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by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 21, 2013
Since I am wrapping up the school year, I thought I would go through and share some of the most popular posts from this school year. Most of them had to do with some of the free materials I made, but two of them had to do with family life in general–3-The Most Stressful Number of Kids and the post I wrote just after our beloved Vovo, hubby’s grandmother, died — The...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Our Homeschool (what our day is like, curriculum choices, etc.)
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 12, 2013
One question homeschoolers often ask each other is, “Will you do school during the summer?” For us, the answer is… some of the time. We take vacations when it suits us even when (or maybe especially when!) public school kids are in school. We also take vacation trips in the summer since some of our the kids’ cousins don’t homeschool and we try to catch up with them once a...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Freebies / Holiday: St. Patrick's Day / Math: Preschool Math / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 10, 2013 · Last modified March 1, 2017
I made these game boards for ED. It’s a race to 50 (or a race to 100). Print out one game board for each player. The players take turns rolling the die (use a 20-sided die in the race to 100) and covering the squares on their game board with tokens. The first to cover their entire game board wins the game. You can download these free: St Patricks Day...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Holiday: St. Patrick's Day / Language Arts: Reading / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 9, 2013 · Last modified February 17, 2016
This activity was a huge hit with ED this past week. I chose some words from ED’s phonics readers and wrote them out on some shamrocks and taped them on popcycle sticks. I covered an empty cereal box with construction paper and wrote the words out on the box as well and used a knife to create a slit for the Popsicle sticks. I sat with ED each time she...
Homeschool: Our Homeschool (what our day is like, curriculum choices, etc.)
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 13, 2013 · Last modified August 19, 2018
Someone had a great question for me yesterday. Since I usually just post about one topic at a time on the blog she wondered what else we cover each day. I thought I’d stick my answer into its own post since other’s might be scratching their heads wondering if we have regular stuff we cover. Here was my answer… We usually have one or two units going on… right now...
Holiday: Valentine's Day / Homeschool Den / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 9, 2013 · Last modified March 16, 2016
This year I came across a blog that has a wonderful set of Valentine’s resources. There’s everything from meal planners to preschool and toddler packs; acts of kindness we can do with our kids, coloring sheets, crafts, cards and recipes. Be sure to go check out Jamerrill’s amazing post over at The Better Mom: Free Valentine’s Day Resources: Last weekend, I shared some of the Valentine’s math sheets and games...
Holiday: Valentine's Day / Homeschool Den / Math General Posts / Math--Division / Must Read / Outdoor: Fossils
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 6, 2013 · Last modified February 8, 2019
Can you believe how quickly Valentine’s Day is approaching? Here’s a game I made to practice division. These games are free to download. 🙂 To Play: The first player draws a division card. She determines the answer and places a token on the heart. If another player has a token on the heart, the player can bump the other player’s token off and replace it with her own token. When...
Update Tuesday morning Jan. 15th: I just checked and it looks like the sale has now ended. I want to spread the word that the wonderful Scholastic Dollar Deals sale is back! I’ve bought and downloaded dozens of books and resources over the past couple of years and use lots and lots of them in our homeschool. I’m not sure when the sale ends. The website states “we have extended the...
Active Math Games / Freebies / Homeschool Den / Math General Posts / Math--Fractions / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 11, 2013 · Last modified March 16, 2016
I made a set of equivalent fraction cards. LD has to figure out the correct answer and then moves that many spaces on our homemade Fast Track Gameboard. You can download these Equivalent Fraction Cards (pokemon-theme) here. They are free to download. 🙂 We made our own gameboard years ago and still have it tucked in the corner to pull out! This was an idea I got from the wonderful book, Games for...
Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Our Homeschool (what our day is like, curriculum choices, etc.) / Homeschool: Planning and Preparation / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 4, 2013
I spent a lot of time over our winter break thinking about what we will cover this spring. Our kids are in grades 4, 2 and preschool although as homeschoolers this doesn’t mean much as they cover what they are ready for and go at their own individual paces. I wrote up a general set of plans and you can take a glimpse at what is in store for our family....
Freebies / Holiday: Christmas Activities / Homeschool Den / Math General Posts / Math--Division / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 16, 2012 · Last modified March 16, 2016
I shared DD’s multiplication pages a couple days ago. Now here are the division pages I made for LD. He isn’t as inspired by the cute pages, but I still made a few pages for him. You can download the Christmas-themed-division here. I made the illustrations myself. There also some addition (with Pete the Cat) and multiplication (with Pete the Cat) pages in this same style. See you again soon...
Ages 2-6: Pete the Cat Unit / Freebies / Holiday: Christmas Activities / Homeschool Den / Math General Posts / Math--Addition / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 15, 2012 · Last modified March 16, 2016
ED is not really ready for complicated addition problems. She’ll just use the first of the six pages in this packet. I’ll have her roll the die and fill in the blanks—and I’ll also use some dominoes and have her fill in the numbers. If you don’t have actual dominoes, you can print the domino set from Mathwire. They even have a add-on set for up to double-nines. Click here to download Christmas...
Ages 2-6: Pete the Cat Unit / Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Freebies / Homeschool Den / Math: Preschool Math / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published December 11, 2012 · Last modified March 16, 2016
ED continued to work on things she selected from her workbox with the Pete the Cat theme. She worked through this addition page I made for her… Buttons Addition for Pete the Cat Here’s ED doing the activity a couple of days ago: She loved the Pete the Cat Die and graph from Herding Kats. The Pete the Cat Roll and Color is by Shannon over at Kindergarten Hoppenings. ED especially liked...
Ages 2-6: Pete the Cat Unit / Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Theme Time (age 2-4) / Homeschool Den / Math: Preschool Math / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published November 30, 2012 · Last modified February 17, 2016
Last week I asked ED what she wanted to learn about. “Kittens!” she declared. I was thinking I would have her make a kitten lapbook, but the more I looked around, the more resources I found for some books called, Pete the Cat. I hadn’t heard of them before, but they seemed to be all the rage among the early elementary teachers who offered many Pete-the-Cat themed worksheets free on...
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