Entries Tagged as 'Learning Resources'

Sunday, August 13th, 2006

Ancient History Studies

We were going to use Story of the World for history explorations this year, in fact I purchased the complete set for Ancient Times back in the Spring, but for many reasons I’ve decided not to go that route.
Instead, we’re going to use Ancient Civilizations History Pockets, geared towards 1st-3rd graders, as our spine this […]

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Games For Readers

My kids don’t do well with highly structured lessons, especially when it comes to reading. But they do love to play computer games and along the way we’ve discovered a few neat resources that fall into the “learning to read” category. Best thing about these tools is that my kids ask to play with them. […]

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

Spell Check Options

While our fabulous hostess Andrea works to correct the spell check issue for Internet Explorer users, I wanted to offer a work-around solution that Homeschool Journal users (or all bloggers for that matter) might find useful.
If you’re as bad a speller as me then you’ve probably been really in need of a spell check program! […]

Friday, June 16th, 2006

Virginia Resources

Oops! I meant to publish this as a page, which you can access from the menu on the right. Sorry if you got directed here by mistake. Just click on “Virginia Resources” under the Pages menu and you’ll end up where you want to be.
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006

Math and Writing

Here are two sheets I created recently. Both are simple but useful and I wanted to share them.
First up is a Math Sheet to practice with numbers up to eleven. There are 42 problems, half of which are addition and half are subtraction. MJ wanted to do some math problems so I whipped up this […]