Website of the week

I apologize for the delay in this post. The website of the week is http://www.neok12.com.

Neok12 is a source where you can find videos on a variety of topics from anything from crafts to World War 2. The site tells you approximately what grade level each video is at as well. For a small paid subscription the site offers puzzles and games to go along with the video content.

This is what the front page looks like. 

You get a listing of applicable videos for your  topic and grade

                                           This is a  video from the point of view of Lincoln

Some of the games are available without a paid subscriptions. Mom was thrilled she beat the computer on her game of Connect Four.


I am a visual learner and this site offers a video on just about any topic I can think of. I hope you enjoy this website and find a few things to enhance your schooling.

---Cassie

Some of the best Youtube Channels

Below is a list of some of the best educational channels on youtube. Have fun exploring. The grade divisions are suggestions watch them and do what is right for your family.

Have Fun!!

List 25 6th-12th

Scishow 6th-12th

D News 10th-12th

All Time 8th-12th

Vsauce 8th-12th

Asapscience 6th-12th

Minutephisics 7th-12th

The art assignment 8th-12th

Vertasium 6th-12th

Smartereveryday 6th-12th

Truthloader 8th-12th

Periodic videos 7th-12th

PBSoffbook, 6th-12th

It's okay to be smart 6th-12th

Howstuffworks 6th-12th

Khan academy 8th-12th

Household HACKER 5th-12th

Crash Course 6th-10th

Minute Earth 5th-10th

ppuseries academy 8th-10th

national geographic kids 1st-5th(3.99  month but they have full episodes of shows it is really a good deal)

Sick science! older kids

Mother goose club, babies- kindergarden 

Appuseries, pre school

Makemegenius, kindergarden-2nd grade

Hoopla kidz, babies- kindergarden

Using Youtube

Youtube is one of my favorite recourses as a homeschooler. With everything on the internet parental guidance is important. 

Youtube has a lesson on just about anything you could want from kindergarden to college level.  

Youtube is a public forum for people to submit videos of all kinds and when I say all kinds I mean ALL KINDS, hence the first rule of discretion. If you submit a video than that person has to have an account and a channel. The channel is a place where you can see all the persons videos and some information on that person. It is wise to check out the persons channel to make sure they are the kind of videos  you want. 

Be warned like facebook right about the time you get used to the way it is laid out it will probably change. 

This is a picture of my Mother's youtube channel. You can tell se doesn't have any videos but if she did you would be able to see everything that she has submitted there. 

Youtube is great for visual learners. It is a free resource so it wont exclude anyone. As a parent if you are faced with a math lesson that you have no idea how to teach than you can find help from someone on youtube. If you are like me and you are a visual learner than you will love youtube. 

After you get comfortable with youtube's layout maybe you can try to create video logs (vlogs)  to share on your own channel.  

As in anything now a days you need to monitor what your children watch and you explore youtube as a family than youtube will be such a help to any homeschool family. 

Next post I will share with you some of my favorite channels and how you could even create your entire curriculum using what is available on youtube. 

Thank you for taking the time to read and please comment on any issues you would love to explore on the internet. 

Website of the week

Hello, My name is Cassie and I am a 15 year old who loves to learn and explore the Internet. I am writing this blog to share with other homeschooling families some free or mostly free recourses to enhance their learning experience.

The first on website I want to highlight is  http://sheppardsoftware.com   
This site is a wonderful website for kids to learn about everything from Colors to European capitols.  You and your family are sure to love the different aspects of learning on this website.

This is the homepage and from here you can select the level  and where you want to go.

This is at the bottom of the main page. This chart will show you what content is best for your child at different ages and grades.

This is one of their most celebrated sections. This is the page in the preschool section that teaches the color orange.

This is my favorite section Geography. It helped me ace my Africa test in my Classical Conversation class. This is also one of the most celebrated and developed sections of the website.

http://sheppardsoftware.com is not only educational they have a ton of fun sections as well. Including painting and puzzles and many other fun activities your children will enjoy playing on this site.