Posts Tagged ‘homeschooling resources’
Homeschooling Resources: Who Doesn’t Love Dinosaurs?
Homeschooling Resources: Who Doesn't Love Dinosaurs? BY REBECCA RUPP Who doesn’t love DINOSAURS? Check out this for books and projects. (Bake a batch of 3-D dinosaur cookies and make a dinosaur out of chicken bones!) Jane Yolen’s How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? (Blue Sky Press, 2000) is a rhyming picture-book account of how [...]
Help Your Child Become a Better Writer with Six Powerful Revision Tools
Help Your Child Become a Better Writer with Six Powerful Revision Tools BY NIKOLAS BARON No one writes a fantastic first draft. Well, that's not entirely true. There are a select few who can spin gold, but they’re not the norm. For most of us, writing is a long and arduous process, filled with draft after draft, [...]
Homeschooling Resources: Archeology
Homeschooling Resources: Archeology BY REBECCA RUPP September is NATIONAL ARCHEOLOGY MONTH. Bones, stones, treasure, and a chance to grub around in the dirt – how awesome is that? In Kate Duke’s Archaeologists Dig for Clues (HarperCollins, 1996), one of the Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series, three kids and their pets accompany [...]
Lesson Plans to Go for Families on the Go
Lesson Plans to Go for Families on the Go BY LINDA DOBSON Author Nadine Slavinsky earned a Master’s in Education at Harvard and is a lifelong sailor who has enjoyed two long sabbatical with her husband and son, sailing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans while homeschooling. Lesson Plans to Go: Hands-On Learning for Active and [...]
Sell the Old and Make Room for the New: Cash for CDs, DVDs and Video Games
Sell the Old and Make Room for the New: Cash for CDs, DVDs and Video Games BY LINDA DOBSON Those who know me know I'm not big on CDs, DVDs or video games personally. (Since I rarely watch movies, for instance, it's hard to believe I'd ever watch one more than once.) And since I tend to live as lightly on the earth as I can, there's the clutter [...]
