Neni, Author at Homeschool Base
One of the pioneer homeschool bloggers, you may recognize Neni from her first homeschooling blog, HomeschoolingPages.com. For personal reasons, she retired her site and moved some of its contents here. She now contributes when she is available.
She brings a lot to the table, especially her knowledge of literature, history, and parenting. Her favorite young adult science fiction novel is A Wrinkle in Time. Her favorite book for high school reading lists is Slaughterhouse-Five.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast Is A Giant Parenting Lesson
Posted in Parenting on October 28, 2016
Disney Can Help You Understand Your Adolescent Daughter Belle, of "Beauty and the Beast" fame, deserves the Oscar for her accurate portrayal of a teenage girl. Am I joking? (Yes, of course. She's animated.) However, you can draw parallels between the character and your own daughter (no pun intended). While it seems an unlikely place Read More »
How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Time and Money Lessons
Posted in Math on October 25, 2016
This is the fourth installment of Education Tools! How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Time and Money Lessons. Easy, Inexpensive Ideas for Making Math Manipulatives to Teach Children to Tell Time and Count Money Alright! First off is telling time. Teaching time with manipulatives The best tool for teaching time, of course, is a clock. Read More »
How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Learning Measurement and Fractions
Posted in Math on October 24, 2016
This is the third installment of Education Tools! How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Learning Measurement and Fractions Easy, Inexpensive Ideas for Making Math Manipulatives to Teach Children to Understand Measurements and Fractions When teaching a child measurement, nothing can beat good old-fashioned rulers and yard sticks. Try to collect a few different Read More »
How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Basic Operations
Posted in Math on October 18, 2016
This is the first post in a series of posts about using math manipulatives. Easy, Inexpensive Ideas for Teaching Adding, Subtracting, Multiplication and Division To introduce a child to counting and single-digit addition and subtraction with manipulatives, begin with a large quantity of small items you probably have lying around the house. Pennies, beans, beads, Read More »
How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Learning Geometry
Posted in Math on October 18, 2016
This is my second post on math manipulatives. The previous post covered basic operations. In this article, I'm going to cover geometry. Easy, Inexpensive Ideas for Making Math Manipulatives to Teach Shapes and Geometric Concepts Tangrams These ancient Chinese puzzles help children to both visualize and analyze the spatial relationship of geometric shapes. They also Read More »
