St. Patrick’s Day Freebies

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Mar 152010
 

St. Patrick Day is approaching, what fun activities do you have planned?   CurrClick has some great freebies up right now.


Notebooking is a big part of our lessons.  It really brings facts alive for children.  Little ones just love putting together a journal of what they’ve learned.  Check out these free notebooking pages! St. Patrick’s Day Notebooking Pages


Shamrocks and Shillelaghs is a free ebook by Teachers Book Bag.  It gives the history of many Irish and St. Patrick’s day symbols.   Also included are some poems, calendar cards and activities.


St. Patrick: The World’s Greatest Missionary is a great little book.  It’s full of stories about St. Patrick, picture studies, map and copywork.  And a recipe for Irish Soda bread to!



If these aren’t quite what your looking for  CurrClick also has these books on sale at a great price.


St. Patrick’s Day Lapbook with Study Guide

Celebrating St Patrick & St Patrick’s Day [BUNDLE]

Connect The Thoughts – Saint Patrick’s Day Creative Writing/History Unit

Recorded Class! – St. Patrick’s Day

March Book Bag, 2009


NotebookingPages 2010 Winter Sale Event!

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Jan 142010
 

Tired of Busywork?  Seize the Most from Your Day . . . with Notebooking!
Notebooking is a powerful tool that captures what your children have learned, turning it into a concise, artful piece of work.  Visit NotebookingPages.com for free and affordable templates to help you get started today!  Simply print out a selection of free notebooking templates or choose pages from one of their themed sets.

Now is a great time to try some of NotebookingPages.com’s products during their HUGE Winter Sale Event! Savings of 30-50% depending on which day you purchase!


Check it out here:
Save even more with these special coupons!

Use coupon code: winter15p to save an additional 15%.

Use coupon code: winter5 to save $5 off any purchase of $10 or more.

(Coupons good for one use and expire January 19th at 11:59pm (EST).)

A Great Geography Resource!

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Apr 132009
 

Have you seen the Discovering the Continents series?  These are a wonderful resource for geography!  We’ll be using them with our unit study this year.  They have them for Africa, Australia and South America.  Each has lap/note book pages, mini books, games etc.  A super fun way to learn about the animals and habitats of each continent!

This week ONLY they are on sale for 2.00 each!!  What a wonderful deal!

Click here to learn more!

Are you looking for something for the younger ones?
Check out Continental Little Hoppers.

Maple Syrup Festival!

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Apr 022009
 
We’ve been learning about how maple syrup is made, how and why it was used.  So we were really excited to be able to go to one of the many maple syrup festivals this year!

The only down sides was how very BUSY it was!  There was at least a few thousand people there.  The line ups for food were over half an hour long!  So we decided to go some were else to eat at the end of the day.  The kids were a little disappointed not to get a pancake supper there.  But quickly cheered up when dh said we’d go out for pizza.  Then I made a big pancake breakfast the next morning.  Topped off with our own maple syrup of course!
Since it was so busy they have parking lots set up through out the town.  You catch one of the many free busses running back and forth to the conservation park.  The girls had a great time!  It was there very first time on a bus.  :-)   Once they got used to the bumpy ride and not needing seat belts they had a great time.

Once we got there we tried to watch the sheep shearing demonstration.  Unfortunately it was so crowded we couldn’t get near it.  So we headed down one of the trails away from the crowds.   We found our way to the trappers camp.  We had fun looking at the teepees.  They also had lots of different furs set up to look at.  The girls had fun comparing there softness and trying to guess what each one was.


We also talked to a gentleman who was making leather pouches.  He was working with 3 different types of leather deer, moose and caribou (or elk?? I can’t remember).  It was interesting to learn about the different types.  He explained how they all stretched differently and were different strengths.


Then we talked with another gentleman that had a “trading camp” set up.  It was very interesting looking at all the items fur traders bartered with the Native Americans for furs.  He showed us some of the knives that the Natives would trade for.  We learned that they often would have them cut in half, to make two tools.   Some times they would have them added into the middle of their war clubs to make a more deadly weapon.  We got talking about the older map makers and how reliable some of them were.  We could have staid and talked with him all day!


After that we walked through some of the pioneer areas.  They had lots of different camp kitchens set up.


We stopped at a rope making station.  Each of the girls got make there own ropes!


Then we went for a horse drawn wagon ride.  The kids loved that!  They all thought it was a nicer ride then the bus LOL!

After that we stopped at a display were the kids could tap there own tree.   The gentleman had a large maple log set up as the corner post of his tent area.  He helped the little ones drill there own holes with an old fashion hand drill.  Then clean out the hole and hammer in there tap, lastly hanging the bucket.  After there hard work they were rewarded with a sucker from the sucker tree!


We also visited the sheep and alpaca pen.  The kids could go in and feed and play with the animals.  There was also another animal barn set up with different farm animals.



One of our last stops was a decorate your own maple syrup bucket.  Unfortunately  they were just about out of paint and decorations by the time we got there.  But the girls still had fun.  :-)   When we got home they added more drawings to there buckets.

Over all we had a great time!

New Curriculum

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Feb 102009
 

I love that time of year when new school books start coming in. Our children are just as excited to look through new books to. They all gather around when a box is delivered anxiously waiting to look. Last Friday our first package arrived! I’ve decided to make world geography our focus for next year. After a lot of research I decided to use Galloping the Globe as our spine. It is a multi level book geared to grades K to 4 but could easily be adapted to older students. Since I had planned to use this next year my oldest 3 children will be grades 2, K and K4 this sounds perfect for us. It introduces you to each continent and major countries by unit study. For each country their are maps to color/label, and some fun worksheets. But what I like the best is the book suggestion lists. For each country there are lists of reference books as well as fiction. Science topics include animals natural to the country, trees, volcanoes etc.

I’ve also picked out some of the suggested books to go along with with this book and I’m impressed with them also. Considering God’s Creation is a grade 1 to 8 science program. This would make a great supplement to any science program! I like the hands on materials and experiments.

Children Just Like Me is a beautiful book. It fetchers a child from each country around the world as they tell about their life and county. My children love this book already!

Geography from A to Z is a picture book of geography terms. It clearly and easily explains the different features of the land.

Around the World in A Hundred Years, tells the history of explorers in story format.

I had planned to start using this program in the late summer.  But we just might have to start sooner!  It looks like so much fun!

A Winter Nature Walk

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Feb 042009
 

Our weather has been bitter cold.  So when we had a day near 0C a few weeks ago, dh took the oldest two girls for a nature walk.  They went to our favorite conservation park.  The girls had a lot of fun!  They saw deer, turkeys that are kept there.  They also found wild deer tracks and droppings.  Saw the damage on the trees from porcupines.  They loved getting to see what the sulfur spring looked like in the winter to.

Winter Unit Study

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Jan 102009
 

What better topic could a Canadian explore during January but snow!  This month we are diving into a unit study all about winter.  We will learn about snow and ice, how it’s formed and all the fun things we can do with it.  We will also be learning about winter habitats.

While searching online I have found a wealth of ideas for our fun adventure.  I want to say thank you to Candace at His Mercy is New for sharing her winter unit.  I received a lot of inspiration there!

Here are some of the things we will be using this month.

Books:

We will us parts from these lapbooks.  All except the weather lapbook area also Five in a Row units.

Crafts & Activities

Science Lessons

History/Social Studies

Emergency planning

Farm Unit

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Sep 082008
 

This week we are working at finishing up our Peter Rabbit unit and combining it with a unit on farming.   The International Plowing Match will be in our area in a few weeks and we are all looking forward to that!

I found this DVD at the library and the kids just love it!  I think I’ll have to pick up a copy for them some time. LOL  The first part of the DVD is a farm tour for kids, the second part is an ABC of horses.


We are also watching these DVD’s on Ferguson tractors.  They are set in England so tie in a little with Peter Rabbit.  Dh also has a Ferguson tractor.  I gave him this DVD set a few years ago and we all love watching them!

You can read more about video 1 here.

And video 2 here.

We are also watching this one on draft horses.

We are also reading the following books.

Vegetable Friends, Animals on the Farm, Milk, Butter and Cheese, The story of Dairy Products, Prairie Boy’s summer and Tell About The cow Barn Daddy.

We are also going to be doing some crafts and activities from these sites.

KidzClub

ABCTeach

Easy Fun School

Olympic Study Links

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Aug 122008
 

We are working on a Olympic unit and the girls have had so much fun!  They love watching some of the events in the morning.

Here are some of the sites we’ve found helpful.

Homeschool Share Olympic Lapbook ~ This is one of the best sites I’ve found so far.  We are using it as a spring board for our study.

The Official Website of the Beijing 2008

Olympic Coloring pages

Olympics Time line

Traditional Chinese Music

Learn How to Write Chinese Numbers

Another Chinese Number Site

Giant Panda Lap book

China Olympic Unit Study

National Anthems Around The World

Making Paper Lanterns

More Olympic Coloring pages

Olympic Coloring pages 3

CBC Olympics

Composer Study Link

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Jul 162008
 

Someone shared this wonderful site with me recently.  We plan to use it with our music studies this year.  You can lesson to music and read bio’s of the composers along with photos.

Last.fm

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