Posts Tagged ‘resources’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Resources, Resources: Fizz, Bubble, Bang, and Ooze
Resources, Resources: Fizz, Bubble, Bang, and Ooze By Becky Rupp rebeccarupp@gmail.com EDITOR'S NOTE: Before Becky gets started, I want to do a little hollering on her behalf that she'd never do herself. DID YOU KNOW one of Becky's many book, Octavia Boone's Big Questions About Life, the Universe, and Everything was picked by [...]
Homeschooling Resources: Spectacular Spectacles and More By Becky Rupp
Homeschooling Resources: Spectacular Spectacles and More By Becky Rupp January is National Eye Health Care Month. So why not study – say – eyes? Homeschooling Resources - Books: Ellen Weiss’s The Sense of Sight, a “True Book” from Children’s Press (2009), is a good introductory pick for ages 5-9. Nicely designed, and illustrated [...]
Appreciating Elephants By Becky Rupp
APPRECIATING ELEPHANTS By Becky Rupp September 22 – just in time for fall - is Elephant Appreciation Day. The Day seems to be the brainchild of an elephant fan from Florida, who essentially invented it all on his own – but then, why not? Who doesn’t love elephants? And there are, of course, a zillion wonderful elephant [...]
