My Christmas Present
I asked my son to do a quick paper on Christmas. I told him that anything he wanted to write about is fine, just to be sure that it was at least 2 pages typed and not to forget references as to where he got the information. I agreed to let him do his own thing and not to bug him about it... his due date was one week. I kept my promise and one week later I got the best paper I had ever seen from him. It was detailed and included more topics than I could've dreamed. Honestly, there were things in it even I didn't know and I was worried the work wasn't his at first. The only thing missing were his references. He had never cheated in the past, but let's face it - kids go thru phases...
I carefully asked him about the missing references and he laughed and said "I knew you would notice that part. I got it all from Wikipedia."
Easy & Free Homeschool Curriculum...
Wiki-What? Well, all of my questions were soon aswered because my son had conveniently saved Wikipwedia in our favorites. I soon discovered that it is the free online encyclopedia. He learned about it from a friend and had just skipped the time-consuming web searches and went straight to the point. I'm so excited about this resource I actually asked Homeschool Views to let me write this article. I know it's crazy, but take a minute and look at one of the searches I did...
What do you have to lose?
Look at this as curriculum for your kids! There are no catches or email addresses required... it's just great information at your finger tips with no pop-ups or banner advertisments. I hope that you get as much use out of this as I have and will. Wikipedia is free, easy to use, advertisement free, and full of great information. What more can I say except Happy Holidays and...
Happy Homeschooling!
Jenny - Busy homeschool mother of 3!