Hello, my name is Sheila and I’m a Delicious addict. And I’m not talking about chocolate brownies, though those aren’t bad, either. I mean the social bookmarking site, Delicious, where you can mark sites you really like as you’re searching the web.
And so I’d like to open up my Delicious sites with the homeschool label, and let you see some of them!
First, let’s start with some writing aids. I don’t know about you, but my youngest daughter has issues with writing essays. Coming up with her points, and organizing them well, is a challenge. Maybe your children aren’t at the age where essays are written, but you’ll want to keep this in mind for when they reach that grand old level. It comes sooner than you think.
So, without further adieu, here’s a place where you can download neat charts to help them plan their writing, whether it’s a story, an essay, or a paragraph.
Need help writing a biography? Here’s a fun site that walks you through the process.
Want some essay outlines that make essays paint-by-number, or book report outlines that help kids get to the heart of the matter? Download free ones here (just scroll until you see the link).
What if you want your child to write more descriptively, but they rebel everytime you say “get the thesaurus” or “get the dictionary”. Here’s a list of all kinds of descriptive words for every occasion. And they don’t have to open a book. Here’s another site that’s similar to an online thesaurus, but it’s targeted for student writing, and they won’t have to look far to find a word!
If you want your child to produce a brochure, or a newspaper, or a booklet, or a flyer, here’s a site that will design it for you and print it for you! You just enter the content. So if you want your child to write the front page of a newspaper from Roman times, or Egyptian times, or Medieval Times, here’s your answer!
If you have your child doing any kind of memorization, like vocabulary words, Bible verses, poems, or famous quotations, and you want to make sure they actually remember them later, here’s a complicated but amazingly effective method of memorizing stuff! In fact, I forgot I bookmarked this, and now that I see it, I’m pulling it out for Katie for her Latin flashcards today!
Like learning with video? Here’s a catalog of all the kinds of great online educational videos, for k-12, about a variety of subjects in Math, Science, English, and more! It’s very well categorized, so you can find exactly what you’re looking for!
And if you’re into free worksheets to reinforce a lesson, take a gander here! Organized by grade level, for K-8.
That’s all I’ve got for you today, but I’ll have more on my next Tuesday Tour! And in the meantime, please stop by my blog, To Love, Honor and Vacuum! I’m talking marriage, motherhood, the insanity of our culture, and more!
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Thanks for sharing!!! Cool stuff!
Thank you for this as it is REALLY helpful to know what has been valuable to others (the recommendations help ‘weed out’ the less useful without wasting time).
grateful for His grip, HveHope