Category: Homeschool

Help your child get back into the swing of school with a fun printable workbook. Just select your child’s grade and download!

Don’t just scratch the surface with a single worksheet, go in-depth with printable workbooks handpicked by teachers.

If parents were aware of all the benefits of music lessons, they would be standing in lines at the doors of the best piano instructors in their areas. The benefits are not limited to pianists, but the piano and other keyboard instruments are more complicated and challenging than instruments that require the reading of one note at a time.

Imagine looking at chords of at least four notes. The brain must instantly interpret what the eye sees, and instantly decide which finger will strike which key. In addition, compositions often require that the pianist move his or her hands in opposite directions.

Disneynature is the studio that has brought us many inspirational and informative films about the wildlife on our planet, including Earth, Oceans, and African Cats. It released its newest film last Earth Day, and now Chimpanzee is being released on DVD on August 21st for everyone to enjoy in their homes.

This movie follows the incredible story of a chimp named Oscar and his family as they travel through the African rain forest trying to survive.

I don’t know how many of you have been ‘keeping up’ with Shark Week over on the Discovery Channel, but if you have and you have children, I’m sure there has been many questions about them.

In the spirit of Shark Week, Disney’s best known sharks….Anchor, Bruce & Chum from Finding Nemo need to be told a very special message:

If you were impressed with last year’s War Horse movie that DreamWorks put out, directed by Steven Spielberg, wait to you see what they have in store for you this year!

LINCOLN focuses on the last four months of the 16th president’s life and the political strategizing he undertook at the close of the Civil War to ensure that slavery would be forever outlawed.

LINCOLN will be opening in limited release November 9, and in more theaters November 16, 2012.

Every story and every event has more than one side. This language arts and social studies program for War Horse from scholastic printables provides lessons to help your students look at history through the lens of historical fiction.  It’s suitable curriculum for grades 8 – 12.

The young adult novel, War Horse, by Michael Morpurgo, was first published in 1982.

Part way during our daughter’s sixth grade year she made a statement one evening that shocked us, “Can I be homeschooled?” It was something that we thought long and hard and over, over about for months after that, and by the time the school year was out, we agreed that we would try it for a year and see how it went. Since we just started our fifth year of homeschooling, I guess you could say it worked out, but we weren’t always sure it would.

While Kaplan’s SAT Test Prep sounds like an awesome course, I’m sure some of you are curious if it actually helps to improve scores. Well, from personal experience I can say that it definitely does. I’m aiming to get the National Merit Scholarship, so getting a good score on the PSAT and SAT alike is a necessity. I’ve been using the Kaptest program as a way to do in depth study before Test Day comes around.

After you’ve begun studying Kaplan’s methods for solving test questions, you may wonder if you can test these skills before the real test day. Well not to worry! Kaplan has you covered there too, with four different practice SAT tests. Spacing these practice tests out during the time you plan to study is a surefire way to see if your methods and answers have improved!

Meet Oscar, the Young Chimp Whose Playful Curiosity and Zest for Discovery Light Up the African Forest

We never did get a chance to see “Chimpanzee” in the theater, and so I’m excited for the release of the Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray & DVD) release of this documentary on August 21, 2012.