Ex Sedda – from the chair

Quiz Builder, the software I use to create these quizzes, is back in action.

I’ve added another Getting Started with Latin – Quiz ( #17 Lesson 47-48 ) at:

http://www.exsedda.org/quizzes

As always, I’d appreciate any feedback.

Here is a great bridge design software for your homeschooler. We have used this application prior to our homeschooling experiment. All our kids have had a great time trying to design a working bridge and then optimize it.  It just may be the thing that awakens the engineer in your kid. Chronic Logic also has two other bridge design software applications but we have not tried those.

http://www.chroniclogic.com/index.htm?pontifex2.htm

I am having a problem with the quiz building application.  That is why I haven’t been able to add more quizzes. I am waiting for support to help me.

I’ve added another Getting Started with Latin – Quiz ( #16 Lesson 45-46 ) at:

http://www.exsedda.org/quizzes

As always, I’d appreciate any feedback.

Here is an excellent resource for learning Scratch from La Salle Schools and Universities:

http://learnscratch.org/

I’ve searched for tools that could help teach Matteo some introductory concepts in computer programming. We’ve downloaded Scratch and it seems very promising. They have a rich gallery of other kids’ projects which you can download and modify. You can find our more about it at MIT’s website at http://scratch.mit.edu/ .

For reading we are using the old fashioned McGuffey's readers^W and Reading Detective materials from Critical Thinking.  McGuffey’s  readers still seem to be the best reading material, much richer than anything of the more recent vintage.  But McGuffey is also outdated in many ways, most importantly in the cultural sensitivity area;  it represents dominant culture’s  sentiments at the end of 19th century with all its faults.  Reading Detective offers more modern comprehension exercises. These two together combine into an effective structured reading program.

Matteo also must read books of his own choosing for an hour a day.

Another Getting Started with Latin – Quiz ( #15 Lesson 42-43 ) at:

http://www.exsedda.org/quizzes

I’ve just added Twitter Widget page for all of you Twitter users.

http://www.exsedda.org/twitter/

I’ve just added another Getting Started with Latin – Quiz ( #14 Lesson 41-42 ).

http://www.exsedda.org/quizzes