Today’s featured article discusses helpful tips for families with special needs students and group outings.
For a lot of homeschool families, park playdates are the weekly equivalent of recess. Families descend on a local park for a few hours, the kids get play, parents get to talk and everyone has a good time.
… in theory, that is. Learn more.
Nancy
As a homeschooling family, we took advantage of as many free things as we could.
This site provides free worksheets for students. Learn more.
Barnes and Noble offers their customers a discount. Homeschooling families, it is something to look into.
Barnes & Noble offers pre k-12 educators, librarians, and homeschoolers a 20% discount off the publisher’s list price on select items that we consider suitable for use in the classroom or with the student population, including most hardcover and paperback books, toys, and games. Learn more.
Nancy
My children are grown. I look back with fond memories on their childhood. We made homemade play dough for fun and educational activities. I ran across this recipe and wanted to pass it on to you.
Playdough is wonderful fun for kids. It’s great for fine motor development and open-ended play. This fairy playdough recipe with 3 ingredients, is so easy to make you can almost hand it over to your child to do themselves. We called this ‘fairy dough’ because of its soft texture and the imaginative play that came from using it. Great fun! Learn more.
Nancy
How to you keep track of your ideas when you are out and about? This article provides some tips for recording thoughts as they happen. Be sure to read the comments left by readers for more ideas.
The first rule of inspiration is that the best ideas come to you in the precise moment when you are least equipped to write them down.
How do you make sure you don’t lose those ideas? How do you keep track of them? Learn more.
Nancy
Today I’d like to let my readers know about places that sell used books for writing, homeschooling, or anything that meets your needs.
This website offers a place to find used books and homeschool curriculum. Learn more.
Nancy
There are many sites on the internet for students to take advantage of and sharpen their math skills. Math Playground is for first through eighth grade students.
Nancy
Mantas and monk seals live around the Hawaiian Islands. Can’t say that I blame them. It is beautiful there. This article is education and just plain fun.
Night divers off Hawaii’s Kona coast last weekend marveled not only at the giant mantas they had planned on viewing, but also at a critically endangered monk seal that interacted with the mantas and the divers for two nights.
It was a magical experience from a purely aesthetic standpoint, given the gracefulness of the mantas as they soared in and out of the lights, feeding on plankton, and the surprise appearance of an agile and curious seal. Learn more.
Nancy
I homeschooled my children for many years. We made as many educational tools as possible. This featured article provides some helpful tips for parents teaching their children math.
In my search for said items, I went for a stroll through our local teacher supply store and was just completely awed by all the cool gadgets, toys, and gizmos that we refer to as “manipulatives”. As I mentioned before I have a couple of kids who require the use of manipulatives to “get” the concept prior to committing the process to memory so I know how expensive it can be to purchase these items. So, I have compiled a list of alternatives to the pricey manipulatives. Learn More.
Nancy
This is an interesting article for homeschoolers, students, educators, and anyone who loves science.
NASA released a spectacular five-year time lapse of the sun on Wednesday to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory.
The observatory, or SDO, aims to improve our understanding of the sun’s energy and its effects on Earth and near-Earth space. Learn more.
Nancy
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