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Holiday: Christmas Activities / Homeschool Den / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 25, 2012
Of all the gifts, my favorite was the one made from the heart… my own doll! It’s made of a milk-jug, tin foil, felt and lots and lots of tape!! Isn’t it precious?! I love that the kids are finally of the age that they can keep secrets from me until Christmas! A close runner up was the homemade picture frame LD made for me, complete with a picture (courtesy...
Holiday: Christmas Activities / Homeschool Den / Must Read / Trips We've Taken
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 24, 2012
Happy Holidays! There are estimates that nearly 93.3 million people will travel this holiday season, with nearly 84.4 million people traveling more than 50 miles. I think my friend, M, and her two kids might get the prize for the longest travel plans — 10,000+ miles from the east coast, USA here over to Victoria, Australia. We, on the other hand, did a short 4 hour trip to see Grandma...
Holiday: Christmas Activities / Homeschool Den / Must Read / Recipes
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 22, 2012
Do you have any special sweets you make this time of year? Our family has some old traditions and some new. I’d like to share two of the easiest cookies we make this time of year: One of our new additions is from Aunt M… we love this recipe and it is so easy! We’ve altered her original recipe slightly: 1 cup butter 2 cups flour (I actually use 1/2...
Holiday: Christmas Activities / Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Our Homeschool (what our day is like, curriculum choices, etc.) / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 19, 2012 · Last modified March 16, 2016
We are officially on school break! What fun! I can say that we all needed the break because it has been so busy these past few weeks. And while we had some fun projects we were finishing up, I can definitely say that I was beginning to feel flat and stale. Time to step back shake things up and re-energize a bit. While my in-laws were here for a few...
Freebies / Holiday: Christmas Activities / Homeschool Den / Math General Posts / Math--Division / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 16, 2012 · Last modified March 16, 2016
I shared DD’s multiplication pages a couple days ago. Now here are the division pages I made for LD. He isn’t as inspired by the cute pages, but I still made a few pages for him. You can download the Christmas-themed-division here. I made the illustrations myself. There also some addition (with Pete the Cat) and multiplication (with Pete the Cat) pages in this same style. See you again soon...
Ages 2-6: Pete the Cat Unit / Freebies / Holiday: Christmas Activities / Homeschool Den / Math General Posts / Math--Addition / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 15, 2012 · Last modified March 16, 2016
ED is not really ready for complicated addition problems. She’ll just use the first of the six pages in this packet. I’ll have her roll the die and fill in the blanks—and I’ll also use some dominoes and have her fill in the numbers. If you don’t have actual dominoes, you can print the domino set from Mathwire. They even have a add-on set for up to double-nines. Click here to download Christmas...
Freebies / Holiday: Christmas Activities / Homeschool Den / Math General Posts / Math--Multiplication / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 14, 2012 · Last modified March 16, 2016
The girls beg me daily for new “cute stuff” in their workboxes. The moment I have something for one–the other is clamoring for something new too! When I told DD about this new pack she ran as fast as she could to her math workbox, pulled it out and filled out the first page! How’s that for motivation?!! DD is working on her multiplication tables from 1s through 5s. I drew these...
Arts and Crafts / Holiday: Christmas Activities / Homeschool Den / Must Read / Science
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 6, 2012 · Last modified March 16, 2016
There are so many last minute gifts to get…your child’s secret buddy, your niece, your neighbor’s son, the giving tree or your child’s best friend. Here are a couple of unique gifts we’ve given out because they were such HUGE hits with our own kids. 4- to 8-year-old girl The past month, my kids have been obsessed with fuzzy felt friends. We sent this kit as a gift to my 5-year-old (almost...
Arts and Crafts / Holiday: Christmas Activities / Homeschool Den / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published November 24, 2012
I noticed that people have been viewing some of my holiday posts this weekend. Last year I posted our holiday crafts way too late to be of much use, but wanted to share this beautiful star craft we made last year early enough that you could round up the supplies you need to do this with your kids (toothpicks, gold spray paint). Click here to see the post about how...
Ages 2-6: Fall Theme / Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Holiday: Thanksgiving / Homeschool Den / Math: Preschool Math / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published November 19, 2012 · Last modified October 29, 2020
Here are a collection of Thanksgiving resources you might want to use with your kids the next few days: ED has really been enjoying dot-to-dots. I thought these printables from Busy Bee Kids Printables were really cute and wanted to mention them if you are interested. Fall and Thanksgiving Dot-to-Dots Color the Turkey: A handwriting activity from Rowdy in Room 300 Cute Turkey Math Game: This is a game I...
Holiday: Halloween / Homeschool Den / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published October 31, 2012 · Last modified October 6, 2018
Hope you have a very Happy Halloween! Here are some spooky creatures we’ve encountered this fall! And here’s a Halloween craft we made out of milk cartons and tissue paper:
Holiday: Halloween / Homeschool Den / Must Read / Recipes
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published October 27, 2012 · Last modified October 25, 2018
When we lived in Australia, we couldn’t buy candy corn. I looked around for a recipe and found something online that has worked well. Now it’s become our family tradition to make our own candy corn each fall! Here’s how we made it: We put these 3 ingredients in a saucepan: 1/2 cup sugar 1/3 cup corn syrup 2 1/2 Tablespoons butter As soon as I turned the stove on...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool for ED - Fall 2011 (age 3 1/2) / Freebies / Holiday: Halloween / Homeschool Den / Math General Posts / Math: Preschool Math / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published October 26, 2012 · Last modified February 21, 2016
ED is really enjoying those color in the bar-graph activities… so here are a few more, this time with Halloween kitties. I have them in her workbox and she can work on them when she’s interested (often when the other two are working on their math). I’m really enjoying the computer drawing pad! 🙂 If you’re interested in these sheets you can download the Counting Halloween Kitties If you missed...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Freebies / Holiday: Halloween / Homeschool Den / Math General Posts / Math--Addition / Math--Division / Math--Multiplication / Math: Preschool Math / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published October 23, 2012
I made up a quick Halloween math riddle sheet for the kids’ math work this week. Solve the division problem, find the answer above and write the letter into the box. I also made this for simple multiplication, addition and numbers since I have younger kids as well. If you celebrate Halloween and want to print this off for your kids feel free. Here’s the link: Skeleton Math Riddle (All...
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