Facing the Challenges of Homeschooling

Homeschooling is not always easy. You may have jumped into homeschooling not realizing the effort and commitments necessary to educate your child. In addition, what if your child learns differently than you expect and/or needs you to teach differently. These are just a few of the challenges and things to consider when choosing to homeschool.

An article by Diane Craft on HSLDA on Homeschooling a Struggling Learner provides information on the characteristics of left and right brain learning styles and offers teaching strategies to help improve your educational efforts.

Happy homeschooling!

JulieDD

Higher Education Videos: Science, Math, History and Languages

Yesterday, while browsing the internet I came across an amazing educational video site called LearnersTV. They offer links to free lectures on upper level class material including lectures in Physics, Chemistry, Math, Biology, Accounting and more.

They claim to have 9487 video lectures, 408 animations and 359 powerpoint presentations. It is a treasure trove of lectures and supporting information.

I know we will be visiting this site quite often.

Have a great weekend.

JulieDD

Intriguing Physics

I'm sorry to say when I studied Physics in high school I didn't enjoy it, like it or even care about it. All I wanted to do was get it over with. This doesn't have to be the case for your students/children. The following sites helped me to see how intriguing and interesting Physics can be.

To explore, discover and uncover news in the field of physics check out Physics.org
I'm ready to go and check out weird phenomena and spooky science-so cool.

If you are fortunate enough to already be intrigued by the studies of Physics perhaps this next site will be of use.

Eric Weisstein's World of Science is an encyclopedia listing of terms and topics related to physics. In addition to Physics entries, there are links to Mathematics, Science Biographies, Chemistry and Astronomy.

Have a great day exploring!
JulieDD

Music Appreciation

Today my children have finished another section of their music appreciation Teaching Company lectures which means that soon they will need supplementary material to round out and finish up the course. Here are two sites that offer lectures and musical links for a music appreciation class.

From Free-Ed.net (I like free resources) This page contains a link to a video lecture series on iTunes and more that for us will be a perfect supplement to round out our world music appreciation class.

Exploring the World of Music has free Video on Demand music appreciation lectures.

Songs that Teach has a set of songs for Music Appreciation

Hope your day is filled with music.

JulieDD

Speak English, please?

Understanding the English language and speaking it grammatically correct can be difficult even for students who live in English speaking countries. All the rules, rules, rules...

Here are two sites to help develop those skills.

Grammar Bytes! (Don't you just love that title?) Here you will find grammar lessons infused with just the right amount of humor.

Guide to Grammar and Writing This site is organized, informative and useful with in depth explanations, quizzes and guides.

Learning Science with videos and games

I have two websites for you today on the topic of Science. I love science and exploring and discovering new things however, many students find the science textbook explanations hard to follow or boring or just not engaging.

The following two sites try to change that by using age related games and videos to try to make it more interesting.

The first link is for the younger crowd-preschool and elementary age students
BBC Science Clips

The next link is for games that are challenging and information packed on more complex science topics. Perfect for high school age students and older but may also be used with advanced middle school aged children.

Nobel Prize Educational Games

Have a great day playing ...er...I mean...learning science.

JulieDD

Pre-K Through 5th Grade Free Worksheets

Throughout the last twelve years that I have homeschooled I have at times loved using worksheets and at other times deemed them time wasters. For my children worksheets were often just short of a punishment.

Why?

The difference is our learning styles. I grew up with teachers who regularly used worksheets. I thrived in that format of teaching/learning. However, at least two of my children have struggled with that style of teaching and the expectations.

Yet, I love worksheets and I do think they can be used to reinforce concepts or to practice or test a set of skills.

The other problem with worksheets which often frustrated me was going to a website that said it had "Free" worksheets only to discover the ones I wanted were only available to those who had a subscription.

So for you I have found a site that as of this writing has all free worksheets for Pre-K through 5th grade. Now there is an unobtrusive request for a yearly donation of $1.00 and there are supplemental ads but they are not on the worksheets which come with answers in a PDF file.

Here is the site TLS Books

Happy Homeschooling!

JulieDD

Welcome to Daily Homeschool Links and Resources!

I'm glad you are here. Welcome to my blog. I hope you will visit often and find the resources you are looking for and just enjoy the blog.

Homeschooling is a great adventure. I have been homeschooling for about 12 years now and I'm still going strong. Join me as I search the internet for homeschool resources.

Please let me know if there are particular topics you are looking for and I will be glad to try and help you find resources. Of course, I mean homeschool resources and topics related to homeschooling.

Again welcome and let's get started.

JulieD