StoryBox, AdventureBox & DiscoveryBox...`

A SmartyCat fan named "Book" (thank you!) sent a link to Story Box Books... http://www.storyboxbooks.com/ Smarty Cat took a look and seems very interesting and good.

A read-aloud magazine to share with young children

Each StoryBox (ages 3-6) issue contains 52 pages with:

• An engaging and exciting 25-page story that young children will enjoy listening to, with rich, full-page illustrations
• Animal and Science pages to encourage children's curiosity and introduce them to scientific thinking
• Comic: A picture-story about everyday life at the Lovett's, with characters children will look forward to meeting each month
• Number and letter skills practised through play
• Poems from Judith Nicholls

Each AdventureBox (ages 6-9) issue contains 68 pages with:

• An exciting 44-page chapter-story illustrated in full colour on every page with clearly-presented text and simple vocabulary to help beginner readers find their own reading pace
• Fascinating topics and interactive activities about the natural world
• Word searches and games to stimulate children's reasoning
• A comic strip story for a lot of fun with mischievous heroes and wacky scenarios

Each DiscoveryBox (ages 9-12) issue contains 60 pages with:

• Animal section with stunning photos and concise, informative texts to introduce children to animals
• History section with historical events retold through a picture story, facts and photos to stimulate reader's appetite for learning about the past
• Science pages with scientific topics through pictures and with instructions for simple and exciting experiments
• Stories, quizzes, funfacts, games, recipes, things to make and do, jokes, puzzles, cartoons and more.

Who are they?
http://www.bayard-magazines.co.uk/gammebox/index.jsp
Managing Publisher: Christine Auberger
Sales and Promotion Manager: Andrea Chhan
Editorial Coordinator: Elena Iribarren
Editor in chief: Simona Sideri
Art Director: Pat Carter
Text and Research: Liz Sheperd

Bayard
1st floor
2 King street
Peterborough PE1 1LT
or send an email at contact@bayard-magazines.co.uk
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StoryBox
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Home and School planner brought to you by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine

We’re excited about our new planner and know that you will be too! We have taken ALL of your suggestions and ideas and compiled them into ONE fantastic planner, so that everything you need to plan in your life can be in one place, making your busy life as a homeschool mom just a bit simpler! In The Schoolhouse Planner, you can expect to find:

• Calendars in various forms – yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily
• Lists of holidays and places to record special days in your family
• Planners for your homeschool – in various styles to meet your individual needs
• Pages for both long-term and short-term homeschooling goals
• Curriculum planning forms
• Evaluation forms and test score recording sheets
• A through-the-Bible in a (school) year schedule
• Forms for recording Bible memory and other memory work
• Logs for recording books read, movies and documentaries viewed, etc.
• A field trip planning form and recording log
• A sample science lab sheet and nature study sheets
• A place to record extracurricular activities
• Outside classes, co-op, and support group information and recording sheets
• Household planning forms
• Daily, weekly, and monthly household schedule charts
• Grocery, menu-planning, and food logs
• Various budget and financial planning forms
• Garden planning sheets
• An appliance and electronics inventory sheet
• Vacation planning ideas
• Address and telephone records
• And much, much more!
And, if that’s not enough, we’ve also included:
• 12 “homeschool must-know” items, one for each month of the year
• 12 essays from some of our favorite authors in the homeschool community – you absolutely won’t want to miss these!
• 24 easy main-dish recipes from some top homeschoolers around the nation
• Forms that are appropriate for preschool – graduation
• A 12-year planning form, so that you can plan your child’s school career from beginning to end!
• 2-page monthly calendar with BIG blocks, providing lots of room for writing in details each day

http://www.theoldschoolhousestore.com/ info
http://www.thehomeschoolmagazine.com PDF download

STORIES FOR CHILDREN MAGAZINE

A Free monthly Ezine for Children (3 to 12).
Website: http://storiesforchildrenmagazine.org
June Issue PDF SFCmagazineJune2008final.pdf

Stories for Children Magazine, which just launched its new website with its June 2008 issue, announces the addition of three new SFC Team members. VS Grenier, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Stories for Children says: “SFC has been growing with each new issue. The SFC dream is coming true because of our readers and supporters. I’m so grateful to have a dedicated staff working with me each month. It’s been only a matter of time before we needed more help in other areas to keep the magazine growing. I’m excited to say Cynthia Sherwood (SFC Copyeditor), Neysa Jensen (SFC Proofreader), and Wayne S. Walker (SFC Book Reviewer) have all joined our SFC Family. Cynthia and Wayne have been contributors to SFC for some time, so having them on board along with Neysa is just wonderful.”

Cynthia Willett Sherwood, Copyeditor of SFC, lives in Orange County, California with her husband and eight-year-old daughter. She works as a freelance copyeditor, and writes both fiction and non-fiction for children. Cindy is a former print and broadcast journalist who most recently headed the news department of the ABC affiliate station in Norfolk/Virginia Beach.

Neysa CM Jensen, Proofreader of SFC, is a writer, musician, and mom. She has more than 20 years of experience in publishing, including magazine and book editing. She has written hundreds of articles for national, regional, local, and niche magazines, and she helps authors ready their manuscripts for submission. Neysa’s children’s works have been published in LadyBug magazine, Children’s Playmate, and Winds of Change.

Wayne S. Walker, Book Reviewer of SFC, is a native of Hillsboro, Highland County, in southern Ohio. Married to his wonderful wife Karen for over 25 years, he is the father of two sons, Mark and Jeremy, who are both homeschooled. He also has worked as a minister for almost 35 years. The family currently lives in Affton, MO, near St. Louis. Wayne's interests include classical music, hymnology, and children's literature. He has been a regular book reviewer for The Old Schoolhouse magazine and Home School Buzz.

OpenCourseWare ~ HOW TO GO TO M.I.T. FOR FREE

HOW TO GO TO M.I.T. FOR FREE

Online 'intellectual philanthropy' attracts students from every nation on earth.

By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

By the end of this year (January 04, 2007 = NOW!), the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at one of the world's most prestigious universities will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world. Learners won't have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted.

The cost? It's all free of charge.

The OpenCourseWare movement, begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002 and now spread to some 120 other universities worldwide, aims to disperse knowledge far beyond the ivy-clad walls of elite campuses to anyone who has an Internet connection and a desire to learn.

Intended as an act of "intellectual philanthropy," OpenCourseWare (OCW) provides free access to course materials such as syllabi, video or audio lectures, notes, homework assignments, illustrations, and so on. So far, by giving away their content, the universities aren't discouraging students from enrolling as students. Instead, the online materials appear to be only whetting appetites for more.

"We believe strongly that education can be best advanced when knowledge is shared openly and freely," says Anne Margulies, executive director of the OCW program at MIT. "MIT is using the power of the Internet to give away all of the educational materials created here."

The MIT site (ocw.mit.edu), along with companion sites that translate the material into other languages, now average about 1.4 million visits per month from learners "in every single country on the planet," Ms. Margulies says. Those include Iraq, Darfur, "even Antarctica," she says. "We hear from [the online students] all the time with inspirational stories about how they are using these materials to change their lives. They're really, really motivated."

more to article: http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0104/p13s02-legn.html

MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

Here are some links to more universities offering OpenCourseWare:

Tufts: http://ocw.tufts.edu/

Keio: http://ocw.dmc.keio.ac.jp/index.html

Kyoto: http://ocw.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/index.htm

MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html

John Hopkins: http://ocw.jhsph.edu/

Osaka: http://ocw.osaka-u.ac.jp/index.php

Toyko: http://ocw.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/index.html

Utah State: http://ocw.usu.edu/

Waseda: http://www.waseda.jp/ocw/index_e.html

Notre Dame: http://ocw.nd.edu/

and here's Open Course audio
Open Culture too...

http://www.oculture.com/2007/07/freeonlinecourses.html