Kids can’t resist spinner games, so yours should really get a kick out of these. WeAreTeachers.com has several neat printable game worksheets that help teach fractions. Their packet of fractions worksheets includes 11 printable games. Students can play the games to practice writing and recognizing fractions, coloring and producing fractions, fraction equivalents, and fraction-decimal conversion.
Category: Math
Free Subscription to American Heritage Magazine
One of our favorite history publications for the past 50+ years was American Heritage, “the distinguished magazine of history”. Their lavishly illustrated articles on all things American – history, values, ingenuity and culture – are just great. After ceasing publication of the physical magazine in 2016, it has returned in an online format. The magazine is currently offering free subscriptions to the new digital version of American Heritage. Subscribers receive free digital issues and newsletters as they are published, plus access to over 7,000 articles and essays in their archives. The newsletters will be once-a-month emails with history news, reviews, and other items of interest.
CLICK HERE to go to the website!
Dad’s Worksheets
Over the past 10 years, Dad’s Worksheets.com has created over 8,600 printable math worksheets, logic puzzles and math games for students at every level — and makes them available free for printing or downloading on their website. Just about any mathematics topic you can think of can be found here, including all the core math skills, number patterns, measurement & conversions, word problems, geometry, rounding numbers, factorization, and on and on. All worksheets can be printed or saved to PDF.
CLICK HERE to go to the site!
Simple Math Games
HelpingWithMath.com offers loads of simple math games for elementary grade students. The games here are not filled with lots of hyper animation and distractions, and have solid learning value. Games include times tables, place value, rounding, ordering numbers, skip counting, fractions, and many more. If you’re doing elementary level math, you will probably find several games here you can incorporate into your homeschool for reviewing lessons and some educational fun.
They also have a huge collection of worksheets, flash cards, and other printable resources to help teach and reinforce math concepts. No login or account required.
CLICK HERE to go to the site!
“Mini Offices” from Practical Pages
A Mini Office is essentially a reference file or folder with all a child’s personal important information right at hand. This could be reference charts, handwriting charts, number lines, multiplication tables, vocabulary lists, handy facts and any other useful information. It is a handy way of encouraging children to work independently and to provide the necessary assistance without having to put up visual displays.
Nadene at Practical Pages has put together collections of these reference pages for both younger and older students. They are filled with useful, helpful stuff, and you’re gonna want to download ’em both.
The JUNIOR MINI OFFICE includes:
- Number Line & Number Chart
- Ordinal numbers & Fractions
- Tally or scores, finger counting signs, Shapes, Colours, Directions
- Number words & Roman Clock and Roman numbers
- Multiplication Tables
- Seasons & Months & Days of the Week
- Days of the week & time of the day
- Address & Where am I?
- Weather symbols and Rainbow
- Sight Word Walls
- Phonic Alphabet
- Phonic Blends
- Family Words
- Print Handwriting Chart
- Cursive Handwriting Chart
THE SENIOR MINI OFFICE is a 20-page PDF download that covers a lot of Mathematics, and includes:
- Number Chart
- Number words
- Multiplication Table
- Keeping score / Tally, Finger counting, Shapes & Colours
- Maths Symbols & their meanings & Compass
- Ordinal numbers & Roman Clock & Roman numerals
- Telling Time , Clock face, Analogue & Digital Clocks
- Angles & Fractions
- Different types of fractions & Converting fractions
- Converting Units & Number Systems
- Percentages – Decimals – Fractions
- Circles – Definition & Formula
- 2D Shapes – Description Circumference & Area formula
- 3D Shapes – Description Volume & Outer Area formula
- Triangles – Definition & Formula
- Weather symbols & Wind direction & speed symbol & Celsius/Fahrenheit
- Cursive Handwriting Chart
CLICK HERE to go to the site!
Printable Graph Paper & More
Have you ever needed a very specific type of graph paper or grid paper for a project or lesson? If so, you’ll understand the value of this very helpful freebie.
Incompetech.com has a great online graph paper generator, that lets you customize pages to your specifications and then download as PDFs so you can print copies as needed. There’s a wonderful variety of designs: Squares, circles, hexagons, brick patterns, etc. — even specialty pages (music notation, accounting ledgers, perspective & more). You’ll find these PDFs extremely useful. Bookmark for use when you need it!
CLICK HERE to go to the site!
Previously…
Here are a few recent freebies we posted in July just before the lights went out:
GREENLEAF GUIDE TO OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY
This “History for the thoughtful child” by Rob & Cyndy Shearer outlines a reading program which will take you through the history of Israel by reading through the historical books from Genesis to Nehemiah chronologically. Old Testament history is divided into 196 Bible readings (approximately 1 chapter each) along with some suggestions of how to cover the material and keep it interesting. For each reading there is a series of questions to help you focus on the significant details. There are also a number of background notes and some suggestions for further study. This book won’t answer all your questions, but it will give you a well thought out program of reading and studying the ancient history of Israel. This is intended as a first history course for the early elementary grades (though many parents are using it with high school students).
The complete ebook is available at this link on Lulu. You’ll need to go through checkout to download it, but it is totally free.
THE BIRDSLEUTH EXPLORER’S GUIDEBOOK!
Here’s a wonderful freebie for your nature studies. The Cornell Institute of Ornithology offers its 12 page BirdSleuth Explorer’s Guidebook absolutely free to download and print.
The full color 14 page booklet includes lots of great stuff for identifying birds, including some fun activities and worksheets to fill out. This is a great printable to help get kids interested in birds and will teach them lots of the basics of bird watching and bird identification.
Pages include:
• Wake up your ears
• What’s a habitat?
• Habitat scavenger hunt
• Bird search
• Identification clues
• Bird count
• I wonder
CLICK HERE to go to the download page at MagicalChildhood.com. You can find it at the very bottom of the page.
WORLD WAR 2 TWEETS in Real Time
Here’s a unique “living history” twitter account, which livetweets the events of the Second World War as it happened in “real time” on this day in 1940 & for 5 years to come. Events unfold as they happened during the war, with frequent updates throughout each day. It’s filled with amazing period photos and brief commentary — great for students studying WW2.
CLICK HERE to go to this Twitter account!
Emergency “Get-Started Right NOW” HIGH SCHOOL COURSES
Do you know someone who has had to begin homeschooling a high-school age student at the last minute? Who doesn’t? Well, this resource will be of tremendous help in that situation.
HomeschoolCollegeUSA.com put together this “emergency” page for parents looking for courses they can begin immediately with a student pulled from a public school system, with little or no time to research and prepare for homeschooling, It was put together as one a student can start at any time without a lot of prep work. The courses listed (with the exception of their recommended math courses) are all free and only require internet access, plus paper and pens/pencils for note-taking when needed.
HomeschoolCollegeUSA also offers a four year curriculum for high school students, plus resources that help students to earn college credit via CLEP while still in high school. Check out the whole site… loads of great resources for homeschooling any high school students.
CLICK HERE to go to the site!