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Raspberry Pi is one of the hottest and cheapest little computers in the world right now. Almost one million of these $35 machines have shipped since last February! The Raspberry Pi is a single-board...
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Funbrain
A friend shared FunBrain with me and I thought I should check it out! I ended up stuck in one of the games that let you lift a blob monster into the air and drop him onto a teeter totter – launching...
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Kindergarten.com Apps Free for the month of April!
Kindergarten.com’s philosophy: iPhone ABA App (Photo credit: COG LOG LAB.) At Kindergarten.com we are proud to offer you quality education apps exclusively available through itunes. All of our games...
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MIP Robot
For Christmas a MIP descended upon our house. For the price I was really hoping it would have some educational properties and maybe it does. So far I haven’t been able to justify the cost. The MIP is a...
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Facebook Groups (Part One)
If you are looking for a community of like minded people, advice, a place to sell things, a place to buy things, or so much more – facebook groups has the place for you! Some of my favorite groups...
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Minecraft anyone? Yeah or Nay!
Minecraft is pretty popular around our house…. from the 6 year old to the 18 year old. I do have to admit I encourage it. There are several sites that review it… (here’s one) For those of you that...
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Test Prep – K-12:Getting Ahead!
This Little Parent Stayed Home recently reviewed Testingmom.com. Testing mom is a web site for test prep for K-12 kids. (If you haven’t listened This Little Parent Stayed Home is great!) Personally I...
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Coding for Kids -How to Code Book
How to Code! This book uses Scratch software to teach the coding skills to create your own computer game and design your own website. Broken down into 10 lessons the book explains how to use Scratch...
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7th Guest App
Years ago, and I mean about 20 years ago, my favorite game was 7th Guest. My husband was nice enough to indulge me and let me stay up for days playing it (doing nothing else). You can actually now...
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Grow a Prehistoric Creature! (Kit)
Grow your own prehistoric creature was a kit I found recently. I remember these kits from when I was a kid also. The kit contains a type of shrimp eggs and some food for as they get a little bigger....
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Hidden Apps – spying on your child 2.0
How to find hidden apps on your child’s device. One the local cases of kid’s sending pics on their device included kids using an app that looked like a calculator app. Another popular method for kid’s...
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Limiting Camera Usage (IPhone) – Protecting your Child
On your iPhone – or your child’s device, there are a lot of settings you can change and options to limit apps! As kids get older or even with my youngest using features like in-app purchases (and...
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Traveling during School: Pull out of school?
We travel for conferences off and on and have always enjoyed taking our boys. We always try to include lots of educational activities, but we also have included fun too! My favorite is to look for...
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3 Fun Indoor DIY Science Experiments for a Rainy Day
Kids are natural scientists in their own right. And when you’re homeschooling, the world is your canvas when it comes to teaching science, as opposed to imparting mere bookish scientific facts and...
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Kids love Minecraft! My kids love Minecraft! Microsoft has now come up with an educational version of Minecraft just for schools to link learning to the game kids love. Minecraft: Education Edition is...
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Smart Tvs
We have a smart tv in our living room... actually we have a Kindle Fire, a Roku, an Apple TV, and a few other things. The smart tv though is one of my favorites. It is all built into the tv, meaning...
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The Domestic Musician
The Domestic Musician! Research has shown that music, art, and math are all linked skills. Jessica Peresta from The Domestic Musician believes that music is one of the fundamental classes for...
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Solar Panels – 4 Solar Experiments to Try
Solar panels are just one of the many types of renewable energy that are available now. There are wind turbines, water mills, solar, and new technologies are being developed every year. This picture...
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Coding for Kids – Hello Ruby Book (and Hidden Figures)
About the author: Linda Liukas, author of Hello Ruby, is a programmer, storyteller, and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland. She is a central figure in the world of programming who worked on edutech...
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For the holidays, one of the gifts we got for the little one was Circuit Maze and I have to admit I love it! Circuits is port of the fourth grade curriculum here, so it ties in well with the future of...
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