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Homeschool Conventions – RETHINK! June 8th, 2010

Mary has done it again.  She is one of my most favorite homeschool columnists. I  highly recommend this column about Getting The MOST Out Of Your State Homeschool Convention !

Here’s a teaser of her thoughts on homeschool curriculum fairs and conventions: 

Two weeks ago Florida had it’s big FPEA Convention. It is the largest (population wise) in the United States. I look forward to this event all year long. I have to tell you though that I was a bit of a rebel the first nine years I homeschooled. I didn’t go because I felt like I could use that money to buy more curriculum and couldn’t justify the expense of the annual convention. I had no idea what I was missing out on. It is so much more than curriculum…, SO MUCH MORE!

I have found four reasons to invest annually in your state convention and will close with tips to get the MOST out of your adventure.

Free Games for Analogies, Word Roots, Synonyms, and on and on May 2nd, 2010

VOCABULARY LEARNING FUN just got a total rebuild by us. Teachers take note: free learning games for analogies, syllables, word roots, syllables, synonyms, definitions/context and …the list keeps going and going!  There really weren’t any sites that allowed you to practice analogies, for example. So we built a great collection of analogies and put them in a full interactive online flash vocabulary game.  Enjoy!

Analogy Games
Antonym Games
Compound Word Games
Contraction Games
Definition/Context Games
Foreign Language/ESL Games
Parts of Speech Games
Prefix Games
Root Word Games  
Suffix Games
Syllable Games
Synonym Games
Word Play Games

A Great Training Video for Parents March 25th, 2010

A site that many homeschool parents, who like web-based resources, has discovered as the best way to deal with spelling time is SpellingCity.com.   It’s free (mostly, there is a premium membership), full of useful activities and games, and has some great lists. I’ve been thinking of building a lot more literature based word lists.