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Happy Valentine’s Day!
To all our dear friends online and off: We wish you a very happy Valentine's Day. May it be filled with love, joy and friendship! With much appreciation, Patricia, Roberto & Super Hero
Tropical Rainforest Class for Homeschoolers at Fairchild
Nothing like the good ol' outdoors to renew energies and spirits, and spice up the learning –I'd say. Especially if the outdoors are none other than the gorgeous Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Both, Super Hero and I, love Fairchild's classes. We enjoy the material...
11 Free Language Arts Curriculum Resources for Your Homeschool
If you have spent some time looking for language arts curriculum online, you'll probably find there is a gigantic number of them. The challenge, then becomes, what to use. I've gathered here a list of 10 items, that I thought were the best of all I saw. Free Language...
Celebrating 1500+ Entries at HomeschoolDirectory.info
A Happy Milestone for Our Homeschool Directory A few months ago, I had the pleasure of announcing our HomeschoolDirectory.info site was completed and launched. Roberto and I are happy to inform the directory has hit and surpassed its 1,500 entry mark! We are really...
Programming Video Games at Miami Science Museum
Science Classes at the Miami Science Museum "I gotta run to my computer! " Super Hero says as he sprints toward it. You'd think there weren't enough computers, there were plenty (he was the first to step inside the computer room), or he doesn't get enough computer...
South Florida Ecosystems Class at Fairchild
The Class for Homeschoolers this Monday at Fairchild Being the densely populated area that South Florida is, we tend to forget there's also a mushrooming environment full of flora and fauna to explore all around us. Many, diverse ecosystems compliment each other to...
Homeschooling Quotes
Finding Inspiration with Wise Quotes I'm really excited to introduce our newest creation: HomeschoolQuotes.com, a website containing only inspiring quotes about learning and homeschooling. As usual, with websites, it's a work in progress, particularly one about...
Genius and Poise not so Uncommon in Homeschooling
Nearly a year ago, on March 2013, I posted this fantastic video on homeschooling by a brilliant 13 year-old. It seems it's hit a sweet spot lately on the Internet because it's popping everywhere these days and thus I'm reposting it now. Perhaps it is because...
Can Children Thrive with Personalized Education?
TEDx Talks - A Sequel to Is Creativity as Important as Literacy? On this poignant, full of warm humor sequel to his hugely popular presentation on creativity, Sir Ken Robinson continues his cause on bettering the education system. This time, he proposes a public...
Is Creativity as Important as Literacy?
TEDx Talks - Changing Education Paradigms Roberto and I had the pleasure of watching one of TEDx Talks' brilliant videos, that of Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert, exposing his views on the current model of education. He makes a...