Talibiddeen Jr. Homeschool Center

UVIC Teaching Clip Art

2012-02-20T16:09:00.000+04:00

UVIC Teaching Clip Art - an oldy but super goody. Simple clip art, perfect for teaching; images of people are usually purple or blue and contain no faces.

Smile/Game o Matic - HTML/Java

2012-02-20T15:54:00.001+04:00

Another one of the ones I used to use back in the day.........

Smile/Game o Matic - makes Multiple-choice, True/False, Drag/Drop, Sentence Mix, Paragraph Mix, Cloze, Multiple-Select
old url/older version: http://clear.msu.edu/dennie/matic/

Hot Potatoes Quiz Software

2012-02-20T15:50:00.001+04:00

Hot Potatoes
This was one of the first softwares that I used for making my own games and quizzes.

"The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like."
You can make html pages to use online or just make them for local browser use at home.

PreMade Gameboards from TJ!

2012-02-20T15:42:00.000+04:00

PreMade Gameboards from TJ - Stop by the TJ blog for a few ready made gameboards that I have made in the past.

Donna Young Gameboard Templates

2012-02-20T15:39:00.000+04:00

Donna Young Gameboard Templates - most are PDF, one is DOC.

Tips for Making Personalized Games

2012-02-20T15:37:00.001+04:00

All a-board! Create a personalized board game
Use your PC to power up family game night with a homemade creation.

Tools for Educators Online

2012-02-20T15:35:00.001+04:00

Tools for Educators - make board games online for printing.

"The board game maker is a worksheet wizard that allows you to create boardgames on any theme with pictures from MES-English flashcards. You can select a board with all images, customize a board with text of your choice and mix with images , or just create a board that is all text. It's super simple, easy to use, but very powerful."

JC Schools.net Gameboard templates and premade educational games

2012-02-20T15:30:00.000+04:00

JC Schools.net - gameboard templates plus dozens of premade board games for different academic content areas.

PowerPoint Quiz and Game Templates

2012-02-20T15:24:00.000+04:00

Pete's PowerPoint Station Templates - links to lots of templates such as jeopardy, hangman, quizzes, and other games.
JC Schools.net - templates for Wheel of Fortune, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Jeopardy, Concentration and more!
Parade of Games in PowerPoint
PowerPoint Quiz Templates from Office.Microsoft.com

People and Animal Graphics? Try using Silhouettes

2012-02-19T15:20:00.002+04:00

Sometimes its a pain to deface images, so I sometimes turn to using silhouettes.

Most of the time I google them by typing in my subject followed by "silhouette." (or vice versa)

But, you can easily make your own as well. I picked up some great tips from this article to turn clip art that I already have into silhouttes.
3 Easy Ways to Create Silhouette Characters

Wordle.net - Word Cloud Graphic Creator

2012-02-19T15:11:00.000+04:00

Sometimes I just can't find the right Islamically appropriate image for learning materials or blog entries. When that happens, I sometimes turn to "Wordle."

"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. "

Visit http://www.wordle.net/ to make your own!

Crossword Puzzle Makers

2011-11-14T14:37:00.001+04:00

Online

Vocab Maker - make all sorts of puzzles and worksheets
Tools for Educators Crossword Puzzle Maker
The Teacher's Corner Crossword Puzzle Maker
TeachNology Crossword Puzzle Maker
Armored Penguin Crossword Puzzler Maker
Crossword Puzzle Games
ReadWriteThink.org Puzzle Maker (for students) - look for "Create Your Own" tab.

Downloadable

Eclipse Crossword

Word Search Makers

2011-11-14T14:24:00.001+04:00

Tools for Educators Word Search Maker
Discovery Education Word Search Maker
TeachNology Word Search Maker
EdHelper Word Find Maker
WordSearch Maker.net
Super Kids Word Search Maker

Education Is an Atmosphere, a Discipline, a Life

2011-11-12T15:50:00.001+04:00

Education is.... Education Is an Atmosphere, a Discipline, a Life. - Free E-book from Simply Charlotte Mason.com based upon the ideas of Charlotte Mason. Good Read.

Skip College?

2011-11-07T17:43:00.001+04:00

Plan B: Skip College (NY Times)
The Case Against College Education (Time.com)

Alternatives to College

2011-11-07T17:38:00.000+04:00

If college is not an option for your homeschool student (finances, lack of interest, etc), there are alternatives.

Next Step After High School? Some Alternatives to College
Skip the Diploma: Alternatives to College
After High Alternatives (Think Quest)

But What if I Don't Want to Go to College
Helping Teenagers Find Alternatives to College

Articles from Education.com
Helping Your Teen Decide What to Do After High School
Life After High School: Learning Outside the Classroom
Homeschool: College—or Not

Arabic Fonts

2011-11-03T14:56:00.000+04:00

The Abo Slman are wonderful fonts (my favs) for making Arabic worksheets and learning aids.
Among them are a dotted Arabic font and a lined Arabic font.

Free Arabic Fonts (loads of Arabic fonts to browse here). There are 349 fonts and you have to click through 117 pages to view, but there are some really cute/neat ones there.

Here is a sampling of what you'll find:

Jeddah Font:

English School Fonts

2011-11-03T14:36:00.000+04:00

If you make your own educational materials like me, you’ve probably found that you can never have enough fonts!

Here are a few places you can download FREE school/kid fonts:

http://desktoppub.about.com/od/fonts/p/schoolfree.htm (a collection of several fonts)
http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=602
http://www.billybear4kids.com/fonts/fonts.htm
http://kidsfonts.mivox.com/
http://www.bvfonts.com./ A collection of all types of fonts, among them, some school fonts.
FontRiver.com School Fonts - small collection

Four Year Old Skills Checklists

2011-11-02T16:14:00.001+04:00

2 Year Old Preschool Checklists

2011-11-02T16:08:00.000+04:00

3 Year Old Preschool Skills Checklists

2011-11-02T16:02:00.001+04:00

Instead of a formal curriculum, I like to use checklists like these for homeschool preschool.

Three Year Old Skills Checklist (Preschool Education.com) (HTML)
Developmental Checklist for three year olds (KidCentric.com) (PDF)
Skills Checklist for Children (ages 3.6-4 years) (HTML)
Early Childhood Curriculum Standards Checklist (3/4 year olds)

Inventions learning resources

2011-10-23T18:18:00.001+04:00

If you've got little inventors like me, you may find these resources helpful:

Opportunities for Young Inventors
Don't miss this one, it's great! It's got invention tips, workshop materials list, inspirational quotes, invention writing prompts, invention theory, projects, information on famous inventions/inventors, book list of books about inventions and inventors, information on invention contests, REALLY wonderful resource!

I Can Be an Inventor Too! unit for first graders

Things to Do With Rubber Bands

2011-10-18T15:17:00.001+04:00

Rubber Band Crafts and Toys - things to do with rubber bands

First Grade Student Organizer

2011-10-16T15:12:00.001+04:00

My number one organization project this year is developing what I call our student organizers. A student organizer is either a presentation book (book of page protectors) or a binder (binders don't work well for my kids, they don't hold up well) with all kinds of reference sheets, templates, etc. These have worked phenomenally well for us. I've tried for the past several years to come up with something to help us get more organized, and for us, this is IT.

This is the outline of what I am including in my son's first grade organizer. In sha Allah, I hope to eventually link the items below to the actual documents I use. I started the organizers with my older kids, but have found that it is great for the younger ones as well. I can give this organizer to the older kids and they can use it to help teach/review with the younger ones, which is a big time saver for me.

First Grade Student Organizer

Use a binder with page protector sheets or use a page protector presentation book. The page protectors (or lamination) is extremely recommend for durability, but if you can’t get page protectors you can just use a spiral bound notebook or make your own notebook (pieces of paper stapled together)

Math

1. Math Divider Table of Contents

2. For daily review: (have these items up front for quick use)

· Review Routine sheet (lists your basic prompts for daily routine so you can be consistent each day, in shaa Allah; is also great for having older siblings review with them)

· 100 Counting Chart (or a 1-25 chart)

· Addition facts table/progress chart (and subtraction)-can be placed in inside front or back cover since it will be updated

· Ordinal numbers chart

· Shapes chart for drills

· Fraction chart for drills

· Money chart for drills

· Seasons of the year drill/reference chart

· Days of the Week drill/reference chart (days of week wheel)

· Months of the year drill/reference chart

· Calendar template for current month

3. For reference, lessons and reinforcement activities:

· Skip Counting Chart

· Number Line

· Paper Thermometer Chart

· Paper clock with movable hands (unless you use a real one or have a manipulatives clock)

· Fact family maker reusable sheet

*drill charts- you might use one side as a learning poster and on the flip side, take off all words/numbers to use as a drill.

Literacy

· Alphabet Chart (and vowels)

· Sight Word/High Frequency Word Progress Chart (can place on inside front or back cover for convenience and since it will need to be written on to be updated)

· Phonics phonogram sequence checklist (can also be placed on an inside cover for updating); this list the phonograms you will be teaching and in what order. You can also place in phonics notebook instead.

Arabic

· Alphabet Standalone Forms reference chart

· Alphabet Standalone Forms drills (make up several recognition drills in tables )

(assorted Alphabet charts at TJ Arabic Studies)

· Arabic Numerals to 30 chart (or 0 to 10)

· Arabic colors drill chart

· Arabic vocabulary (make a page consisting of a table; in each cell there is a picture of common or Islamic items; use this sheet to drill vocabulary)

Daily Schedule Form

2011-10-02T17:20:00.002+04:00

Daily Schedule Form - time blocks based around the five salaat. When I made my schedule around the salaat, I had just made up a table going down the whole page. A sister on one of my homeschooling groups shared her schedule, around the salaat too, and I loved her format so that it was not just one long list, so I made up my own form based upon that layout.

Here is a sample filled in one.