Homeschooling with Pintrest - I am a Pintrest junkie and have a ton of school stuff pinned. I have them divided by subject to make searching for projects or ideas easier.
Homeschooling with Netflix - During our lunch break each day, we typically watch a documentary or other educational show on Netflix so of course this group was a must. This is an awesome group and while perusing various posts yesterday one homeschool mom asked for reviews on Doctor Who for her 9 year old. The child has multiple friends who watch it but she felt uneasy about it. Our munchkin has been watching Doctor Who for several years and loves it. Withing about 30 minutes there were over 100 posts. Many of them were people saying "We love Doctor Who!" or "Our family are Whovians." Quite a few shared sites that had Doctor Who related material. There were some that did not like Doctor Who at all, thought it was too scary, or something else. When the group hit 200+ comments the administrator came on and said "Folks - this isn't a Doctor Who fan board. Please no more comments on this Thread. Thank you." Ugh. That post just generated more comments and questions. One mom shared a couple of other pages that the Whovians would like...
Traveling Through History with Doctor Who and Homeschooling with Doctor Who.
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| Picture courtesy of the "Traveling Through History with Dr Who" Facebook page. |
Traveling Through History with Doctor Who actually goes along with the Eliademy course one mom developed called Traveling Through History with Doctor Who. We signed up for it and although the "semester" has already started and they are into the fourth lesson/week. The first lesson was about "Fires of Pompeii". Activities involve map work, research, writing, but the most fun of all (for the munchkin) is building things in Minecraft. I'm sure I won't get any complaints about that one!!
Time to go print off the activities and make some worksheets.
A couple of other Facebook pages I checked out were:
Creative Education with Homeschoolers
Homeschooling with YouTubeSecular Homeschooling with Netflix & Other Media
