Education- at home and at school- a few links

Education takes place both at home and school!  Parents are their children's first teachers!  We can learn a lot from people who choose to homeschool, and it's a topic I'm interested in, so here is the info I have to share for now.  This used to be the "Education" page on this blog but I'm trimming down the blog to mostly posts, and not many pages.

ARTICLES

Fourth Annual Torah Home Schooling Conference Draws Participants from Far and Near (Photo Essay & Video) By BaltimoreJewishLife.com/Margie Pensak
This article is about an incredible conference that I attended, and I am quoted within.

poems about the value of play

A nice way to think about the value of play for children (vs. too-early academic pressures, a pet-peeve of mine...) is to read it written in a different way than usual... poetry!

https://sites.google.com/site/ourlittlestangelspreschool/poems-about-the-value-of-play