By Board Contributions on February 7, 2009
What You’ll Need:
* Lunch sized paper bag
* Newspaper
* Red acrylic paint
* Scissors
* Stapler
* Paint brush
What to Do:
1. Cut out two identical hearts from the paper bag.
The way we did it was to cut the bottom of the bag off, and then cut down one side to make a large sheet. Then we cut the paper [...]
Posted in Art and Drama, What's New | Tagged HomePick
By Board Contributions on October 27, 2008
These video clips are fun to use in cooking with your kids. You can get them to follow along.
Posted in Elementary, Featured, Kindergarten | Tagged Featured
By Board Contributions on September 15, 2008
I’ve been using online games to help my boys in 5th and 6th grade with their math review and practicing the concepts. Here are a couple of the links we have been using.
http://www.mathsisfun.com/
http://www.gamequarium.com/math.htm
http://www.coolmath.com/
http://www.aplusmath.com/games/
http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/math.html
Posted in What's New
By Board Contributions on August 20, 2008
Just as a carpenter needs tools to do his job, a mom
needs tools to be able to homeschool her children.
The tools don’t have to be fancy, but they do need
to be functional. Not every carpenter prefers the
same tools. Some couldn’t live without a certain tool
where another carpenter never uses that tool to get
the job done.
Depending [...]
Posted in What's New | Tagged Featured
By Board Contributions on August 19, 2008
Check out the Periodic Table of Videos.
Here are some tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century – this modern version has a short video about each one.
http://www.periodicvideos.com/
This link is super for science, especially junior and high school. Enjoy
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