • Youtube has the full Diary
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Life is beautiful
  • The Devils Arithmetic
  • Nicky's Family is on youtube true story about the man who saved children through the kindertransport.
  • Paperclips is a movie is based on a school in Tennessee, they did a project about the holocaust.
  • The Book Thief
  • The Boy in Striped Pajamas (check to see if local library or  at library's OverDrive online have it) Sad ending. 
  • The Courage of Irene Sendler
  • Sophie Scholl The Final Days ( the movie is a true story about young students in the German White Rose resistance movement. What life was like for the average German during WWII and how dangerous it was to speak out. There weren't any scenes of violence but it was discussed which made it more powerful)
  • I am David (Very tame, yet has the war in background, as he's traveling from a prison in Italy north to freedom)
  • The Hiding Place
  • The movie Auschwitz inside the Nazi State is informative, but can be heavy depending on the age of your children. 
  •  The Hidden Child (good for older children)
  • The Pianist (yound adults)
  • Vad Veshem, The Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. It has survivor stories on video told by the holocaust survivors (also on youtube search holocaust survivor testimonies
  • Return of the Hiding Place
Books:
  • The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
  •  Number the Stars (also as an audio book)
  • Diary of Ann Frank (also as an audio book) for older kids 
  • Farewell to Manzanar.
  • Upstairs Room
  • When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr 
  • Books by an author named Teresa R. Funke:
  • "Homefront Heroes" books and are novels about kids' lives on the American homefront during WWII, "Doing My Part", AND  "V for Victory" now. They are really quick reads, probably good for ages 8-11.
  • The Book Thief (younger middle school age)
  • Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
  • The Berlin Boxing Club (for young adults) is not so much about the Holocaust as about being Jewish in Germany in the period leading up to and including Kristalnacht.
  • "Maus and Maus II" are excellent graphic novel books (cartoon like pictures where the Nazis are cats and the Jews are mice). There are lesson plans to go along with the books that can be found online. Some high schools have added these books to their reading lists. Basically they are based on a true story but written by a couple who went through the holocaust's son. It is based in Poland and very well done. Also if high school level or mature enough 
  • Schindler's List (high school)
  • The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow
  • Being Audrey (book about Audrey Hepburn tells about her childhood during the holocaust)
  • Mr. Jack Vander Geest wrote the book Was God on Vacation? about his escape from a Nazi prison camp, his life coming to America and his life as a Christian. 
  • The Zion Chronicles
  • The Island on Bird Street
  • The Cost of Discipleship

Eye Exercises

We don't see far as a life habit. It causes cataracts

We don't look at details. That causas macualr degenaration

We get a pin hole effect when we adjust to the sun. Its like looking through your fist. Solarization. Strengthen eye muscles. Use glasses only  if you drive, ski, suntan, or times when you get glare. Try to look at the stars in a dark night without street lights.

Look in your peripherial. Computers don't let you use peripherials.  It causes glaucoma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8k0N_E9JZc

at 25:49

Meir's website http://self-healing.org/meir-schneider/

Drink water

Improve Eyesight Naturally with 6 Eye Exercises: Our Story and Tips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM8DQX-gWPE

Eye exercises which cured my Myopia in just 2 months (Bates Method)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn2It11zkls

Aviation and Math for Kids

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