Thursday, March 25, 2010

Give Away: The Fallacy Detective








What is a fallacy? A fallacy is a mistake made by using illogical reasoning. Example:

A cloud is 90% water and a watermelon is 90% water therefore because a plane can fly through a cloud a plane can also fly through a watermelon.


The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Eight Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning by Nathaniel and Hans Bluedorn, helps parents and teachers teach logic using fun examples and cartoons. Teaching logic helps students with math and reasoning skills. This book makes it fun!

To enter the giveaway subscribe to my feeds using the email subscribe form to the right then post a comment here simply stating that you would like to enter the contest. Follow me on twitter for a second entry! (my tag is mmhomeschooling. Im still working on figuring twitter out!) If you already get email updates all you need to do is post a comment! I will use http://www.randompicker.com/ (or a similar site)to choose the winner on Tuesday March 30th!


This book was donated with the purpose of being given away. I am in no way being compensated for this giveaway.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

A few more freebies


We love lapbooking here so I thought I would share with you a great site for free lapbooking (and some not free) resources. Currclick has just about any topic you could ask for and offers a free download weekly. I won't be able to list them all but here are a few of my favorites:

17th Century Lapbook and study guide

A-Z Have a Wonderful Walk

All About My Family

Anne of Green Gables Study Guide

Bible Notebooking:Genesis

Blinky Bill Alphabet Copy Book

Clocks

Clouds Mini-Helper

Discoverers and Explorers

Down on the Farm

A Taste of Australia


This is just a small bit of what Currclick.com offers. Be sure to check them out!

Friday, March 19, 2010

Homeschooling for free

Side note:my son has popped almost all of my keys off of my keyboard. While hubby did manage to get most of them back on my shift key and my space bar are acting up so please forgive me if you see errors in this post.


Most of us invest in some sort of curriculum for our children, but did you know that you can homeschool for free? It takes a bit more time and planning but the internet has everything you need to teach your child. Below are some sites that off free educational materials:

Starfall
First-School
School Express
Homeschooling Adventures
Homeschool Living
Currclick
Homeschool Math
About.com
The Teachers Cafe
Worksheets online-Links to dozens of resources
America History of Us free DVD