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    King Tut and Ancient Egypt!

      Charlie doesn’t know much about King Tut or Ancient Egypt other than what he sees on TV. Then the other day we was online and Charlie let me know he would like to study King Tut. I went online and found the following lesson Mummies & King Tut (Ancient Egypt Homeschool Unit Study Day 2) Inside Mummies & King Tut our students will learn to use logic and listening/visual skills to learn about King Tut and Mummies. They will discover challenges in wrapping by creating a mummy craft. For additional studies I found Ancient Egypt Activities for Kids {Crafts & Printable} on The Natural Homeschool. I like this new post because inside this…

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    Varsity Tutors

    With Charlie struggling with his reading I found this site and thought I would check into it. Plus I thought you all might want to as well. Varsity Learning Tools – it is the world’s largest free practice test and assessment site. In total, we have over 40,000 professionally written problems and thousands of distinct practice tests across 120 subjects. Each question is tagged down to the core academic concept being tested:http://www.varsitytutors.com/practice-tests The platform also includes free web-based classroom assessment software: http://www.varsitytutors.com/classroom-assessment   http://www.varsitytutors.com/classroom-assessment   Glenda, Charlie and David

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    Using Poetry to Prepare Your Child for Reading- Candace A. Dietz

        Children love rhythm and song. Rhyming poetry is music to children and they are drawn in by it. When my children were small, I would read Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss, and Shel Silverstein and many fun little books written in rhyme. They were the favorites. I would read the poems with inflection and feeling and, then, after a few times I would leave out the ending words and the kids would fill these in. A five year old can often fill in a left out word on the first reading if he is used to rhyme. At quiet time when the children were looking through a stack of…

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