Mary Nix on March 18th, 2008

Looking for Easter written by Dori Chaconas, Illustrated by Margie Moore is a sweet picture book. The plot summary from the publisher, Albert Whitman and Company reads:
Little Bunny can sense something new in the air, and it smells like sunshine and warm breezes. “It smells like Easter!” his friends tell him. But Little [...]

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A Homeschool Curriculum for Pre-school and Kindergarten, by Lillian Jones, BestHomeschooling.org – An excellent collection of links to educational and fun activities for helping young children learn. An excerpt:
If you’ve been raising a child up to the age of pre-school or kindergarten, you’ve already begun homeschooling. In those early years, the most appropriate homeschooling activities [...]

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Mary Nix on March 7th, 2008

An Online Catalog of Books and other Treasures for the Whole Family. Recognizing that conscious parenting is the most important and challenging responsibility that many of us will have, Chinaberry offers items to support families in raising their children with love, honesty and joy to be reverent, loving caretakers of each other and of the [...]

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Mary Nix on November 13th, 2007

Knowledge Adventure’s JumpStart World offers a series of 12 adventure packs for younger children. The software helps children learn critical thinking, reading and math skills.
At their website you can take a tour of their 3-D worlds here and review what they can learn here.
If you are interested, you can download a free [...]

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Homeschooler Ellie Willingham has recently published a new children’s book, Wildwood. You can learn more about how the book came to be via the official press release here.
You can read sample text here. Visit the Official Wildwood site where you can meet the characters, play games featuring the characters and [...]

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Mary Nix on September 5th, 2007

Hat tip to Susan Ryan for sending along an awesome math resource this morning called Illuminations.
The website has 525 lesson plans available. You can select which types of lessons you’re looking for; algebra, geometry, numbers and operations, measurement and data anaylsis and probability. Also at the site you will find: 96 activities, principles [...]

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