This article is in collaboration with Speekee. Speekee uses a mixture of children filmed on location in Spain with puppets to teach Spanish in an immersion approach. Each video has a theme (e.g. El Cafe, El Zoo, etc.) with consistency in format. This repetition within each program helps the kids to learn key words and … Read more
{This week’s Spotlight on the Crew article is brought to you from Camille, at Growing Up Gabel.} If you want “expert” advice on homeschooling, I am not the person to ask! We’ve been officially homeschooling for about two and a half weeks now. Leading up to this year, however, I started what I referred to as “babysteps” … Read more
This article is in collaboration with Math911. Professor Martin Weissman has been teaching Mathematics for 50 years. Passionate about the subject, he desires to help students overcome their fear of Mathematics and to master it. In his years of teaching, he felt that students needed fewer explanatory textbooks and more illustrative examples to help them … Read more
You blinked and now she’s in high school. Will you still homeschool? There are stricter requirements now, since she wants to go to college. There are transcripts to keep, and certain subjects you must teach. You may be nervous, wondering if you can do it. Can you really teach trigonometry or biology with a lab? … Read more
This article is in collaboration with Reading Kingdom. Created by Dr. Marion Blank, world renowned reading expert and Director of the Light on Learning Program at Columbia University, Reading Kingdom is an online program designed to teach children ages 4-10 how to read and write to a third grade level. This interactive and easy-to-use program … Read more