I really enjoyed OCHEC this year. Karen and I spent most of the time listening to speakers and volunteering, but we did not spend much time looking at the vendors. I am looking forward to getting the recorded mp3s from OCHEC and also to 2011 to see what topics will be there next year.
Welcome to the Cornerstone Home Educators website.Cornerstone is the Burlington chapter of OCHEC (Ontario Christian Home Educators).For more information about OCHEC, click here.Our chapter exists to encourage those members of the body of Christ who are homeschooling their children.
We have monthly meetings with a short devotional, a time for sharing your insight into educating our children effectively, and a special speaker is often featured.If you are a homeschooler in Burlington or the surrounding area, we welcome you to become a member of our group.Our goal is to equip you for ‘every good work’, and support your home school in any way we can.If you don’t choose to become a member, we still would like to hear from you.You can
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, and we’ll reply as promptly as we can.
Why Membership?
Your Cornerstone membership has several benefits: a discounted registration fee for the annual OCHEC conference, access to our online community, and email notifications of special events. Your fee helps us to fund quality events, book insightful and uplifting guest speakers, and improve Cornerstone each year.
Mission Statement
Cornerstone Home Educators is a non-profit support group of homeschooling families. We seek to teach, mentor and provide a variety of support to Burlington and surrounding area home schooling families. We are a Christian group that is open to all individuals and we are open to all methodologies and styles of home schooling.
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
Written by Karen Schultz
Monday, 07 June 2010 20:42
Part 1. Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
Last Updated on Monday, 07 June 2010 20:46
Tulip Study
Written by Karen Schultz
Wednesday, 19 May 2010 13:02
I am using Anna Comstock’s well know book Handbook of Nature Studyto teach the children (and teach myself as well) about the lovely spring flowers that grow in our home’s lovely garden.
I started a little late, we have already seen our crocus flowers come and go, but we read about them anyway. They are such lovely flowers, and seeing them crop through the snow in early spring is definitely a well deserved pleasure after a long and dreary winter (all winters are long and dreary for me).
Next we studied the tulip, Jonathan’s favourite flower. We have 7 different varieties growing in our gardens. It was interesting to learn about their food storage needs, their care and keeping (for instance, the like well drained soil, otherwise their stems become rotted), and that they do indeed make seeds (I thought they could only reproduce through the bulbs duplicating), though not all of the seeds are viable and it takes 5 to 7 years for one viable seed to produce a flower. Phew!
I will not grumble about the cost of tulip bulbs again.
We took the flower apart and learned about their anthers, stigma,seed pod,and their petals and sepal (I always thought they only had petals), and their stems and rubbery leaves.
They are having a half price sale on right now and I found this set, which fits in perfectly with Handbook of Nature, since it was designed for with that purpose in mind.
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
Written by Karen Schultz
Monday, 07 June 2010 20:37
Part 2. In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish. About Ken Robinson Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types… Full bio and more links
Last Updated on Monday, 07 June 2010 20:48
Library Programs
Written by Larry Schultz
Wednesday, 19 May 2010 12:30
Karen and I want to keep all of our books & movies in a library, and we found a couple of programs. Hopefully, the library will be able to keep track of all our books & movies with pictures with extended information, and with the ability to export so we can even manage some of the books on this website.
