Category: Homeschooling

Munchkin is good with math, but she does her math very slowly. She hates timed drills and quickly grows frustrated when she can’t think of the answers to simple problems during the drill. We’ve tried various methods to get over this issue, but nothing has really worked. We had tried a demo of The Quarter Mile Math a few years ago, but I had forgotten about it due to moving shortly after trying out the product. When The Quarter Mile Math package arrived in the mail, Munchkin exclaimed, “Hey, it’s the horse race program.” Obviously, the program had made an…

When I found out that we would have the opportunity to review Web Design for Kids (…And Curious Grown Ups!), I didn’t really know what to expect. Munchkin and I sat down with our laptops and popped the dvd into the dvd player. (For easiest use, you will want to have the computer where the tv is located.) We were greeted by our instructor, Brian Richardson, and given some basic instructions before we began. We were informed that all we would need was notepad (the program) and Internet Explorer. Normally, I use Firefox, but we used Internet Explorer since that…

A little package in the mail introduced us to the world of Hank the Cowdog. You see, we had never heard of Hank or his cohorts. We knew nothing of Drover, Slim, Sally May, High Loper, Little Alfred, Beulah, The Buzzards, Pete, The Coyotes, Plato, or Madame Moonshine. Our adventure with Hank began with the Tornado game. Munchkin immediately fell in love with the pieces that actually looked like the characters (Hank, Drover, Junior the Buzzard). We had a few issues with the spinner only falling on two numbers at first, but after playing it a few times, we didn’t…