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Ages 2-6: Fall Theme / Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Toddler/Preschool Activities / Freebies / Homeschool Den
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published September 22, 2015 · Last modified September 25, 2016
Are you looking for free fall printables for PreK-K? Here’s a huge list of fabulous FREE fall-themed packets that have been shared by generous parents and teachers. Get your 3-6 year old into the fall spirit with some of these fall-themed activities and printables. You will find everything from puzzles, counting and letter recognition activities to writing, do-a-dot pages, dot-to-dots and more! Fall Pack from 3 Dinosaurs: Leaves Unit by...
Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Preschool at Home / Ages 2-6: Preschool for ED - Fall 2011 (age 3 1/2) / Homeschool Den / Kindergarten / Language Arts: Reading / Starting to Homeschool
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published August 31, 2015 · Last modified January 22, 2019
Are you looking for a phonics program to help your kids learn to read? I’ve put together some of the phonics readers that we used with my three kids. As you’ll see, all three of my kids had different preferences! I know I have a lot of new readers, and several people reached out to me recently who have preschoolers and are just starting out on this homeschool journey. I...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Preschool at Home / Ages 2-6: Preschool for ED - Fall 2011 (age 3 1/2) / Ages 2-6: Toddler/Preschool Activities
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published August 26, 2015 · Last modified August 23, 2015
When my kids were first learning to read, we used to play a LOT of games. I had a number of file folder games ready to rotate into their work boxes. I made this two-letter file folder game a while back, but hadn’t gotten around to post it. Better late than never, right?!! So, I hope those of you with young ones on the brink of reading find this useful! ...
Highlighting Past Posts / Homeschool Den
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published July 1, 2015 · Last modified June 25, 2015
So, I wanted a bit of alliteration to make a catchy title… and actually had to look up the definition of passel to be sure I was using it correctly. Sure enough, it means “a group or lot of indeterminate number.” Perfect! This post has a collection of posts from the past… and I’m not quite sure how many I’ll wind up highlighting. But why talk about posts from the past?...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool at Home / Ages 2-6: Preschool for ED - Fall 2011 (age 3 1/2) / Kindergarten Math / Math--Addition / Math: Preschool Math
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 22, 2015 · Last modified February 22, 2016
I made a cute flower-themed math packet for kids just starting on basic addition through 10. There are a couple different activities to practice working with the 5s and 10s Number Families. There are two worksheets for kids to supply the missing number for the 5 and 10 Number Families. My kids always loved games and would beg to play games like the one below over and over! This is basically a...
Holiday: Easter / Science / Science Experiments
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 23, 2015 · Last modified January 24, 2019
Egg-tivities to get egg-cited for Easter!! Lots of Egg Experiments for Kids in this free printable!! Last year around this time we had an egg-cellent time with eggs. I wrote a series of 4 posts sharing all of our activities. At the end of the series, I put together an Egg-speriment Packet. It is 16 pages long and has 13 egg experiments and activities. A few of the things we talked...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 28, 2015 · Last modified December 6, 2016
Click here to download the free fishing game: Fishing for Sight Words (Letters or Numbers) This activity was part of the post at Everything Kids, 8 Irresistible Activities to Do with Magnets. You might be interested in these related posts: Teach Your Child to Read – Activities to Foster Early Reading Skills Teaching Kids to Read: Readers We Used FREE beginning Reader Worksheet Pack to Accompany the Bob Books . These go...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 21, 2015
Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter. Your subscription to our list has been confirmed! Our plan is to send out a weekly newsletter. In the mean time, feel free to browse around our blog: Some of our most popular posts (and printables) include: Our History Units and Printables (Ancient China, India, History of Slavery, US Constitution and much more) Our World Religion printables (Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, the Medieval Christian...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 18, 2015 · Last modified February 26, 2019
I made these preschool activity cards to go with the post: Fun Preschool Activities the Develop Fine Motor Skill which is over a Everything Kids at Parents.com. Visit that post to see how these cards can be used and for other activities that help kids develop their fine motor skills. Click here to get this free printable: Dragon-Themed-Number-Letter-Activities-PreK You might also be interested in some of our other packets for Ages...
Homeschool Den / Science / Science: Vertebrates - Invertebrates
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 15, 2015 · Last modified February 17, 2016
About the same time we studied the world biomes years ago, my son was *really* into reptiles. I made some cards for him back then and made them into pin-map pieces that he placed on our world map. There were reptiles from the rainforest, desert and tropical savanna. I also used the cards as Montessori 3-Part cards (where he matched the name with the photo). You’ll find those larger cards below....
History: Geography Activities / Homeschool Den
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 14, 2015 · Last modified February 16, 2016
If you are studying about different animal habitats or the word biomes, you may be interested in this free download. I made this world biomes pin map for the kids years ago. It includes a world biomes map and legend has pictures of the boreal and deciduous forests, rain forest, grasslands/savannas, chaparral, and tundra that the kids can stick onto the map. How to Make This: Print out all three pages on card...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 26, 2015 · Last modified March 30, 2024
We are so glad you are here at the Homeschool Den! We have been homeschooling for years now, so we have a lot of resources tucked away here at our blog. In fact, let me send you to one of our latest freebies – the FREE Winter-Spring 2024 Homeschool Planner and you’ll find our Free 2024-2025 School Year Calendar Printable here. Would you like to check out some of our...
Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Preschool for ED - Fall 2011 (age 3 1/2) / Homeschool Den / Language Arts: Reading
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 2, 2015 · Last modified February 20, 2017
How do you help your child build early literacy skills? Here are 12 fun activities to help build early reading skills! These are activities we did with CVC words and basic sight words to make the learning process fun and engaging!! The first step in learning to read is to make sure your child knows their letter sounds. We shared lots of ideas about that in our Preschool at Home...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 3, 2014 · Last modified December 29, 2014
Last month I started something, new… a Month in Review post as a quick, easy way to see recent posts you may have missed. Here are last month’s posts: Our Month of Posts: Nov. 2014 Sorry, the links are all broken at the moment because of our move. 1. Contraction Matching Practice Cards- He’s They’re Can’t I’m etc. 2. A Visit with Pocahontas’ Great (x12) Granddaughter 3. Minecraft Money...
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