Comments on: Internet: Favorite Homeschooling Resource

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:32:25 +0000

That’s a great tip! I’ll make one with my youngest, thanks, Jessica! I’ve never heard of the websites you linked to, I’ll be sure and check them out soon!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:48:08 +0000

One of my favorites is http://www.k-3teacherresources.com

It has a lot of charts and hands on downloads. It is a paid site but also has heaps of free downloads particularly for the early years.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:06:03 +0000

My favorites are http://www.hubbardscupboard.org and http://www.childcareland.com

A tip I just read was to hang a cardboard clock at child height and have them match the time on the real clock. Then you say where the hands are. It’s not too long before they are moving the hands themselves to the numbers they choose and know.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:55:30 +0000

Rosetta Stone comes as the highest recommended…and at one of our homeschool meetings, someone mentioned something about there being free online courses through Rosetta Stone for all the major languages. I think it’s through the state library card system or something. I asked about it again recently, and no one knew anything. I’d bet a librarian would know…if a websearch didn’t turn it up first!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:42:33 +0000

Do you know any good programs for learning to speak Another language, French in particular?

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:23:55 +0000

It amazes me, Jen!! I just found another great site with free printable worksheets on a variety of subjects for all the lower grades. Each worksheet prints off in two versions, a blank worksheet and another with the answers in red! Very cool! http://www.tlsbooks.com/

By: jen

jen — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:14:29 +0000

thanks Ill be taking a note of some of these

i was very pleasantly surprised when i went through my bookmarks the other and realized just how much good home schooling material is available on the internet

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:05:29 +0000

Great question, and I hope if someone has an internet resource to share, that they will! I love how our Professor B Level 1 CD-Rom teaches preschoolers their numbers…a little “Professor Bee” comes on the screen and flashes fingers at them…at the beginning he teaches them “1″ by flashing different finger “ones” (a thumb one time, an index finger the next, etc) basically just showing them that it can be different but it is still “1″. Then he has the children show him “different ones” using their own fingers. Once they have this figured out, he progresses to flashing cubes, panda bears, soccer balls and the actual numeric symbol at them, all in sets of “1″. As he introduces each new number, he does it the same until they really know it, and then he does mixed practice with the new number and the last one or ones that they’ve already learned. This is easily done without the CD-Rom, just show your 5 yo different fingers and have her match the ones you come up with…but keep it fast paced. Then gather things from around the house and so on(using Professor B’s computer program just makes it easier!)Then, in addition to this, what we’ve been doing is putting the “number” of the week on about 5 different 5″x7″ pieces of paper and letting our youngest tape them up around the house in locations of her choosing. She loves taking us around to all of them each day, and we leave them up so that when she’s worked up to 3 new numbers, she is telling us all the different ones as we “do the number tour” around the house. She really knows her numbers, just because of this!

Another suggestion, would be to make “number books”. Choose a number and feature it on each page along with items (cut and pasted from magazines or drawn) that match it.

By: Beck

Beck — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:04:42 +0000

What a great post!
We’re looking for resources to help our five year old learn number recognition. Any suggestions?