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Peekaboo Barn—Apparently a great app for kids with speech delays.
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Excellent tips, links, and inspiration for "afterschooling"!
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Excellent tips and links for child-centered early literacy.
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Good, simple stuff for your 1 to 3-year-old.
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Useful links for "carschooling."
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67 books book lovers should read to their kids before age 10.
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Olliebop Thanks! Many favorites (i.e. Penderwicks and Mysterious Benedict Society) on this list, and reminders to circle back to some classics.
25 best read-aloud books for ages 5 to 12.
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Best chapter books to read aloud 3-8yr olds.
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Morgan Mark My Fathers Dragon is wonderful. A big hot with the five year old set ;)
Poems every child should know (book & mp3 recordings).
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Teaching the difference between there, their, and they're using some fun cues via hsclassroom.net
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Daniella Summers I came to the States when I was 10. Was never taught this in school. Learned it by READING. A lot.
Presidential portraits quiz on Mental Floss.
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Angie Kauffman I took it and got 50%. That was tough. I had to go do it because I was sure I recognized the president on the pin but couldn't think of why. As soon as I got there and saw my choices, I felt like an idiot, since I realized it was the president for whom my high school was named. LOL (At least I got it right though.)
List of U.S. presidents, basic facts, and portraits on Wikipedia. (cc:@ClassicalConv)
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The best homeschool resources online. A Parents magazine article written by @Jamie Martin!
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great activities about people from other countries.
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How to Feed Brains Everyday - (Daily Links for Hungry Minds)
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Excellent links and encouragement on homeschooling from Ann Voskamp.
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Getting to know George Washington
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Getting to know Abraham Lincoln
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12 of the most compelling reasons to homeschool your kids, written by a public school teacher and administrator.
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Kim @ Homesteader's Heart Loved this! So true!
Genevieve Martens I'm still struggling with what to do in terms of schooling for my daughter :( Thank you for posting this it has given me more food for thought.
Amanda Harrill Loved this! HOMES Cool!
A collection of stuff kids should see. Videos filled with stories, history, science, nature... common sense stuff kids should know.
by ParticleMen
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Left vs. Right Brain Infographic
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Aimee Davis I'm definitely a right brained person.
Outlines of famous works of art for kids to color.
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Pre-Writing - develop fine motor, wrist strength and hand eye coordination with the long list of activities listed in the post.
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SO SIMPLE - how to teach division. where has this been all my life?
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Becky Greenhow We call this "short division" in my classroom. I always teach this before the "long" version that we learned as kids.
Jill Pearson Why did I not know this?
Jill Egland Mann So love this! As a new homeschooling Mom with a 9 year old wanting division this is soo great!
Tons and tons and tons and tons and TONS of free children's classic audiobooks.
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Houston Foodlovers O.M.G., this site is fabulous! Thank you so much for finding this... :)
Susie Howard Thank you so much for this
Terry Fest are they really available
Shannon Lewis Thank you, Thank you!
paper dolls from different eras and cultures
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Love the idea of displaying your week's lesson plan on frames with dry erase markers.
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This teacher uses stability balls instead of chairs. After the initial excitement wears off, I can totally see doing this with my kids during school time.
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Bethany B I have a boy that can only memorize (especially spelling words) while bouncing on my exercise ball.
Mindy Carlson they use these in my sons public schoool- I was very skeptical, but it seems to work very well; very thankful the teacher is open to kiddos needs:)
Mindy Carlson they use these at my sons public school- I was skeptical, but they really seem to work- so thankful the teacher is open to kiddos needs:)
Liana Emery I used these in my classroom. t was great! Yes, the initial excitement wears off, and the "bounce" replaces the leaning back in a 4 legged chair! So much more comfy!
Julie @ Creekside Learning My son uses one of these, especially during math lessons. Improves his focus for sure and he loves math.
Writing in salt (this site has Montessori & Montessori-inspired activities).
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Jeannett Gibson knowing my kid, he'd have to rub his eyes and then come screaming like a wild banshee...
ladydusk My kids love this. They beg to do this.
self-directed pre-K activities in a bag
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Tons of great Busy Bag ideas from @Crystal Paine of MoneySavingMom.com.
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Wikipaintings - Tons of great info for art history, including large-sized paintings (creative commons).
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Very useful blog with lots of great art history ideas. Written by an art teacher.
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College Prep...keeping records in highschool.
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Indeed
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Brittney Black Also funny that "pronounce" is spelled weon
Brittney Black Dumb phone... Spelled wrong. Irony!
Problem-reaction chart to help kids process their (over)-reactions to situations; great guidance for discussions.
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Cat Nunnery probably good for adults, too!
Borax snowflakes. @Alia Hagenbach, I think this is what we were talking about today!
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Tracey Griffith We used colored pipe cleaners last year and made stars and trees and random spiral shapes. They are still very nice this year... pretty heavy duty crystals, not delicate.
Robin Alfonso metallic pipecleaners work too! We did that with my son's class at school yesterday. Fun science.
Sarah Policastro We did this last year too, SO fun! We bent the pipe cleaners around cookie cutters to make the shapes.
Alia Joy Hagenbach Aha! Just saw this. Only a month later...
Learning Languages for native English speakers. Fascinating...
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Rachel O'Funky I just completed my 5th semester of Mandarin Chinese and I *daily* despair of ever being fluent. :::SIGH:::
Jennie Stevens I wish they would include signed languages. People don't always recognize that Sign Language is an entirely separate language with its own syntax and grammar. Oh, well. Even so, this list is very interesting. It makes sense that Romance languages and ones that use our own alphabet would be easiest to learn.
Michele Desmarais Tsh, how many languages do you know?
Katie Fox I learned Polish! (don't remember it now... :)
Tsh Oxenreider I was wondering about German, too, especially since Dutch is listed as easy, and they're so similar. Michele, not as many as you might think. Other than English, 3... none fluently. Conversational at best.
Checklist: Is your child ready to learn to read?
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Excellent website and lesson plans for Benjamin Franklin.
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Haley Frederick My son's speech therapist actually uses this with him.