Houghton Mifflin Spelling & Vocabulary Activities
Houghton Mifflin has loads of spelling and vocabulary activities for Grades 1 to 6… for FREE! Woo hoo! There are games like Crossword Challenge (I enjoyed these!), Web Word Find, Word Builder, Word Sort, Power Proofreading, Spelling Match, eWord Game, Fake Out! and Wacky Web Tales.
So who says education has to be expensive?
Fruitful Fusion, you’ve inspired me to share these!
Ibn `Abbas - Answering a Letter...
I used to dabble in creating Islamic graphics – nothing fancy or fabulous because I learnt what I learnt completely through trial and error. I belonged to a Muslimah graphics group back when Mars was a wee thing and I used to make all sorts of sig tags and OE stationery (back in the Dark Ages when people still used Outlook Express!) with the sisters. I lost touch with them due to my many moves as well as health and family issues and I was quite sad to learn that the group is now no more.
I missed the creativity and a few months ago, started tinkering with my Paint Shop Pro again. I figured I should put the bazillion fonts and tubes I’ve saved to good use :) You can download my graphics if you like and if you want smaller versions (I so need to work on properly sizing my work), let me know and I’ll try to make them available to you in shaa Allah.
OK… you guys are going to love this…
CK-12 Foundation FlexBooks
CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the “FlexBook,” CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning through the FlexBook Platform™.
What’s that all mean, you ask? In a word: free books! (Ok, two words!) As CK-12 puts it:
Traditional textbooks are both expensive and rigid. FlexBooks conform to national and state textbook standards. They are free, easy to update and easy to customize. With FlexBooks, you can customize your textbooks to support your innovative work in the classroom. The CK-12 Foundation provides FlexBooks free to anyone who wants to use them.
You can download these FlexBooks (PDF, iPad and Kindle). Create an account at CK-12 and you can create your own FlexBook by dragging and dropping chapters that you want before saving and printing.
Totally awesome and totally free.
We’ve been taking it slow on the homeschooling front – it’s just been Qur’an, Arabic and Math – as we have family who’ve come all the way from Michigan to stay with us! Alhamdulillah, the girls have been having a blast with their little cousins and I’ve been enjoying lots of heart-to-heart chit-chats with my sister-in-law. We have a lot in common and it is nice discussing faith, parenting and homeschooling issues with someone who is on the same page.
I’ve not been spending as much time updating my blog as I should, but here’s some belated good news for all of you looking for some free material.
Head of the Class - 5th Grade Curriculum released!
Head of the Class has released its 5th grade curriculum! There are 399 skills your fifth grade learner should know, supported by over 1,000 learning activities. Fifth grade learners will study math, science, reading, writing, spelling, music, geography, history, the fifty states, and Spanish. It’s all F-R-E-E! Head of the Class plans to release curricula for 6th to 8th grades this year too so check in on them.
Pretty fly, no? :)