The Real 1st Thanksgiving

One of my HS mom's pointed me toward this great link. Let your child become the historian - pulling together historical facts in order to compile an accurate idea of the 1st Thanksgiving


Plymouth.Org

Contraction Practice

One of my mom's asked me for some links or games to help her child practice doing contractions. Here are some fun ones I've come up with!


Contraction Pages
Contraction Quiz
Treasure Trove
Teacher Ideas
Working with Contractions
K - 2 Contraction Games
Fly By Contractions
Contraction Concentration Game
Spelling City

New Foreign Language Resource

OMG -- you know how I'm always searching for resources, well another HS mama just pointed me in the direction of this great webpage!

Know It All

New Site

Alright, if you have an older child and want some online courses for History, Religion, American Government, Psychology, Science (physics, environmental sciences & biology), and Math (algebra, calculus & statistics) - then you HAVE to Check out -

www.hippocampus.org

Creatiity

I have to say one of the most common things I hear from new or perspective HS mom's is, "But I'm not really creative!"I love setting a pile of junk on the floor in front of the kids and telling them to go to town creating whatever strikes their fancy. Here's a site that helps kids with creating automobiles!!

East Toy Car Making Crafts for Kids

Kids Know It

Check out this great site another HS mom told me about - thousands of free educational games and matl's


kidsknowit