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Ages 2-6: Fall Theme / Science: Garden Science / Science: Nature Studies
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 16, 2024 · Last modified August 12, 2024
Happy Summer! I have just added a new Sunflower Packet to the Nature Studies Bundle! This Sunflower Mini-Unit is for students to learn all about sunflowers: how tall they grow, where they originated, and other sunflower facts. It also covers what plants need, the different parts of a sunflower and the sunflower life cycle. This Sunflower Mini-Unit includes lapbook or interactive notebook pieces, life cycle cards, and more! I hope...
Botany Unit / Homeschool Den / Science: Garden Science / Science: Plant Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published April 22, 2018 · Last modified January 1, 2024
Angiosperms – Flowering Plants Notebook Pages and Worksheets It’s spring, so it’s the perfect time to spend some time learning about flowers, seeds, and fruit. This new botany unit explores the parts of a flower, the parts of a seed, seed and fruit development, and the plant life cycle in general. Today I’m going to highlight some worksheets and notebook pages that are included in this new Botany Packet. There...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Preschool at Home / Homeschool Den / Kindergarten / Montessori (general info) / Science / Science: Biomes; Animal Habitats / Science: Garden Science / Science: Vertebrates - Invertebrates
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published July 20, 2015 · Last modified May 13, 2021
This is definitely the perfect time of year to study frogs, toads, and salamanders! I made some Montessori 3-Part Cards with some of the common amphibians of the northeast. This would be a perfect addition to the free Frog Lapbook over at Homeschool Share! You can download these Montessori 3-part cards by clicking on the link below. These are currently free to download! I would love it if you could help...
Science: Cell Unit / Science: Chemistry Unit / Science: Garden Science / Science: Plant Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 20, 2015 · Last modified April 2, 2021
This week we spent a few days talking about photosynthesis. We covered the basic differences between plant and animal cells last week and I wanted to briefly talk about the process of photosynthesis before moving on to our Human Body unit. Some of the things we talked about included as we learned about the process of photosynthesis: parts of the plant, plant cells and the plant organelles, what is needed for...
Homeschool Den / Science / Science: Cell Unit / Science: Garden Science / Science: Plant Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 10, 2015 · Last modified March 23, 2023
This Cell Unit Packet is over 100 pages and includes worksheets, interactive notebook pages and even a “Build Your Cell” game! We have had such an amazing time with this cell unit. The goal has been not only to help the kids learn the parts of the cells (organelles), their function, and the difference between animal and plant cells, but also to understand the process of protein synthesis (on a...
Nature / Outdoor Fun / Recipes / Science: Garden Science
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published July 5, 2013
It was dreadfully hot, but after dropping LD off at his day camp the girls and I headed off to a u-pick farm. In just an hour and a half we picked 4 huge containers of blueberries!! I love that this farm doesn’t spray their berries. What did we do with 20 pounds of blueberries? Well, we made 9 jars (3 batches) of blueberry jam… It’s easy to do you just...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Homeschool Den / Must Read / Science / Science Experiments / Science: Garden Science / Science: Plant Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 21, 2012 · Last modified August 15, 2019
ED has been learning about plants this past week or two. We talked about the various parts of the plant and then read a bit in our science books about the function of the stem (and trunk) of plants. We revisited an experiment we did 2 1/2 years ago — the celery slurping experiment — as I called it then! This time I bought a bunch of carnations to experiment with...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Homeschool Den / Must Read / Science / Science: Garden Science / Science: Plant Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 10, 2012 · Last modified March 20, 2016
In our discussions about plants, the book pointed out that many leaves are symmetrical. We talked quite a bit about what symmetry is. First we took turns laying items out on a paper to make both sides symmetrical: Then we brought out paint and the girls made a number of symmetrical paintings. ED took a lot of care making small dots and pressing the paper down, then making more dots...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Homeschool Den / Must Read / Science / Science: Garden Science / Science: Plant Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 6, 2012 · Last modified March 29, 2016
After doing a couple projects that talked about things that live above ground and below ground, we then delved a bit more into plants. We did a cute sorting project from Kidssoup (a paid membership website) which shows where certain fruits and vegetables grow: ED also sorted a whole series of cards into fruit and vegetable baskets. I’m not sure where I got these cards, but I made a set...
Homeschool Den / Science / Science: Garden Science
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 28, 2012 · Last modified March 22, 2016
Who knew that our garden flowers could be so fascinating?! We have hydrangeas and only just now learned why they have different colors. They are affected by the pH of the soil and by the amount of sunlight they receive. A blue hydrangea means that there is aluminum in the soil. The flowers turn blue in highly acidic soil. A pink hydrangea means that the pH of the soil is...
Nature / Outdoor Fun / Science / Science: Garden Science / Science: Plant Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 17, 2012 · Last modified March 22, 2016
It’s that time of year again! Our dining room table and a second table are covered with dirt planters! Last week the kids and I planted some seeds together. The kids are always excited to watch the seedlings start to grow. You can tell the kids helped since there are so many seedlings in that one pot to the right!! We also weeded and worked on one...
Science / Science Experiments / Science: Garden Science
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 8, 2011 · Last modified March 22, 2016
Plants, plants, plants!! That’s still the main focus of our homeschooling life. The kids are enthralled by the growing process this year. The kids tenderly attend to their plots in the garden. We watch each strawberry ripen eagerly. They rush to inspect the blueberries and peas forming! They help bring in the lettuce for our supper each evening.And, they/we are loving the Junior Master Gardener handbook — and are enjoying...
Homeschool: Random Thoughts / Science: Garden Science
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 23, 2011
Today’s my birthday, so this post is about… well me! I am so happy! Not that I wasn’t happy in Australia, but I was ready for a change and boy is life wonderful here! I’ve managed to find a musical outlet here (I played the oboe in a wind ensemble for 10 years in Australia). Here I’m singing in my church choir and have had the opportunity to play the...
Science: Garden Science / Science: Plant Unit
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 15, 2011 · Last modified March 22, 2016
We continue to love the activities in the Junior Master Gardener Curriculum. I love that all three of the kids can be fully involved in these activities! This week we continued to look at monocot and dicots, studied plant roots and looked at the age of trees. In our first activity the kids gathered flowers from our yard. Then they had to determine whether the plants were monocots or dicots...
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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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How the body is organized from cells to tissues... organs to body systems
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