For the past year of homeschooling, I’ve been relying on small, handheld, dollar plastic pencil sharpeners to keep our pencils sharp. You should also know that I absolutely hate dull pencils.
This leads us to a problem, obviously, since those cheap-o pencil sharpeners are a pain to use and rarely get the pencils sharp. Add to this the fact that I am leading a writing workshop in co-op and promised to bring pencils each week, and I’ve been on a hunt for a pencil sharpener.Continue Reading
I discovered izzit.org when I read about it on another teacher blog. If I remembered whose, I’d let you know, but I don’t remember!
Izzit.org provides free educational videos for teachers. Each teacher can get one free video a year, or pay about $10 to get unlimited free videos (if you review them on the site). Continue Reading
This week I thought I’d begin joining in with Top Ten Tuesday at Many Little Blessings. But Tuesday has passed and I did not finish this post, so you’ll have to bear with me and take it on Wednesday.
Today I decided to talk about the top ten learning tools I have loved in homeschool thus far. I just finished my first full year, and we’re enjoying a more casual summer, with some unschooling as well as some more formal learning going on!Continue Reading
I am so excited! My son has begun to ask for Spanish study time. He actually speaks to me in Spanish every now and then, and even when he doesn’t speak to me, he can understand what I say. This is success!
I’ve been dabbling in Spanish practice with my son for a year now. We watched the Salsa Spanish videos together. I even tried to coordinate a Spanish club so we could practice speaking and listening together. (That was a bit too stressful!)
But he was not interested in ever listening to my Spanish (I am semi-proficient) or speaking to me himself. He’s only 5, so although he is a proficient reader and a child who is normally interested in workbooks, such an approach was not going to work well. What to do?
Enter Visual Link Spanish. This completely computer-based program follows a pattern to teach basic sentences right away. It combines audio with cheesy pictures so you can picture the verbs or the places when you are trying to remember them. It makes learning Spanish almost into a game or solving a code. The bonus for Raisin is that it is computer-based: the computer makes everything fun.Continue Reading
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