This is the best thing I have seen today! Artificial intelligence to create inspirational sayings.

This week the kids are off at fused glass summer camp. This is a luxury that won't happen every week this summer, but they wanted an opportunity to work with some rare materials that we don't have at home.

Maybe you saw my earlier article about teaching my kids blackjack? It helps them gain fluency with quickly adding small numbers. This is a critical building block in making them comfortable with playing

From Happypreppers.com: #2: Ammonia Inhalant (smelling salts). Ammonia Inhalant, pictured right, is a modern day version of "smelling salts." It's intended as a product to arouse patients who've fainted.

This is a new contest in the Brainsteem family. I have noticed a lot of solutions to past problems are given using computational methods. So, just for you, a new series specifically designed to be solved

I hope that Steemit continues to evolve to a forum for serious exchange of ideas around homeschooling and education. I’ve been seeing some great articles and enjoy the community that is sprouting. I wanted

As a relatively new homeschooler, I am perhaps overly worried that my kids won't learn the right things and will fall terribly behind in the Important Skills of school-land. Not surprisingly, I bought

UNFORTUNATELY, Hollywood has convinced everyone that the first thing to do after getting shot is to get the bullet out, and the second thing to do is to put some stitches in. From Lost, abc.com I almost

As we ponder what our curriculum will look like for next year, I have spent a lot of time wondering what I want my kids to get out of their science instruction. I'm not a scientist by trade, but I have

I would like to convert some of my SBD to gift cards - I see a number of sites that say they can do this, but all of the posts on this are very old. Can anyone comment on experience with steemcards or

Multiplication Games - 180 Days of Math, Art & Logic Fun: Do It Yourself Homeschooling I bought this book to help a child gain fluency in multiplication facts. I was attracted to the colorful, colorable

Tonight we worked on this. Lots of drawing involved. From Kangaroomath.com It's not hard to find a path, it's not even hard to find several paths. What was a challenge for my first grader was to organize

No filter. The light really is golden and everything glows.

What are you having for dinner tonight? This gets us through when we are over egged. Our girls have been hard at work.

There are so many reasons to unschool.  The most challenging part of writing this post was summarizing such vast numbers of reasons.  Anyway, here it goes. Top image is from

As babies grow, they need to produce a lot of new blood cells. To do that, they need a lot of iron. In the first 6 months of life, babies can get all they need from breast milk. However, as they get bigger,

This is our after dinner math problem today: courtesy of Kangaroo Math My daughter thought that she instantly knew the answer, but was wrong. To be fair, she had never seen gears before as part of a problem.

I'm inspired to add my own post it commentary to the following page....any suggestions? ($2 SBD for the best answer).

I needed to turn out a few cakes for an event, I wanted them to be colorful and unique, too. So, what to do? Captain crunch berries and fruit loops! My preschooler painstakingly sort of the cereal into

I love watching my kid' sense of humor emerge.