Renaissance life in a post-modern world
Posted in Education on Apr 20th, 2009
Mom’s obsession with drills of every shape and size stretches far into my distant memory. Images of hours spent on MathBlaster hover in my subconscious. Little pieces of floating space garbage still haunt my dreams. Our version of the program was rendered obsolete years ago and stories of geeky space aliens are now only legendary [...]
Posted in Education on Nov 19th, 2008
I stumbled across a fabulous online source for a variety of educational helps catering to all grade levels. It is Ed Helper. This online subscription service offers reproducible and customizable material covering math, language arts, reading, and social studies (to name a few).
They even provide thematic materials for each month. Once you subscribe to this terrific group, you will have access to [...]
Posted in Education on Oct 22nd, 2008
We have been home-educating our children for over 15 years. I am fairly traditional and somewhat boring in my curriculum choices. Early on I found myself overwhelmed with options and alternatives. Frankly, it was paralyzing. I waded through the available curriculum, found what works for our family and now I rarely change our methods. (The exception to this is [...]
Posted in Education on Oct 10th, 2008
The Heart of the Matter’s Friday Meme posed the following question: “What great educational freebie sites do you frequently visit?”
Well, I must admit, I am one who helps fuel the economy and I struggled to come up with even ONE freebie site that I visit regularly. And then it hit me . . . I am [...]
