"The mother's heart is the child's classroom." 

- Henry Ward Beecher

Mary Pride's Complete Guide to Getting Started in Homeschooling ~Includes sections on essential steps to homeschool success; learning styles; popular methods such as Charlotte Mason, classical education, and "unschooling"; help for working with challenged and gifted children; and resources for planning, buying, record keeping---and teaching tips

  Home School Legal Defense Association- National Information http://www.hslda.org

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Homeschooling children with special needs? Check out: www.nathhan.com

Portfolios

It is required by NH law to keep a portfolio for each child's work (for two years). Here are some ideas of items to include showing samples of his or her work.

• Samples of academic work
• Test Grades
• Grades
• Summary of all courses
• List of Books Read & author's name
• List of Films reviewed
• Photos (especially of large projects)
• Newspaper  clippings
• List of field trips & activities
• Evaluations from work
• Volunteer Evaluations
• Parental Evaluations
• Articles/poems written
• Audio recordings
• Artwork-drawings
• Science projects
• Experiments
• Research reports
• Classes taken
• Extracurricular activities
• Autobiography
• If applicable transcipt/resume

Make it as unique as your child and his or her interests.

These are a few places to turn to, when you want to jump start the process of Homeschooling in New Hampshire.

             

New Hampshire Homeschooling Coalition (NHHC)

http://www.nhhomeschooling.org/  

New Hampshire Homeschooling Guidebook - 150 pages devoted to families who homeschool in New Hampshire. To order go to: www.nhhomeschooling.org/guidebook.htm

Christian Home Educators of New Hampshire (CHENH) Conducts a yearly spring conference. www.mv.com/ipusers/chenh/

Family Resource Connection of New Hampshire - A division of NH State Library, this resource has many books about homeschooling, which you can borrow via mail at no cost. http://199.192.9.7/dbtw-wpd/frc/sublist.htm

New Hampshire Happenings - Find all kinds of events and happenings around the state. http://www.nhhappenings.com/      

PBS - TV schedule to find educational shows. http://www.pbs.org

  NH LAWS

New Hampshire Department of Education -

Angie LeBEL, Program Assistant, Home Education 101 Pleasant St. Concord, NH 03301 E-Mail alebel@ed.state.nh.us 1.800.339.9900

(Ask to have mailed to you a packet of Homeschool Laws and the ABC'S booklet of Home Education in NH)

NH Chapter 193-A: Home Education Laws- www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/indexes/193-A.html

Extra Curricular Program Ideas

4-H Clubs- (603) 862-2180 UNH Cooperative Extension www.ceinfo.unh.edu

Archery

Arts Rochester- Dance, Theatre, Visual Arts, Music, Photography, Pottery www.arts-rochester.org

Boy Scouts

Civil Air Patrol www.nhhi-cap.org/index.html

Dance

Fencing

Foreign Language Instruction

Girl Scouts

Great Bay Ice Skating Club www.neicc.org

Hiking

Horse Back Riding Lessons

Ice Skating Lessons

Lego League http://www.firstlegoleague.org/ 

Mad Science of Maine and NH- Hands on science classes and camps ages 5-12 www.madscience.org/8080maine

Music Lessons

National Chess Championships www.uschess.org

Piano Lessons

School Sports

Skiing

Speed Skating http://www.laconiaicearena.com/

Swimming Lessons

Track

Voice Lessons

White Pines Outdoor Programs- Nature Based Learning www.whitepineprograms.org

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