‘HOMESCHOOLING RESOURCES’ Archives
HOMESCHOOLING RESOURCES: September is National Chicken Month!
Homeschooling Resources: September is National Chicken Month! Homeschooling resource queen Rebecca Rupp makes sure you won't run out of fun, educational reading and activities during September, National Chicken Month. By Rebecca Rupp Tillie, of Terry Golson’s Tillie Lays an Egg (Scholastic, 2009) lives with six other hens in the henhouse [...]
Resources, Resources: Mars!
Resources, Resources: Mars! By Rebecca Rupp SCIENCE IN THE NEWS AND a great opportunity to guide your children to fun learning as Curiosity roams Mars! What with the Curiosity rover (what a great name – so homeschool) landing on Mars recently, it seems like a good time to investigate the Red Planet. Check out some of these [...]
How to Choose a Music Teacher for Your Homeschooling Children
How to Choose a Music Teacher for Your Homeschooling Children By Gerald Crawford Choosing homeschooling can be a decision that parents find very demanding. They find that they are responsible for making sure that their children are provided with the necessary academic and practical lessons to meet the required standards. Lessons can give [...]
Resources, Resources: Off to the Summer Olympics!
Resources, Resources: Off to the Summer Olympics! By Rebecca Rupp For the summer Olympic season, try some of these: Brad Herzog’s G is for Gold Medal (Sleeping Bear Press, 2011) in an Olympics alphabet book in which each (alphabetical) Olympic feature is accompanied by a short rhyme and – for fact-lovers - side paragraphs with detailed [...]
Homeschooling Resources, Resources: MANY MOONS
Resources, Resources: MANY MOONS By Rebecca Rupp Anybody studying the moon? It’s a great lead-in to MOON DAY – which falls each year on July 20, the anniversary of the day in 1969 when Neil Armstrong took his giant leap for mankind. And, of course, it’s fascinating any old time. The Moon and Little Ones In Kevin Henkes’s, [...]
