Thursday, September 2, 2010

Playing cards and joker collections

There are never really enough good websites featuring joker collections, wouldn't you agree?  If you would agree that this site is for you.  Check out these pages on the website with the jokers:


Monday, March 1, 2010

Susan Likes to Play Games

Who cares about Geography Games? Geography Education Is Very Important. It forms the basis for understanding our political and physical realities. Want to understand the challenge of global warming, start with understanding the basics of our world...of geography. A great of geography education can be effectively taught through geography games and map games. These geography learning games help form the basis for understanding our country, our states, our world. Play on!

What blogs are you reading? For good educational reading, try:

Web Home School - This is definitely the future of online education, although not necessarily in English.


vocabulario en ingles - Hablos Espagnol? If so, chew on this: Los juegos de Vocabulary.co.il ayudan a enriquecer su vocabulario en ingles, así sea para avanzar en el idioma por sus estudios, trabajo, o deseos personales. No todos pueden aprender ingles por método de inmersión, con mudarse a un país anglohablante, y de solo oír y hablar el idioma hasta que lo maneje con fluidez.
Mucha gente estudia ingles integrando varios métodos de aprendizaje – toman clases de ingles, se mudan a un país anglohablante por un tiempo, leen y/o miran películas en ingles, utilizan videos, discos, y otros software de lenguaje. Utilizando juegos de palabras y vocabulario puede tener mucho valor mientras usted aprende ingles.


Preschool Learning Games - Preschool Education is a fun time with many learning activities. Preschool learning games online teach kids to recognize colors and shapes and to concentrate. Our preschool website includes preschool learning activities to build mouse skills, to build prephonics reading reading skills, and to have a love of learning.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Writing Resources

Articles about Writing


Want to learn how to inspire your children to write? Do your children need a quick review of fundamental writing concepts? Below are feature articles that will help your children at every step of the writing process, from deciding what to write about to writing sentences, paragraphs, and essays.


The Secrets to Good Paragraph Writing: Four Essential Elements

Writing paragraphs is the foundation of all essay writing, whether you’re writing in the expository, persuasive, narrative, or creative form. In order to write a good paragraph, you need to understand the four essential elements of paragraph writing and how each element contributes to the whole. Read more >>



Writing Can Be Fun: Tips to Enhance Your Child’s Desire to Write

Being able to write and write well is an essential skill for all ages. That’s why it’s even more important today to encourage your children at a very early age to write, learn how to spell and follow rules of grammar and punctuation. So how can you help make writing fun for your children? Read more >>



Four Types of Sentences and the Effect of Punctuation

When students learn to write, they begin by learning about the four types of sentences and the role punctuation plays in determining and creating those different sentence types. Read more >>



Understanding Writing Prompts

Writing prompts direct students to write about a particular topic in a particular way. Because writing prompts are so integral to how writing is taught and tested, learning to how to understand the writing prompt is the first step to writing success. Read more >>



Essay Writing for Standardized Tests: Tips for Writing a Five Paragraph Essay

Writing for standardized tests can strike fear in the hearts and minds of students of all ages, but it doesn’t have to. If you know what to expect and understand how to write a five paragraph essay, you will be prepared to tackle any essay writing prompt. Read more >>

Elementary/Grade School


•Grammar Rocks

•Sensational Sentences

•Perfect Paragraphs

Middle/Secondary School

•Basic Mechanics

•Writing Enhancement

•Powerful Paragraphs

•Welcome to the Essay

•Advanced Essay

High School/College Prep

•Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics

•Exciting Essay Writing

Courses Coming Soon:

•Elementary Excellent Essays

•High School Essays for Standardized Tests

•High School Research Papers

Friday, August 22, 2008

Homeschool Articles

Homeschool.com is the premier site in homeschooling in that Google provides it as the number one site. They have some great homeschooling articles. Allow me to quote:

Most families discover that children benefit from a customized educational program. Homeschool parents increasingly blend several homeschool resources to build a specific program for each child, but with too many diverse parts, this can become a chaotic process.
Time4Learning has emerged as a leading online homeschooling program that gives parents the flexibility to easily customize programs for each child.

Time4Learning provides an interactive curriculum covering;
preschool, elementary school, and middle school.

There is a complete language arts and math curriculum for each grade level, with multimedia lessons, interactive exercises, printable worksheets, and assessments.
Science and social studies are included for first through seventh grade.

Thursday, August 21, 2008

Literature about homeschooling families

I think it would be great to have our own collection of literature. By this I mean homeschoolers. I found one blog which has made a start in this direction:

Homeschool fiction: I am continuing to try and build and maintain a list of literature or fiction which is either set in a homeschool family or which uses homeschooled characters. I would appreciate suggestions.