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Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool at Home / Freebies / Homeschool Den / Kindergarten / Science: Rocks and Minerals
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 26, 2017 · Last modified April 23, 2021
Today, I’m going to share some of the hands-on activities and the free rock cycle worksheets that go along with our unit. For the past week or so, we have been talking about the three types of rocks and the rock cycle. (It’s free to download down below.) What is great about these activities is that they will work with a huge age range… from PreK up through elementary! As...
Freebies / Science: Human Body Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 24, 2017 · Last modified May 2, 2023
Today I have a set of worksheets to share with you about the Nervous System. These include worksheets on the parts of the brain and about neurons. And we also touched on the central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, and autonomic nervous system. For this unit, we read a number of books that we borrowed from the library about the nervous system. We also purchased Neurology: The Amazing Central Nervous...
Ages 2-6: Preschool at Home / Freebies / Homeschool Den / Kindergarten / Science / Science: Biology Unit / Science: Biomes; Animal Habitats / Science: Vertebrates - Invertebrates
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 21, 2017 · Last modified November 1, 2022
Today I have a free Spring Packet to share with you, plus some fun spring-themed activities like experiments with eggs and making pony-bead lizards and snakes! We have been reading Trumpet of the Swan (affiliate link) which is a really sweet book about a swan who is mute and wants to learn and better himself (in some pretty surprising ways)!! The book highlights a number of different animals. I made...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Preschool at Home / Ages 2-6: Theme Time (age 2-4) / Freebies
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 15, 2017 · Last modified March 1, 2017
Recently, one of our preschool posts called Bugs, Bugs, Bugs has been getting a lot of page views. I thought I would add a couple of fun tracing sheets to that unit. And, I also thought I would highlight some of the free PreK printables we have tucked away on the blog! So, this is quite a packed post if you have 3-5 year olds! The free bug tracing pages...
Freebies / Holiday: Valentine's Day / Homeschool Den / Kindergarten Math / Math General Posts
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 8, 2017 · Last modified February 6, 2022
Today, I have a set of Valentine’s skip counting mazes to share with you. My kids loved these types of math activities! In these sheets the kids have to skip count by 2s above and below the mazes. Then, they have to skip count as many times as they can in the number grid. Answer pages are included. These skip counting worksheets are free to download: Valentines Day Skip Counting...
Freebies / Homeschool Den / Spanish
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 7, 2017 · Last modified January 28, 2024
Hola Parents! Feliz Día de San Valentín (Happy Valentine’s Day!) Once more, Liesl and I are coming together to help you teach Spanish to your homeschooler! Growing up in Guatemala I remember how I used to celebrate Valentine’s Day with my friends. It was a day to celebrate “friendship” we also called it “El Día de la Amistad” (The Day of Friendship). Have fun learning the words and making them...
Freebies / Homeschool Den / Math--Fractions
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 30, 2017 · Last modified March 1, 2017
Free Equivalent Fractions Packet! (Hearts-Theme or Plain) My daughter is just starting to learn about equivalent fractions… learning that 1 is the same as 2/2, 3/3, etc. Today I want to share the fractions packet that I first used with my son years ago! ED has done the basics with fractions (shading in fractions and adding fractions with the same denominator), but she is just diving into creating equivalent fractions...
Freebies / Holiday: Valentine's Day
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 25, 2017 · Last modified February 22, 2024
We have a wide range of free Valentine’s Day printables here on the blog. I thought I would highlight those for your today. That’s the perfect way to celebrate love and friendship, right?! My kids often enjoy having worksheets that go along with the holidays. Hope you find something that your kids will enjoy. ~Liesl In this post your find lots of free Valentine’s Day math worksheets, games, and other...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 19, 2017 · Last modified March 8, 2024
Hi Everyone, This is just a real quick note to let you know that I have updated the Science Unit Homeschool Checklist post. These are the science units I hope to cover in elementary and middle school. I know I’ve had a lot of new visitors to the blog and wanted to point this resource out. Also, someone dropped me a note to ask if I’ve finished the Curriculum Resource...
Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Preschool at Home / Freebies / Kindergarten / Science: Biomes; Animal Habitats
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 14, 2016 · Last modified January 5, 2021
Have you read Jan Brett’s wonderful book, The Mitten (affiliate link), to your kids? Mine loved this book and years ago we did a number of activities to go along with that. Below you’ll find a free printable packet about the Animals from The Mitten. 🙂 One page has the eight animals featured in this story and a space for the child write in the name of the animal: mole,...
Freebies / Holiday: Christmas Activities / Math--Addition
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 9, 2016 · Last modified December 5, 2021
Friday Freebies! Today I have a fun set of addition and subtraction worksheets for those of you with kids working on their math facts. In the beginning of the packet are some basic addition problems. The last few pages have double-digit addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing. I hope someone can use these! These are free to download! ~Liesl Free Holiday Addition and Subtraction Worksheets You may want to...
Freebies / Holiday: Christmas Activities / Spanish
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 8, 2016 · Last modified December 5, 2021
It’s the holiday season and today we have some Christmas word cards and worksheets for those of you who are helping your kids to learn Spanish! This year, I teamed up with Sra. Morato from Homeschool Spanish Curriciulum to create a series of free Spanish worksheets for you. This is the 5th post in this series. Sra. Morato teaches Spanish classes online. She is a native Spanish speaker and has...
Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Preschool at Home / Ages 2-6: Toddler/Preschool Activities / Freebies / Holiday: Christmas Activities / Homeschool Den / Kindergarten / Language Arts: Reading
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 6, 2016 · Last modified December 13, 2018
Today’s holiday freebie is for those of you whose kids are just starting to read. It is 30-pages and has six sets of words that kids can work on: 2-letter sight words Bob Book Words (from Bob Books Set 1, affiliate link) CVC-Words -at, -it, -ot, -ut CVC Words -ad, -id, -od, -ud CVC Words -ag, -ig, -og, -ug CVC Words -an, -in, -on, -un Each set has a matching...
Freebies / Holiday: Christmas Activities / Math--Division / Math--Multiplication
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 2, 2016
Today I have a new set of math worksheets to share with you. This is another set I made for my daughter. These pages include multiplication and division math facts plus a few double-digit multiplication problems and long division problems. I hope someone can use them. 🙂 They are free to download! Free Multiplication and Division Worksheets Holiday-Theme If these are too advanced for your child, you might check out...
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