Mary Nix on June 16th, 2009

Art in Story: Teaching Art History to Elementary School Children Second Edition (Paperback) looks like a wonderful resource.   Here is part of a review from Amazon about it:
“Covering from prehistoric art to computer art, this information-packed book is filled with lessons, stories to share, and journal, art and drama activities to engage children. Each chapter [...]

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Mary Nix on June 13th, 2009

Spellquizzer is software created by Dan Hite. He offers a free trial download so I tested it out. I thought the “quiz me on the list” was the most fun. The gentleman reads a sentence and then asks you to spell a word within the sentence.
Here is a quick shot of what [...]

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Mary Nix on June 7th, 2009

Link: Cobblestone.
Magazines and Books
for Toddlers to Teens! From their site:
Cobblestone Publishing has been producing high-quality nonfiction magazines for young readers since 1980. Our philosophy is that nonfiction, whether it deals with American or world history, world cultures, archaeology, or science, should be a combination of fascinating pleasure reading and factual resource material that educates and [...]

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Mary Nix on May 5th, 2009

Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks began on July 10, 2003; since then Wikibooks has grown to include over 35,175 pages in a multitude of textbooks created by volunteers like you!
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Mary Nix on April 21st, 2009

In my opinion, every day should be Earth Day, but I’m glad that we do celebrate it once a year and bring awareness to others.

PBS KIDS® will have Earth friendly episodes of Clifford,  Arthur  and others all ready for Earth Day on April 22nd. They will be celebrating Earth Day and their  new Web-based Earth [...]

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Home education not only prevents creativity from being rubbed off, but encourages each child to create, explore and discover their place in the world. In honor of the Easter holiday and Ms. Potter, I present the Peter Rabbit Edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling, starting with some great Peter Rabbit Resources.

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