Why I’m Going to the CHEA Convention and Why You Should Too!

What are you doing May 29th-31st? I’ll be at the CHEA (Christian Home Educators Association of California) Convention at the Disneyland Hotel. I hope you’ll join me there for information, inspiration, and fellowship.

Details on the Convention can be found at the CHEA website. Take advantage of the pre-registration discount by signing up no later than midnight, April 21^st.

If you’re just thinking about homeschooling, there’s a great FREE mini-conference for new homeschoolers on Thursday evening , May 29^th. Sessions include Just the Facts M’am: Homeschooling Works, Introduction to Home Education, and you’ll get to visit the Exhibit Hall as well. Other sessions throughout the conference that I’d recommend are My Journey Out of the Government Schools and into the Joy of Home/Life Education, Homeschooling: Essential to the Natural Family, Building Strong Families through Christian Homeschooling, and many more.

If you’re new to homeschooling, useful sessions include Getting Started, Keeping First Things First, How to Determine Your Child’s Learning Style, Making Curriculum Choices, Recordkeeping and Lesson Planning, and many more.

If you don’t think you can afford to homeschool, check out these sessions: When is Enough Enough?, Get Right on the Money, and Five Ways to Make Money in the New Online World.

If you’ve been homeschooling FOREVER (at least it seems that way!), you might want to attend Why You Should Continue to Homeschool, Preparing for High School, Not Necessarily College Bound, Time Management for Parents and Teens, How to Teach Biblical Worldview Thinking All Day, and many more.

There are also special tracks of workshops for parents of preschoolers (who can attend one day of the convention FREE if their oldest child is age 5 or younger and they’ve never been to a CHEA Convention before) and workshops for parents of struggling learners.

Additionally there are many workshops on specific academic subjects such as Spelling and the Brain, Teaching History through the Eyes of God, Reaching the Reluctant Writer, Build a Solid Math Foundation, Rediscovering Literature: Finding the Truth in Story, and many more.

I have another reason for going to the convention – to teach some workshops — check out the list below and stop by to say hi. I hope to meet some of you there!

• Filling the Shoes of the High School Guidance Counselor (Leadership Conference – Thursday at 1:45 pm)
• Teaching Approaches and Methods — Part I (Saturday at 11:30 am) and Part 2 (Saturday at 2:00 pm)
• You CAN Teach Preschool at Home (Saturday at 4:00 pm)
• Recordkeeping and Lesson Planning (Saturday at 5:30 pm)

Discounted Disneyland tickets are available for convention attendees. Tickets must be purchased online no later than Wednesday, May 28^th at 9:00 pm PST.

Are you going to this Convention? Will I see you there?