Homeschooling

Free research, report, planners, homeschool and blog resources!

August 24, 2012 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Great Resources for Homeschool:

Sometimes I find some really great resources online for homeschool. I save them to my pc if they are pdf’s, but when I go to share them later it is not always easy to find the origimal source for them. So this is a list of really great places to find research info., reports, book reports, and graphic organizers. Some of these I have printed and plan on sharing with our LHP/PP/Pioneer Co-op this fall. Others are just for our families reference (in case we need them.) Still thought it might be of help to other homeschool families and worth the time to track down links and share!

Super cute mini-reports, flip-report, and grahic organizers for history and science:

I like the mini-reports for animals.

Research Organizers and Report Packs

Nature Journals from Notebooking Fairy

Muscular System Lapbook

Book Report Forms:

For all sorts of book- Fiction, FairyTale, Biography,Historical Novel, Jokes/Riddles,etc.

K-6 grade Book Report Forms

Young Reader and Older Reader Forms

Book Report Form and Reading Log from Jolanthe

Student Planners:

Student Planner Ideas

Planner Page

Donna Young’s Planner Page

Character/Bible Studies:

Confessions of a Homeschooler free Bible printables- character studies

Kid’s World Bible Study Videos from The Mailbox Club

The Children’s Chapel Coloring Pages

All sorts of Bible resources- Coloring pages, Copywork, Seeds of Worship pages, File Folder Games

Science/Animal Study:

Expedition Earth From Confessions of a Homeschooler

Why Nature Walks? by Cultivated Lives

Literature Units:

FIAR from Homeschool Creations

Back-to-School Helps:

Lunch Box Planner– great ideas for planning out lunches.

Homeschool Planner– 1st page does have Mormon verse/quote

Homeschooling for FREE and Frugal ebook by Holy-Spirit Led Homeschooling

Planning Binder– tons of great forms free for personal use!

Blog resources:

My Pinterest Board

Blog Organization

How to Create Blog Notebook– great ideas

Free Printable Blog Planner

Joining:

Students- What do your students look like?

August 19, 2012 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Everyone is a student in our house! No, really it’s true. Riley and I are attending college. Eldest and Princess are homeschooling using Prairie Primer. Lil’ Red is in Tot School. I’m gonna include a new photo of each of us or maybe a collage of silly faces:)
Want a super good list of school pics? Check out Rebecca @simple as that blogs back-to-school photo tips!

Well it only takes a couple of days of craziness with neighborhood kids, a lost dog, and allergies to totally derail a new bloggers post schedule. Yep, that’s what happened to me this weekend. I had printed signs for each member to hold and we just finished coloring them after dinner tonight. We are all so exhausted that new pics for everyone will not be possible by blog posting time:) Will update this post this week with new pics but for now this is what I’ve got!

School Room-What does your school room look like?

August 12, 2012 By Thaleia 6 Comments

We usually start school in the kitchen or on the couch, but if the weather is really nice on the 1st day of school we try to do something outside or go to a nature park or play park or something FUN to kick off the new school year!
I decided taking some pictures would be the best way to show you our space-

Kitchen Table with USA Maps (found at dollar store), ASL/Signing Time printable practice cards and Bible verse copywork, Calendar Connections, 2012 Art Calendar:

Small Table, Calendar, and Lil’ Red’s Workspace:

TOT SCHOOL SHELF for Lil’ Red:

I’ll be honest we did not get the desk in our kitchen cleaned off or the desktop computer desk area in Princess’ room so those pics will be left out, lol. We also use a laptop, e-reader, and other portable learning tools.

Our outdoor space looks like this:

Thanks for stopping by and peeking into our homeschool world. As we get more organized and use some of our NEW things and find some OLD things we will post them to share.

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What We Did ALL Week- August 5-11

August 12, 2012 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Wow another week has flown by! Where does time go? Cyberspace, kids playing for hours outside, mom cleaning for hours inside, hours spent digging up weeds by the roots,etc. We have had 2 days of cool weather reminding us with a gentle nudge that Fall is coming. I love Autumn I just forget to get ready for it:) Like getting the yard and garden work prepped before winter. Thinning plants and trimming dead things after the birds have plucked all the seeds they can render.
BACK TO THIS WEEK and what we have done and Moments-to-Remember:
We went tree climbing, had an ice cream sundae bar, went to grandma’s (which was a BIG deal for Lil’ Red), played with the neighbors, rode bikes, learned a little bit about using a sewing machine, found a headlight flashlight, played with Thomas the train, and just had fun during one of the last weeks of summer! Next week is fair week so come back for great fair fun pics!

My husband has been studying up on simple magic tricks or illusions. He has been showing the kids some easier ones to do and driving them nuts if they cannot figuer it out. Princess practiced two different tricks using rubberbands and I would say she mastered both of them. Most of the tricks are math related with number combinations and such. What better way to spend a summer afternoon learning with dad!

LINKING TO:

10 Helpful Resources for Prairie Primer/Little House on the Prairie Studies

August 9, 2012 By Thaleia 7 Comments

Well, I belong to a group online that has tons of awesome resources (it’s Prairie Primer Pluses yahoo group) and I belong to another group Prairie Primer Homeschool Support on Facebook.

So on to my FREE Little House on the Prairie and Prairie Primer resources

1. Lapbooking- Literature based for all LHP books, Grey Wolf, Horses

2. Notebooking- Practical Pages: Big Woods Notebook,

3. Unit Studies- Homeschoolingon a Shoestring, Easy Fun School, The Home School Mom, Pioneer Unit Study, Pioneer and Native Americans, Bee Unit Study, Bears, Cow Facts, Owls, Westward Expansion, Wolves, Apples, Midwest States:corn belt/sodhouse/tornado alley, Pony Express/GoldRush/Railroad, Plains Tribes

4. Online Video resources- Early Americans, Fun with History

5. Reports- Animal Science Unit,

6. Pinterest- my Little House/Pioneer/Prairie Primer board

7. Recipes- loads found on Prairie Primer Pluses yahoo group, LHP Official Book site, Pioneer and Log Cabin recipes, Heritage Recipes

8. Music/Games- Pioneer Games,

9. Famous People– Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Fanny Crosby, Noah Webster

10. Blogs using LHP or PP- A Plain and Simple Homeschool, The Crafty Crow, School At Home, We Love Prairie Primer

How about a FREE and Frugal Homeschool Planner to help plan your use of LHP or PP?

Free Printable Calendar to highlight days of Co-op or fieldtrips- got that too:)

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