Today I signed the boys up for xtramath, an online math fact drill site. Do you know about this site? It’s a really well done free site (and ad-free too!) where kids get guided practice in mastering their basic math facts: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, through the 10 by 10 grid. The program tracks [...]
Yesterday I shared some of our favourite apps for reading and spelling for young readers, and today I thought I’d share some apps I’ve found that allow you to learn via videos. There are so many quality free educational resources out there now—wow! You’ve probably heard of some of these apps, and most (all?) of [...]
So we recently joined the 21st century and got iPhones and an iPad, and I’ve been spending some time checking out various educational apps for the boys. Over the next few days I’ll write up some of our favourites—do keep in mind that we are new to this Apple world, so no doubt there are [...]
The last couple days have been a bit of a write-off, as we got the last of the renos done to put the basement back together after the sewage back-up last September. Bang! Pound! Bang! as the new underlay and carpet were installed. We LOVE the new carpet—its much softer on the feet than the [...]
Over the summer the boys spent a fair amount of time googling for interesting websites about dinosaurs (and staying out of Mom’s hair while she conferred with realtors, contractors, roofers, painters, stagers, and the like—read the update if you missed it), and one of their favourites was of a new TV show called Dino Dan. [...]
The boys play several computer games, some more explicitly “educational” than others. As Daegan’s computer skills have steadily increased, he is now able to find and play his own games. It’s amazing how quickly this generation learns how to google! Here’s some of their favourite dinosaur-related games: Online Games (mainly found by Daegan): BBC’s Skeleton [...]