I’ve reviewed the usage data from users, the educational value of the games, and added a little personal preference and here, in time for back to school study, the Best Five English Vocabulary Learning Games. The countdown: 5) English Idioms game.. This game teaches and tests your understanding of current American English idiomatic expressions or [...]
If you’re looking for a fun way to carry learning momentum into the summer, Time4Learning can help! Their online learning program combines technology and education to make learning fun! And July is a great time to try it, because they’re offering new members over 75% off! Kids love the “outside-the-box” approach and the novelty of [...]
Here’s my list of the top five quirky educational games. What’s yours? Send me your list. 1) Games about Ben Franklin. For instance, True or False? Ben signed the Declaration of Independence. 2) Logic Games. One is funnier and weirder than the next. Who new IQ-building could be such a blast! 3) A Science Song [...]
In our local area, schools are completely shut down today thanks to an unusually powerful and pervasive snowstorm that doesn’t often hit those of us living in the Southeastern States. Knowing how slowly our local department of transportation is able to clear the roads after a storm like this one, I predict that schools will [...]
American school students have been making the news in recent weeks – – but not necessarily for the right reasons. Some educational analysts are concerned after the most recent release of the PISA results. The PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) compares literacy in math, reading, and science from a sample of 15-year-old school students [...]
The process of teaching my two sons to read was probably the most exciting part of our entire homeschooling career! Even though the process was VASTLY different for each one, I reveled in every moment of discovery and every leap in understanding. I would imagine that whether you are homeschooling or not, though, that learning [...]
If you are an elementary teacher or homeschool teacher, then I hope you have heard of Laura Candler. If you haven’t, then you are in luck today, because I’m going to share with you the amazing web-based resources that Laura has collected. I’d especially like to focus on her vocabulary resources! Teaching Resources is Laura’s [...]
A prefix is a group of letters attached to the beginning of a root or word (or even group of words) serving to modify and/or extend meaning. Prefixes generally have an easily understood meaning in and of themselves, which they apply to the root word to which they are affixed. For example, “un” is a [...]
Who doesn’t like a riddle, right?? Riddles stretch our brain muscles and make us think in “outside-the-box” kind of ways. One of many children’s favorite kinds of riddles are the ones that lead to rhyming pairs of words. Often called “Hink Pink” (one syllable) or “Hinky Pinky” (two syllables), or “Hinkety Pinkety” (three syllables) these [...]
Do you have a particular homophone weakness? You know…a pair of words that you can’t ever seem to remember which one to use when?? Mine is most definitely the homophone pair hangar and hanger. I am NEVER sure which one holds clothes and which one holds airplanes. Maybe you have more than one set that [...]
