Favorite places to find books The Public Library – We find much of our curriculum materials here, including magazines, dvds and music CDs. Used Book Stores – We find an occasional ‘gem’ at our favorite used book store. Ebay and Amazon- If we can’t find the book locally, we always find it on either Ebay [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Celebrate Earth Day All Year: Design a Reusable Shopping Bag
Posted by ginac on April 22nd, 2008
Instead of trying to decide if its better to choose “paper or plastic” at the grocery store, have fun as a family designing your own reusable shopping bags. There are various places that sell inexpensive plain canvas bags or you can order them online. Here are some online sources reusablebags.com thisnext.com Next, just think up [...]
Eclectic Homeschool Math – ‘The Number Devil’
Posted by ginac on April 12th, 2008
Being true to our eclectic homeschool style, we try to find as many quality resources to teach each subject. In our quest to teach math concepts, we discovered a fun book titled ‘The Number Devil’. ‘The Number Devil’ is a fictional story about a boy named Robert who doesn’t like math very much. Robert begins [...]
Teaching Calculus to Little Kids
Posted by ginac on April 5th, 2008
Some people think teaching calculus to little kids is absurd because, traditionally, kids are not taught calculus until high school or college. However, there are a couple of books written especially for teaching calculus to kids as young as six or seven. Why not? Arithmetic isn’t of much use without calculus to explain principles in [...]
Posted in Gifted, Math, Teaching methods 
Tags: Calculus, Eclectic Homeschooling, homeschool, Math 
7 Comments »Genetics Website for Kids
Posted by ginac on April 2nd, 2008
GlaxoSmithKline has created an interesting website aimed at teaching kids a bit about DNA and the basic chemistry involved. Professor U. Gene guides kids through a few games that help kids understand the concepts of genetics. Some of the topics covered include protein building blocks and how they fit together, RNA transcription, codons, peptides, etc. [...]
