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.
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It shows a shark, known as Deep Blue, approaching and investigating wide-eyed divers watching from steel cages at Mexico’s Guadalupe Island. As viewers can see, Deep Blue dwarfs not only the divers, but the enormous protective cage, as the female shark swims by and at one point bumps the cage with her snout. Learn more.
Boys of all ages will probably like this article. Many girls of all ages will too. This incredible invention would be fun in a novel, but more fun to ride. Enjoy.
Jet engines go on planes. Go-kart engines go in…well… go-karts. But not today, no this is something very special, if a bit overkill.
Meet Colin Furze. He’s all things plumber, stuntman, and inventor, and his latest project involved taking a massive home-built jet engine and grafting it atop an old go-kart chassis. It’s loud, it belches quite a lot of fire, and it blasts a wide-eyed Furze up to a zippy 61 mph. Not what you’d call your average backyard go-kart build. Take a look.
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Comic strips can be a fun art and writing activity for children. This might be a great summer activity to keep the younger ones busy.
school hasn’t started yet in our house, but the kids have been hankering for some structure and creativity. so after googling “comic strip templates” and printing up a bunch from this site,
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As a homeschooling family, we took advantage of as many free things as we could.
This site provides free worksheets for students. Learn more.
Today’s featured link provides parents and educators with some pretty cool activities for children. The unit study focuses on the human body. With clever teaching tools, kids will enjoy learning some pretty neat stuff. Learn more.
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Former teachers share their stories about their journeys to homeschooling. Be sure to read the comments at the bottom of the page. It’s interesting.
Have you ever wondered why some people choose to homeschool? Five of us on the Hip Homeschool Moms team were formerly public or private school teachers. It surprises most people that we would choose to homeschool our children instead of sending them to school somewhere. After all, we were teachers ourselves! We believe in sending children to school, not in homeschooling! Right? In order to answer that question, we decided to share our stories with you this week. All five of us chose to homeschool for very different reasons. Yet we all came to the same conclusion. Homeschooling was (and is) the right thing for our families. Learn more.
Nancy
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.
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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.
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