Author: Liesl - Homeschool Den

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Tissue Volcano Activity

This Tissue Volcano is a hands-on activity we did several years ago when we were doing our Earth Science Unit. It’s such a fun project (for any age!) that I wanted to share it again! Our Earth Science unit has more than a dozen hands-on activities. We did three or four different volcano activities and several fun earthquake activities… as well as activities on convection currents, the layers of the...

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Electricity and Circuits Unit

If you are looking for a fun, hands-on unit, you might want to check out our Electricity and Circuits Unit! It includes notebook pages and  worksheets about electrical currents, conductors, simple circuits, electrical symbols and more.  My kids loved this unit because of all the hands-on activity ideas! We did this when my son was 12 or 13 (and my other two were 10 and 8). Then I did it...

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Ancient Greek Gods & Goddesses Packet Update

This is just a real quick post to let you know that I’ve done a small update to the Ancient Greek Gods & Goddesses Packet. This packet is now about 50 pages and includes a number of activities including Notebook pages about Ancient Greece, the Olympians Lapbook/Interactive Notebook Pieces (with descriptions) Ancient Greek gods & goddesses project cards, writing paper, board game and more! In this update, I added in...

Engineering Challenges for Kids - STEM Activity Ideas 0

Engineering Challenges for Kids

Is it time to spice up your homeschool with something a bit different?  Engineering Challenges have always added some excitement to our homeschooling. In general, they don’t take much time, but they sure are fun & call for some creativity. My daughter said she wanted to add some engineering challenges into our homeschool day again.  I’ve been trying to come up with some new challenges to add into our homeschool...

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German Clothing Worksheets for Kids – die Kleidung

German Worksheets for Kids – Clothing! die Kleidung – Vocabulary Worksheets, Cards, Writing Pages and More! I created a new German Worksheet Packet on die Kleidung (clothing). My kids are review adjective endings and I wanted a set of colorful, bright worksheets that the we could use for review, discussion, and writing! This new set is in full color and is about 25-pages. It includes fill-in-the-blank pages (where students can...

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Plurals Add -s or -es, -ves or irregular Worksheets & Games

This 30-page Plurals Packet has worksheets and games to help your kids learn how to form plurals easily! To form some plurals you add an -s; for others you add an -es. Sometimes you change the f and add -ves… or other times the spellings are irregular! Here are some worksheets and games to practice all that! This 20+ page Spelling Packet includes two game boards, 10 pages of word...

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World War II History

This semester we have been studying World War II history. It’s been such a fascinating unit, I wanted to share with you what we’ve done so far! We have jumped ahead in time to pick up where we left off last spring in modern history.  Last year we studied the growth of imperialism & nationalism, WWI (see our 100+ page unit here) , the Russian Revolution, the Great Depression and...

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Valentines Multiplication Packet – 2s through 10s

This 20-page Valentine’s Day Multiplication Review Packet includes two worksheets for each of the multiplication facts 2s through 10s. Plus, there are also several pages of mixed review problems. As you can see in the picture above, there is a skip-counting maze on each page where students have to skip count in any direction from 2 to 22 (or 9 to 99!). They’ll find more than one row in each...

Dinosaur Unit - Activities Lapbook Games and More 0

Dinosaur Unit

I have just done a huge update of our Dinosaur Unit! This is a multi-age packet with roughly 75+ pages for ages 3-6 and 80+ pages for ages 7-9. This packet is perfect for homeschool families with mixed age students! There are lapbook & notebook pages, plus math games (for addition or multiplication), Montessori 3-part cards, activities, and more! I added in quite a number of new activities to Dinosaur...

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Human Body Cells, Tissues, Organs, Systems

The Human Body Systems packet has been updated and is now over 50 pages! This packet helps students understand the basic organization of the human body. cells of the body tissues organs the body systems This is a unit we’ve done multiple times over the years – starting when the kids were in elementary and then going into more detail other years. Most years, after we reviewed the human body...

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Mitten Activities Packet

When my kids were little, they loved the book, The Mitten, by Jan Brett. We did an entire unit around that book and used the wonderful masks she provided on her website to act out the book! This Mitten Activities Packet will definitely enhance your unit! This packet is about 40 pages and includes number and letter activities and games, clocks, and more. The Mitten Activities Packet is 40 pages. ...

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Winter-Themed Packets

I just wanted to highlight some of the Winter-themed packets we have here on the blog. I hope you find something helpful!! ~Liesl Winter Math Packet The Winter Math Packet includes lots of fun games, plus various worksheets and math challenges. It covers addition, subtraction, what comes before, clocks, skip counting and more! This is available in the Winter BUNDLE. The winter math game board you see comes with math...

American Revolution Unit - Worksheets and Activities 0

American Revolution Unit

Our American Revolution Unit is more than 60+ pages and includes worksheets and notebook pages, a booklet, review cards and new chronology cards. We started the school year with a unit on the Age of Exploration (see more about this unit here)  followed by a study of colonial America (see our 13 Colonies Packet here). Then we moved on the the American Revolution! We actually started with a discussion of...

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Homeschool Goal Setting

Hi! Happy New Year!! I hope you have had a restful, joyous winter break! For those of you in Australia, I hope you, your family and friends have been safe from all the bushfires. I’m thinking of you! Do New Year’s Resolutions Work?”  That’s what one of the latest news headlines asks. An article I just read said that 80% of New Year’s Resolutions are abandoned by February. Another article...