This is just a quick post to lend awareness to a few new links I have added.
Starfall
Discovery Kids fun Mummy Maker game
JUMP Math, which came highly recommended by a friend of mine
Awesome Knot Tying videos
Free Advanced High School courses
Seriously amazing!
Leapfrog Letter Factory is truly amazing. Mr A started learning phonics using the free games at Starfall, which is a great site. However, it wasn’t until he started watching Letter Factory that he really got it. Everything is changing so fast now! I know I have said it already, but it has done absolutely amazing things. He went from not recognizing most of his letters – to recognizing them, knowing their sounds and reading words by sounding them out!
On top of that, he can easily write his name and this morning, Mr A decided to write his alphabet with his new crayons. We haven’t even begun to learn how to write his letters, we have just been working on paths and mazes, as pre-writing skills. Apparently, I need to step it up a notch!
I simply can not recommend this video enough.
Here is the alphabet written by Mr A, spontaneously, this morning. It is written backwards, but that isn't uncommon for young children when they are first learning to write.
I am a mama of five, three teenagers, and two youngsters. My heart has always been with homeschooling, but we public schooled our eldest three for many (or all, in some cases) years. When my fourth babe was a toddler, we suspected that things were off. After many years of struggle, we finally had diagnoses of Autism (PDD-NOS), ADHD, SPD and Anxiety. After our grueling experiences with his public school, we pulled him out and began homeschooling. He had a trial return to public school in 2010 (requested by his former Dr.), that failed miserably, and has been returned home, where he has been doing quite well. His younger brother will be joining him in schooling at home, when his age is appropriate.
