It is never too early to early to start your child on age-appropriate exercises to promote the development of his writing ability. As with other new skills, the learning process occurs in stages, with each building upon the previous and every child moving at his own pace. By encouraging your child’s interest in and practice [...]
Most parents have no problem finding a wealth of different curriculums to choose from while they homeschool their young children. But when it comes to the middle and high school years finding the right materials becomes tricky. The biggest problem I ran into was that most curriculum wasn’t secular in nature. It comes to no [...]
My three year old can read, he has known his alphabet since he was two, and he will easily carry on a conversation composed of complete sentences. He knows his shapes, colors, numbers; heck, just yesterday he told me that Jupiter is the biggest planet. Though I’m proud of my son, my intent is not [...]
A great tool I have recently started using with my second grader’s math this year is Fact Families. I was having a problem getting him to memorize addition and subtraction facts and since Singapore doesn’t address memorization at all, (yet expects them to know it midway through book 1A), I had no choice but figure [...]
My children are 6 and 13, so most of the links provided are for those two age groups! I just thought I would write about that very first link I posted http://www.starfall.com/
What a great little place. You can download the whole thing and print it, or ask them to send you the whole set [...]
A is Athame, the knife that we use.
B is for Beltaine, when partners we choose.
C is for Circle where we all are one.
D is for Deosil, path of the Sun.
E is for Esbat, when we gather round.
F is for Fire and its crackling sound.
G is for the Goddess in beauty and love.
H is the Horned [...]
B.J. Pinchbecks homework helper
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/index.html
World fact book
http://www.theodora.com/wfb/abc_world_fact_book.html
Fact Monster
http://www.factmonster.com/
Help Your Child Improve Auditory Skills by Teaching How to Rhyme..
Knowing how to rhyme will help your child read word “families” such as let, met, pet, wet, and get. Notice that rhyming words have same sound endings but different beginning sounds. Some words don’t look the same: ache, cake, steak but they rhyme. To teach [...]
Help Your Child Put Sounds Together to Make Words by Playing “Connect Three.”
This game will help your child connect sounds to make words. [...]
Children struggling in reading tend to stay in the emergent phase longer. They need stacks of easy-to-read books for practice. There aren’t many books in this category, and the cost adds up quickly. So help your child to make his own books. He’ll be able to read them since the words came from within and [...]
