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Homeschool Resource: The TurfMutt Foundation Offers Free Curriculum to Combat Kids’ “Summer Slide”
As the final bell rings at schools across the Country, the TurfMutt Foundation offers its free environmental educational resources to parents, educators and caregivers to help combat Summer learning loss (a.k.a. “Summer slide”). The Foundation’s lesson plans feature the popular TurfMutt Cartoon characters to teach kids in grades K-8 about STEM concepts. “Summer months are crucial for kids’ academic success,” says Kris Kiser, President and CEO of the TurfMutt Foundation, which has advocated for the use and care of green spaces for over 15 years. “By exploring the outdoors and learning about nature – through our curriculum and in the green space around us – kids can continue to develop critical thinking…
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Homeschool Resources: Reading
This is a list of Homeschool Resources: Reading. If you have used any of these resources leave me a comment and let me know what you thought of them and why. ReadingIQ Growing readers are making strides in their learning and development with increases in both reading fluency and comprehension. ReadingIQ collection includes books with simple language, early chapter books with engaging characters, picture books with light-hearted stories, and nonfiction texts that support understanding. AmblesideOnline Grades K-12, with parental supervision As the website states, “AmblesideOnline is a free homeschool curriculum that uses Charlotte Mason’s classically-based principles to prepare children for a life of rich relationships with everything around them: God, humanity,…


