Monthly Archive: March 2019

Fraction Math Practice Worksheets 0

Fraction Worksheets

New Fraction Worksheet Packet! This set of fraction worksheets will help your kids practice basic fraction skills.  There are 4 fraction shading sheets (color in fractions such as 7/8, 2/4, 9/10, and so forth) and 4 fraction addition (shading) worksheets (2/5 + 1/5 = ). There are also 2 fraction shape addition pages and 2 fraction shape subtraction pages. I have just added this new packet to the (growing) Addition...

Homeschool Conference Hand-Outs - Free Printables 0

Free Homeschool Conference Hand-Outs & Homeschool Resources

Today, I’m sharing the free homeschool conference hand-outs I made for the conference I’m speaking at this weekend (Friday & Saturday). I also wanted to share some of the helpful homeschool resources we have here on the blog. Welcome to those of you from the conference and/or are stopping by for the first time!! It’s been so fun to meet and talk with so many of you!! To my long-time,...

Natural Disasters Interactive Notebook Pages 0

Natural Disasters Packet – Interactive Notebook Pages Added

Just a quick message to let you know that I added a few new pages to the Natural Disasters Packet. You can find out more about this packet here at this post: Natural Disasters Worksheets and Hands-On Activity Ideas. By the way, my kids all loved Raging Planet episodes (affiliate link) They watched the entire series when we did the natural disasters unit! Here’s the description on Amazon: revealing the...

Spring Printables - Easter Printables 0

Don’t Miss These Spring Printables!

With spring right around the corner, I wanted to highlight some spring printables we have available on the blog and a few others from around the web! 🙂 Free Spring Skip Counting Mazes for practicing the 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s and 10s:   Here is our Free Egg-Speriment Packet! Egg-Experiment-Packet-Hands-On-Science Learn about the Parts of the Seed/Parts of a Flower with our Botany Packet: FREE Spring Animals Packet: I made...

St. Patricks Day - Shamrock - Addition Subtraction Practice 0

St. Patrick’s Day Addition and Subtraction Worksheets

St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner. I added a new set of addition and subtraction worksheets to the (growing) Addition and Subtraction Bundle! Enjoy and Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ~Liesl Our growing Addition and Subtraction BUNDLE  includes 15 pdfs. I’ve been adding seasonal math packets periodically! It actually includes much more than just addition and subtraction worksheets and activities. It also includes basic fractions, shapes, time/clocks and more!...

Free Homeschool Planning Guide 0

Free Homeschool Planning Guide

Free Homeschool Planner! (Newly Updated!) I have updated our (free) yearly homeschool planner to include a step-by-step guide on the homeschool planning process. This 50+ page packet is not as much a traditional Homeschool Planner as a tool for planning out the coming year.  It includes some of the questions to ask yourself (and your kids!) as you start planning out the coming year. It has you consider how the school...

Creative Thinking Questions for Kids 0

Creative Thinking Activities

I just created a new page with a couple of really fun free printables that challenge kids to think critically. Creative Thinking Questions: The first set includes some creative thinking questions I once compiled.  I thought it would be fun to start off the day with something a little different for the kids… some off-the-wall creative thinking questions. The kids had fun with this and I know some other homeschooling...

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Don’t forget to Subscribe!

I was busy last night and didn’t get the Newsletter out, but I should have it out tonight or tomorrow morning. Today’s theme is MOTIVATION. If you’re interested in being on the Homeschool Den email list here’s the link.  Why do you want to be on the Homeschool Den email list? With Facebook’s reach going down and down, it’s a great way to hear about our materials.  We have hundreds...

Peanut Butter Bars Recipe 0

Peanut Butter Bars Recipe

When I was in high school, I started making these *amazing* peanut butter bars!!  This has been one of my favorite desserts for years!  Just for fun, I’m going to share this with you all today! 🙂 Peanut Butter Bars In a metal mixing bowl or sauce pan, melt on low heat 1 cup crunchy peanut butter 2/3 cup butter Remove from heat when it is soft and add 1...

Classification of Animals Activity and Worksheets - Vertebrates-Invertebrates 0

Animal Classification Activity

This week I created a new Animal Classification Activity. This covers the 5 animal groups as well as some of the better-known invertebrate groups such as flatworms, annelids, arachnids, cnidarians (critters that sting) and echinoderms (spiny critters like starfish). I check in with the kids pretty regularly to see if they remember various topics we’ve covered. My youngest said she could use some review of some of animal classification (which...