But for those of you looking for great homeschooling resources, Diane Flynn Keith has been ferreting them out for years. Check out her lists:
The Best of ClickSchoolingAnd best wishes on your family's homeschooling adventure!
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Don't miss it! Pop over to the Homeschool Freebies site for free downloads galore. Time is limited, so act quickly --- the fun ends Monday night.
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When things calm down, I plan to get back to posting mini book reviews each week. For now, I'm doing good to get anything posted at all! But I have been looking for an excuse to play around with the Wordle online "toy," so I copied the carnival of homeschooling into it, just to see what came our. (If you have trouble reading the fine print, click to enlarge the image.) This ended up taking much more time than I thought, because my old screenshot capture program couldn't handle the java image. I had to install Jing, which worked like a dream.
This week's homeschool blog carnival celebrates women's suffrage. Stop by and enjoy the history and the wide variety of carnival entries:
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This week's freebie from CurrClick is just the thing for my 4th grade daughter. We can print these on index cards, clip them together with a linking ring, and practice on the go. (It seems like we are always on the go to somewhere. What ever happened to home schooling?)
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[Photo by S Baker.]
Ah, the joys of antique equipment! Between computer problems and an urgent list of things that need to be done before school starts (okay, I missed that deadline!), blogging has become temporarily impossible.
While I'm gone, I hope you will take some time to browse some of the other excellent educational blogs out there. Here is a list of edublog carnivals, copied from the sidebar widget on my math blog.
What is a blog carnival?Carnival of Education
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In the treasure-hunting game of Geocaching (pronounced "geo-cashing"), players use GPS systems to locate boxes hidden at different geographical locations across the country. Now, the creative people at Mathbits.com have created online activities for junior high and high school students, called MathCaching. Students solve mathematical problems to find hidden "boxes" on the Internet. Each box reveals clues to the location of the next one.
Here are the MathCaching levels now available:
MathCaching for Basic Math Skills
The "BasicCaching" game covers prealgebra skills such as fractions, ratios, percents, order of operations, signed numbers, exponents, sum of angles in a triangle, mean, median, and probability.
Algebra
The "AlgeCaching" game challenges students with order of operations, equation solving, integer and consecutive integer word problems, slope, distance, midpoint, area, radicals, exponents, factoring, quadratic equations, and rational equations.
Geometry
The "GeoCaching" game requires knowledge of angles, reasoning, parallel and perpendicular lines, triangles, congruent triangles and proof, quadrilaterals, area and volume, polygons, similarity, circles, and transformations.
Algebra2
The "Alge2Caching" game tests such topics as absolute value equations and inequalities; radical equations, functions, logarithms, exponentials, quadratics, complex fractions, asymptotes, rational equations, sequences and series, Binomial Theorem, and probability.
Trigonometry
The "TrigCaching" game covers right triangle trig, angle relationships, conversion between radians and degrees, reference angles, exact values, area of triangle, Law of Sines, Law of Cosines, amplitude, frequency, period, vertical shift, phase shift, inverse trig functions, and identities.
PreCalculus and Calculus levels are coming soon.
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The 137th Carnival of Homeschooling kicks off the school year with a trip down 'homeschool memory lane' with a collage of photos from several years of raising kids and home-educating them.
"The memories are priceless... and I wouldn't have traded ALL my burnout, stress, or bad days for any one of these smiles in the pictures."While not priceless, the many articles by homeschooling bloggers are well worth browsing, too. Here are a few of my favorites:
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[Photo by ldcross.]
Be sure to check out this week's freebies at:
The Homeschool Freebie of the Day
Each download is available for one day only, so don't procrastinate! These are wonderful resources.
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Are you concerned about your child's (or your own) spelling skills? Even good readers can find spelling difficult. Unfortunately, spell checking programs donut work two will fur a week spiller, if ewe no watt eye men.
We all know that people judge us by our spelling. Poor spelling creates a bad impression, and no one wants to look stupid. But what can a weak speller do? Whether you are an adult who has always struggled with spelling or the parent of a child who needs spelling help, here is a website that you may find useful:
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Oh, dear! My computer has died again, and I'm afraid this time it may be for good. It has been hobbling along for the last 2-3 years, throwing occasional tantrums but usually working well enough. I will certainly miss the beast! Fortunately, I can use my daughter's computer to check email and other emergency stuff --- but I may not be able to put together a blog post for awhile. See you later!
