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I have just shared our Fall 2024 Homeschool Planner! This printable planning packet is FREE to download! This free 50-page PDF includes planning pages for August through December 2024. Some planning pages include the monthly calendar; others include checklists and/or planning boxes. This is what we use to keep tabs on our weekly topics and upcoming events. Be sure to grab our FREE Fall 2024 Homeschool Planner with the Add...
Before I share everything that is going on with me, I wanted to share a few FREE printables that you might find helpful as the school year comes to a close! First, is a free printable End of Year Homeschool Questionnaire. One is for Students, the other is for Parents. I have used this for many years to really think about what went well. I tried to take some time...
Homeschool Den / Online Homeschool Classes
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 19, 2024 · Last modified August 21, 2024
Online Live Homeschool Classes Class enrollments are now closed! Wishing you a wonderful school year! ~Liesl Classes will meet live, online on Zoom. Students will also have access to their own Canvas Classroom where we will have discussions. This is where our learning materials will be posted. Here are the courses I will be teaching in the Fall of 2024: Classes are now closed! Online Homeschool Classes for Fall 2024...
My kids *loved* playing games to help them learn their math facts. I made a fancy version of a math fact game we used to play. Use this free printable to practice Addition, Subtraction or Multiplication Facts! It’s free to download! This game takes less than 10 minutes to play (though perhaps more if your kids are like mine and beg to play again and again!!). To play this math...
Homeschool Den / Science: Vertebrates - Invertebrates
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 7, 2024 · Last modified August 12, 2024
Our Cicadas Unit includes worksheets, notebook pages and a lapbook about the cicada life cycle, the differences between annual and periodical cicadas, and information about the cicada broods. There are newly updated notebook pages about Broods XIII and XIX as well! Some facts about cicadas: Did you know that there are over 3,000 types of cicadas? While most insects live less than a year, cicadas can live as long as...
20th Century History / History: Civics, Government and Economics / History: Geography Activities / Homeschool Den
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 1, 2024 · Last modified March 7, 2024
I have added more than 25 new pages of World Landmark and Topographic Map Activities to the World Facts Packet! This packet covers many of the basic world facts I wanted my kids to know such as the largest countries, population facts, the major world religions, as well as geography terms such as gulf, bay, atoll, peninsula, cape, estuary, isthmus and so forth. There is a huge section on the...
Homeschool Den / Kindergarten / Montessori (general info) / Science: Nature Studies
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 22, 2024 · Last modified June 16, 2024
I have just added a new Producer Consumer Decomposer – Detritivore Packet to the Nature Studies BUNDLE! This 50+page packet includes worksheets, notebook pages and other activities that cover some of differences between producers, consumers, decomposers and detritivores: Producers make their own food. Consumers eat other living plants and animals for food. Detritivores eat dead organisms and wastes. Decomposers break down dead, organic materials into even smaller nutrients. The Producer...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 30, 2024 · 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...
Homeschool Den / Montessori (general info) / Science: Nature Studies
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 16, 2024 · Last modified June 16, 2024
How do animals camouflage themselves in the wild? This 70-page Camouflage Packet includes notebook pages, sorting cards, worksheets and other activities all about the different types of animal camouflage, disguise, mimicry and more! Camouflage helps animals disguise their appearance in order to blend in with their surroundings. Students will learn about some of the different camouflage tactics, from simple color matching to sophisticated mimicry. Camouflage and Mimicry Notebook Pages Camouflage...
Freebies / Homeschool Den / Kindergarten Math / Math--Addition / Math: Preschool Math / Winter Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 1, 2024
New FREE Math Printable for you! I have a new Winter Themed – Simple Addition and Subtraction Worksheet Packet to share with you! These include doubling, addition and subtraction practice problems as well as some simple skip-counting exercises. This new Winter Themed – Addition and Subtraction Packet is 10 pages. I have added this set to the (huge, growing!) K-2 Math BUNDLE (which includes more than 25+ PDFs for just...
Freebies / Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Planning and Preparation / Homeschool: Useful Resources (websites books etc)
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 30, 2023 · Last modified August 12, 2024
Life has been extremely busy the past few months, but I have finally had a chance to update and share our latest Homeschool Planner! Be sure to grab our FREE Winter – Spring 2024 Homeschool Planner! This free 50-page printable includes planning pages for January through August 2024. Some planning pages include the monthly calendar; others include checklists and/or planning boxes. This is what we use to keep tabs on...
Freebies / Holiday: Halloween / Homeschool Den
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 26, 2023
This Monster Creative Writing Packet is a fun activity that encourages descriptive writing! This creative writing printable is currently FREE to download! Activities in the Monster Creative Writing Packet include: Describe the monsters using as many descriptive words as possible. Monster Details: Have everyone write a description of a monster and create a matching drawing. Use a lot of descriptive details. One by one, as one student reads their descriptions...
20th Century History / Freebies / Homeschool Den
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 22, 2023 · Last modified December 30, 2023
Current World Leaders – Types of Government and Types of Society Packet Newly Updated in September 2023 This packet is currently FREE! This packet has two parts. In the first are three sets of world leaders worksheets (covering a total of 30 world leaders). Each set has two leader-country matching pages (plus answer pages), two fill in the blank charts, and two note-taking pages. There is also a notebook page...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 11, 2023 · Last modified January 16, 2024
Beginner’s Music Curriculum: Learning Notes, Rhythm, Music Notation and More! Our Music Curriculum for Beginners just got a huge update! I have added in more than 100 pages of worksheets, games and activities. Our Music Curriculum Packets provide everything you need to introduce your kids to the basics of music from reading notes, learning to play notes on a keyboard or piano, to learning what many of the music symbols...
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I love the quote by William Butler Yeats, "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." It's about getting the kids involved, engaged, and fired up about learning (while juggling the rest of life too!)
A bit about me: I have my Master's from Brown University. I have more than 20 years of teaching experience. I was a high school teacher for many years both in the U.S. and internationally and also taught for the University of Maryland before leaving to homeschool my 3 wonderful kids.
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This post has links to dozens of posts and resources both for new and veteran homeschoolers for everything from finding homeschool curriculum to general homeschool advice and encouragement.
Click on the image above to see the History Units we covered in our homeschool.
What science topics could I teach my 5-7 year old - Homeschool Science Curriculum
Click on the image above to see the Science Units we covered in our homeschool from elementary through middle school (and beyond!).
A list of the books we've used most in history, science, math, language arts, etc.
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Units are also sold separately.
This is one of our most popular units. It covers the Layers of the Earth, Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, Volcanoes and More! It is included in the Earth Science Bundle (see the picture/link above).
Click the image to see our Biology Units on Animal and Plant Cells; the Biology Unit on Biomes, Food Chains, Symbiosis; Scientific Classification & Taxonomy (Domain/Kingdom/Phylum/Class, etc.); Botany - Plant Kingdom and Oceans and Oceanography.
Click on the image to see our Animal Bundle - including the Animal Unit, Life Cycles, the Rainforest, Winter (Polar Animals) & Hibernation, Chameleons, Wolves, Cicadas and more!
The Human Body Systems, Skeletal, Digestive, Circulatory, Muscular, Nervous, Endocrine Systems and More (with lots of hands-on activity ideas)! We usually study a different body system each year.
Click on the image to see our units on the States of matter, Properties of Matter, Electricity & Circuits, and the Chemistry Unit (Get to know the Periodic Table in a fun way!)
This is a free checklist I put together of the various science units I hope to cover in the elementary and middle school years.
Do your kids know the 4 largest countries? Which countries have the most people? The longest river? This packet covers basic world and U.S. facts and also covers geographic features and land forms.
Click on the image to check out our 100-page unit on World War I.
We have used AAS for 6 years! AAS is an affiliate link.
Dozens of posts about how to create a homeschool writing workshop.
Click on the image to check out all of our fun K-2 Math Packets.
This is one of the best values we have... more than 20 PDFs with games, activities and worksheets to learn/practice the multiplication facts ($7.00).
Click on the image to discover some of the pages, posts and homeschool resources within our blog that might be the most useful for you including a long list of our freebies!
Click on the image to check out our 100+page Rocks and Minerals Unit.
This is a fun, hands-on unit for early elementary students!
How the body is organized from cells to tissues... organs to body systems
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