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Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Homeschool Den / Kindergarten
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 31, 2019 · Last modified June 17, 2020
This past week I’ve had a couple of emails from readers who will be homeschooling Kindergarten or Grade 1 for the first time. It’s hard to know where to start, right?! There are lots of possibilities and picking a starting point can be overwhelming! I hope this post will give you some ideas and inspiration for a wonderful homeschool year ahead! For us, homeschooling was not a big change from...
Homeschool Den / Language Arts - Grammar Spelling Reading Writing Categories / Language Arts: Books: Children's Literature / Language Arts: Reading / Language Arts: Spelling
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 28, 2019
Have you been planning out your language arts for next year? I thought I would share my plans with ED (who will be in Grade 6 next year). She’s 11. Below you’ll find out how we tackle the various parts of language arts: literature skills (plot, setting, character, point of view, and so forth), grammar, vocabulary, spelling, literature (reading lots of good novels), and writing (which I’ve written about in...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 25, 2019 · Last modified February 9, 2020
This 30+ page German worksheet set, der Bauernhof, covers the major animals of the farm. This packet includes matching worksheets, translation pages, flashcards, and bingo cards. It also include farm writing pages so that students can create their own sentences about the animal and farm words. German Worksheets: der Bauernhof This set includes both matching the German words to pictures as well as matching German words to the English translation....
Homeschool Den / Kindergarten / Math--Addition
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 9, 2019 · Last modified May 9, 2022
Here are some fun froggie addition practice worksheets! These addition pages are included in our Addition/Subtraction Bundle. The first 5 pages include double and triple digit addition practice without carrying/regrouping. The final 6 pages include addition problems that involve carrying/regrouping. Hope your kids enjoy them! ~Liesl Addition & Subtraction Bundle It includes worksheets, games and other activities to practice addition and subtraction facts and other basic math skills. This is...
Homeschool Den / Science Units
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 4, 2019 · Last modified November 6, 2019
30+page Trash and Recycling Unit! This spring, we have been focusing on Environmental Studies. We just finished up a new unit on Trash and Recycling. This 30-page unit including worksheets and activities to help students learn what happens to our trash, what can be recycled, plastics, and more! What happens to our trash? Learn what percentage of trash is placed in landfills, burned or recycled. Find out what can be...
Homeschool Den / Language Arts: Spelling
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published April 26, 2019 · Last modified March 5, 2023
This new activity packet will help your kids practice those tricky IE and EI words! It includes various activities, games and worksheets! This ie/ei Word Activity Packet includes more than 50 words to practice. It includes IE words such as friend, believe, cashier, siege, relieve, efficient, glaciers, yield and achieve. And it includes EI words such as receive, deceit, ceiling, receipt, foreign, protein, eight, beige, sleigh, neighbors and others. IE...
Do you have bad days? Do they keep you from having “good” homeschool days? I think we all do. Sometimes we need to acknowledge that life can bring us emotional hurdles that interfere with the homeschooling part of life. So, what derailed my day? My Hubby called and said he was in a car accident this morning. He’s fine (just sore) and so is everyone else, but those things just...
Homeschool Den / Science: Water Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published April 9, 2019 · Last modified July 3, 2019
This 50+ page Water Cycle Unit has a number of activities for learning all about the water cycle. It has notebook pages, a printable booklet and other activities for learning evaporation, condensation, transpiration, precipitation, sublimation, infiltration, percolation and more! This is the first of three Environmental Units I’m doing with the kids. Water Cycle Booklet: My daughter started this unit coloring and working on this Water Cycle booklet. It covers...
History: American History / Homeschool Den
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published April 8, 2019 · Last modified January 4, 2020
Today I wanted to highlight a number of American History Resources we have used in our homeschool. In the spring, we tend to do quite a bit of review. One really good overview of all of American History is a video called America, The Story of Us. The episodes are dramatized and really keep the attention of my kids. This is not an in-depth series, just a broad overview, but...
Homeschool Den / Science: Simple Machines Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published April 6, 2019 · Last modified May 16, 2023
Simple Machines Unit – Now 50+ pages! I have just added a new activity to the Simple Machines Packet! This is a booklet all about the six types of simple machines: lever, wheel and axle, inclined plane, wedge, pulley and screw. It also covers the three classes of levers. Kids can trace the key words and color in the pictures. The simple machines booklet is 14 half-pages. (Directions on how...
Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Our Homeschool (what our day is like, curriculum choices, etc.)
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published April 4, 2019
Life has been pretty busy since the homeschool conference, but I really wanted to leave a quick update about life in our homeschool. (If you have younger kids, scroll down to the bottom where I’ve linked to some similar posts from when the kids were in PreK, K, Grades 1, 2, 3 etc.!) History: This year for history, we have been focusing on the twentieth century. We have read a...
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,...
Homeschool Den / Science: Natural Disasters Unit and Activities
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 17, 2019 · Last modified January 24, 2021
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...
Free Curriculum Resource Guides / Free Homeschool Planner / Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Planning and Preparation
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 9, 2019 · Last modified November 2, 2022
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...
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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.
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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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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).
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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.
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Dozens of posts about how to create a homeschool writing workshop.
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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).
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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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