Welcome to our series sharing Homeschool Resources: Music, Art & French Resources. I would like to ask you to take a look at the resources below and let me know if you’ve used these resources with your students or not. If so what did you think of the resources and why?
HomeSchoolPiano has been designed to teach even absolute beginners how to play the Piano by developing the ear, reading, improvisation, and composition skills of your student.
Grades 2-8, with parental supervision
Learn basic art skills and principles with the help of this colorful website.
All of the lessons are downloadable so you can use these anywhere. Lessons can include booklets, posters, games, PowerPoint slideshows, and project ideas.
Choose from the following:
- The ABCs of Art – The Elements & Principles of Design made simple
- Keys to Success – Say aloud poems to learn values: respect, kindness…
- A Mindful of Art – Simple games to learn art terms & examine art works
- My Materials & Me – Fun cartoon posters on care of art materials & tools
- Fiber Art – (Still under construction)—
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – A few fun cartoon posters to teach recycling
- Terrific, Tactile, Texture – A few lessons on combining texture with drawing
- Collage & Mixed Media – Booklets, lessons & slide shows
- Crafts & Construction – A few lessons
- I Can’t Draw…Until I Practice! – Many step-by-step booklets. Drawing from life is best.
- Getting Wired – Simple, basic wire sculpture techniques & lessons
- Clay Creations – Booklet, lessons & examples to work with clay
- Printmaking – A few simple lessons
- Painting – A few simple lessons
- Sculpture – Booklets on general technique and 1 lesson
When you arrive at your destination, simply find your desired lessons, click the link, download, and save the file to your computer. Then, when you are ready to use the activities, just print out what you need and away you go. While these lessons appear to be for upper elementary and middle school, they certainly can be modified for younger or older students.
Meet The Masters offers seven different artist tracks and three different age levels to suit your needs. Each track covers five different artists, or you can choose the seven-pack bundle to study all of the 35 art masters.
All grades, with parental supervision
Learn and practice French through lessons and games at this UK website.
From the information on the site, Beginner activities are for students age 5-11 and Intermediate activities are suitable for students 11 and up.
Using the site is fairly straight forward broken into steps:
Topics – Start by selecting the level in the first box, then whether you wish to study words or sentences. Next select from the list a lesson category. On the next page, choose the topic for your lesson.
Lessons – After a topic has been chosen, choose which option for the lesson you would like. Select “Full Tutorial” to go through the entire lesson. Choose “Introduction” and the page will scroll down to the interactive word list. Click the French word to hear it. Or, if your student is already familiar with the word list, select the “No tutorial thanks. Go to the Games” option to go straight to the topical games.
Games – have fun practicing what you have learned with a variety of interactive online games. There are nine different types of games:
- Mix and match – match pictures with the word
- The Beetle and the Bee – Win strawberries by moving a beetle around the game field. When you hit a strawberry, a box opens revealing images and a word. Match the word with the correct image and win a berry.
- Pelmanism – Concentration game where the player matches the pictures and word
- Four in a Row – Tic-Tac-Toe type game but in order to get the “X” you must match the word with the correct picture
- Hangman – classic game of guessing a letter to figure out the French word
- The Frog flies – Move a frog around a game field to capture flies. Answer questions to win points.
- Sow grow – Match the audio of a word to the image. Correct answers help your flower grow.
- Spelling game – Select the correct spelling of the French word or phrase with the image shown.
- Rock fall – This is a fast-paced game where the player tries to “catch” a falling rock and then has to match the image with the correct word to win a point. Sounds easy enough but catching those rocks is difficult.
- Tests – a variety of tests to check the students’ knowledge of what they have learned.
This is a wonderful site for either starting to learn French or to practice learned skills. Be sure to bookmark to use throughout your language studies.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
