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Tomorrow is the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics. Here are some free notebook pages if you want to cover a few basic facts about Pyeongchang and the sports that are featured at the Winter Games! In this free packet you’ll find a page that covers some basic facts about the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, some geography of Asia and the Korean Peninsula. There is one page with the...
History: Geography Activities / Homeschool Den
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 7, 2018 · Last modified March 1, 2024
This is just a quick note to let you all know that I added in a few more pages to the World Facts Packet. This packet is now well over 125 pages! When we start off the new school year, I want the kids to go over some basic world facts again. Do they remember… What are the four largest countries? (Russia, Canada, the U.S.A., China) What countries have the...
History: China Unit / Homeschool Den / Trips We've Taken
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 5, 2018 · Last modified September 5, 2022
Last week, I shared a little bit about what we’ve been doing in our homeschool, but I also mentioned that we have been on the go a lot. Pretty much right after that post went live, we headed out of town again! I wanted to share a few pictures from the amazing exhibit we went to see: Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China. It was wonderful! The Terracotta...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 3, 2018 · Last modified February 2, 2020
I just added a new set of Valentine’s Day worksheets to the Multiplication Bundle (225 pages and growing!). Each worksheet has both multiplication and division practice and a skip counting maze. You’ll find pages to practice the multiplication and division facts 2s thru 9s. As you can see below, some of the pages focus just on one multiplication table: these cover the 2s through the 9s. There are also a...
Holiday: Valentine's Day / Kindergarten Math / Math--Addition / Math: Preschool Math
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 1, 2018 · Last modified February 2, 2020
I thought it would be fun to add some seasonal math games to the Addition Bundle! I added three new games and a number of Montessori-style addition pages just in time for Valentine’s Day! This bundle continues to grow! 🙂 There are three different game board sets of Valentine’s Day Games: What comes before, What comes after Game: For this game, players will spin both spinners. Once they determine the...
Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Month in Review / Homeschool: Our Homeschool (what our day is like, curriculum choices, etc.) / How to Start Homeschooling
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 30, 2018
This semester has been off to a topsy-turvy start. The homeschooling part is going well… when we’re homeschooling that is! Don’t you feel like that some days?!! I thought I would write a post about some of the things we’ve been doing lately. (At the very bottom of this post, I’ll link to other posts that give snippets of our day (or week)… all the way back to when the...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Preschool at Home / Kindergarten / Science: Animal Characteristics / Science: Biomes; Animal Habitats
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 28, 2018 · Last modified September 23, 2023
World Animals Unit Our World Animal Packet is a 100+ page unit includes animals from every continent! It includes worksheets, Montessori 3-Part Cards, Activity Sheets for every continent, beautiful continent cards, a world animal game, world animal pin map activity, and more! I’ve just added 10 new pages to our World Animals Packet, making it over 100 pages! If your kids love animals, they are going to have fun with...
Active Math Games / Freebies / Math--Addition
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 24, 2018 · Last modified January 8, 2018
Here’s a quick game you can print out and play with your kids today! All it requires is 3 dice! Kids have to add and/or subtract numbers to try to mark off the numbers on the game board. This version is called Contig and I saw it on Math Wire years ago: Here’s how to play: Player 1 tosses the three dice. Using either addition or subtraction, create a number...
Critical Thinking Activities / Homeschool: Random Thoughts / Math General Posts
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 22, 2018 · Last modified January 21, 2018
The biggest mistake you can make is to be afraid to make one! I often love books about the brain and the latest on brain research. You probably already know about the link between exercise and learning. There are studies that show that after just twenty minutes of exercise, the brain is fired up! Read all about it in the fitness.gov article, Learning is a Moving Experience. Check out the composite...
Ages 2-6 / Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Preschool at Home / Copywork Pages (Free) / Freebies / Kindergarten
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 20, 2018 · Last modified April 19, 2019
Our Alphabet Packet has had a huge update! It is currently FREE to download! This 50-page packet has a number of alphabet worksheets and activities for helping your preschooler to recognize, read, and write letters of the alphabet. This fun packet includes: tracing pages, matching (the letter with a picture that starts with that letter of the alphabet), alphabet mazes, identify the letters, letter graphing Use the colorful alphabet cards...
All About Homeschooling! / Homeschool Den / Homeschool High School / Preparing for College
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 19, 2018 · Last modified January 17, 2018
I’ve been having long conversations with my Sis about high school (homeschool) transcripts and the college application process. Her family (like ours) has also homeschooled right from the start, but my nieces and nephew are a bit older than my kids. My niece is now a junior in college and over the weekend, my Sis and my nephew were polishing up his college applications to get them submitted. I asked...
Freebies / Homeschool Den / Math-Roman Numerals
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 17, 2018
Do you know this date, MCCXV? What about MCMLXIII? I wanted my kids to be able to figure out tricky dates like those, so I made this Roman Numeral Packet over the break. The first few pages introduce the Roman numerals and helped my youngest daughter understand how they were built. There is a table that the kids filled in with I=1, V=5, X=10, L=50, C=100, D=500, M=1000. My older...
Homeschool Den / Language Arts: Writing
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 15, 2018 · Last modified January 8, 2018
Today, I have some free creative writing paper for you. This set includes various mythological creatures: dragon, centaur, dwarf, gargoyle, goblin, dryad, and so forth. My girls thought these were neat and I have printed out these pages to store in our Writing Workshop area for when they are in the mood! Down below, I’ll include some of the links to why we started using a Writing Workshop in our...
Today Sra. Morato and I have some free Spanish Numbers Worksheets — Los Números. There is a Spanish numbers reference page with the numbers 1 through 30. Then it has all the numbers up to 100 – 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100. And finally it has the larger numbers like 1,000; 10,000, 100,000 and a million. There are also two very simple matching pages as well. We hope...
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What science topics could I teach my 5-7 year old - Homeschool Science Curriculum
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A list of the books we've used most in history, science, math, language arts, etc.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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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