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How Do I Teach Nature Study? Day 3: Nature Notebooks

August 21, 2013 By: amyswandering2 Comments

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Everyone has different ideas about notebooking. Some stick strictly to traditional notebooking pages. My definition? If it fits in a notebook, it is a notebooking page!

Every week we do something for Nature Fun Friday. We try to add a page to our nature notebooks each week. The kids might sketch something they saw on a nature walk, color a detailed page, or complete an activity sheet. On rainy days we do a nature craft, or read from a nature story ebook.

Nature notebook pages are not limited to only the animals in your area. Pick a chapter from the Handbook of Nature Study and learn about whatever you want! Choose coordinating activity pages and you can open up a whole new world for your child.

I have been working hard to create a Nature Notebook Master List to provide you with pages of FREE resources for your nature study! I will be continually adding new activities, so be sure to Pin or bookmark!

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—> VIEW THE NATURE NOTEBOOK MASTER LIST <—

~*~ Do YOU utilize notebooking in your nature study ? ~*~

Join me tomorrow to see how I organize our notebooking resources!

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Homeschool for Free: Unit Studies

August 6, 2013 By: amyswandering2 Comments

Free Homeschool Unit Studies

Unit Studies are great for hands-on learning, and for combining subjects for multiple kids. These sites have enough FREE Unit Studies to keep you busy for years!

Easy Fun School

Fun Christian Homeschooling Unit Studies

Homeschool Share

A to Z Teacher Stuff

Online Units by G. Miller

LaCelle Family Homeschool Unit Studies

Homeschool Helper Online

Cindy Downes’ Unit Studies

Dynamic 2 Moms

E-learninglinks

Stone Soup

Highland Heritage Homeschool

About.com Homeschooling

Crosswalk Unit Studies

School Express

FamilyClassroom Free Unit Studies

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Our 2013-2014 Curriculum Plan

July 31, 2013 By: amyswandering8 Comments

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{This post contains a few affiliate links. Thank you for purchasing through my site!}

It is always a relief to get to this point every year, where the the courses are nailed down and the books are ordered! I will post a break-down of each subject and how I tackle each one in an upcoming post. I love to see how families work it all out!

We will add in our Theme of the Day Activities using this schedule:

  • Monday with the Masters
  • Creativity Tuesday
  • Around the World Wednesday
  • Poetry Tea Thursday
  • Nature Fun Friday

Our students: dd16 (11th), dd14 (9th), ds10 (5th), dd8 (3rd), dd4 (PreK)

Because I overlap curriculum for several ages, I am listing by subject instead of grade.

~ Bible ~

  • A Young Historian’s Introduction to Worldview
  • Christian Theology and Ancient Polytheism
  • Foundations 2: Christ Our Messiah
  • (Note: We had been using Bible Road Trip alongside Foundations. I want to go through the New Testament this year, and Danika hasn’t created that yet, but I wanted to give it a shout out as a great & FREE curriculum.)
  • Calvary Curriculum  (FREE)
  • Character Qualities  (FREE)
  • BibleWise Printables  (FREE)

~ History ~

  • What Every Child Needs to Know About the Western World
  • Calendar Quest
  • A History of Us
  • Story of the World video links  (FREE)
  • SOTW & Netflix movie list  (FREE)

~ Geography ~

  • Trail Guide to World Geography
  • Around the World in Eighty Days  (FREE)
  • Around the World in Eighty Days Unit Study  (FREE)
  • Around the World in Eighty Dishes  (FREE)

~ Science ~

  • Body of Evidence
  • Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology
  • Anatomy (Pinterest)  (FREE)

~ Math ~

  • Teaching Textbooks Algebra 2
  • Teaching Textbooks Algebra 1
  • Teaching Textbooks 5
  • Saxon Math 3

~ High School Electives ~

  • Speech- Philosophy Adventure
  • French- Duolingo

~ Writing ~

  • The Power in Your Hands: Writing Nonfiction in High School & Teacher’s Guide
  • Writing Notebook Printables  (FREE)
  • Look, Think, and Write  (FREE)

~ Grammar ~

  • First Language lessons for the Well-Trained Mind Level 3 & workbook
  • First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind Level 2

~ Spelling ~

  • The Spell of Words
  • Soaring With Spelling and Vocabulary

~ Lit/Reading ~

  • College Bound Reading List  (FREE)
  • Book Notes  (FREE)
  • Building Vocabulary  (FREE)
  • Book Adventure  (FREE)
  • Right Into Reading
  • Mrs. Perkin’s Dolche Words  (FREE)
  • Sight Word Sentences  (FREE)

~ Handwriting ~

  • Handwriting Without Tears Cursive
  • Handwriting Without Tears Cursive Success

~ Pre-K ~

  • Alphabet Resources  (FREE)
  • Reading the Alphabet  (FREE)
  • Preschool Calendar Notebook  (FREE)
  • Poetry Journal  (FREE)
  • Starfall  (FREE)

Note: We don’t complete all of these free lessons. I pick & choose whatever goes with our studies.  Didn’t want you to think we homeschool 24/7! ;)

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Homeschool Theme of the Day

July 25, 2013 By: amyswandering2 Comments

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We had great success last year with our Theme of the Day Chart!

With 5 kiddos needing my attention, it was hard for us to fit in the fun stuff like crafts or artist studies. Adding them to our morning homeschool routine allows us to stay on track without the extras slipping through the cracks.

I am changing it up just a bit this year by using Wednesday to focus on Geography instead of Writing. Last year’s Theme of the Day Chart is still available if that suits you better.

{All of the links below are FREE, but that could change so double check!}

~ Our 2013-14 Theme of the Day Chart ~

~ Monday with the Masters ~

  • Art History: A Century of Modern Art 
  • Exploring the Great Artists
  • Famous Artist Crafts
  • Awesome Artists
  • Artists and Their Art

~ Creativity Tuesday ~

  • Art/Crafts (Pinterest)
  • Fall (Pinterest )
  • Halloween (Pinterest)
  • Thanksgiving (Pinterest)
  • Christmas (Pinterest)
  • Winter (Pinterest)
  • Valentine (Pinterest)
  • Spring (Pinterest)

~ Around the World Wednesday ~

  • Geography and Cultures
  • Mr. Donn’s Geography
  • Project Explorer
  • World Geography for High Schoolers
  • Christmas Around the World blog series
  • Christmas Around the World celebrations
  • Christmas Cultures
  • Geography (Pinterest)

~ Poetry Tea Thursday ~

  • What Rhymes with Squirrel? 
  • Giggle Poetry
  • Poetry Corner  
  • Poetry Primer 
  • Poems Every Child Should Know
  • Poetry Printables & Resources

~ Nature Fun Friday ~

  • Nature Detectives
  • Notebooking
  • Handbook of Nature Study
  • Nature (Pinterest)

–> Download the 2013-14 Theme of the Day Chart <–

{Note: You need to choose the landscape setting when printing}

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  • My Free Curriculum Links
  • My Nature Notebook Master List
  • The Ultimate Guide to Free Copywork

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Homeschool for Free: Grammar

May 14, 2013 By: amyswandering7 Comments

Free Homeschool Grammar Curriculum

Here is some great site’s for you’re kids to be practicing they’re grammar with.

Oh settle down, I am kidding!! 🙂

Enjoy this list of Free Grammar Curriculum.

KISS Grammar

Grammar Bytes

Daily Grammar

Powerpoint Grammar

English Banana

English-Zone

Glencoe Workbooks

Improve Your Writing

English Grammar 101

English Maven

Scott Foresman Handbooks

Literacy Place Resources

The Basics of Sentence Diagramming

Busy Teacher Worksheets

Big Dog’s Grammar

National Treasures Workbooks

Grammar-land

Road to Grammar

English Grammar Online

Grammar Songs

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