I just found a free, easy homeschool planner and calendar generator. You can quickly generate: Weekly assignment sheets, including customized subjects Single and multi-page calendars Sequential Weeks of Numbered Days Bible Reading Record The generator is located here: http://homeschoolclassifieds.com/planner_form.asp In addition, this generator is located on the HomeschoolClassifieds.com site. I will soon be posting about several great options available for buying… (more…)
It’s always nice when companies offer the same education incentives to homeschoolers as they do for public and private schools. One of those incentives program is the Pizza Hut Book-It program. If you decide to participate, you sign up your own homeschool and the number of K-6th grade kids in your household that would like to participate in the program. Currently, the… (more…)
This video shows a very clever reenactment of the Battle of Hastings from the Norman’s point of view using an animation of the Bayeux Tapestry.
Google Docs is basically a simple online word processor. It has all of the same very basic functions as Microsoft Word. The difference is that a document is stored and edited online. This is what makes Google Docs a powerful tool in my homeschool.
If you are a parent of elementry aged students, you have probably already heard about Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House Series so you can probably skip the next section (FYI Mary Pope Osborne has some other books that are ideal for classical homeschools but I’ll save that for a later post). If you haven’t heard about the series, let… (more…)
One extremely valuable homeschool resource I use over and over again is Donna Young’s site appropriately called http://donnayoung.org/index.htm.