World Education Games are back on for 2013!  We at Essential love this opportunity for our children to be challenged in their academic skills while interacting in a safe environment with students from all around the world.  And, the best part…it is FREE! This year the program is

http://www.wordcentral.com/home.html Merriam-Webster’s Word Central is an online dictionary resource for kids.  It offers a thesaurus and rhyming dictionary, as well as daily word challenges.  I know that we had some issues finding a dictionary that would serve the purposes of o

To be honest, spelling has not been an easy subject for me to teach.  I have tried several different resources, and I think I have only recently settled on what works best for me.  We have tried Spelling Workout workbooks and online games/resources for enrichment, but after starting S