Dad's Worksheets.com

9/27/2017

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DadsWorksheets.com is a Great Resource for Math Fact Practice and More!

You may not think of math as a language, but it truly is the way we communicate about science, engineering and many other advanced disicplines. Like building fluency in any language, math is a critical skill that requires practice to become excellent and the best practice is often paper and pencil. All of the printable math worksheets include answer keys...

Multiplication

Division

Addition

Subtraction

...plus you will find a collection of visual online calculators perfect for classroom instruction to explain basic math concepts while work on projectors or SmartBoards...

Fractions

Prime Factorization

Long Division

Roman Numerals

The resources at DadsWorksheets also include a huge number of printables that support learning and teaching math topics...

Printable Charts

Times Table

Coordinate Planes

Place Value Charts

No matter if your a parent, teacher, or home schooler, if you need math materials you'll find some of the best free content on the internet over at DadsWorksheets.com. Please stop by!

Language Learning Wiki

7/15/2017

This post has been provided for me. :)

Free Language-Learning Videos

When a new language is learned, one of the biggest challenges is understanding native speakers. Here is a great website that has hundreds of videos, in 10 languages, that help you learn to understand native speakers. Basically, this website includes the best language learning videos from YouTube organized in an easy-to-use format. Just visit https://www.languagelearningwiki.org/ to learn a language free online.

The website not only has videos with native speakers in many languages, there are also beginning, intermediate and advanced courses in 10 foreign languages. This is a great resource that I recommend wholeheartedly.

Cram: Studying with Flashcards

5/15/2017

This post has been provided to me by Cram, perhaps you may find it useful?

Cram: Studying with Flashcards

Flashcards have traditionally been used by teachers to help students memorize and understand hard concepts. Students use flashcards to make notes, revise, and test themselves as they prepare for their exams.

Today, there are many online flashcard tools available for students but most of them promote rote memorization. Some tools have improved upon this shortfall by prioritizing the ‘Active Recall’ or active memory stimulation during the learning process.

Cram is one such free study tool that integrates fun with learning and makes it easy for students to both memorize and understand the concepts. You can create your own flashcards, add pictures, share it with others, and study together in a classroom environment.

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How is Cram different?

Cram has an amazing collection of flashcards on different subjects in various languages, helping millions of students easily memorize historical dates, facts, numbers and other useful information by using the Leitner system.

Unlocking the ‘Cram Mode’

The Cram Mode or Leitner’s system is a spaced repetition study method. Here, there are 5 different levels which the cards have to pass through starting from level one to complete your revision. Every correct answer moves the card one level up and the wrong answer pushes it back to level one. Eventually you will have to study and memorize all cards before they reach the final level.

To start the cram mode, you have to select the flashcard set, click on the memorize tab and select the cram mode on the right hand side of the screen under ‘Memorization Style’.

Fun way to learn

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Learning something new may sometimes be tedious and boring, but flashcards can make it a fun activity. Cram has added two games ‘ Jewels of Wisdom ’ and ‘ Stellar Speller ’ to every set of its flashcards to keep the students interested in what they learn. Once you open a set of flashcards to study, you can click on the ‘Games’ tab and select either one of these games.

Add Ons

Test Yourself

Every set of flashcards has the test mode where students can test what they have learnt. You can select between four testing formats: Matching, Written, Multiple Choice, and True/False.

Audio assistance

Cram has an audio assistance feature attached to every flashcard to help learn pronunciation and sound. This helps to remember difficult words that have many syllables and to learn a new language.

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Mobile App

The Cram App is downloadable on both Google Play and iTunes for free.

If you have any further questions, visit the FAQs and feel free to contact alan@cram.com. Have fun learning. All the best!

Studymode: Essays, Research Papers and More

4/18/2017

This is a post provided to me by Studymode. :) A link will be in the language arts tab.

Do you ever feel confused before you start writing an essay? Do you feel clueless about what to write, how to start your paper, what to include in it, and how to end it on a strong note? Don’t worry; you are not alone. These are common problems faced by students all over the world. You don’t need to put off working on your assignments till the last minute, looking for inspiration or waiting for some magic to happen.

Many students resort to using essay writing services to complete their work, which is wrong. Such practices should never be promoted. Instead, students should learn to be good writers and should understand the importance of doing their own research.

So, how do you write a good essay that’s interesting to the readers, explains your point of view and presents your argument in a convincing way?

StudyMode helps you do that.

The first impression you get by landing on the homepage is that of a website that offers you tons of example essays and research papers that help you complete your research, get ideas and finish your assignment much before your deadline.

If that is indeed your impression, you’ve got it right. But that’s just scraping the surface here. StudyMode goes far beyond just housing these documents. It is a complete package of study help tools. So, what can you expect by signing up?

Let’s start looking at the free services first.

Studymode Answers
Studymode offers many free services starting with ‘Answers’, where you can get your academic questions answered by experts.

Studymode Drive
The Drive allows students to share files, documents, study guides, tests, etc., with their classmates. Start by typing in your school name into the search bar and you can sign in with your email id and start sharing with your peers. You can also add more schools if yours is not already present in the list.

Studymode Texty
Studymode makes buying and selling textbooks to your peers from within your school easy by providing the Texty platform. There currently are 17 schools launched on Texty and you can add yours by simply clicking the Request your School button on the page.

Free Essays
You can explore some free documents on the “Free Essays” page and unlock many more high- quality essays by typing in a free code that you can find at the bottom of this page.

[The essays on StudyMode (both free and paid) are meant only for the purpose of research and in no manner promote plagiarism. So students should only use them for doing their research and reading up (like on Wikipedia)]

Other freebies

Essay writing help
In this section, you can browse through tips and guides to help spark new ideas for your next paper.

(Advanced Placement) AP study notes
AP test scores can impact your college experience. Before you buckle under the AP pressure, look through the suite of study tools, course notes, study guides, sample tests, videos and more to help you learn the most important information needed to excel on your AP tests.

Book notes
Find free book notes on the most widely read books in high school and college curriculums. You'll also find quizzes, discussion questions and suggested reading lists to enhance your understanding of the material.

Citation generator
Once you’re done writing that amazing essay, you’re faced with the tedious task of creating a bibliography. This easy-to-use citation generator automatically create bibliographies in the format you want, including APA, MLA and Chicago styles.

You can find the links to these pages at the bottom of the Homepage.

Subscription
Now looking at the bigger picture, Studymode has a large collection of high-quality essays, research papers, and case studies which require students to pay a small subscription amount as given below.

To categorize the research further, there’s a section that divides the documents (currently over 19 million) into categories like business, entertainment, history, writing, science, literature, etc., giving a wider scope and simplifying the research.

StudyMode also offers discount codes, VIP Access codes, and free essay codes to help students download the documents at a much lesser cost. You can find them at the bottom of the site’s homepage.

Give StudyMode a try and share your experiences.

Credit Card Fraud Stats - Protect Yourself from Being Scammed

2/12/2017

Hey all, this is a guest post by Marina.
She's here to talk about Credit Card Fraud.

It’s common for families nowadays to use credit cards with their various purchases and transactions. From shopping and dining out to paying the monthly bills, all these are now typically done using credit cards. With the continuous increase of their use, the number of fraudulent activities concerning credit cards has also increased.

The use of email and the Internet is also very common for family members, even with the children. It’s vital to take extra precaution in using them, as according to statistics, they are two of the most usual initial point of contact of credit card frauds.

Learning about these statistics will make you more knowledgeable about frauds with credit cards. There are ways on how to protect yourself and the entire family from this and one of them is by being more careful with the use of your credit card details online. You should also install security software on your computer, which will protect it from hackers that may steal your credit card information and use it without your consent.

There are more things that your family can do to combat credit card fraud. We created an infographic that contains these tips, as well as statics that will give you more insights regarding this matter. Share this with every family member, and to other families as well so they too can be protected.

Do not fall victim from credit card fraud by checking the colorful image that we have below:

Art Series: Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists

11/17/2016

My dear Miss Carol, from Home Sweet Life, has come to my rescue...isn't it great? She sent me an art book post on the very day I've come down with Pneumonia. Isn't that all God at work? Anyways, you will need to read this post she has guest posted for me. All the about the World's Greatest Artists, in particular Monet.

My love of art began at an early age. My father was an artist who chose to work as an illustrator for technical books to make sure his family was provided for. I've never particularly liked the term starving artist, and apparently, neither did my Dad. On the weekends my parents would often take us to the Art Museum, or some equally interesting and inexpensive place. Or my Dad would work with my brother and me on improving our art skills. Having grown up with art being a necessary and vital part of everyday life, I knew I wanted to pass the love of quality art on to our daughters. However, there was one drawback. As I had grown up I had learned more about the personal lives, and sometimes failings, of the several of the World's great artists. I knew I needed a tempered approach to introduce our young girls to art, while still shielding them from some of the personal choices the artists had made.

When Annette mentioned that she was looking for guest posts for her Art Book Series, I knew it was time to head back to the children's section at our local library and share with you about some gems I had found there when they were still little. Today our girls are 16 & 18.

My favorite series of books to use for artist study with the girls when they were little were Mike Venezia's Getting to Know the World's Great Artists books. While I knew some families would purchase a year-long calendar and study the 12 paintings with their children, I needed a method to study more than the 12-14 artists we would cover in the amount of time before the girls graduated.

When our girls were still pretty little, and my Dad was still alive, he and my Mom gave the girls the book Philippe in Monet's Garden by Lisa Carmack. In the story, Philippe is a Parisian frog who is being hunted by local chefs who want to serve his frog legs for dinner. In the story Philippe finds safety in Monet's garden and the reader is introduced to Monet's impressionistic style. After reading the book to the girls several times, I went to the children's section at the library to find more about Monet. For my little girls who were about 4 and 6 at the time, Venezia's book from the Juvenile Biography section was just about right. It is a 22 page picture book, that gives an overview of several of Monet's paintings, interspersed with Venezia's cartoons that help explain Monet's life.

Venezia has a large list of 40 artists in this series. Ones like: Warhol, Velazquez, Kahlo, Goya, Hopper, Wood, Pollock, Renoir, Vermeer, Rockwell, Cassatt, and Rembrandt which are all written for your 5-10 year old to enjoy. Venezia also had biographies about American Presidents ... but that is for another post!

Because I know the availability of books can change over the years, I looked around to see what other good books I could find at our library that you might want to consider that were about Monet. I found Monet's Impressions, copyright 2009 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and The Impressionists by David Spence. Monet's Impressions is a picture book found in the non-fiction section (759.4 Monet) that pairs Monet's paintings with phrases taken from his personal letters. The phrases are short and the artwork is - well -stunning! It is Monet after all! Spencer's book (759.05 Spence) covers Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Cézanne. The section on Monet is about 25 pages and covers his works, methods, family and friends. This book, which would probably best fit ages 10 and up also has a two-page spread about the paints available to Monet during his lifetime and background on how they were made.

If your local library does not have copies of Mike Venezia's greta books, many of them can be found used on amazon.

I hope you'll have a wonderful time exploring the works of great artists with your children!

Carol is a wife of more than 20 years, Mama to two teenaged daughters, and avid gardener. She blogs at Home Sweet Life where her family shares its unique experience-based educational life, Road Trip ideas, book reviews, and encouragement for healthy families. Carol spends time volunteering as a local 4-H Leader, and at Conner Prairie in Fishers, IN. You can often find Carol outdoors with her family, and her camera. One of their favorite family pastimes includes long hikes in the woods where she photographs the wildlife they see.

Tying Heart Strings, An Encouragement Post

7/15/2016

I would like you to welcome with me, Carol Emmert, to my blog today. Carol is a sweet lady with a quick heart to pray, and heart to listen to others.

I asked her if she'd be willing to be part of this encouragement series. I am so delighted that she did so, you must simply read this great post on Tying Heart Strings.

Tying Heartstrings

Moms have a lot of things to focus on while raising children and managing their households. We support and love our husbands; raise, train, and care for our children, not to mention all of those tasks that go along with keeping the home and making sure everyone gets fed ~ every day! You probably already have some ideas in mind for how you want to raise your children. In the midst of all your other responsibilities, remember to tie heart strings with your children.

While the wording of tying heart strings might be new to you, the concept is one I’m sure you’ve already been doing. You start tying heart strings with your child when you first hold them, and it should continue their whole lives ~ even into adulthood.

When our girls were little, we did a lot of reading together on the couch. Beyond just instilling a love of reading, I was tying heart strings with each girl, and they were tying them with each other. We would make a weekly trip to the library and both girls would help me choose several picture books for us to read. As the girls got older, and Emily became a proficient reader, we added in a lot of easy readers so she could read to Arlene and I. I’ve never regretted a single minute of the time we spent reading together. Whether it was another book from the Come Along, Daisy! series, or an adventure of Henry and Mudge, each book gave us uninterrupted time together to tie heart strings.

As the girls got even older, the activities we did and the opportunities to tie heart strings changed, but they were still vitally important to the strength of our relationships. Motherhood is a challenging job. It is full of the highest joys, and the deepest sorrows. You might, at times, be a friend of your children, but it is so much more important to be their parent!

Your little children start growing up and become big kids, then teenagers, and eventually adults. A large part of how those transitions take place, and your continued ability to speak truth into their lives will depend on how many heart strings you have ties when they were young. During those years between them turing 10 and 14 you may find it much more difficult to tie new heart strings between you and your child ~ but keep trying! It is difficult but necessary works to be tying new heart strings when it feels like your child is spending all their time cutting them. Keep loving your child, even when you don’t particularly like them, keep hugging them, even when they resist. Not every child will fight with you all the way through puberty, but for those that do, you’ll be thankful for each thing that goes right in your relationship.

Although we’re approaching the end of our homeschooling journey, (the girls are now 18 and 16,) we continue to carve out time to tie heart strings with each girl ~ with each parent and as a family. It takes more effort to set aside separate times for each girl in our full schedule these days, but we still do it. Our oldest is navigating the waters of adulthood, but she is still my little girl! I love it that most night she still seeks me out to give me a “goodnight hug and smooth.”

Tying heart string is a wonderful thing to do with and for your adult children too! The day that Kurt and I got married, my Mom told me that “you will always be my baby girl.” I better understand that now that I am older. She has never told me what to do with my life, my mother instead has been a constant source of love and comfort throughout my adult life. Just a few days ago my Mom and I went on a short afternoon adventure while the girls were spending time with their friends. When we were getting ready to walk back to our cars, she asked me if I wanted to go get ice cream. That’s right ~ I have an awesome Mommy! I didn’t need her to buy me ice cream, and I hadn't thought of it yet myself, but she saw an opportunity to tie another heart string and she took it.

Wherever you are in your relationship with your own children, whether they’re 4, 14, or 40, find as many opportunities this week as you can to tie some more heart strings. Your life, and theirs, will be richer and fuller because of it!

Crayon Rocks - I guest posted

4/27/2016

Have you ever thought about using crayons to help your students learn about rocks?

It's a lot of fun and teaches in a fun manner.

Check out my guest post over at Tots and Me.

While you are there, if you have littles in your household, consider joining in Karen's link up. :) Share the knowledge you have.

A Day in the Life: A Guest Post with Michelle

3/13/2016

Today I welcome Michelle to my blog, talking about how she does school with her kiddos. Please, enjoy seeing how this mom (a new TOS crew friend) helps her children learn well.

When I decided to begin this journey called homeschooling, I knew that I wanted my children to have a genuine love of learning. Over time I lost focus of that, but I am slowly getting back to my dream.

As we are transforming our learning into a more enjoyable, and dare I say, fun environment, our days are changing as well. It would be impossible to let you see a typical day since those aren't really happening right now. Instead, I thought I'd share with you the ways we are enjoying learning together.

One thing that will not change, we always start our day reading the Bible. Currently, we are using Grapevine and learning about Jesus and His ministry. My kiddos really enjoy learning more about Jesus. I think this is all of our favorite time of the day!

Another staple for us is Dyslexia Games. When we found out last November that our 7-year-old was dyslexic, I was so lost and scared! Enter Sarah Brown and her amazing dyslexia therapy! It uses art and logic games to help visual thinkers learn symbol recognition. It has been an answer to our prayers. I have seen so much improvement in him! The other 2 enjoy it as well.

The kiddos enjoy sensory play. One of our new favorite things to do is listen to classical music or audio books while we play in our kinetic sand or pay-doh.

Everyone in our family loves puzzles. They are a great way for me to incorporate learning in a fun way that keeps them interested.

I use reading time as snuggle time with each kiddo. It is a great way to spend one-on-one time with each one. Whether it is the EPIC app, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, or simply a read aloud that the individual picked out, we snuggle up for special time together.

Our main math is a little more curriculum based right now. We use a mix of Math-U-See, The Thinking Tree Journals, and board games. We try to learn from our math books at least 3 times a week.

One set of pictures that I don't have to share with you are our kitchen. We learn a lot in the kitchen. The kiddos are always helping me with lunch and snack preparation. We use this time to learn about counting, sorting, and measuring. I think we learn great life lessons in the kitchen.

There are many other aspects to our learning that I could never fit into a single post. We are learning to make 'school' and learning a part of our every day life. There is a lesson to be learned in pretty much any scenario. We are learning to find them. I love watching their curiosity come alive. That's the best part for me!

Those are some of the great ways that we are learning to make learning fun again! Thank you for joining us! I hope you will visit us over at Creatively Crunchy Mom!

Blessings, Michelle

A Day in the Life: Guest Post by Cassandra

3/7/2016

Welcome with me won't you? Cassandra, a new friend from the TOS crew. She teaches a disparate age grouping and has found a way to make it work for you. Thank you Cassandra for guest blogging for me today.

A Day at Our School

Have you ever wondered how other homeschool families run their school? I know that I certainly have. I am very thankful to my new friend, Annette, for inviting me over here to her blog to share what a day in our school looks like. So how do we do school in our house? Read on...

Our school may or may not be set up the way your school is. Do you teach more than one grade? Are the grades you teach close together (like 1st and 2nd) or are they spread apart? In our school we have two completely different, spread apart grades. I teach 7th grade to my son and 2nd grade to my daughter. It took some planning to get my head wrapped around teaching two separate grades, but once I got a few “systems” set up, it has been a fairly smooth process.

So how do I do it? How do I home school when I teach different grades? How do you teach 7th grade and 2nd grade in the same day? We use Sonlight as our curriculum and it really works for us. It is highly reading based (which I really love being an avid reader myself) and it works well for independent work too. Sonlight works great in our home because we have two completely different personalities in our house. My early riser is my 7th grader. He has always been a morning person and would be up before the sun if he was allowed to be. So his school day starts first. This does two things in our school. One - it allows me time to work one on one with him and get the subjects that we work through together done right away (Sonlight has readers that the teacher reads to the student and readers the student reads to the teacher). Two - it gives my second grader time to get up, wake up, and take a slower approach to her morning which she really needs. She is my night owl and just doesn't wake up well if she is rushed (she has earned her nickname Beast when she is forced awake). So we set up a schedule that works for us based on this.

Every day I make sure that the books each child will need is listed on our patio door which doubles as our "marker board" when we work around our dining room table which is 90% of the time. When each child knows what books to grab, they can have them right where they are working and there is no wasting time looking for books in the middle of lessons. After they grab the books they need we start our day. We have Bible, history, readers, read aloud books, math, science, Spanish, language arts, spelling/vocabulary and grammar. My seventh grader also works on a web design class online. My second grader has handwriting that is part of her work.

Our "marker board"

We typically start our school day around 8:00 am for my 7th grader and 9:00 am for my 2nd grader. The system that works for us is to rotate what we do. I work with the 7th grader first on anything we have to read aloud - readers, history, Bible, etc. While he is reading and after she gets awake, my 2nd grader is doing her book work - math, spelling, handwriting, etc. She will ask questions and get help while I am working with my 7th grader, but she is really good about trying her best to figure it out before asking. When I am done reading with the 7th grader, we flip flop. He does his math, science, Spanish, grammar, language arts, etc. I should also tell you that when I initially work with him on the reading, we will go over what he does in these subjects so that he can work quietly while I read with the 2nd grader. He already knows what to do so he is set to work independently. He does have questions sometimes, but he does a good job of setting work aside when he gets stuck and starting on the next subject until I am at a point he can ask questions (this is totally a learned thing that took many years of practicing to get down). While he does his quiet work, I do the reading parts of school with the 2nd grader. She reads to me and I read to her. Any work not done by 1:00 pm is homework. This was a tough place for me to draw the line, but I had to do it otherwise the kids would take a very long lunch break and we wouldn't finish school until almost 5:00pm. That made supper late and my housework would not get done. So we set the rule of anything not done by 1:00 becomes homework and the kids know that and respect it so they work hard not to have homework.

Reading through History

Working on science

After all the school work is done, I grade it each day. This helps me know if either child is struggling in a subject and we need more time on a concept and I can give immediate feedback on their work. It also helps keep me organized because I don't get behind and have to spend hours grading a mountain of work. We also make sure that at the end of each day that each child puts their books back on their shelves and puts away their supplies (they each have a caddy for their pencils, pens, erasers, etc).

By taking the time to figure out what works best for us in our school, I have been able to keep it running smoothly and the kids know pretty much what each day will look like. I don't want to mislead you into thinking everything always runs perfectly. We do have days that fall apart because we are real people and live real lives. We get sick. We are involved in activities outside of our home and we are part of a homeschool group at our church. So not every day looks like this, but most of our days do. I truly believe the non-negotiable part of our school is flexibility. If I were not flexible or my kids were not flexible we would be a mess. There are days we have to adjust for orthodontist appointments or Bible study at church. Every once in awhile we get the opportunity to go on business trips with my hubby and I love the fact that my kids are flexible and we can adjust our school so we can take it on the road with us. When situations arise, we become flexible and figure out a way to make our school work. It wasn't always that way for me. I remember how rigid and inflexible I used to be when I first started homeschooling and that just led to frustration and exhaustion for me. So I learned over the years to be flexible and willing to adjust where and when it was needed and it has made a huge difference. I taught my kids to be flexible and adjust so that when we need it, they can roll with it. The biggest piece of advice I can give you about homeschooling whether you teach one grade or five grades is to be flexible – go ahead and plan for what you want to happen, but be flexible enough to make changes where they are needed or to adjust for the things that you cannot plan for because they will happen.

Cassandra is a Child of God, a wife of 17 years, a mom of 2, and a friend to many. She is a city girl turned country. She and her family live in the country with their husky, two outdoor cats, and the chickens. Cassandra blogs over at A Glimpse of Normal where you can take a peek into normal, everyday life over at their house. She blogs about everything from homeschooling to reviews to recipes to crafts to trips to you name it. She loves crafts, cooking, reading, and baking. She also has a crazy Pinterest addiction.

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Credit Card Fraud Stats - Protect Yourself from Being Scammed

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