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Monthly Planning Notes {Free Printables}

October 10, 2013 By: amyswandering4 Comments

monthly planning notes

At the beginning of the school year, I created some monthly planning notes to give me a creative overview of our year. They have worked so well that I want to share them with you!

I wanted to be able to schedule out seasonal themes and activities, but a monthly calendar wasn’t giving me enough space. My planning notes are broken into weeks with plenty of room for writing.

A few of the things I list in my notes:

the week # (so I can coordinate with our school calendar)
our weekly Funschool theme
letter & # of the week for my preschooler
holidays
field trips
craft ideas

monthly notes

Click on each month to download your FREE 2013-2014 planning notes!

Feel free to share, but please link to this post and not to the files.

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{Funschool} Dem Bones

October 8, 2013 By: amyswandering2 Comments

funschool dem bones

Welcome to the first edition of Funschool, a weekly list of FREE educational lesson plans and printables built around a seasonal theme!

This week’s theme is having a little fun with skeletons and bones, which happens to be our current science lesson. These links are more educational than Halloween-y!

Skeletal System lapbook

Skeletal System notebooking pages

Printable Skeleton use for bone review

Body Basics: Bones interactive diagram

{There are affiliate links in this post for books that complement the theme.}

Where Does This Bone Belong? matching worksheet

Human Skeleton coloring & fill-in-the-blank

Working Robot Hand to build

Learn the Skeletal System interactive game

Name Skeleton craft

Pasta Skeleton craft

Twig Skeleton nature activity

Veggie Skeleton for snacktime

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No Bones About It Mad Lib (oh how we love Mad Libs)

Plot Skeleton graphic organizer

Funnybones Printables playdough mat, x-rays, writing paper

Skeleton Facts writing paper & craft

Knotted Bones science experiment

Paper Plate Skeleton

Mr. Bones Relay Race

Bone Match online game

Sock Skeleton use to learn the bone names

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October Math Poems

October 1, 2013 By: amyswandering3 Comments

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$October Math Poem Worksheets$

It is time once again for Poppins Book Nook and this month’s theme is School! Hmmm, that’s a tricky one for homeschoolers, so we decided to go with an education theme.

One of the books we have loved over the years is Mathematickles!, a book of Math poems found in nature.

Mathematickles! takes words, math, and seasons, and rolls them all up into beautiful word pictures. For example:

“holes + nuts – nuts = squirrel hide & seek”

and

“maple leaves + puddle = crimson ships”

I love how these poems combine creativity with logic, so I made an October Math Poem worksheet to help my kids create some seasonal poetry equations of their own.

$October Math Poems Printable$

A few of the ones we wrote:

stick + sticky – dental fillings = caramel apple

1/3 moonlight + 1/3 sunset + 1/3 sunrise = candy corn

pumpkin ÷ imagination = jack o’ lantern

trick x treat = candy ’til Easter

Feel free to download the October Math Poems worksheet, and PLEASE share some of your creations in the comments!!

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Each month the Poppins Book Nook members will be hosting a book giveaway. This month it is for It’s Back to School We Go!: First Day Stories from Around the World. The giveaway is open to US residents only.