For those homeschoolers who are interested in writing their own music, it is easier than ever to customize your own printable staff paper. This tool makes it easy to add the clef, time signature, key signature, multiple staves, etc. We love the Blank Sheet Music website. If you register (free), you can take advantage of [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Homeschool Music: Online Music Staff Paper Creator
Posted by ginac on September 28th, 2008
Posted in Eclectic Homeschooling, Music, Online Tools 
Tags: Music, sheet music, write music 
1 Comment »Free Language Arts Lesson For Star Wars Fans
Posted by ginac on September 28th, 2008
Every once in a while, we enjoy reading something that isn’t a literary classic, an award winner or critically acclaimed. When a child is passionate about a topic, he/she is apt to be more interested in learning about that topic, including READING about it. The Little Blue School blog author, Lydia, has created a really [...]
Posted in Eclectic Homeschooling, Just for Fun, Language Arts, Library, Teaching methods Comments OffFree Language Arts Lesson: Treasure Island
Posted by ginac on September 21st, 2008
This unit study makes a wonderful homeschoolers ‘seminar’ around the Robert Lewis Stevenson classic, Treasure Island. It is much more than simply a language arts unit study — it incorporates so much (geography, spelling, art, music, vocabulary, history, creative writing, etc.) that you could focus on Treasure Island as a unit study to cover most, [...]
How to Make a Star Wars Jedi Costume
Posted by ginac on September 14th, 2008
Whether for pretend play or as a Halloween costume, $39.99 is way too much money to spend for a costume. Furthermore, the $39.99 Jedi costume available in stores is not very well made. Pieces are sewn together so that kids don’t have wearing options and the included accessories (belt) are very cheap rubber or plastic. [...]
Posted in Eclectic Homeschooling, Halloween, Just for Fun Tags: Halloween Costume, Jedi, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars 3 Comments »Free Language Arts Unit: Art & Language Arts
Posted by ginac on September 13th, 2008
This week’s language arts unit combines various aspects of art with language arts. We combined some really creative lessons designed by others with some of our own ideas to create five days of study on these two topics. If your homeschoolers enjoy poetry, drawing, stories and writing, they will enjoy this art-inspired language arts unit. [...]
Learn About CERN’s New Large Hadron Collider
Posted by ginac on September 10th, 2008
It’s a very exciting day at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics lab. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, CERN scientists have just successfully begun the first experiment with the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC)! The LHC has been in the works for around 13 years and is designed to model what happened immediately after the ‘Big [...]
Free Language Arts Lesson: Adventures in Newspapers
Posted by ginac on September 7th, 2008
This five-day lesson plan takes the student through interviewing, reporting and writing a news article with plenty of references for learning about newspapers and articles. There is a short lesson on using a Word Processor and a bit of a math divergence on DAY 5. The DAY 5 lesson, adapted from Philip McCormack’s lesson ‘statistics [...]
Rice University’s Connexions Learning Modules
Posted by ginac on September 4th, 2008
We recently discovered Connexions, a website offering free educational material for k-12 and beyond. If you use the eclectic homeschooling method, Connexions will be especially appealing to you. With Connexions, you decide how to put the small chunks of information together. Connexions describes itself as: A place to view and share educational material made of [...]
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