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Crayola Creativity Guide

Crayola Creativity Guide

From the official Crayola site: The seeds of creativity live in everyone. Some individuals are fortunate — their sprouting imagination was nurtured and grown into strong creative thinking abilities. Their parents and teachers nourished them with creative experiences and confidence building responses to their attempts, throughout their childhood. Creative people invent, imagine, problem-solve, create,...
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Farm Goods for Kids

Farm Goods for Kids

Established in 1994, Farm Goods for Kids offer sone of the largest selections of farm toys and old-fashioned, classic play sets that today’s adults remember from their childhood, offered at competitive pricing while offering the toy industry’s best quality brands. From the Farm Goods for Kids blog: “We believe that children should indulge in...
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Online tools

These are some nifty online tools to play with and learn from from cool school Angles in a circle Creating a bar graph Latitude and Longitude Making a Pie Chart
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Rock-Paper-Scissors

The Rock Paper Scissors Society has their own website. In case you’ve wondered just how the game is played, visit them here to read the rules. PlayAdvanced RPS FAQs Photo Gallery Think Three Blog Video Links Trading Cards RPS Player Profiler Online Trainer RPS Strategy Guide World Championships Rock-Paper-Scissors
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Aristoplay Games

Aristoplay: Play Games, Have Fun, Learn Things! In a world that is changing as fast as ours is today, learning is a life-long pursuit. For over 25 years Aristoplay has been committed to keeping the excitement in learning. With the support of their friends and customers Aristoplay creates games that are the best in...
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Seal Volleyball

Really, this is a seal volleyball game! Seal volleyball Enjoy!  — Mary Nix
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Destroy the Castle

Nova Online presents Destroy the Castle Build your own virtual trebuchet and fire giant sandstone balls at a castle wall. You decide on the size of your projectiles, where to place your trebuchet, and other factors critical to success. NOVA’s science game, “Destroy the Castle,” is very much like the real thing. There are...
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AGREED!

AGREED! is the surprisingly fun game that provides the occasion to: talk about “the real stuff” like peace, love, honesty, trust, dreams, hopes, and genuine friendship. Do you want to improve communication, collaboration,consensus building and listening skills? Would you like to improve understanding, and find common ground?  How much would you like to teach...
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Online Word Games

Melissa Wiley shared this great word game, Eight Letters in Search of a Word, at her Here in the Bonny Glenn website. This game inspired me to go looking for others. Here is what I found: Gobble Words Grammar Gorillas Word Wiz Word Blocks If you have a favorite word game, please feel free...
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  • Save your kids! Student Loan Consolidation Fix
    Student loan consolidation is a major problem in our society today.  Several years ago one of our writers wrote a good article about teaching your kids how to manage their money and make a budget.  Please take a look at this great family oriented article about smart money management. http://homeedmag.com/home-education-magazine/stop-student-loan-consolidatio […]

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  • Intrinsic Motivations for Learning
    “As homeschoolers we need to find ways to reach out to teachers and parents who don’t want to see childrens’ 12 years of compulsory schooling reduced to skills training for big business. Nurturing the human capacity to learn through love and intrinsic motivation is as important to life — to me, more important — as ‘learning for earning.’ Art, religion, music […]

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  • Class Dismissed
    Class Dismissed is a new movie in production which is questioning whether schools, public or private, are really the best education option for many families, and it will be the first feature-length documentary to focus on homeschooling. From the website: “From home study and kitchen table math, to perpetual recess and park days, Class Dismissed follows the s […]

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  • Everyday Mysteries
    Who invented electric Christmas lights? The Library of Congress sponsors the fascinating Everyday Mysteries collection: Did you ever wonder why a camel has a hump? If you can really tell the weather by listening to the chirp of a cricket? Or why our joints make popping sounds? These questions deal with everyday phenomena that we often take for granted, but e […]

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  • Unschooling
    Defining unschooling is a little like describing a color, and every bit as elusive. You can rely on commonly-held descriptions; for example, we generally all agree what blue looks like, but what about cobalt, aqua, navy, cyan, sapphire, azure, indigo, cerulean, turquoise or cornflower? It’s the same with unschooling. There’s a generally accepted definition, […]