Homeschooling:  Previous Fancies

April 2005

• Bembo's Zoo

 

March 2005

• Berlin Brigade
  The website of my new online pal, Reinhard, who was a "Golf Papa" working in Berlin with the American MPs.  His books would make good additions to anyone's post-WWII studies -- these are definitely Primary Documents, along with some of the histories Reinhard has on the website.

February 2005

• NPR Beaver Story

January 2005

• Linguist Deciphers Uses of Word 'Dude'

December 2004

• Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board

 

November 2004

• Homeschooling with The Cartwrights

October 2004

• Not!
  Declaration of Refusal
  With an unintentional (I hope) underscoring by, Back to School needs

 

September 2004

• With compliments from my (almost) Vet Daughter,
  and with cheers from the grand-cats and the grand-dogs.
  "Cat.  I'm a kitty cat.  And I dance, dance, dance.  And I dance, dance, dance.". 
  (yeah, it's odd, but it can grow on you)
  More dancing:  John Travolta -- with whiskers!
  (this one's just plain happy)
   

August 2004

• CHICKENMAAAAN!!  the first episode
  and the entire series, if you're a true Chickenfaaaaaaan!
  (relevance:  for decades AFN played the Chickenman episodes, consequently all AFN-listening military personnel 'of a certain age' will have immediate flashbacks upon hearing 'Bok, bok, bok, bawwwwwwwwwwk!  Chickenmaaaaan!  He's everywhere!  He's everywhere!")
   

July 2004

• DUCK® Tape?  For a prom? (the winners were homeschoolers) (and their prom outfits are made of duct tape)

• Saturn
   

June 2004

• Eats, Shoots and Leaves
  A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then pulls out a gun and shoots the waiter.
  'Why?' groans the injured man.
  The panda shrugs, tosses him a badly punctuated wildlife manual and walks out. 
  With his one good hand, the bleeding waiter thumbs through the book and reads,
  'Panda: Large black and white mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.'
   

• Folding Paper Toys You Can Make Yourself

 

May 2004

• Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust

 

April 2004

• You Know You're a Military Wife If . . .

• Flat Stanley

• National Gallery of Art Children's Pages

 

March 2004

• Radio Regenbogen (German pop radio station online)

• Food Timeline

• Enchanted Learning dot com

• Castles on the Web

• Sounds from The Netherlands

• Making Marbles

 

February 2004

• Rock Hound Kids

• Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

• Frog Guts

• Rhinocam

• Mars Rover

 

January 2004

• Newton's Apple Science Try Its

• Historic maps of New England (plus a couple other states)

• Dinosaurs (especially The Big Beast Book)

• Periodic Table of Comic Books

• The Hubble Site

• The Visual Thesaurus

• Gifted Children and Homeschooling:  An annotated bibliography by Kathi Kearney

• Geo-NativeA bilingual Basque/English site with tables of 'translations' between place names in local languages and those same names as (usually) displayed on mainstream maps.

 

December 2003

• American History:  Muzak

• Google Science Updates

• Radio News: This site has archival radio news reports as well as biographical and historical information on the newscasters and the stories they reported.

• The Scientific Method applied to Cooking:  Cook's Illustrated
  Even if cooking is not your hobby the explanations of how these cooks arrived at their recipes is an excellent demonstration of the Scientific Method in action.  Step by step, inch by inch, pizza by pizza, the nuts and bolts of finding out what works and what doesn't is spelled out.  An added bonus is the 'outside the box' section of handy hints sent in by readers.

• Polar Image pictures (sky photography) from Finland

 

November 2003

• Just in time for Thanksgiving Cranberry Bog Virtual Tour

• Church architecture in England from The Churchmouse

• Build a Medieval Castle from Owl and Mouse Educational Software

• Mozart's 12 Variations in C, K. 265/300e, also known as Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman", a French folk tune about a daughter who complains to her mother that her father is too strict.  Americans will know the tune as, "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."
  Thanks to Rachel Hunter and Cordelia Brown of Kansas Public Radio at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, home of the Jayhawks.  Listen online!

• Bad Wolf Press: Musical Plays for Musically Timid Teachers
• Chewy Hallowe'en Candy for Thought  Classroom Research and Cargo Cults
  By E.D. Hirsch Jr.
• Free online science newsletter  New Scientist subscription information is at the site
• Left handed handwriting tips Article: The Left-handed Writers Page

 

October 2003

• Ann Zeise Cooks!  For Hallowe'en!

• Rupert Books from the UK (see Amazon) that are attractive to children with a wide range of reading abilities: picture book for non-readers, 'not dumbed-down' one-line reading (the headline) for beginning readers, simple rhymed verse for those slightly more advanced, the full story for fluent readers

 

September 2003

• Books in Latin  . . . just not the ones you were expecting. Cattus Petasatus  (it's about a cat, and a hat),  Green Eggs & Ham (Latin version), Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis,
  Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abrogaverit (the key word is "Grinchus"), Winnie Ille Pu Semper Ludet