Making a short cut on your desktop

This is a video on making a short cut on your desktop to an internet site.  This is perfect for keeping things simple for your kids to navigate to their school work.

~trish

Evernote web clipper on the iPad

I just discovered I can use the web clipper on the iPad.  Can we say full power late night lesson planning.

So at first, I thought I could just load it like I was on a computer and not a tablet.  Did not work out. So I did a search and found this link, http://mergy.org/2012/05/use-the-evernote-clipper-with-safari-on-ipad-and-iphone/
That walked me through it.  Very easy. Just go here and follow the steps and then you can do this!

EverNote Snippets

Okay so there has been a lot of discussion today regarding digital workboxes, Easy Peasy, electronic games, and Evernote. Ill have to say that I am not the one who started this topic (thank you Michelle and Trish) but I thought it was a great idea and just ran with it.

So here are a few snippets that I just took regarding my EverNote. I have one of my second graders "notebooks" as well as a Pre K "notebook," I also took a snippet of my "To Make" notebook because I want to stress how cool this program is.


So this is second grade. Its loosely based off the Easy Peasy Second Grade post but it also has lots of links to games I found either from Pinterest or just good old fashioned searching. (I have a "Pin" board with pins to the sites I used,  found here). I also have check mark boxes so she can check them off when she has completed the lesson. This can also be used as a lazy way to keep track of attendance, if you complete all the days in the month then you can easily keep track that way (we have 15 days of school for each month)(and Im a lazy attendance keeper) and you can probably create another "notebook" checking the days/months/etc for each kid.

Here is our Pre K notebook. I have links to videos, games, and some print outs (which are in red). This is pretty much the exact same as our second grade notebook but for Pre K. I got the content from EP Getting Ready 1 and Getting Ready 2 as well as Pinterest (really, any excuse to go on Pinterest is fine with me)

Okay so this is when it gets cool (well cool for me!)! I have a notebook titled "To Make," its for recipes and ideas for dinner/breakfast.....you get the gist. I also have this cool "Evernote Clipper" in Chrome as an extension. What this does is it clips articles, pictures, etc. and lets you save them to any notebook in Evernote. (The clipper can be found here). The cool thing is that I love looking at recipes online and in magazines but they are never in the same place at the same time or I write down ingredients but forget where the paper is or what recipe it goes to. Well NO MORE, I say!!! You can clip a recipe, add it to your "To Make" notebook then gather ingredients, make a "note" of said ingredients, "sync" your Evernote so its now on your phone, Nook, iPad, whatever....and  BAM....I have all the stuff I need if we are out and I find myself at the store!!! YAY!! (I am literally cheering right now...anyone else?)

I guess that doesn't sound as cool now that Ive type it out and reading it back to myself. But the thought of being able to gather all my recipes, clip them to a note/notebook, and make a list for the store and have it automatically update to my phone is fantastic!!! No more losing my lists, no more having to worry if I wrote it all down (I can't be the only one with this issue) or that my kid decided she needed to use it as a chew toy. It will be right there, on my phone, waiting for me to open and use it!!

A snippet of the "Clipper" extension in action.

Sorry, I got off track thinking about recipes and syncing.....this is about using Evernote as a platform for homeschooling. So if you have any questions please let me know!! 

Have a Blessed Day!!

~Kat~

Getting Ready 1 - Games

All the games from Getting Ready 1 from www.allinonehomeschool.com

Put shapes on the gingerbread man.

What colors can you make?

Put the starting sound on the word

Paint a picture. Use as many colors as you can

Build a snowman.

Play a game.

Count the rabbits.

Make music. Use the arrow to find Horton the Elephant.

Play this counting game.

Play Monkey  Jump.

Ready for a race?

Count the animals.

Sort the colors.

Put the starting sound on the word.

Create an ocean.

Sort the items.

Be a bug catcher.

Play this jungle counting game.

Make music.

Play shape shadows.

Count the fish.

Create a forest.

Play this farm counting game.

Can you find your way through the zoo maze?

Can you make a match?

Count the chickens.

Play this forest counting game.

Put together this puzzle.

Go food shopping. Buy healthy food by matching the pictures.

Paint the shapes.

Make a farm.

Sort the shapes.

Getting ready 2 - Games

These games are from Getting Ready 2 on www.allinonehomeschool.com

Put the athletes in order from shortest to tallest.

Play counting to 10.

Do this puzzle to see the number 0, zero. Click on change cut and then you can choose 6 or 12 pieces to make the puzzle easier.

Play this counting game.

Play this counting game with Dora. Click on easy.

Do a jigsaw puzzle. You can click on change cut to choose fewer pieces.

Try this counting game with Curious George.

Play this counting/balancing game.

Do this counting jigsaw puzzle. Click on change cut to choose fewer pieces.

Count with Allie. Click on each number up to 10.

Count the barrels.

Count and match.

Play the color sort game.

Put the clouds in order. Click on 10-20. After the parachutes drop click on hide/reveal and then click and drag the clouds into order 10, 11…

Pop the balloons. Count to 20.

Click on “Match Numbers 6-10 to Amount.”

Count the blocks. Click on the stamper (thing at the top). Click on whatever blocks you want. Then click on the hand. Click and drag the blocks together. They will snap together. The lightening bolt is to break the blocks back apart if you want. Once you have snapped a lot together, count how many blocks you have together. Click on the 123 at the bottom of the space. It will count them for you and see if you are right.

Play 100th Day of School.

Play this counting game. Choose 1.

Count and pop.

Play this number game.

Go on a number hunt.

Match the numbers and words.

Play with Splat!

Play this counting game.

Can you fill in the missing numbers?

Play level 1. Read the list of numbers and choose the number that comes next.

Play Fishy Count.

Build-a-Saurus

Level 1 - Games

These are the games that are linked in Level 1 at www.allinonehomeschool.com

• Play Snakes and Ladders  
• Ordering numbers 
• Counting to 100  Click on level 1.
• Number Squares
• Paint by number  Use your 100s chart to help you.

Which button?

Play musical memory turtle

Play Pattern Matcher

Play the number sequence game. Choose Hard for your level.

Now try this addition game

Practice putting 

Measure the teddy bear. Try different levels.

stories in order.

Try this online activity.

Can you put these words in the right order? 

Addition counting game 

Let’s count backwards!

Let’s practice addition. 

Play this math game.

Do this pattern game.

Match the patterns. Choose level 1 and complete it. Then from the “Menu” at the top, choose level 2.

Make a sentence. 

Play with the thermometer.  F on the right stands for Fahrenheit which is how we measure temperature in America. C on the left stands for Celsius which is how we measure temperature everywhere else! The number tells you the degrees. We say 32 degrees Farenheit or zero degrees Celsius. That’s the same temperature, just measured in different ways (like we use inches and centimeters to measure the same things).

Weigh the poddles. Put the weights on the scale to balance it.

Less than maze — jump to a smaller number

Play Fishing with Phonics. Click on “Back” to try a different level.

Play Mystery Match. You can try different levels if you like. You are matching sounds in this game.

Connect the dots. Click on the up arrow to tell the game you want to count by 10

Fact and opinion game  Is it really true or just what someone thinks?

Play this spelling game

Take a trip to the candy store. If any of these money games are too hard, skip them and get out your parents’ coins and count money that way. Have a parent or older sibling check and make sure you added correctly.

Go shopping with the farmer. Includes dollar bills. Each is 1 dollar. $1.00'

Play a synonym game. A synonym is a word that has a similar meaning.

Play this word game.

Play this PuzzleFast word search game. You can print it or play online. Click on the big A to make the letters bigger. Click the first and last letter of the words when you find them.

Play subtraction harvest. The wiggling apples are going to fall. How many apples will be left on the tree? If you aren’t sure, count the still apples.

Play word invasion  You want to play nouns. So you need to have nouns checked. Click on everything else to get rid of their checks. Zap all the nouns.

Play feed the frog. This game has missing numbers. It might ask  4 + __ = 5   In this game you will have to think, “What plus 4 equals 5?” The answer is 1.   1 + 4 = 5   This is practice for subtraction

Play this fraction golf game.  Remember that the bottom number tells how many parts the circle is divided into and the top part tells you how many of the parts should be colored in. Follow the directions on the screen to get a hole in one!

Play this subtraction game.  Pop the balloons to count down

Unscramble the words in this PuzzleFast game

Play Fraction Pizza. Choose “Go Easy” under “Difficulty.”

Play noun basketball.

Play Synonym Sam.

Play Word Frog. Click on synonyms. Choose your speed.

Put the right pronouns in the sentences and build a clubhouse.

Play subtraction bowling.

Play subtraction baseball .

Minus Mission

Go fishing.

Play pronoun treasure hunt.  Play level 1

Choose a game from Math 1 – Subtraction.

Play this nickels and pennies game.

Match the dimes.

Match the quarters.

Do you have enough money?

Play fruit fall. Remember bar graphs?

Play Around the World in 80 Seconds, addition.

Play Dude’s Dilemma, subtraction.

Play cross the river

Make sentences to help the monkey.

Learn to tell time. Use the mouse to point to a number. It will tell you the time on the clock below. When you see 7:00, you read it “seven o’clock.” Click on the arrow to go to the next page.

Play plural girls.

Try this crossword puzzle. If you get stuck, you can look at the word list.

Match the times.

What time is it?

Play pronoun Treasure hunt level 2.

Be a pattern detector.

Play Busy Bees.

Play this contractions memory game.  Contractions are when we shorten words. We say, “can’t,” instead of “can not.”  We say, “I’ll,” instead of I will. Find the contractions and their meanings.

Play plurals tic tac toe. Play both people.

Click on boxes in a row that add up to the target number.

Drive like a monkey!

Catch Falling Stars!

Write a post

Writing a post is just like an email.  Type and share what ever you want.  You can label them into categories.  This will make it easier when you want to share a series of things.

I plan to do a series of copy work and have them copy the same thing for an entire week.  I will show you how to do that later. For now, realize you need to give it a title.  I recommend a label, but you can always come back and label it later.  You can also add a photo.

Please note that I am doing this work on an IPad. A computer or tablet it will generally be the same.