Category: Homeschool

With LINCOLN having opened in theatres everywhere November 16th, you can now go behind-the-scenes of the movie with this exclusive interactive book “Lincoln: Discover the Story.” See how a crucial time in America’s history was recreated and brought to the screen with beautiful photos, art, interviews, music and more!

Available for now for FREE download for the iPad: http://bit.ly/QbEVRP

Halloween is tomorrow! Kids everywhere are putting the finishing touches on their costumes and getting ready to trick-or-treat. As the spooky holiday approaches, there are plenty of opportunities for parents to engage their little monsters in math in fun and tasty ways, says Laura Overdeck, mother of three and founder of the popular Bedtime Math national online community.

Several of Laura’s best Halloween math tips are below.

Young people 8-18 years can travel time to learn about the past and send a message into the future. Enter the Legacy Project’s annual Listen to a Life Essay Contest – Grand Prize is a Lenovo ThinkCentre computer!

STUDENTS TRAVEL TIME TO LEARN FROM THE PAST AND SEND A MESSAGE INTO THE FUTURE

The Legacy Project and their annual Listen to a Life Essay Contest help your children travel time and change lives.

Be a part of the BIG celebration! In honor of the Clifford the Big Red Dog’s 50^th anniversary, Scholastic is offering kids and families two BIG ways to participate:

Clifford’s BIGGEST Birthday Card Campaign:
Kids, grown ups and teachers can go to www.scholastic.com/clifford/birthday to create their very own personalized birthday card to send to Clifford!

When my Fellowes Saturn2 95 Laminator arrived last week I immediately took it out of the box and started laminating everything in sight! I laminated my Social Security card, my husband’s professional license, and my kids’ memory verses for school, pictures of my kids, recipe cards, etc. Being a home schooling mom, I have found this product to be such a useful tool for protecting many of my teaching aids, enabling us to even write on some of them with dry-erase markers when the need arises, and then wiping them clean when we’re done.

Harvest moons are a special occurrence, did you know that it is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox?

If you want to do something fun (and tasty) with your kids, grab a package of Halloween OREOS and let them create the phases of the moon, of course today….ending in the Harvest Moon (which is why the Halloween ones are so perfect for this activity!).

It’s simple to do, you just need 7 OREOS per child, and a blunt object (like a butter spreader, popsicle

A couple of weeks ago I posted that DreamWorks Pictures was releasing a movie called “Lincoln” in November which brings to the big screen the last few tumultuous months of the 16th President’s term in office.

We’ve adjusted our homeschool schedule so that we should be right around that section in American History when the movie is released. It releases in exclusive venues November 9th, and then expanding into more theaters November 16th, I just hope it is showing where we live at the time, so we can take advantage of making this a

We’re all about learning while incorporating fun here at the Litke Academy for Girls (that’s the name our friend gave our homeschool, LOL!).

It doesn’t get more fun then doing some science experiments with Mr. Rzykruski, from the new Disney movie FRANKENWEENIE that will debut in theaters October 5th.

Before we started homeschooling I really wondered if we could do it. It hasn’t always been easy, there have been plenty of days where we all have been ready to throw in the towel. But we’ve persevered through those challenges and we know coming out the other side that this journey has been worth it for our family.

If you’ve ever had the thought of homeschooling you’ll want to read, “You Can Do It Too! – 25 Homeschool Families Share Their Story” compiled by Lorilee Lippincott, to give you many different families’ perspectives on homeschooling.

Football fans everywhere are excited that their favorite teams are back in action. And, according to Laura Overdeck, mother of three and founder of the Bedtime Math national online community, football season is a great time for parents to encourage young football fans to enjoy math.

Several of Laura’s football math suggestions are below.

1. Measure yards. Just about everything in football is measured in yards. The field is divided into 10-yard increments, and passes, runs, and the distance