On a tight budget this year? Delve into the plethora of free resources and discover high quality lessons that are better than many costly pre-packaged curriculum. However, going the low and no-cost route involves lots of extra planning, organizing and gathering, so take some time this summer and get started! Here are the basic items [...]
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Summer Homeschool? Try Funschool
Posted by ginac on July 22nd, 2008
We are enjoying the last few weeks of our break from official homeschool and have another trip or two on our list before we break out the books again. So, what else have we been up to? Well, we are focusing on fun! For a treat in the afternoon, our homeschooler goes online to the [...]
TeacherTube: Quick Lessons
Posted by ginac on July 15th, 2008
TeacherTube is the YouTube of the education world. While there are not nearly as many videos on TeacherTube as there are on YouTube, the content is squarely focused on education. We periodically peruse the offerings in the various ‘channels’ to find short videos that introduce a topic or reinforce what we are learning. There is [...]
Summer Homeschool: Everything is a Lesson!
Posted by ginac on July 14th, 2008
As a homeschool family, we worked pretty hard between August and May, so we decided to put the text books aside for the summer to focus mostly on field trip learning. It has been great fun so far, but much of the learning is coming from unexpected places. For example, a quick trip to an [...]
Homeschool Strategy: Documenting Student Achievement Online
Posted by ginac on July 8th, 2008
Homeschool instruction varies from structured, ‘public school at home’ style to complete unschooling, so keeping track of student achievement can be difficult and confusing. However, free online tools can help homeschoolers document their work in a searchable, organized manner. The most useful tools are blogs, video sharing sites, bookmark managers, book list managers and photo-sharing [...]
