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Kid's Corner - animal classification. Mindful Homeschooler: Unschooling Ideas: Strewing. The first time I heard the term unschooling, I pictured something akin to Lord of the Flies.

Mindful Homeschooler: Unschooling Ideas: Strewing

Where children ran wild, uncombed and unwashed, spending days in the woods with no parental supervision - I wondered how that sort of upbringing could possibly offer educational opportunities, let alone prepare a child for the responsibilities of adulthood. Three years later I know better, and I’m glad to call myself a full-fledged member of the unschooling club. But if the view you have in your head is similar, then let me offer some reassurance: There are as many ways to unschool as there are flavors of ice cream.

More importantly, the approach doesn’t have to be radical. Level 4 Lapbooks. Lapbooks at HSS - Master List. The ultimate guide to homeschooling as a working mom. Some days, I feel like my head is going to explode.

The ultimate guide to homeschooling as a working mom

Interactive map: Loss of Indian land. The Vault is Slate's history blog.

Interactive map: Loss of Indian land

Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This interactive map, produced by University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt to accompany his new book West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, offers a time-lapse vision of the transfer of Indian land between 1776 and 1887. As blue “Indian homelands” disappear, small red areas appear, indicating the establishment of reservations.

(Above is a GIF of the map's time-lapse display; visit the map's page to play with its features.) Homemade Glowing Slime Experiment. Tessellation. Ceramic Tiles in Marrakech, forming edge-to-edge, regular and other tessellations A periodic tiling has a repeating pattern.

Tessellation

Some special kinds include regular tilings with regular polygonal tiles all of the same shape, and semi-regular tilings with regular tiles of more than one shape and with every corner identically arranged. The patterns formed by periodic tilings can be categorized into 17 wallpaper groups. A tiling that lacks a repeating pattern is called "non-periodic". An aperiodic tiling uses a small set of tile shapes that cannot form a repeating pattern. History[edit] A temple mosaic from the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk IV (3400–3100 BC) showing a tessellation pattern in the tile colours. Tessellations were used by the Sumerians (about 4000 BC) in building wall decorations formed by patterns of clay tiles.[1] Etymology[edit] Overview[edit] Emma Approved.

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Lego ornaments. Summarizing. Strategies for Reading ComprehensionSummarizing What Is Summarizing?

Summarizing

Summarizing is how we take larger selections of text and reduce them to their bare essentials: the gist, the key ideas, the main points that are worth noting and remembering. Math Worksheets Go! Free Printable Math Worksheets! Interactive Math Activities, Demonstrations, Lessons with definitions and examples, worksheets, Interactive Activities and other Resources. Handouts. What Causes Hiccups? Multiplication Trick. Gamify Your Life. The problem with most productivity apps on the market is that they provide no incentive to continue using them.

Gamify Your Life

HabitRPG fixes this by making habit building fun! By rewarding you for your successes and penalizing you for slip-ups, HabitRPG provides external motivation for completing your day-to-day activities. Instant Gratification Whenever you reinforce a positive habit, complete a daily task, or take care of an old to-do, HabitRPG immediately rewards you with experience points and gold. As you gain experience, you can level up, increasing your stats and unlocking more features, like classes and pets. Consequences Whenever you indulge in a bad habit or fail to complete one of your daily tasks, you lose health.

Accountability With an active community, HabitRPG provides the accountability you need to stay on task. Facebook. Zombie Corals - Ph.Detours Ep. 10. World History Timeline - World History TimeMap. Archaeologists want you to solve this 1,200-year-old Pictish puzzle. Cosmic Log Alan Boyle, Science Editor NBC News 21 hours ago Relicarte / 3dei A screenshot shows how the Pictish Puzzle program allows users to manipulate 3-D representations of fragments from a 1,200-year-old monument. An online game will challenge computer users to solve an archaeological puzzle: how to put together thousands of stone fragments to reconstruct the chiseled design on a 1,200-year-old Scottish monument.

PictishPuzzle.co.uk will make its debut on Oct. 25, thanks to National Museums Scotland and the project's digital designers. 6 Tools to Determine Your Kids’ Learning Styles. I homeschool for many reasons, not the least of which is that I can do a better job with my two kids than a classroom teacher can with 25 to 30 (or more!).

6 Tools to Determine Your Kids’ Learning Styles

There is no room for debate on this issue. Educational experts have called for decades for smaller class sizes, but as budgets get tighter, class sizes get bigger. There’s no doubt that a personalized education far exceeds a factory model. Except. What if I’m treating my homeschooled kids as if they were seats in an assembly-line classroom? When Grace showed signs of reading readiness, I purchased Handwriting Without Tears and Hooked on Phonics, and I printed hundreds of pages’ worth of sight words and Montessori materials from my favorite early childhood websites. Rkrampf's blog. 200 Free Kids Educational Resources: Lessons, Apps, Books, Websites... The Coraline Video Tour Readings. Virginia Scottish Games and Festivals. The Scale of the Universe 2.

The Scale of the Universe 2. Prepares for First Virginia Coast Launch to Moon. Online math practice and lessons. Home – The Official Neil Gaiman Website for Young Readers. Constitution USA with Peter Sagal. It Only Takes About 42 Minutes To Learn Algebra With Video Games.