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I have just released the second installment of our new PDF packet: Homeschool Foundations: Establishing Routines that Work. This section section is about Organizing Your Homeschool Learning Spaces. In this section, you will think about your home and how you want it to feel and function. Scroll down below to read through some quick homeschool organization tips! When you have the time and energy, you will dive into some...
Homeschool Foundations: Establishing Routines that Work: Are you are looking for some general tips about creating routines, organizing and keeping on top of things during the year? This packet is designed to help you think about the strategies and routines to help your family life run smoothly. This packet is a work in progress and is currently FREE to download! For many families, the summer is an opportunity to take...
Free Middle School Math Worksheets Below you will find a free math worksheet PDF which covers mean, median, mode and range. This is a math topic we need to review once a year or so because my kids never remember the meanings! These free Mean, Median, Mode worksheets include both definitions and practice problems to review these terms: Mean: This is the average of a set of numbers. Add all...
Homeschool Den / Science: Astronomy Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 2, 2021 · Last modified May 9, 2021
The Astronomy Packet is Currently FREE! For the past couple of weeks, we have been doing an astronomy unit. Today I wanted to share a few of the resources we used for this unit including some new astronomy notebook pages I made for the kids. These include astronomy worksheets about the universe and galaxies & light time (light second, minute, hour, day and of course light year) the Space Race...
Homeschool Den / Science: Cell Unit / Science: Plant Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published April 2, 2021 · Last modified March 23, 2023
Cell Unit Update! This Cells Unit covers cell theory, prokaryotic vs. eukaryotic cells, animal vs. plant cells, the organelles of the cell, and now goes into more detail about chloroplast anatomy, the layers of a leaf, photosynthesis, and more. We just finished a big unit on plant cells and photosynthesis, studying everything from the organelles of plant cells to details about chloroplasts and the process of photosynthesis (light-dependent and light-independent...
Homeschool Den / Science: Human Body Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 21, 2021 · Last modified February 21, 2022
Endocrine System Worksheets and Notebook Pages Do you know the difference between endocrine and exocrine glands? You’ll learn that and more in this new 60-page Endocrine System Unit! Since I’ve piqued your interest… exocrine glands are those glands that have ducts and lead to the surface of the body… like sweat glands, tear glands (lacrimal glands), and mammary glands whereas endocrine glands secrete hormones into the bloodstream The Endocrine System...
Homeschool Den / Kindergarten / Science: Biomes; Animal Habitats / World Animals
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 11, 2021 · Last modified November 2, 2022
This new 35+ page Wolves Mini-Unit will help your kids learn all about wolves! The Wolves Packet includes a number different activities such as a notebook pages with tracing, research question booklet, an interactive notebook activity, and wolf writing pages. I also included a half-dozen activity pages if you have younger kids in your family. 🙂 Wolves Notebook Pages (Booklet Style) with Tracing The first activity is a booklet with...
20th Century History / Homeschool Den / WWII
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 31, 2020 · Last modified December 11, 2022
Our 150-page World War II unit covers many of the basic events from the post-WWI era through the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The WWII Packet includes notebook pages, worksheets, timelines, interactive notebook pages and other activities. Here is Table of Contents for this WWII Unit: Timeline of 1920-1930s Events Post WWI Events – Notebook Pages and Teacher (Full Text) pages Rise of Hitler, Anti-Semitism, Inflation, anti-Jewish...
Free Calendar Planning Pages / Freebies / Homeschool Den
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published November 29, 2020 · Last modified January 16, 2022
Are you looking for a free printable 2021-2022 Calendar that includes holidays, seasons, day light savings, etc.? Be sure to grab our free printable 2021-2022 calendar! Today I wanted to share our (latest) free calendar printable for 2021-2022. This free calendar printable covers 20 months (January 2021 through August 2022). Updated Calendar Available! The newest version is now available! The 2022-2023 School Year Calendar goes from Jan. 2022 through August...
Homeschool Den / Science: Energy Unit / Science: Physics Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published November 2, 2020 · Last modified February 22, 2021
This 100+page Energy Unit covers a range of topics from energy and force, kinetic and potential energy, the types and sources of energy, power grids, to fossil fuels, the carbon cycle and more! You’ll find the link to purchase this packet down below or in Our Store. I am SO excited to share this with you! This is a unit that I’ve been working on for well over a year!...
Freebies / High School Math / Homeschool Den / Math - Algebra
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published October 21, 2020 · Last modified October 22, 2020
Free Algebra 2, Trig Printables (And a few hints about quadratic equations to help your kids out!) When the kids were little, we used to have cute posters on the walls… like the ABCs and stuff. We still have things on the wall, but the content has changed considerably now that my kids are older! I was showing my friend (on Zoom!) the material we have up behind the computer...
Homeschool Den / Science: Ocean Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published October 19, 2020 · Last modified July 25, 2021
Salinity and Water Temperatures Influence the Oceans’ Currents We just love hands-on activities! They are what make our units come alive! In this portion of our Ocean Unit, we did a number of experiments to show how salinity and water temperatures influence the oceans’ currents. Salinity Our first experiment was on salinity. In this experiment we talked about how salt changes the density of water. One jar had no salt...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published October 10, 2020 · Last modified October 21, 2020
Todo sobre la comida – All About Food Desayuno – Almuerzo – Cena This new Spanish Worksheet Set is all about food. There are 4 pdfs in Spanish Bundle 6 that include common words you would use while preparing and making meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner. These include dishes, food items and various verbs you would use while preparing food from chopping and cooking to wiping the table and sweeping...
Homeschool Den / Language Arts - Grammar Spelling Reading Writing Categories / Language Arts: Books: Children's Literature / Language Arts: Spelling / Language Arts: Writing
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published October 5, 2020 · Last modified February 10, 2021
Earlier this week, I had a wonderful back-and-forth email conversation with a reader about literature and language arts in our homeschool. She had questions about the literature book/s we were using when my kids were in grades 2, 5 and 7. I thought I would share a lot of that conversation with you today. It highlights some of the language arts books/texts/resources we have used over the years. Plus, I’ve...
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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.
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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).
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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