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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published November 13, 2016 · Last modified March 5, 2023
ED is working on the /k/ sound. She really enjoys the word sort activities I’ve made for her, so this is a new set covering the hard K-sound with spellings c, k, ck, ch, cc and que. Words that use a c such as cat, scalp, cabin, picnic Words that use a k such as kite, sink, rake, king, milk, make, bark Words that use ck such as thick, neck,...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 19, 2016 · Last modified July 1, 2020
Today I have some writing practice pages to share with you about the concept, “Show Don’t Tell.” The kids and I are spending a number of days talking about this writing strategy. “Show Don’t Tell” helps the reader to experience the story by using descriptions, actions, thoughts, feelings, & emotions. Using this technique helps readers feel like they are right in the middle of the action! Here’s how I explained...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 13, 2016
Check out the NEW Language Arts Tab! I have created a resource page with links to dozens of our language arts posts. We have all kinds of resources: Our free grammar pages have always been among the most visited pages on the blog. You’ll find links to our Comma Rules and Practice Pages Apostrophe and Quotation Mark Practice There/They’re/Their and Its/It’s Worksheets and many more!! We have at least 20...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 9, 2016 · Last modified March 6, 2023
This activity is for kids who are learning to listen for the consonant blends: sh ch and th. These include various activities to practice the sh ch th words: picture cards and words, tracing pages, seek & color pages, etc. As the kids were learning to read, I had a wide variety of file folder games and activities that I would rotate into their workboxes. A friend of mine is...
Language Arts: Books: Children's Literature / Summer Activities
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 8, 2016 · Last modified November 13, 2016
Today I’m going to share a list of chapter books for older kids. This is a great selection of books. We’ve now read every book on this list (and then some!!). Many of them we read aloud together. I loved Hatchet so much that I read this aloud with LD and then read it again to DD just this year. Sometimes its fun to share the excitement together. Our family...
Language Arts: Books: Children's Literature
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 1, 2016 · Last modified May 9, 2016
We absolutely love reading. This is a book I compiled one summer of the books our family loves! Just click on the picture or link below to print out the list. Books–25 Beloved Books Free Printable Lists 25 Beloved Books for 4-8 Year Olds (In no particular order) These are affiliate links. Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág Miss Nelson Is Missing!by Harry Allard Strega Nona: Book & CD by...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 15, 2016 · Last modified May 16, 2016
Hi Everyone, This is going to be a bit of a random post so bear with me! I’m going to talk about 3 separate things in this post. 1) Our free calendar printable and homeschool planning pages 2) A free end of year questionnaire for students and parents and 3) a random chat about our Homeschool Writing Workshop. Free Calendar, Homeschool Planning Pages and Homeschool Supply List: First, as many...
Language Arts - Grammar Worksheets
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published April 7, 2016 · Last modified April 8, 2016
This time of year, we spend quite a bit of time polishing skills and reviewing material. ED still needs more practice working on to/two/too, there/they’re/their, and some other homophones. Plus, I thought she could also use some practice on plurals and adding endings. She has that down most of the time, but not always. So, if anyone can use these, they are FREE to download! The answer keys are also...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 18, 2016 · Last modified March 5, 2023
Today I’m sharing some free comma rules grammar worksheets. The first page has the 11 common comma rules we’ve covered. There are various practice sentences on the next two pages. The kids have to place the missing commas in each sentence and must write down the rule that goes along with it. Some sentences have more than one missing comma (and so might have more than one comma rule that...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 11, 2016 · Last modified March 5, 2023
ED is working on the /er/ sound. She really enjoys the spelling word sort activities and enjoys playing these board games, so I made a new spelling activity for her with a desert scene! These cover words spelled with ur such as burn, turn, nurse, church words spelled with ir such as girl, bird, shirt, dirt, circle words spelled with er such as summer, mother, desert words spelled with or...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 3, 2016 · Last modified September 22, 2023
DD is a natural speller but both LD and ED have really benefited by the logical layout of the All About Spelling lessons. (affiliate link). I do my very best to stay consistent working through those lessons. It helps if we can work on spelling at least three times a week. During the spring semester, we also spend more time/attention on grammar, but we try to keep going with spelling...
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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 25, 2016 · Last modified November 27, 2020
A week or so ago, we started reviewing irregular verbs and the plurals of nouns again. I realized the kids could use a bit more practice, so I pulled out some of the old grammar worksheets I made several years ago and had them work on those as well. I thought I would put all three of these together here in the same post for anyone who might need to...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 8, 2016 · Last modified March 17, 2016
The past few weeks, the kids have been working on some silent letter words. The worked on words like… Words with a silent B such as: climb comb crumb doubt dumb Words with a silent C such as: scene scissors muscle fascinate Words with a silent D such as: handkerchief sandwich Wednesday Words with a silent G such as: campaign design gnat gnaw sign Words with a silent H such...
Language Arts - Grammar Worksheets
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 22, 2016 · Last modified February 24, 2016
This is another free apostrophe worksheet that I made for the kids last week. This worksheet is mostly about showing possession and touches on possessive pronouns. In general apostrophes are used to show possession to show that a letter or letters have been omitted (ie. contractions) the plural of letters, numbers, and symbols If you can use it, this apostrophe worksheet is free to download. There is an answer sheet...
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