One of the biggest challenges for homeschool parents is teaching reading, and for a homeschool parent with children who have special needs, that big challenge can seem almost insurmountable for many. Teaching Special Needs Children to Read in the Homeschool can have extra challenges too, as you need to understand what the learning block is,…
Category Archives: Homeschool Computer Use
Unschooling Homeschool Record Keeping
Unschooling homeschool record keeping is a little harder for many homeschool moms. As you have read in my other Homeschool and Technology posts, we use Scholaric for our lessons and record keeping. However, there is not much of a way to record the unschooling activities in Scholaric that are quite frequent in our family’s homeschool. This…
Scholaric Technology in the Homeschool
Scholaric Homeschool Planning software has helped me save time in our lesson planning and record keeping. Homeschool Planning Software is widely available in the homeschool market. However, is it all created equal? This year has been a year of trial and error with moving our homeschool plans or records to the computer. There are several…
Eye Patching Fun? Yes it is!
What is eye patching? Eye Patching is where a child wears a patch over their strong eye to help correct vision in their weaker eye. There are a few different reasons a doctor prescribes eye patching, and I am not going into that here, but I am going to give you a few ways to…
Historical Reading for the Homeschool Family Heritage History
If you have read my blog long, you know we take a literature approach to teaching history. Earlier this year, I learned of Heritage History, a company that is making older historical literature readily available to the homeschool market. What is amazing is that this company is keeping their prices VERY reasonable, which helps the…
Teaching with Tech, without being Overwired
When we started homeschooling, I always figured we wouldn’t be one of those techie families. You know the ones, with five computers, phones,eReaders and more? We we aren’t quite that bad, but, we are becoming a techie family and I can honestly say there are a few bonuses to this. We have four computers, one…
Ooka Island~A Computer Phonics Adventure for Younger Children
Do you have young children who want to do school on the computer like their older siblings? What about a child that ready to learn the sounds and letters, but doesn’t’ have the fine motor skills for writing? Ooka Island is a computer based phonics program that will help your children gain computer and readiness…
Always Ice Cream Review~Online games for girls
Always Ice Cream is an Online group of games for girls ages 7-12, though due to the quick increasing challenges of the games I believe 9-12 would be a better estimate. Membership Rates: $4.99/month (first month only $.99) 2 months $9.98 1 year $29.99 Lifetime $99.99 A large share of our members are homeschooled and…
Computer Time in the Homeschool
Computers have been around for a long time, and homeschooling has been around for a long time, however using them together really has now, especially in many homeschool households. This week at Christian Homeschoolers Taking a Stand we are sharing about computer use in our homeschool families. This is a link up called Homeschool Question…
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