Watercolor Video Lessons - Techniques For Painting Watercolors

Watercolor Video Lessons - Techniques For Painting Watercolors


Some really useful video lessons here both for children from about 10yrs up and for adults too. I've certainly learnt a lot from watching them.

When you get to the site you’ll see a video screen and some Google Ads. Below them are a menu and an introduction to the website.  Use the menu to locate the free lessons for:

*Beginning – Includes basic watercolor lesson, color mixing, stretching and preparing paper, how to paint trees, a snowscape, skies, a barn, a bird, and more.

*Intermediate – Learn to paint color schemes, wet in wet, florals, a basket, and learn to create depth.

*Advanced – Discover how to create shadows in the landscape, how to paint abstract art, learn the techniques of monoprinting and advanced concepts in color.

You can also read about “Captain Watercolor” and sign up to be notified as new lessons and features are posted to the site.

A Trip Around the World - 36 Week Geography/Histor...

Free K-12 Education: A Trip Around the World - 36 Week Geography/Histor...: "Susan at Stitching Life has developed a 36 week geography/history curriculum. Her plans will take you 6 continents and 12 countries...."

  Here is her *itinerary* and I have linked each one for you so that you don't have to scroll through her archives.

Weeks 1-3 Canada

Weeks 4-6 Ireland

Weeks 7-9 Germany

Weeks 10-12 Russia

Weeks 13-15 China

Weeks 16-18 Japan

Weeks 19-21 India

Weeks 22-24 Saudi Arabia

Weeks 25-27 Israel

Weeks 28-30 Africa

Weeks 31-33 Arctic/Antarctica

Weeks 34-36 South America

A Trip Around the World 36 Week Study Homepage

National Library of NZ - Papers Past

Papers Past contains more than one million pages of digitised New Zealand newspapers and periodicals. The collection covers the years 1839 to 1945 and includes 61 publications from all regions of New Zealand.
There are two main ways to find information in Papers Past: searching and browsing. Searching lets you enter a query term and retrieves articles that contain that term. Browsing lets you look at all the newspapers, starting with a year, a region, or a newspaper title. All the newspaper titles on the site can be searched and browsed.
Looking through these old newspapers is fascinating and quite addictive.
Feel free to leave a comment below, maybe you found a story you'd like to share with others.

http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=p&p=home&e=-------10--1----0--

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StoryJumper is a place to create and discover stories for kids. What's your story?

StoryJumper is a site that gives parents, kids, and authors a fun set of intuitive tools for writing and illustrating kids stories.

It's easy -- just click on the "create" button and choose the type of story you want to make. From there, you'll be taken into our StoryCreator tool and on your way. Click away -- there's nothing you can break here! You can also watch a short video that demonstrates how the tools work, here. If you'd rather find stories to read, just click the "Explore" button at the top of the page and browse stories selected by our editorial staff.

http://www.storyjumper.com/

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Audio Books

Books Should Be Free
Free Audio Books from the public domain
Download a free audio book in mp3, iPod, or iTunes format today
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Dyslexia work book

I was on YouTube the other day looking for clips on the Davis method for Dyslexics. One person commented that they had used  “A Workbook for Dyslexics”, they found it very useful and had great success using it .

http://www.amazon.com/Workbook-Dyslexics-Cheryl-Orlassino/dp/1430328037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1286760831&sr=8-1#_

It has a lot of positive reviews.