Friday Finds – Free Reading Resources for Homeschooling

I am always on the lookout for good reading resources for my kids.  In fact I’m always on the lookout for free high quality learning materials of any kind to use with my kids. This week I found some great ones, in addition to the free educational materials from NASA that I posted earlier this…

My kid gave me homework!

“What’s the oldest building in the US that’s still around?” my oldest asked me as she was about to fall asleep. “I’m not sure I replied I’ll have to do some research but I’ll let you know.” “Could you please put it in my lunch for me?” she replied. I said “Sure.” So last night…

Electricity, Electricity

[ad name=”Amazon Toy Banner”] As a homeschooling parent, I’m constantly looking for fun and exciting things to do with my girls. Just recently I was introduced to snap circuits. Snap circuits allow you to create real functioning electrical systems without soldering etc… They use snaps, resembling those on a jacket, and snap together. The book…

Lessons from LEGOs

http://www.flickr.com/photos/huladancer22/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 This weekend I finally convinced the girls to give up their large bin of LEGO Quatros. They donated that and ten other toys to Goodwill. So I decided to treat them and purchased them some regular small LEGOs. I went to the store looking for a plain old box of…