by Patricia | May 12, 2014 | Field Trips, Home Schooling
We all love a great website, one that engages us, makes us wonder, teaches us, inspires us or entertains us. Well, here’s a collection of websites that will do just that. This is an attempt to compile the most noteworthy virtual field trips, organized by topic...
by Patricia | May 5, 2014 | Field Trips, Home Schooling
We joined some of our HOME friends to the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach. (This field trip actually happened on late March). I had been meaning to go to this museum for a while, especially since they offer family days or afternoons, where you and your children get...
by Patricia | Apr 28, 2014 | Art, Home Schooling
I really want to share the very lovely Usborne My Very First Book Art Coloring Book. I liked this book so much when I saw it that I bought two, one for Super Hero and one for myself. As all of Usborne’s books, they are incredibly colorful, creative and...
by Patricia | Apr 24, 2014 | Curriculum Reviews, Home Schooling
We’ve had the opportunity to review CTC Math, an online Math Tutoring Program, as part of the Schoolhouse Review Crew. We were given a 12 Month Family Plan for free in exchange for our thorough review of this excellent online math tutoring program. ...
by Patricia | Apr 21, 2014 | Home Schooling, Reading
One of my latest exciting finds is Google’s Tour Builder. It’s still on Beta, but I was already able to navigate through some fun tours, one of which was “Make Way for Ducklings” the classic picture book by Robert McCloskey. It is really worth...
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...