Friday, February 03, 2012
Zane Educational is an online education service operated predominantly by homeschoolers.
The company has 2 primary aims:
To provide online Visual Learning for Children of all ages that caters most effectively for the widest range of Learning Styles.
To reduce the cost of effective homeschooling to ...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
An exceptional vocabulary is necessary to perform well on the SAT (did you know that approx. 50% of the SAT is based on vocabulary?) …and also for college and life in general!
The new Vocabulary Workshop: Enriched Edition, brought to you by William H. Sadlier, Inc., is for grades 9-12+ and focuses on vocabulary development for high-achieving, college-bound ...
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Monday, January 30, 2012
MathGameTime.com features FREE educational games, worksheets, videos and homework help for homeschoolers. Find games by grade (Pre-K –7th Grade) or by subject (Addition, Time and Money, Problem Solving, Shapes and Geometry, and more).
In addition, MathGameTime.com has reviewed the top math apps and created their Top 10 list. These educational apps test skills such as ...
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Friday, January 27, 2012
From Snow to Snow, Poems by Robert Frost, Photographs by B. A. King, edited by Edward Connery Latham, Dean of Libraries Emeritus at Dartmouth College, Time & Quiet Press
The original edition of From Snow to Snow by Robert Frost was published in 1936 by Henry Holt and Company. It was initially issued for complimentary ...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Look Around Books, the Habitat Series, by Tony King, Time and Quiet Press
Small books for small hands (3″ wide X 2″ high) — each Look Around Book contains 48 pages of information (i.e., the gray tree frog is about the size of your big toenail) and nature photographs–photographs that your child will get lost ...
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Monday, January 23, 2012
The Key to®…Series are math workbooks for elementary, middle, and high school math students.
The Key to®…Series are self-paced, self-guided workbooks that are classroom-tested and proven successful with students at all levels. In each set of sequentially-oriented workbooks, 1) the instructions are clear and direct, 2) new concepts are explained in simple language and with pictures, ...
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Friday, January 20, 2012
The probability that two snow flakes would be exactly alike, in molecular structure and in appearance, is very minute. That’s because 1) not all water molecules are alike and 2) snow flakes ...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
MySchoolYear.com is a site that allows you to keep track of your homeschool records online.
With MySchoolYear.com you can design your own lesson plans and revise them easily, organize your curriculum by subject and grade level, record your materials uses, track and retrieve information, keep track of grades and time spent ...
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Honor Begins At Home … and soon, you will be able to bring COURAGEOUS home!
This powerful film about five men who are challenged to become Godly fathers encouraged and challenged millions of moviegoers.
Starting January 17, 2012, you can enjoy it at home. Available on DVD and Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack.
Special Features–
The ...
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Looks like we have an activity theme going with the last three posts! Today, I’d like to share some ideas with you from ImaginationSoup and Judy Molland–http://imaginationsoup.net/2011/12/get-outside-in-winter-8-great-activities-for-kids/
Kids love winter. So get out and enjoy! Learn and have some fun–because fun learning is forever learning!
Ann Simpson
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Interested in your basal metabolic rate (how many calories your body uses when doing absolutely nothing)? http://www.balancedhealthfitness.com/basal_metabolic_rate.html
Your body mass index? http://www.balancedhealthfitness.com/body_mass_index.html
Or do you want to know how many calories you or your children burn, performing a certain activity? http://www.balancedhealthfitness.com/calorie_calculator.html
You can use this information in conjunction with the peertrainer information from Monday!
Fun! And fun learning is ...
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Monday, January 09, 2012
Barbara Hayes from AfterSkoolKids.org wrote in to tell Homeschool.com the following, “I work at an after school program and your resources have been very helpful, it’s nice to find fun sites for the kids to use.”
Barbara continued, “The students and I have also been working on creating a section of our website which has links ...
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Friday, January 06, 2012
My last posting was about Student Resolutions. Now it’s time for Teacher Resolutions! You didn’t think you were going to get off easy, did you?
What resolutions would YOU like to make in 2012 regarding your homeschool program? Can’t think of any? Well, you might want to look at your students’ resolutions…. ...
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Wednesday, January 04, 2012
This is the time of year for resolutions. What resolutions did you make? To be more patient….to exercise daily….to visit your parents more often?
Have you thought about resolutions your children–your students can make? This is something you can ask your children to think about….to decide upon…..and to write down on paper! If ...
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Craig Gibson from www.mothmatic.com would like Homeschool.com readers to know about his Math website. Mothmatic offers several free to use animated games.
Games are fun….and fun learning is forever learning!
Ann Simpson
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Do your kids love summer camp? Perhaps they can attend camp in the winter!
Check out the local zoo, the local Discovery Center, and the Science, History and/or Art museums near you. Consider equestrian clubs, karate schools and any type of organization that offers lessons your children might be interested in. Many organizations ...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Explore the world with the Roberts family, learning where to go, what to see & do, and how to travel with kids!
Created by parents — for parents and for their children, the Travel with Kids series shows real life travel experiences.
Travel With Kids is broadcast on PBS and worldwide in 30 countries. ...
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Monday, December 19, 2011
The Key to..®Series are affordable math workbooks for elementary, middle, and high school math students. Separate mathematical topics include Key to Fractions®, Key to Decimals® , Key to Percents®, Key to Measurement®, Key to Metric Measurement®, Key to Algebra® and Key to Geometry®.
The Key to… set of self-paced, self-guided workbooks are classroom-tested and proven ...
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Friday, December 16, 2011
This year, the first day of winter, or the Winter Solstice for the Northern Hemisphere will be December 22. On this day, because of the earth’s tilt, the Northern Hemisphere will be leaning farther away from the sun than at any other time during the year, and it ...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
If being more organized is one of your goals for the upcoming year, check out MySchoolYear.com — a site that allows you to keep track of your homeschool records online.
With MySchoolYear.com you can design your own lesson plans and revise them easily, organize your curriculum by subject and grade level, keep track of multiple ...
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