Online Learning Resources

Committed to providing quality educational choices, HCOS subscribes to a number of online learning resources. Below is a short description of the many educational resources available to our students this year.

United Streaming

Heritage Christian Online School is offering students a subscription to United Streaming at no cost.  This online video library contains more than 5,000 full length educational videos.  It has Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Magic Schoolbus, Bill Nye, and much, much more.  You can search through the library easily to find what you’re looking for.  This is a great supplement to every student’s education.  There are videos covering a huge variety of topics in arts and music, science, language arts, health, and social studies from grades K through 12.   Check out www.unitedstreaming.com for more information.  If you would like a subscription please email your teacher for sign-up information.

Encyclopedia Britannica

http://newsletter.onlineschool.ca/archive/images/eb.gifWe have now subscribed all of our students and families with the Encyclopedia Britannica- Online. Please contact your support teacher for your login and password.

Enchanted Learning

All HCOS students and families have access to Enchanted Learning, a safe, family friendly educational site with over 20,000 pages of resources! Please contact your support teacher for your login and password.

netTrekker

A safe educational search engine is now available from HCOS through netTrekker. This trusted search engine provides peace of mind to families as their child searches the net for online resources. The search engine is organized by readability and grade level and is even aligned to the provincial outcomes. Contact your support teacher for a username and password.

Town-to-Town Canada

HCOS’ subscription with “Town-to-Town Canada” provides middle and high school students with information on Canadian civic and public affairs. It link students to web sites “relating to government, law, education, social economics, current events, public policy, and living and culture.”  Please contact your support teacher for a username and password.

WHAT IN THE WORLD?

WHAT IN THE WORLD? is a Canadian current events resource covering events and issues with geography. It is designed for students in the intermediate grades and is available in English and French. Contact your support teacher to request monthly links and passwords which will connect you to each new issue. 

TeachingBooks

Explore award winning youth books and their authors. HCOS provides you with access to thousands of resources and multimedia programs through its online subscription with TeachingBooks. Short movies, audio book readings, and book discussion guides are some of the rich learning resources available through this subscription. Contact your support teacher for a username and password.

YourTeacher

YourTeacher.com is an online multimedia math resource for Middle and High school students. Each lesson includes video examples, interactive practice, and self tests. Through HCOS school subscription you will receive a year’s access to Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, or Algebra 2 for only $25. Please contact your support teacher to receive a personal username and password, and arrange payment from your curriculum budget.

“Reading A to Z” and “Writing A to Z”

Finding reading and writing learning resources is now just a click away! HCOS is offering access to “Reading A to Z” and “Writing A to Z” resources at a discounted price. “Reading A to Z” has thousands of printable learning resources that support guided reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency, and alphabet and vocabulary learning. These professionally developed resources included downloadable ‘levelled’ books, lesson plans, worksheets, and reading assessment material. The “Writing A to Z” site provides hundreds of downloadable writing resources which include “core writing lessons grouped by genre and text type; mini-lessons targeting key writing skills; and writing tools for organizing and improving writing.” The resources are designed for K-6 learning level. These resources will save you time and money as you search for a resource specific to your child’s reading and writing ability. Through HCOS school subscription you will receive a year’s access to these excellent resources for only $25 each. Please contact your support teacher to arrange payment from your curriculum budget and to receive a username and password.

Volume 3 - Edition 4 - December 2006

Parent's Personal Planning

by Chris McGrath

 

An adaptation of the Government's Career and Personal Planning Curriculum

 

Summary Statement:

Deuteronomy 6:4-9; be sure to read the rest of the chapter.

For further study read Psalm 119.

4 Hear, 0 Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

9 Write them on the door frames of your houses and on your gates.

13 Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. 14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you;

Parental Objectives :

  Christian parents will:

1. Love the LORD our God with all their hearts and with all their souls and with all their strength. "Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart." Ps. 119:2

2. Have the above commandment always on their own hearts. "I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands." Ps. 119:10

3. Diligently impress God's precepts upon their children. "Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws." Ps. 119:164.

4. Talk about God's decrees when you sit at home with your children. "May my tongue sing of your word, for all your commands are righteous." Ps 119:172

5. Discuss with your children what it means to love the LORD when you walk along the road. "Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the LORD." Ps. 119:1

6. Meditate with your children on the love of the LORD before you go to bed. "You are my portion, 0 Lord." Ps. 119:57

7. Proclaim to your children, God's might word and his mighty acts when you get up. "Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long." Ps. 119: 97

8. Tie God's law on their children's hands so that when they reach they will be reminded of God's truth. "I meditate on your precepts and consider your ways. I delight in your decrees; I will not neglect your word." Ps. 119:15-16

9. Bind God's truth before your children's eyes so that they will be reminded to meditate on the LORD. "Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law." Ps 119:18

10. Write the command to "love God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength" on the door frames of your house.

11. Create banners to put on your gates to remind your children that "as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15

 

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