Saturday, September 26, 2009 is Free Museum Day at museums and cultural venues all across the country! If you would like to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity, head to the Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day website and view the full list of participating museums, and download your printable admission card.
And to prepare you or your […]
Teachers,
If you are using Spelling City and Vocabulary.co.il regularly in your classrooms, you may want also include the features of these sites in your homework assignments as well.
Here are a few creative ideas for integrating the games and activities on these sites into your home-based assignments:
Embed individual Spelling City lists into your classroom blogs […]
Yesterday, my boys and I attended a homeschool program about nature journaling. Nature journaling, we came to find out, involves taking paper, pencils/crayons/markers, and possibly a camera, binoculars, magnifying glass, and even a field guide outside to get up close and personal with the natural world.
Doing this means paying attention to the details you normally […]
Most of the games at Vocabulary.co.il are broken up into categories, so that parents, teachers, and students have an easy way to pick and choose what words they would like to focus on.
An especially helpful category for teachers (and homeschoolers) is the Grade Level lists. The following grade level categories are included in the […]
Here is a little quiz for you: which word could be described by the following two meanings??
1. A piece of open land used for recreational purposes
2. To maneuver a vehicle into a particular space
If you guessed “PARK”, you would be correct!
A word with two or more meanings is called a homograph. Homographs are some […]
Triple A Words. Have you ever thought about them? In my opinion, they are often some of the most difficult words to spell. Probably because they don’t always follow traditional rules of English (which are hardly traditional, and made to be broken, it would seem).
But words with three A’s in them are some of the […]
