Now I Know My ABCs
Saturday, 19 September 2015
As preschool children and kindergarteners are learning their ABCs, they can connect those letters to professions and famous people in history. ABC What Will I Be? is a 26-week course taught by Alecia Francois that looks at professionals including a baker, an optician, an investigator, an umpire, a zookeeper, and so on. Alecia provides
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You’re Not Going to Believe It!
Friday, 18 September 2015
A membership to SchoolhouseTeachers.com not only gives you access to more than 160 classes, it also gives you access to a special media library of more than 10,000 faith-filled videos! Through a special partnership with RightNow Media, every SchoolhouseTeachers.com member has complete access to this media library at NO cost for as long as
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Kind of Makes Me Wonder
Thursday, 17 September 2015
There are so many wonderful things in this world. Science provides some insight into how they are made and how they work. General Science with Steve Rosenoff takes middle schoolers through the history of science, scientific inquiry, geology, classification, and human anatomy. This Red Wagon Tutorials course can be used as a standalone introduction
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Get the Word Out
Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Elementary students are the focus of today’s post. One of our courses is Little Language Arts. This is currently a 35-week-course taught by Crystal Marcum that covers various literary genres and will look at topics including alliteration and the elements of poetry; visualization; nonfiction; autobiography; and more. Generally, each unit of four weekly lessons will
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Get It in Writing
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
It’s never too early to learn to write well, and it’s never a bad idea to have fun doing it. Jan May knows this. She is teaching Adventures in Writing, a brand new course on SchoolhouseTeachers.com. Eight- to twelve-year-olds will enjoy this farm-related writing adventure with Daisy the Duck and Moo-Cow Mayor in Mooville.
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Make a Connection
Monday, 14 September 2015
There are more than seven billion people living on this planet. Nearly 6,500 languages are spoken by these seven billion people. How many do you know? Now, no one will ever know all 6,500, but wouldn’t it be great if we knew two or three? Think of the wonderful people you could make a
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Something Out of Nothing
Saturday, 12 September 2015
It’s always fun to see a project finished—to start with nothing and end up with something amazing. By the end of Lapbooking, students in PreK through middle school can create lapbooks for more than two dozen titles. Niki Coburn McNeil of In the Hands of a Child provides step-by-step instructions to help students make their
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Save the Bookworm!
Friday, 11 September 2015
Many of us don’t like worms and bugs, but one we should fight to save is the bookworm. How do we do this? Instill a love of reading in our children. Fran May understands this and has put together a series of unit studies in Children’s Literature for Life. Designed to last four to
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