Language Arts

Freebies from Lit Mama

Lit Mama Homeschool.com has a delightful collection of dozens of homeschool resources, worksheets, mini unit studies, planning pages, and more that may be freely downloaded.

Here’s just a few of them, reflecting Lit Mama’s them of “educating with a fire for literature”:

Poetry Walk Poems /Poetry Tea Time Poem Book for Kids
Treasure Island Pirate Pack
Explore your Neighborhood Pack
Mini Units on Bridge to Terabithia, Tom Sawyer, Watership Down, The Secret Garden, Alice 8n Wonderland,
Blank Maps of the World
Teaching Story Types & Elements of Plot
Book Journaling prompts
Curriculum & project planners…
And lots more.

CLICK HERE to go to the site and browse the collection!

Craziness, News

So this happened.

Hi Friends,

We had a digital meltdown, and the past 10+ years of freebies and resource posts just… poof! Evaporated.

So we are going to start again in just a couple more days.

There’s just a few resources here right now, but there will soon be more. Sorry for the inconvenience.

In the meantime, just looking at these wonderful photos taken last week  from The Atlantic and shared by the Internet Monk makes us happy. Don’t they make you feel better too?

The Erskine Family

Sunflowers in France
Child playing in a waterfall at Yards Park in Washington DC
Tourist taking pictures of a lavender field in France

 

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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.

CLICK HERE!

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!