Dec

21

Snow Day!

Posted by Homeschool_Dad

December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

How strange… Just a few days ago I was blogging about rainy day activities.  I was lamenting the fact that — since my family and I live in Southern California — we don’t get to experience days of being snowed in. Well, a couple days after that post, we drove up to Washington state.  And [...]

Sep

24

“Speak and Spell” Online!

Posted by Homeschool_Dad

September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

 Do you remember”Speak and Spell”?  It was a great educational toy created by Texas Instruments.  I haven’t seen them in the stores lately — LeapFrog Products and other high tech gadgets have taken it’s place.  But I nice that vocabulary building device, not to mention it’s cool Stephen Hawking-styled voice. Well, if you are your [...]

Sep

23

Creating and Connecting Lessons

Posted by Homeschool_Dad

September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

Do your children study one topic at a time? Do you spend forty minutes or so working on math problems, and then (perhaps after a ten minute break) do you then move on to something seemingly different? Sometimes that’s how we work at our house.  My wife has established a rather impressive routine of division [...]

Sep

10

Patience and the Perils of Spelling

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September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment

“My nine-year old may be the worst speller in the history of the English language.” At least that’s what a little voice in the back of my mind keeps telling me.  There’s a lingering part of my brain that is still worried about the homeschooling process, despite how successful it has been for my family, [...]

Dec

14

Spelling fun

Posted by nicki

December 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment

I love sites that have games that help you learn something. My favorite is Geography quizes (I’ll post some of my favorites later)- but maps change so often. Anyways someone just pointed out this site that makes a game out of spelling. It has different levels for differently ages. So go play!