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Blogging for Kids

Posted on October 21, 2008
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Do your kids blog? Then I would like to invite them to a carnival!!

A blog carnival is just a list of blog post by different blogs gathered together in one place. The idea is that the reader gets to find lots of new blogs to read - and the blogs get more readers!!

My children both have blogs but were really fed up that no-one ever read them. There seemed to be no place where home edcuated children could share their blogs with each other - so I have set up the ‘Homeschooled Kids Carnival’.

Our second carnival is due to take place on 30th October 2008 - and I would love some extra submissions. You can find details of how to include your blog at Homeschooling-Ideas.com

Maths No Problem

Posted on August 13, 2008
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Maths No Problem If you have been looking for Singapore Math Workbooks in the UK, you will know they are not easy to get hold of.

In researching how to help her daughter in maths, Anne Hermanson found Singapore Math to be the most effective maths programme available to her. So she has set up Maths No Problem to spread the word about Singapore Maths, and to distribute the program within the UK and Europe.

Worth checking out if you are looking for a maths program.

Paper Rulers

Posted on July 21, 2008
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Geography for Kids I can NEVER find a ruler or a tape measure when I need one! (Of course, they are all over the place when I don’t!).

But finally - a solution! Printable paper rulers. This site has got lots of them - one foot rulers, metersticks, yardsticks.

Worth remembering next time you are desperate to measure something!

The Periodic Table of Videos

Posted on July 18, 2008
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Have just found these fantastic videos from the University of Nottingham. Each video is about a chemical element of the periodic table.

Well worth watching! Many thanks to Dawn for telling me about this (via her blog), so I could tell you!!

Storybook writing

Posted on July 17, 2008
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I have found this great site for children to write their own storybook.

Tikatok is an online program in which kids can type a story and add illustrations (they can be uploaded). But the great thing about this site is that the book can be then be viewed in an interactive way.

You can have the book printed professional and sent to you (they do ship internationally), but I can’t see a way to print the book yourself. On the plus side, there is a way to put the book into a blog.

I think mine will really enjoy the professional online look of these books and I think it would be great to write a book together about our currrent homeschooling project. Or use it myself to write them a specially tailored language or reference book.

Enjoy!

Writing your own computer games.

Posted on July 17, 2008
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My son has wanted to be able to write his own computer games for ages - but I struggled to find some software he could use easily.

Read my review of the software I found to do it at Homeschooling-ideas.com.

Flat Travellers Geography

Posted on June 4, 2008
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Jenny has sent me this great idea for geography. She says;

“We are just getting involved in ‘Flat Travellers’. It is based upon the book ‘Flat Stanley’ where a boy is flattened and can send himself anywhere in an envelope, he travels the world. The children make their own ‘flat traveller’, laminate it and then send it to a host family with a journal which the family then complete and return with some mementoes, pictures, photos etc of what they have been getting up to with their flat traveller.

The journal then makes up into a scrapbook which the children can keep. Ours will have a world map, maps of countries etc. as well as the journals to see what we can learn as the flat travellers go on their adventures.”

You can sign up to this Yahoo group to get involved.