As a homeschool parent/teacher, I spend a lot of time looking for ideas and materials to use in our classroom. This section lists some of the resources that I have bookmarked during these searches. Some of these I have used and as time permits I will write reviews about them. However, many of the resources [...]
I am always excited when I find a new source online that will help me make learning more fun for my daughter. Well, today I found another such source. I was looking for a graphic to post in my back to school post yesterday and I found a website called TeacherFiles. I have only had [...]
Free printable worksheets for teachers on a wide variety of topics (covering all major subject areas). The site is well organized by subject area and worksheets can be found on most any topic. In addition, they also have a teacher’s helper area with many different tools to help you organize your classroom and keep records. [...]
Lots of fun experiments you can do at home! The section on kitchen science experiments can be found as part of a larger site called “The Naked Scientists” – so named because they are a group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University who use radio, live lectures, and the Internet to strip science down [...]
Last year my daughter made a Word and Pictures Scrapbook that I found on the schools section of the BBC website. The scrapbook was about vowels and vowel sounds. Over several weeks we would work on a page at a time ; she really enjoyed doing it. I also thought it was great since connecting [...]
My daughter has been very eager to learn to “write” her name. So, since she is already great at printing, I decided to begin some lessons on cursive handwriting. I found a great site that actually shows an animation of the letters being written. She loves to look at this and then practice in the [...]
