Tag: "Teaching Aides"
Free Teacher’s Manuals from The History Channel
Passed on… Free Teacher’s Manuals from The History Channel Includes: – The Declaration of Independence – The Missouri River: A Journey with Stephen Ambrose – The National World War II Memorial – The White House 200th Anniversary Save Our History Historians and other educators at The History Channel are creating multidisciplinary teacher’s manuals, available to [...]
Recommendations for Beginning Readers
So, everyone rants and raves about the Bob Books, by Bobby Lynn Maslen , but the girls and I are not taking too well to them. So, through trail and error…here’s what we came up with as our recommended starting points for Beginning Readers. Please share your opinions and recommendations in the comments section below…we’re [...]
Kindergarten at Home
This is such an exciting time for me and the girls. Here’s some starting points, thanks to my dear friend and homeschool mentor, as she completed an extremely successful Kindergarten year with her daughter: Free Homeschool Tracker program Car schooling Alphabet Coloring Books Learning Pages They’re screaming in the background and we have a full-day [...]
Library Movies and DVDs
Should public libraries charge for the rental of movies and DVDs? Check out the debate: Libraries increase DVDs stacks, add fees for movie watchers. Now are some people just chosing to be cheap…and not renting elsewhere, taking away from the public’s right to free educational and entertaining resources of those who can NOT afford the [...]
Potty-training & more
Woo hoo…our youngest pooped and peed in her training potty today. She actually enjoyed hangin out there and giving high-fives to everyone too. She’s 20 months old. Our 4 year-old figured out addition and subtraction herself. It was way cool. She said, “Mama there’s five of us and when Baba goes to China (where he [...]
PowerTouch Learning System
The PowerTouch Learning System by FisherPrice…is Way cool! The girls love it. Though you have to be very careful, it’s not a tug-o-war toy since the pages have to sit nice & flat. Words, pictures, reading, phonics, spelling, counting & more…perfect for homeschool. It say the starting age is 3, but our 20-month-old can play [...]
