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Filed Under: Family

Desperately Seeking a Poem Title

My daughter has written a poem, but it's in desperate need of a title. She'd love for you to suggest one! Weeping Willow, with your boughs so low, Sweeping brown leaves to and fro. Gentle drops of dew fall like tears As you mourn for those that you held dear. The Rowan tree, with her limbs […]

Filed Under: Link Roundups

Educational Link Love

Here are some educational links I bookmarked this week. You don't have to homeschool to enjoy these links. Phylo: The Trading Card Game bills itself as a Pokemon card type resource but with real creatures — namely animals of all shapes and sizes — on display in full “artistic” wonder. Looks quite interesting. Click the […]

Filed Under: Homeschooling · Strategies & Tips

Using Student Blogs to Homeschool

There are many reasons you can use student blogs to homeschool. Here are just a couple of examples. Although my children have had blogs for several years, they've not kept up with them on a regular basis. This year I've tried stay on top of it more, and my girls have been blogging more regularly. […]

Filed Under: Science ·  ·

Excellent Animal and Marine Life Videos

The next time you're looking for some videos of marine life or animal life, you need to check out OceanFootage.com and NatureFootage.com. Both sites actually offer stock footage for licensing, but the videos are available for viewing, so homeschoolers can easily use the site for educational purposes. The videos on both sites are organized in […]

Filed Under: Curriculum ·

Get Free Books (and other stuff) from Amazon.com

I adore Amazon.com. We order books from Amazon at least once a month. Thankfully for our bank account, a good portion of those books are free because of Swagbucks. If you haven't checked out Swagbucks yet, you're seriously missing out — especially if you're a homeschooler. By doing web searches like you'd normally be doing, […]