Online Art Lessons

My oldest is an artist, he draws comics. Actually, he's a scholar and an artist. But anyway, his uncle bought him a drawing book which he enjoys. But today dh told me that he'd like to learn other elements of art as well.

Of course that gave me a great reason to Google away, which is a favorite pastime of mine. And I found a page with a few great links for the budding artist.

Online Educational Games

I was going to list a few sites that I use with my children for homeschool. But I just found a "master list" - if you will - of online educational games. I present to you [angelic soprano voices singing "aaaaaahhhhhh"]: Gamequarium.

Just click on the link and you'll see why I didn't bother to post my pitiful list. (Hey, I'm a realist.)

Revamping Preschool

Of course I'm a bit biased here but all of my children are extremely bright. This is becoming increasing evident in my 3 year old who is soaking up the alphabet and letter sounds in record time. Now what I was doing in homeschool isn't working. 3 yr old is getting bored easily.

So, I'm stepping up the fun in our preschool. I'm going to set up a schedule where the children have more computer time playing online educational games. I'll sit next to 3 yr old during his time and help him as needed. And I'll put 2 yr old on my lap and let her tell me the answers. Then I'll click on them for her.

Right now I'm in the process of compiling a list of websites that have free educational games, like Funschool.