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Valentines Poems

Valentines by Aileen Fisher I gave a hundred Valetines A hundred, did I say? I gave a thousand Valentines one cold and wintry day. I didn't put my name on them or any other words, because my Valentines were seeds for February birds! Valentines by ...
Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day Poems

Groundhog Day by Jane Drotos to the tune of Up On the Housetop Please Mr. Groundhog hide, hide, hide So winter soon will be bye bye. Oh Mr. Sun please stay behind a cloud There must be no shadow of the big groundhog! Groundhog Day ...
Solar System

Solar System

Ideas and activities to learn about the Solar System Make a Solar System Crayon Resist where you use crayon drawings of the solar system and paint with black watercolor over to reveal what you've drawn. https://artsomeelementaryart.blogspot.com/2014/05/3rd-grade-solar-system-watercolor.html Crayon Resist with Watercolor Art Lesson Make Stars using ...
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The Great Backyard Bird Count

Help Science The Great Backyard Bird Count! Scientists can’t be everywhere; that’s why they need our help. The Great Backyard Bird Count is February 16–19, 2024, and participation is fun, free and easy for all ages. You’ll be part of a global effort that will ...
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Frogs

Frog Lifecycle Lifecycle Booklet Crayola Lifecycle Lesson Plan Tadpole to Frog Frog Life Cycles Cut and Paste https://www.rsd.k12.pa.us/Downloads/FrogLifeCycle2.pdf Frog Life Cycle Wheel https://www.marketweightoninfantschool.co.uk/_documents/%5B632109%5DScience_-_1_Frog_Life_Cycle_Wheel_Instructions.pdf Frog Life Cycle Wheel https://kindergartenmom.com/wp-content/uploads/KMOM/Frogs/FrogLifeCycle.pdf Frog Life Cycle Worksheet https://www.itsybitsyfun.com/life-cycle-of-a-frog-worksheet.html Frog Dissection Virtual Frog Dissection Kit https://froggy.lbl.gov/virtual/ Frog Dissection – Virtual for ...
Pearl S. Buck Literature Based Themes - Homeschooling on a Shoestring

Buck, Pearl S.

Author Pearl S. Buck Literature Based Theme has free and low-cost activities, lesson plans, study guides, suggested additional materials, and more. Biographical information https://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/Buck/biography.html https://myhero.com/Pearl_Buck https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/20160/quick-10-10-famous-homeschooled-people Field Trip Tours of the Pearl S. Buck House https://pearlsbuck.org/takeatour/ View their educational resources for activities via the Internet ...
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Leap Day

Leap Day Poem February has 28 days Except when leap year falls Then we have 29 days But it's still the shortest Month of all Leap Day Math Use math to understand why a leap day is inserted into our calendar every four years. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/leap-day-math/ ...
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Abraham Lincoln Songs & Poems

Abraham Lincoln born February 12, 1809 Abe Lincoln by Betty Anderson [verse 1] Lincoln lived in Illinois Then went to Washington The people made him president in 1861. [chorus] Lincoln, Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Lincoln, Lincoln Abraham Lincoln [verse 2] Lincoln was our president When times ...
George Washington Steven Van Elk

George Washington Poems

George Washington I cannot tell a lie sir I'm sorry as can be. It was with my little hatchet I chopped down the cherry tree ...
Mexico Unit Study Homeschooling on a Shoestring

Mexico Unit Study

Mexico Unit Study has free and low-cost activities, lesson plans, worksheets, study guides, and more. MATTHEW 28:19-20 discuss the spread of Christianity into Mexico. Vocabulary: Indigenous Peoples Canyon Volcano Cinco de Mayo Mariachi Conquistador Border Coast Hurricane Online Dictionary http://dictionary.reference.com Free downloadable software to look ...
Corduroy by Don Freeman

Corduroy

Corduroy by Don Freeman Activities & worksheets, links & additional suggested materials, links, prepared units, other online printables for this book. A Journal for Corduroy https://web.archive.org/web/20050308165257/http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=30 A Pocket for Corduroy Activity Guide A Pocket for Corduroy Bilingual Activity Guide Bear Art activities with a bear ...
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Fractals

The Dance of Chance exhibit. Patterns in nature. http://polymer.bu.edu/museum/ Polygonal. Change the parameters to create a new fractal. You need Java software in order to view the virtual manipulatives. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_151_g_3_t_3.html Iterative. Generate six different fractals. Java software needed to view. http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_135_g_3_t_3.html Koch & Sierpinski virtual ...
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Understanding Numbers

Learning to count, counting by multiples, number lines, number order as in what comes before or after a number and what comes between two numbers, as well as activities that match the digit with equivalent objects or the word name of the number. Can Teach ...
Shipwrecks in History Unit Study - Homeschooling on a Shoestring

Shipwrecks Unit Study

Shipwrecks Unit Study has free and low-cost activities, lesson plans, worksheets, study guides, and more. http://www.higherpraise.com/pdf/New/Curr269/Curr26900001.html Shipwrecked at Malta. Click through the pages to find a color page, true and false questions, circle the correct word, word search, maze, fill in the blank and crossword ...
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The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

The prototype for all science fiction, H. G. Wells’s fantastic novel will not let you out of its grip as it narrates the invasion of Earth by ruthless Martians. In 1938, a radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds—done in the style of a ...

 

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Erin Condren Homeschool Planner

Erin Condren Homeschool Planner

Erin Condren offers a homeschool planner that I like. The size is like their regular teacher's planner, it is the 8.5" x 11". There is plenty of room to write plans and activities out. The months are undated so you can start on your schedule. The paper is 80# text weight paper, the same as used in the Erin Condren Life Planner. The paper has a nice tooth to it, not flimsy as in so many other planners. The ...

 

Life

Project Organize Refrigerator

Project Organize Refrigerator

Today's project organize refrigerator was inspired by a very recent trip to Dollar Tree and recalling a pin I saw on Pinterest. I know from previous disappointment that if I don't buy what I see at Dollar Tree, it is gone the next time I stop in. Apparently green is the color that one of the employees mentioned are trending, at least in the organizing product category. Green happened to be the color I was looking for. When I first purchased the refrigerator a few years ago, I also stopped in Bed, Bath and Beyond for some organizers to start it right. Previous to that, we were using an old college dorm type fridge. That finally gave out and we using nothing for a time. I had saved enough money to buy a new fridge. All except for 2 of the Bed, Bath and Beyond organizers I purchased didn't ...

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Lupus Awareness

Someone I love has Lupus.
Lupus Foundation of America says Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that can affect various parts of the body, especially the skin, joints, blood, and kidneys.
The Lupus Research Alliance posts Ways Lupus Can Affect the Body and diagnosing Lupus.
Brooke Goldner, MD is a board certified physician who developed a nutrition-based treatment for her own autoimmune disease, lupus. She is published medical doctor and bestselling author of Goodbye Autoimmune Disease and Goodbye Lupus. Dr Brooke Goldner also has a YouTube Channel where she shares so much information about Lupus as well as other autoimmune diseases.


Lupus Signs and Symptoms Infographic Ways Lupus Can Affect the Body Infographic from Lupus Research Alliance Goodbye Lupus How a Medical Doctor Healed Herself Naturally With Supermarket Foods by Brooke Goldner M.D. Goodbye Autoimmune Disease How to Prevent and Reverse Chronic Illness and Inflammatory Symptoms Using Supermarket Foods by Brooke Goldner M.D