Posted in Grammar, cool sites on Sep 24th, 2008 No Comments »
No, not that way!
Here’s pages and pages of badly written signs in honor of National Punctuation Day. Victoria and I had a lot of fun looking at them and finding the errors.
Be sure to browse the rest of the site too. It’s quite a lot of fun!
Posted in Charity & Community Good, cool sites, geography, science, math on Sep 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
I think most people know about FreeRice by now, the cool web site that tests your vocabulary and earns rice that’s donated to the hungry. They’ve expanded and now have categories like chemistry symbols, multiplication, world capitals, foreign languages and more! What a great way to help others and help your kids (or yourself) learn. […]
Posted in Charity & Community Good, cool sites, geography on Sep 14th, 2008 No Comments »
The folks behind FreeRice have come up with a fun online geography game that donates clean drinking water to people in need the more you play!
The name of a place is displayed above a map and the object is to click on the map as close to the location of that place as possible. […]
Posted in cool sites, writing on Sep 11th, 2008 No Comments »
You girls can register and play at this site. Afterwards, please write up a review for my blog and email it to me. It should have an intro sentence where you give an idea about whether you recommend it and what it is, a paragraph about what the site is about and what […]
Posted in Preschool, cool sites on Sep 10th, 2008 No Comments »
The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County has great little printable theme booklets in PDF format on a variety of themes from teeth to mommies to chickens. I browsed the ones on zoos and Halloween. They were full of finger plays, action songs, activities and a few crafts. I think even my older kiddos […]
Posted in cool sites, science on Aug 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
Daryl and Victoria have been having a blast playing Seed, a free online game where kids learn about everything from clones to genetic codes. Plant a seed and grow a flower, then choose whether to plant a clone of it or cross two flowers and splice them. Watch for mutations, see what new designs you […]
Posted in cool sites, Fun, math on Aug 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
What fun! Mathbits.com has developed an online treasure hunt of math problems, geocaching style.
In the spirit of geocaching, we have created activities called “MathCaching” which use the internet to find hidden boxes to reveal clues to the continuation of the games. Your success at “MathCaching” is dependent upon your skills at solving mathematical problems.
The MathCaching […]
Posted in Worksheets & printables, cool sites, science on Aug 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
Our friend Polly lives in Scotland and visited the Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park yesterday. She shared the web site with us and it has some really neat pages you can download and print out.
Some of the themes are vertebrates, food chains, animal senses and “design a wildlife park.” They’re colorful, creative, and designed […]
Posted in challenges, cool sites, crafts, Fun, art on Aug 6th, 2008 No Comments »
There are a bunch of really fun creative challenges out there in cyberspace right now. I’m really hoping to get to some of these with the kids in the next week or two. A few of my favorites…
KidMade just ran a challenge “to engineer the longest marble ramp you can using only cardboard and duct tape.” […]
Posted in Awards, cool sites on Aug 4th, 2008 4 Comments »
I was so honored to get this award from Mary at Everyday Baby Steps. I am new to her blog but I love to visit it. Thanks so much, Mary!
This award was created by Memoirs Of A Mommy to honor the donor who saved her son Noah’s life with […]
I'm a frazzled AP mom to 4 fabulous kids in rural Minnesota. Homeschooling here tends to be child-led and focused on fun. We do lots of crafts, reading and exploring. I'm madly in love with my brilliant, goofy lug of a husband and I don't get nearly enough sleep.