Twin City Baptist Church

Twin City Home Educators

Our desire is to minister to you as you strive for spiritual and educational growth during this year. We have several ministry meetings planned, and we are in the stages of planning some group field trips and activities. Our ministry meetings are held at the Twin City Baptist Fellowship Center (905 Elizabeth Avenue, Marinette) and are usually on the third Thursday of each month. Supervision and activities for your children are provided at each of the afternoon meetings. For information, you may contact Pastor DeCleene at 715.735.9181 (church) or 715.735.0408 (home), Jeanne Monahan at 715.735.3963, or by email.

Reasons for Home Schooling

• You can give your child a God-centered education.
• You can instill your values through your child's education.
• You can educate your child's heart and soul in addition to his mind.
• You can choose curriculum that corresponds with your spiritual beliefs and your child's individual learning style.
• You can avoid negative socialization.
• You can avoid false doctrine and philosophies. Our philosophies determine our world view, our attitudes, and our actions.
• You can have flexibility in your schedule. You can decide what time of the day is best to school, and you can adjust your schedule for family needs and vacations. You can decide when your child is ready to begin studying a particular skill or subject.
• You have more time to spend with your children and can develop a stronger relationship with them.

Some Suggested Resources: Books

• Home Schooling by Heart: A Mom's Roadmap to Making it Work by Christina Sabalis Krulikas
• The How and Why of Home Schooling by Raymond Ballman
• Home Schooling: The Right Choice! by Christopher Klicka
• Teaching Children by Diane Lopez
• The Guidance Manual for the Christian Home School by David and Laurie Callahan

Some Suggested Resources: Websites

www.hslda.org
This site is for the Home School Legal Defense Association, a nation-wide organization that lobbies for laws that help home schoolers. The membership fee for this organization is $100 per year per family. There are group discounts. This organization will help its member families with any legal help they may need; from a letter to a school administrator who is giving the family some trouble to representing that family in the court room.

www.wisconsinchea.com
This is the site of the state-wide organization that is a watch-dog in Madison for our homeschool rights. Two times a year they put on a convention for home schoolers that have nationally renowned homeschool speakers such as Michael Farris and Christopher Klicka from HSLDA and Doug Philips from Vision Forum. At these conventions there are huge book vendor sections so you can see the curriculum before you purchase it.

www.wisconsinhistory.org
This is the Wisconsin Historical Societies website. It has a lot of information about Wisconsin's history and many links for further research. They also have a kids page that is very interesting. They have a teacher's resource section for ideas. The website also lists 9 historical places here in Wisconsin including Old World Wisconsin which is a 600+ acre museum 35 miles north of Milwaukee that has 6 different hands-on museums. There you can be an explorer, an immigrant or a pioneer for a day and experience what Wisconsin was like when it was first settled. You can also participate in Town Hall meetings.

www.nationalgeographic.com/kids

www.welltrainedmind.com