This summer my 8 year old has been thinking about what she wants to learn in 3rd grade. As soon as we sat down to have our “meeting” to discuss her third grade year she blurted out that she wanted to learn about natural disasters. So, I’ve put together this…
I love it when I can find a good resource for informal learning. I found a SlimeKids website that offers several games to help your child practice grammar. These games tend to be best for kids who have studied some grammar already which would make them more appropriate for grades…
Have you been there? Some families have been there many times. When finances are tight, the library can be an excellent tool for creating curriculum without costing you anything. One year when I had limited funds, I started using the library heavily. It turned out that the curriculum I was…
As I was putting together a conceptual physics study for my son, I stumbled upon an amazing free resource on Youtube. My son is using an older edition Conceptual Physics textbook by Paul Hewitt. I wanted to find some videos to go along with each chapter to help my son…
Free homeschool curriculum is always a good thing, right? From February 1-15, the Homeschool Curriculum Reviews website is having an amazing contest! You can win gift certificates and curriculum from places like Math Mammoth, Art of Problem Solving (my personal favorite), CurrClick, IEW, All About Spelling, Veritas Press, and much…
I love discovering excellent free resources online. The free Geoguessr game has been a hit in our household. This game utilizes Google Street View images to plop you somewhere in the world. Your job is to figure out where you are based on the picture. Once you have an idea,…
I like using videos to supplement foreign language learning. While they aren’t comparable to interaction with a native speaker, they do provide a pseudo-immersion environment when an entire show is presented in the target language. I found familiar children’s shows to be ideal for this – even for older kids.…
My 10 year old son discovered Blender this past summer. He loves computers and art and has an interest in a future with computers. He had spent many years on Scratch and was looking for something more. When he discovered Blender, he knew that he had to learn it. He…
In the process of teaching reading, I’ve stumbled around once my child completed a set of early phonics readers. I’ve tried several things and wasn’t happy with many phonics-based readers and other readers tended to rely mostly on sight words. So many phonics-based readers were incredibly boring and my…
We stumbled upon a great find today when we were learning about electric circuits. The University of Colorado in Boulder has a great website chock full of interactive science simulations. They are simple to download and use. Here is the one we discovered today: You will find different simulations for…
