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Homeschooling Resource for Language Arts
It’s Wednesday, and time for us to share a Homeschooling Resource for Language Arts. I would like to ask you to check out the Recommended Websites: Handwriting For Kids and The Literature Network. If you have used these resources leave me a comment and let me know what you thought of them and why. Handwriting For Kids Age Range: 4-10 (Grades K-5 approximately, with parental guidance) This ad-supported website offers free lessons and practice worksheets for learning how to print, write in cursive, and learn English grammar. (It also offers instruction and worksheets for learning arithmetic.) When you get to the website you will see an introduction, and a menu on the left side of the screen…
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The New York Times: The Learning.
It’s Wednesday, and time for Language Arts and I would like to ask you to check out this Recommended Website: The New York Times: The Learning. The New York Times: The Learning Network Age Range: 13-18 (Grades 8-12, with parental supervision) The New York Times offers free lesson plans, writing prompts, activities for students and more – all based on The New York Times journalism. When you get to the site you will see Activities for Students: Writing Prompts – Student Opinion Questions and Picture Prompts Articles & Questions – Articles of the Day, Teenagers in the Times, and STEM Articles Quizzes & Crosswords – Weekly News Quiz, Word of the Day, Country of the Week, and Student Crosswords Multimedia –…
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Lesson Plans/ Unit Studies Jim Davis
Charlie has always been a fan of the Cat Garfield . When Charlie was little he would sit and watch his Cartoons over and over for days on end and there is still times when Charlie will do this. Charlie likes to color and use Illustrations in the art pictures he creates this week we will be studying Jim Davis the creator of Garfield. Come and join us. About: James Robert Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American cartoonist. best known as the creator of the comic strips Garfield. Published since 1978, Garfield is one of the world’s most widely syndicated comic strips. Davis wrote or co-wrote all of the Garfield TV specials for CBS, originally…