by Patricia | Apr 14, 2014 | Field Trips, Home Schooling, Reading
I had the pleasure to discover GoogleLitTrips.com, a website that offers free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. Or as they say “3-dimensionalize the reading experience by placing...
by Patricia | Apr 11, 2014 | Curriculum Reviews, Field Trips, Home Schooling, Science
All three of us here at home have really enjoyed watching the 2 Curiosity Quest DVDs that were sent to us for free, in exchange for my review as a member of The Old Schoolhouse Review Crew. Curiosity Quest is a family educational program that explores different...
by Patricia | Apr 7, 2014 | Co-ops & Enrichment, Music
We’ve had the pleasure of ending our Spring semester at our beloved HOME in Miami Beach last week. Last Sunday’s recital was again a big success (okay yes, last year’s was too 😉 ). All the children performed beautifully. I’m so impressed by...
by Patricia | Mar 24, 2014 | Home Schooling, Music
Roberto, Super Hero and I had the pleasure of attending the outstanding “Double Brahms” performance by The Miami Symphony Orchestra (MISO) with the renowned Venezuelan conductor Eduardo Marturet. A master of counterpoint and development, the music of...
by Patricia | Mar 7, 2014 | Foreign Languages, Home Schooling, Homeschooling for Free
Googling something somewhat unrelated, I stumbled upon French Accent, “the magazine of Learn French at Home”. This is a downloadable magazine (PDF and MP3 audio files) published bimonthly, its slogan claims to be a “unique interactive e-magazine for...
by Patricia | Jan 27, 2014 | Curriculum, Home Schooling, Homeschool Resources, Homeschooling for Free, Reading, Secular Curriculum, Spelling, Writing
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....