Techie Homeschoolers

Internet Safey 101- 700 Club Speaks Out

Internet safety has been a tremendous problem for our youth for the past decade– but things have progressively become worst, with more exposure to the web through cell phones, ipods, video game controllers, laptops, etc. Younger and younger children are toting cell phones with internet accessibility and more children are being exposed to independent computer [...]

Freshbrain.com- a cool techie site for teens

I don’t have any teens yet, but for those of you with teens, looking for a safe way to allow your kid to collaborate online with peers on specialized technology projects, you might want to check out Freshbrain.com. Freshbrain is a non profit organization, so as it stands today, it is completely free. The site offers activities [...]

A Purim Feast

This past week on February 28th, our family celebrated a typical Jewish holiday, Purim. Although we are not Jewish I find myself constantly wanting to learn more about the Jewish background of our Christian heritage, and I felt that it would be a wonderful concept to explore this year for our whole family. So we decided to [...]

Cooking Italian Bread- Eating Healthy

I have always wanted to learn how to bake bread. It is one of those earthy, connecting with the homemaking part of me that yearns to leap out in the middle of all of my techie interests… I think NyGirl caught my bread-baking bug, and she decided one school morning she wanted to help me bake [...]

Sisterly Love

One of the things I enjoy most about homeschooling my kids is observing them and watching them grow close together. The love these two sisters share is inexpressible:

iprompts-a technology device for special needs children

iprompts, a handheld adaptive for iphones and the ipod touch, is a handy little tool that allows kids with special needs to use the pictures (or visual prompting) to help them transition from one activity to the next. According to the official site, this tool allows a caregiver of special needs children (autistic, ADHD, Down Syndrome, [...]

How we’re doing “techie” in our homeschool

In one of my latest blog posts, I talked about how we restructured our homeschool for 2010. It’s been a month of trial and error, and pretty much, that routine has held fast and has become our school “core”. It’s how we “do school”, wherever we are. The cool thing is the flexibility the workbooks and [...]

How To Prevent Cyberbullying

After reading the news about Phoebe Prince, a freshman at South Hadley High School (in a middle to upper class community in Massachusetts), who hung herself due to cyber bullying, I couldn’t help but to wonder how this kind of behavior could have gone unnoticed, or untreated for that matter. The “untouchables” is the nickname they’ve [...]

Bible For Children

If you have been looking for a different way to approach telling bible stories to your children, here is a neat little site that has bible stories children can both read (or be read to) with full colorful pictures. THe girls have been enjoying these bible stories. Typically I will let my 7 year old read them [...]

An Art Moment

A few days ago we started our school morning off with a little art. Baby Z enjoys painting now. I realized soon that this was one of the little pleasures of the 2 year old toddler stage that I missed so much with my oldest daughter. I just had to post this–although short and sweet. I want [...]