looks to be an interesting site.
you can find it here.
Your art instruction resource for self-learners and home schoolers. You will find homeschool art curriculum, online art courses, and free art projects.
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Freebie of the Day
You should go here if you don’t already… you get helpful stuff for your homeschool needs.. FOR FREE!
yes, once in a while they ask if you want to buy something…choose to or not..it’s up to you. (I mostly don’t but I did get the kindergarten book from them.. worth the $7 I paid for it). But mostly I just ignore those emails and just get the free stuff.
Today the freebie was PDF’s the periodic tables and more. So go there, get it. 🙂
Sites I would like to look at again
Story Sites
Here you will find original and classic children’s audio stories. Every other week, The Story Home will offer a brand new story read to you by a very special storyteller named Alan, for FREE!
We have over 200 audio stories in MP3 format for you to download and enjoy with your family and friends
Why not try our Reading Books? Or if you enjoy Colouring, choose from the Colouring Books section
teaching sites
I got the above site through Teach-nology.
Family Life
From the joyful celebrations of family nights to the wild and wacky fun of science experiments, our family fun section offers a host of great ideas for every family.
George Washington – DNG – A review
ICE CREAM!! This was a favourite food of George Washington. “It’s not as good as a sprinkle sandwich though, is it mommy? Though it is pretty good isn’t it?”
This is a unit study that has been produced by Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett..
The lad and I did this unit study over the course of three days. We took a day to read a couple of books about George Washington, then a day to do day one and two, and then another day to do days 3-5.
We discovered how difficult it is to find books on George Washington. This despite the fact that Amanda Bennett lists several in the unit study, we couldn’t find a single one! Part of that’s living in small town Ontario, but we couldn’t find but the two in the London (and that’s NOT small town Ontario), neither of them was in her list of suggested reading. We enjoyed the one book on George, it was written in a fairly engaging story style. It had some pictures as well so the boy could see some of how it was back in the day of George Washington.
I know that he enjoyed some of the study on George and that he learned something because suddenly Bunny Town (a make believe world that all that is good in the world occurs there) had a “bunny washington” in it. 🙂 Made me smile. Here’s a lad having ‘Bunny Washington’ explain that cutting down trees will make your dad angry, and that sometimes you have to help people even if you want to do something else (aka George wanted to be a farmer, but instead because president of the USA).
Amanda Bennett unit studies are laid out in such away that it makes it very easy to do the study. They have lap book elements and fully printable pages for notebooking, drawing and such like. The graphics are child-friendly. If you want to go off on rabbit trails, it is easy enough to do. If you want to skip certain sections, you can do that too. 🙂 We skipped ALL the stuff that had to do with American government or that I thought too difficult to do with a wiggly five year old. ALL I wanted to do was touch on the basics, and that’s what I was easily enabled to do.
Day 1: Who Was George Washington?
Day 2: People and Places in George Washington’s Life
Day 3: The Accomplishments of George Washington
Day 4: Lessons to Learn From George Washington
Day 5: Remembering George Washington
One thing I like is that I can copy the questions into my own word program and instead of printing out five pages of material, I can print out two. Save on the printer ink. I can pick and choose what pages I want to copy in their original format as well.
I was given a copy of this unit study for my honest review.
The blog tour is over here. Go there to read some excellent reviews.
Download N Go is having a number of specials on right now. Go here to learn more about them please. 🙂
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Blog is being weird lately
not sure what’s up with the blog lately, but it seems to be displaying incorrectly.
Will have to see if I can figure out just what is up with it.
Experimentation!
The name of the game today was “let’s experiment” and so we did. 🙂
We’d gotten a number of books out of the library that had to do with science experiments and so we played around with the books.
We started with Everyday Science Experiments in the gym
All we did was work our way through the book. The one on learning about a curve ball was quite interesting to boy and cat. I will post a video if I can get it to upload. 🙂
We listened to our heart beat, leaned hard against a wall and learned that afterwards our arm will go up all on it’s own! We stood really close to a wall and learned how hard it was to lift the outside foot from the wall.
Then we moved on to Everyday Science Experiments in the Kitchen.
In this book we learned that lemon juice can turn dull pennies into shiny pennies.
Before
Before
After
What we found interesting is what we thought was grime on the one penny, turned yellow and flaky after it was in the lemon juice. It wouldn’t come off..it just looked flaky but wasn’t really. The lad was quite intrigued by it, and I was at a loss to explain why.
We had fun learning about surface tension by adding 30 pennies to a small jar of water that was full to the brim. Hardly any water was split and the boy was quite fascinated by this. “look mommy! the water is all floaty! Look mommy it pops up at me!”. 🙂
The one that elucidated the “let’s do that again Mommy” was the balloon experiment. Take one balloon, small water bottle, vinegar and baking soda and you have an intensely curious lad. “MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It blowed up the balloon!!!!” “Let’s do that again mommy!”
Later we took a balloon. Added some vanilla to it (the lad poured it in). We blew up the balloon and placed it in a shoebox. After two hours we opened the shoebox. It smelled like vanilla. We put it back in and six hours later the smell was even more potent. Very lovely smell. 🙂 The lad was impressed. Dad thought it rather neat too as we shared it with him.
We did a few other things but I can’t remember them. It was just fun having a blast in the kitchen with the lad. 🙂 Oh.. we made ooblek. The boy didn’t like touching it, so I stirred it around and showed him how it acted both like a liquid and like a solid.
Oh…and he made another volcano. 🙂
After we cleaned up a bit from all the experimenting we did a book “Jonah and the big fish”. It was sticker fun, doing mazes and learning the story of Jonah. How he ran away from God because he didn’t want to do what God said. The lad said “Doesn’t he know that running away from God doesn’t work mommy? God always knows where we are. “
In the late afternoon he went to the London’s children’s museum with Dad while I did some chores around the house and took time to read a book for a moment or two.
It was an excellent day all round.
Time 4 Learning
I’ve been invited to try Time4Learning for one month in exchange for a candid review. My opinion will be entirely my own, so be sure to come back and read about my experience. Time4Learning can be used as an online homeschooling curriculum, afterschool tutorial or a summer skill builder. Find out how to write your own curriculum review for Time4Learning.
REVIEW
The lad enjoys this program for the most part. He finds it fun, and relatively easy to do.
What he doesn’t like is the constant repetition of do this and then that. He likes…”MOMMY! I already know what they want me to do! Why do they keep telling me? Don’t they know that I’m five and I know how to listen already?” A new one I heard today was “why do they have to show me? I know what to do!!” AND “Mommy!!! I did it right! Why did they tell me I was wrong and then do what I just did?” (my response was…probably a glitch in the computer bud – as it had done the same to me earlier).
I find the kindergarten work a bit too easy but it’s hard to know what to expect each lesson and if they will hit on something that he already knows and understands. I am considering jumping up to grade 1 materials and seeing if that will offer him a bit more of a challenge.
I consider purchasing the program, but quite frankly…at $20 a month I simply can’t afford it at this time. I will continue to review it and make a hopefully informed decision if I think long-term it would be of benefit to him or not.