As a home schooling mother, I am constantly checking out new online sites. Wanna know what sites I have found? I’m glad because I was going to tell you anyway! Math: Funbrain Sheppard Software Gamequarium The School Bell Cool Math 4 Kids (and it really is cool!) Typing: Typing Web (a new favorite) BBC Typing [...]
Category Archives: Homeschooling
Proven Right
February 27, 2009 – 11:51 am
While playing online math tic tac toe, Phillip was showing me that if he clicked on the answer box, it would pull down a list of numbers to choose from. I immediately saw that it was only a list of numbers that had been typed before, and the number he was looking for (5) was [...]
Save Our Successors (SOS)
February 25, 2009 – 11:25 am
David Ogden is a man who believes that America is already bound by the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child due to International Law because almost every other nation has signed the treaty. That means Ogden already believes that the government has more control over children than their parents. If that doesn’t concern [...]
Online Subject Ideas
February 17, 2009 – 11:52 pm
As a techy(?) homeschooling mom, I am always looking for online ideas that will make learning fun for my children (and for me). I came across 2 cool sites today, thanks to an online friend and fellow homeschooler, Stretch Mark Mama. A fun way to Learn the Presidents of the United States A game site [...]
How Smart is Your Brain?
February 16, 2009 – 11:23 pm
Since Anna has finished her science book, and we still have 3 or 4 months of school left, we decided to let her choose the topics that interested her most from her book and research them online. Today’s topic was the eye. We found a really cool site that teaches about how your eye has [...]
How to Defend Parental Rights
February 2, 2009 – 11:53 pm
Parentalrights.org has begun its journey toward a constitutional amendment to keep the government from parenting our children. Want to help them out? The opportunity is here waiting for you to take action. Please do this for the sake of our children and grandchildren! Stay tuned for more updates.
Are Home Schoolers Socialized? Part 3
November 22, 2008 – 1:07 pm
In part 1 of this series, I talked about Luke’s home school experience and my public school experience with social skills. In part 2, I posted a Luann comic about socialization in public school. Here is my input on homeschooling and how it is actually better at teaching social skills than public school. According to [...]
Are Home Schoolers Socialized? Part 1
November 13, 2008 – 11:58 pm
When I was 12 years old our church got a new pastor who had seven children. I had never met a family with that many kids, but something else about them was even more intriguing than the number of people in the family. This family was home schooled. (If this story sounds familiar, you probably [...]
Healthy Learning
September 2, 2008 – 10:27 pm
Today marks day 2 of our home school year. I was in a crunch today, so I had Anna read her Health book out loud to Peter. Because they are going through a fighting stage (I hope), I walked out of the room thinking “yeah, right. That’s really going to go well!” When I walked [...]
"Th" versus "d" and "f"
June 28, 2008 – 10:35 pm
In past years, Peter has been replacing the “th” sound with the “d” or “f” sound. “That” was “dat,” and “Bethany” was “Befany.” I worked on teaching him the correct pronunciation, and he was finally able to make the “th” sound. During a reading lesson where he was introduced to the word “the,” he finally [...]
Pet Pine Cones
June 20, 2008 – 6:03 pm
The other morning while at a park, Anna brought me a pine cone and said, “My friend Hannah told me that when a pine cone is closed like this, it is going to rain.” I looked around at the sunshine and white puffy clouds and said, “Well, I don’t think it’s going to rain.” She [...]