While video read-alouds are not meant to replace the experience of reading to your children, they do offer another convenient way to bring books and learning activities into your homeschool. Video read-alouds are recordings of someone reading a book aloud, often with the pages displayed on screen so children can see the illustrations and follow
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The following is a list of free resources to help with teaching your kids spelling and vocabulary. Did you know you can also use free AI tools like ChatGPT to create your own activities tailored to your own child? For example, paste your spelling words into ChatGPT and ask it to generate riddles (appropriate to
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Writing a composition or essay can feel overwhelming to many kids. To make writing assignments less intimidating, you can break them down into smaller steps. A good approach is to start with writing words or sentences first, and then progress to writing paragraphs. This post offers tips for writing paragraphs as a helpful intermediate step
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⚛️ Everyone makes oobleck with their kids at some point. It’s easy to mix up, kinda fun to play with, and strange enough to make you wonder what’s going on. Is it a solid or a liquid? Why does it flow through your fingers but become firm when you squeeze it? Questions like these give
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Geography was something I tried folding into whatever history we were studying – which worked to an extent. We’d read about the 13 colonies, label a map, answer some questions. Or we’d read about different ancient empires, label a map, answer some questions. Not only was this kinda boring, but when we were studying a particular
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