At the HSS forum a mom explained how she took the math manipulatives down from the bedroom closet shelf. She sorted the goodies into baskets, shelves and drawers, all accessible to the children. Wonderful! The fun math tools aren’t helping anyone on a bedroom shelf. That started me thinking about the hands-on things we have. […]
Sneaking in Some School with Dinosaurs
Even though she’s ten, I still read books aloud to Sprite. I enjoy our time together and the shared memories we create through reading. And the best part is that I can sneak in some learning without it being considered “school.” We’ve been taking summer break mainly because her local friends are on vacation now […]
Vinegar Chemistry
You all know the wonderful reaction you get when you mix baking soda with vinegar. Well we took it up a notch and created a full fledged experiment with it! Part of our chemistry curriculum is studying the scientific method and performing an experiment. Sprite wanted to test three types of vinegar and see which […]
Grammar Game — Homemade
Some of you, like me, probably downloaded many of the free Mother’s Day gifts from CurrClick. I really liked the Silly Snail grammar game, but it only covered a few parts of speech. I suggested that Sprite make her own board game about the parts of speech. And here it is! The game involves answering […]
Chemistry Equipment
We recently started a new science curriculum — Noeo Science Chemistry. To kick off our first experiments, I decided to buy some “fancy” lab equipment. So I did some investigation and found the name and address of a place that supposedly sold test tubes. The taxi stopped at an ancient looking drugstore selling Chinese medicine […]