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Homeschooling and Online Fun

Creating a Homeschool Co-op

We have restructured the co-op to be MORE structured and yes- even more like school. The older kids seem to want it and once a week not such a bad things for younger kids. We have divided it up into 3 sections- math/english and “special projects” I am quite excited about the possibilities for this. [...]

Online Fables and Folktales – Watch Animated Stories Online

August House learning site has a section on their website called Story Cove with free, animated stories you can watch online. They have an excellent selection. Maybe I am bias but I have always loved Aesop’s Fables and any kind of myths- particularly Native American and African ones. The site has several sections and you [...]

Ideas for Cuisenaire Rods – Cuisenaire Rod Math Games and More

At risk of repeating myself, we recently moved.. during the unpacking I came across some stuff we haven’t seen in while. One of things was a great big box of cuisenaire rods. If you don’t know what they are- they are wooden (or plastic) rods of varying colours and lengths that help with math skills [...]

For the Computer Geek in All of Us: Learning HLA

Cam across this – teaches basic computer programming in a very easy to understand way ( good for ages 12+ ). The HLA (High Level Assembly) language was developed as a tool to help teach assembly language programming and machine organization to University students at the University of California, Riverside. The basic idea was to [...]

Homeschool Math Blog

Neat little blog I discovered today- a homeschool mom has created a blog devoted entirely to math and math puzzles, problems for all ages. You will find Egyptian math problems, puzzles and other neat stuff. This is NOT your typical dry math problems site. Well worth the visit! http://letsplaymath.wordpress.com/ Do you know of Online Schools [...]