Emily completed all of her 3rd grade coursework for homeschool a while ago so we're breathing easy and enjoying the kind of school we really love... plenty of time for piano games, cooking, ballet lessons, exploring science websites and trips to the library. Here's a little video of her practicing the piece she's preparing for piano festival.
Despite the extra pressures that homeschooling sometimes creates for me, it's days like this when I am so happy we're doing it. And I've discovered a lot of fun learning sites along the way that have benefited some of my other kids as well.
Science
Study Jams Videos - Physical, Earth and Life Science Topics with short engaging video clip stories
Kids Health Videos - How Your Body Works
Brain Pop Animated Movies , fossils, tides, ecosystems and other earth science topics
Virtual Salmon Dissection - the cow eye dissection was interesting too for kids who can stomach it
Wildscreen Arkive Science- videos of habitats and species with basic facts for kids
Math
Multiplication.com - Diaper Derby is a great slow paced start, Grand Prix and Penguin Jump are great because they can compete with their friends by logging on at the same time
Study Jams Math Tutorials
Center for Game Science- Tree Frog Treasure &Refraction game to teach fractions/number line
History
Liberty's Kids and Schoolhouse Rock videos on youtube
Early America.com - short videos about founding fathers, early american history
America the Story of Us (for older kids)
Spelling
Spellingcity.com Add your own spelling list for kids to take pretest, or play games to learn hard words
Language
Schoolhouse Rock parts of speech videos (interjections, adverbs, prepositions, etc.)
Quizlet.com - term matching games for a variety of subjects, or enter or your own concepts to study
And of course, one of my favorite subjects....MUSIC.
Following are a few game links from my piano blog, but my piano lab link has a more organized thorough listing arranged by concept and level.
Music
Classics for Kids
Creating Music
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Kids Games
Music Learning Community
Music Tech Teacher Games/Quizzes
Musical Mind Ear Training
Musicards
PhilTulga
PT Musical Fraction Bars
SFS Kids
Tonic Tutor
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra -Learn about instruments in the orchestra through an interactive story with games
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