I am continually amazed at all of the homeschooling resources that are available on the internet. I think when I have some time, I will make a new category on my side-bar with links to some of the ones we use.
For now, I wanted to share with you some links I found on a local homeschool message board.
The first one is Spelling Time.
WHAT IS SPELLINGTIME?
The weekly spelling test is your child’s first encounter with scholastic evaluation in today’s highly competitive environment. SpellingTime.com is an interactive tool designed to prepare children for these tests by utilizing a fun, dynamic and “Mommy Free” approach. Parents or children can enter the spelling words each Monday and SpellingTime.com will create a 4 step, instructional learning program predicated on the marriage between leading edge technology and good old fashion repetition and reward processes.
The kids have not used this one yet, but I checked out the demo and it looks pretty neat.
The next one is Starfall.
The Starfall Method promises to improve reading acquisition by using the Internet to help make it fun for the children and easy for the educators. You may order the printed materials that go along with the website for classroom or home use.
I have not used this at home with my kids yet either, but Big D said that he used this on the computer at his old elementary school and “It was cool.”
I had one more that I wanted to share, but I cant find it! I’ll have to post it when I do.
10:27 pm on January 21st, 2007
Oh I love the StarFall website! My daughter really enjoys playing with it and of course it’s awesome that she is also learning from it. LOL