Homeschool Summer Links for Fun!

I discovered a superb little tool today!  It really helps guide you to age appropriate educative links very quickly.  It is a site developed for use by Teachers and Students by the Teaching Matters group.  It is called PageKeeper. The site is designed to give teachers a space to share links with their students.  You [...]

K12 Virtual Education – Teaching and Learning in the Home without Fear.

Consider this:
“Free Children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.”
A.S. Neill, (1992) Summerhill School, A New View Of Childhood, Penguin Books.
We are all afraid of something. Whether it is the dark, small spaces, falling in our dreams or the neighbor’s dog! [...]

K12 Virtual Education – Ten tips for Parent/teachers using Online Curriculum

“No one reading program is best for all children. Successful teachers of reading have developed activities that differentiate among their students according to their current level of readiness to read.”
Sousa, D. (2006) How the Brain Learns, Corwin Press
This method of differentiation is key in the developing of online curriculum. There is no “one [...]