Category: Homeschool

I was bitten by the travel bug at a very young age.  With grandparents that lived in Germany, relatives in Western Canada and a father that worked for the railroad, it seemed our family was always on a plane, in a car or on a train traveling somewhere. 

Now as an adult world traveler myself, I have often pondered how my mom did it.  Packing, planning, budgeting and wrangling four children with no computer, smartphone or GPS to help her out.  I mean good golly they actually relied on paper and maps to get them to their destinations!

When I have find myself with some free time (which isn’t often!), one of the things I really like to do is peruse the iTunes app store to find new apps to download.  While for myself, I mostly look for productivity apps, I also do look for the odd game here and there.  But when I know that I’ll be with some younger kids for a period of time, I look for some apps for them to download.  Of course in those cases it’s also nice if the apps happen to be low cost!

PLANES will be flying into theaters on August 9th and to celebrate we have some fun activity pages to share with you!

Families everywhere will be putting together their best ideas for how to celebrate Mother’s Day with Mom. Whether heading out to brunch, visiting a flower garden, or having a family day at home, moms (and dads!) can engage their children in fun, recreational math during their celebratory activities, says Laura Overdeck, a mother of three and founder of the national non-profit organization Bedtime Math.

Several of Laura’s best ideas for Mother’s Day math fun are below. 

Help kids prepare for Earth Day (4/22) with a special educational kit tied to Disneynature’s Wings of Life!

In celebration of the release of Disneynature’s Wings of Life, we are delighted to share an embedable 25-page educational guide, created by Disney’s Animal Kingdom Education Team, which introduces learners in grades 2–4 to the amazing and often unseen world of pollinators through science, math and art!

Janet’s Planet “Exploring Microgravity” is a winner of a Regional Emm Award, a Gracie Allen Award and a STEMFlorida Award.   It’s a 37-minute exploration of gravity and microgravity.

By focusing on science, technology, engineering, art and math, Janet’s Planet travels at the “speed of thought” and is designed to fuel S.T.E.A.M.  Gravity’s phenomena and effects are explained and the audience gets to meet Galileo, Newton, and Cavendish and find out how they built on the scientists before them and formed a shared picture of how the universe works!

Spring break is here (or for some of you anyway!), so kids get some time off from school.  If you don’t want your kids to completely veg out in front of the TV or computer but they still want a dose of technology and you have an iPad, download News-O-Matic.  This news app keeps kids in the know about current affairs, and they’ll think it’s neat to play around with and you’ll be pleased with the content.

The News-O-Matic start page is divided into several recent news stories.  Kids can click on each different section in the app to read more and then further