I am so excited to share that first grade no prep packs are here! This resource makes it so easy to teach the first grade standards for math, reading, phonics and writing. No more searching for high quality, engaging worksheets and activities.. they are all here. Plus I am sharing thr

Our homeschool association hosts Enrichment Classes during the fall and winter/ spring. This semester, I am teaching two preschool classes… a book club and a famous artist class. I am going t…

Have some digital fun with this Christmas Fun Facts Secret Message Activity for Google Sheets™. Students will read a non-fiction passage and answer questions. Correct answers will begin to reveal the secret message! Great self-checking reading comprehension activity for distance learning or computer day. Topics include: fun facts about Christmas; the number of candy canes made per year, where the gingerbread house originated and more! What’s Included? ✔️ 2 Page Reading Passage ✔️ 16 Questions ✔️ Teacher Directions ✔️ Student Directions What types of questions are used? Fill in the Blank Short Answer What do students need? ✔️ Access to Google Classroom ™ or Google Sheets ™ ✔️ Google ™ accounts Students MUST read the passage several times to search for their answers. This ensures that they are comprehending what they read. Click HERE to grab a F-R-E-E Color by Number Activity! »»» Comprehension Challenge and CSI Spy Mystery: Click HERE »»» Printable ESCAPE ROOMS: Click HERE »»» Text Marking Detective: Click HERE »»» Scavenger Hunts: Click HERE »»» Digital Secret Message Activities: Click HERE »»» Puzzle Breakouts: Click HERE »»» Thinktivity™ Reading Passages : Click HERE »»» Interactive Google Slides™: Click HERE »»» Digital ESCAPE ROOMS: Click HERE »»» Color by Number - Text Marking: Click HERE »»» Digital Reading Passages: Click HERE »»» Task Card Review Games: Click HERE »»» Interactive Game Boards: Click HERE »»» Reading Passages and Text Marking: Click HERE »»» Back to School: Click HERE »»» Collaborative Posters: Click HERE »»» Digital Interactive Notebooks: Click HERE »»» Grades 3 and 4 Escape Rooms: Click HERE Please click the STAR at the top of the page to be notified when new products are uploaded and items go on sale. How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits you can use to lower the cost of future purchases. I truly value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom. :-) Copyright Information : © Think Tank Teacher LLC. Please note - all material included in this resource belongs to Think Tank Teacher LLC. By purchasing, you have a license to use the material but you do not own the material. You may not upload any portion of this resource to the internet in any format, including school/personal websites or network drives unless the site is password protected and can only be accessed by students, not other teachers or anyone else on the internet.

Homeschool Science Experiment - How different chemicals produce different colored flames (and tells you why!).

This is a pretty simple picture crossword for revising sports related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to complete the crossword by using the across and down clu

Science experiments with pine cones for kids, weather forecast, plant life cycle, structure, including activities for preschool to high school kids.

Winter Promise Children Around the World review and how one family combined it with Sonlight resources.

Explore science in the winter with these simple and fun experiments for kids . These experiments explore cold temperatures, ice, and snow.

This is a beloved folk song I learned long ago at a workshop and have loved ever since. The original folk song's words are, "I dont care if the rain comes down, I'm gonna dance all day". Needing a song for our holiday concert with a winter theme, I played around with this one and my students helped develop an easy orchestration and form we have loved using. Sing the song as written, each time students sing the word, "dance" they strike a dance pose. Clap "hey, hey" and patsch "carry me away". For alternating sections, students came up with the idea of continuing the orchestration and humming the tune while doing dance moves. Here's how it worked out: A: Song with orchestration B: Hum melody, orchestration continues; perform Macarena movements (this works out perfectly with the song and the dance can be performed twice). A: Song with orchestration C: Hum melody, orchestration continues; perform the Floss (YUP.. what they voted for!). A: Song with orchestration D: Hum melody, orchestration continues; freestyle- students perform movement of their choosing. A: Song with orchestration, end with "I'm gonna dance all day" 3 times followed by a final glockenspiel, "plink". This was SO fun and really had my students moving and grooving. Good for any winter fun! Hope you enjoy this one now or later!

The beautiful yearly cycle of seasons, as seen from space.

Check out our collection of printable fall worksheets for kids. We created these fall worksheets ourselves and want you to enjoy them with your kids during the fall season. Younger children will enjoy the fall counting practice and word and picture matching worksheets, while slightly older kids will love the missing letter and fall word scramble worksheets as well as our secret fall message decoding puzzle. All of these worksheets are available in perfect printable pdf format, so have some fun with these printable fall worksheets!

Funny winter memes that you'll instantly relate to if you have to deal with Polar Vortex and the snowstorms associated with winter.

Our free German worksheets for kids posts are among the most popular on our blog. Today I wanted to highlight some of the recent German materials we’ve shared over the years here on the blog. Many of these are buried and I thought I would put them together in one easy-to-find post! If your kids/students are just beginning to learn German, I hope you find something useful! If you like...

Teaching first grade classroom with awesome fall, winter, spring & summer themed activities and worksheets. Tons of math & literacy practices including phonics, sight words, ready, writing, counting, shapes, addition, subtraction, time & measurement. The bundle has 384 pages and includes 4 products which are listed separately in my shop. You save 24% if you purchase this bundle. *Spring Math and Literacy No Prep Printables First Grade *End of the year activities Summer review math and literacy pack for first grade *Fall Activities for Math and Literacy No Prep Printables First Grade *Winter Math and Literacy No Prep Printables First Grade

These roll a story boards will get students writing creatively all year long! There are 25 seasonal and themed boards that are packed with creative story starters! Use these in writing centers, in writing workshop, or for early finishers. Graphic organizers and writing paper are included! Directions: the student rolls a die three times. The first time to select the character, second for the setting, and third for the problem. Then the student can use the graphic organizers/writing paper to write out their creative story! Included: • 25 roll a story boards: Spring Summer Fall Winter Valentine St. Patrick's Day Easter Patriotic Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas School Birthday Family Community Restaurant Pet Beach Ocean Camping Sports Farm Zoo Picnic Fairytale • 7 pages of graphic organizers/writing pages (including primary dotted lines) *Please see the preview for a good look at this resource!* __________________________________________________________________ You may also like: Roll A Poem - Poetry Activity Roll A Sight Word Stretch The Sentence Writing Activities How To Writing Prompts

The Curriculum Choice authors winter homeschool roundup. Ideas, inspiration and reviews to support your winter homeschool.

Looking for a way to get your kids outside more this winter? Check out these five simple outdoor winter nature activities.

Falling Into Our Winter Homeschool Rhythm This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure statement for more information. Our second week back from winter break was a busy one. We added a bit more of our academic subjects in, went on a day-long field trip, finished two more projects from the Rooted Childhood January collection, and spent the weekend romping in the snow at my grandparents’ house in Monument. As busy as it felt, we weren’t overwhelmed or worn out from it. I feel like we maintained a really good balance between our core subject work and elements of “enchanted education.” The grip I felt on the first grade year has eased with time and I am learning to balance things better. Making Millefiori Beads with Rooted Childhood One of the first activities we did this week was to make the millefiori beads from Rooted Childhood’s January collection. I hadn’t worked with polymer clay in ages and it felt good to work so hard with my hands again. Blake was quick to pick up the technique and created several beautiful designs, inspired by the suggestions in the guide. We decided to poke holes through each bead so Blake could make

Until last year, I dreaded winter. Winter, to my gardening, barefoot self was a season of eternal inconveniences, discomfort, and grayness. After leaving Colorado, our winters spent in Hawaii went largely unnoticed, other than better waves and whale-watching. I didn’t skip a beat in our daily excursions, so our nature-based homeschool rhythm had a chance to really take root. When we came back, our first winters were an exercise in patience--and I didn’t enjoy them very much at all. I did, however, notice what a big dent that season left in our outdoor lifestyle. And I knew something had to change--specifically, my mindset about winter. I spent the entire season last year, bound and determined to fall in love with winter. I was tired of it feeling like a holding period during which everything we enjoyed was paused while we waited it out. I wanted us to treat winter like we did every other season--a unique tide, full of its own special beauty--a gift. I learned a lot, and as a result, I went into winter this year with excitement. Though there were many things that contributed to this shift in perspective, there were ten key things that really turned

Homeschool mom, are you feeling the strain of winter? Need some ideas to fight cabin fever or push back against homeschool burnout? Are the kids climbing the walls? Take a look at these ideas for winter learning in your homeschool. You'll find ideas for art, nature studies, books to read aloud, activities and more. Dive

Few season lend themselves so well to hands on creativity as fall. I think by spring and summer time we are anxious to get outside, but in the fall we can settle in to cozy routines of crafting and learning. While my earliest crafts with little ones were simple, we’ve gradually tried more advance

Here are 16 winter ideas to keep your children active, learning, and having fun while studying nature in the snow!

Your children will learn about how snowflakes are formed through wonderful books and activities in a winter snow nature study. No real snow necessary!

This collection of ideas for fall-themed unit studies for homeschoolers will help homeschool moms plan their days and make the kids' schooling more fun.

This FREE, 70+ page printable covers how snow forms, types of snow crystals, the structure and properties of water molecules, the life cycle of a snowflake, and much more. Can be used with multiple grade levels.

Autumn is quickly approaching! Instead of the shallow approach I may have taken in the past, I focused on the staples of a Charlotte Mason education in this study–living books, narration, poetry, hand rhymes, songs, handcrafts, art, picture study, tea time, hands-on nature study, and real-life experiences.

I really do love fall. I always have. The beautiful colors, the crisp air, pumpkin spiced everything... and perhaps most importantly, the end of MOSQUITOES! Mind you, this year wasn't too bad for the guys, but I remember a few years back the mosquitoes in our area were truly out of this world. Our neighbours

: There are many ways you can study nature in your homeschool this winter. Find out some of the creative ones here.

This post may contain affiliate links. See our disclosure policy for details. Get in some hands-on learning with these fun and engaging winter STEM activities! Winter STEM Activities Whether you’re taking a holiday break or trying to break back into your regular routine, these winter STEM activities will make learning fun! If you’re familiar with…

Until last year, I dreaded winter. Winter, to my gardening, barefoot self was a season of eternal inconveniences, discomfort, and grayness. After leaving Colorado, our winters spent in Hawaii went largely unnoticed, other than better waves and whale-watching. I didn’t skip a beat in our daily excursions, so our nature-based homeschool rhythm had a chance to really take root. When we came back, our first winters were an exercise in patience--and I didn’t enjoy them very much at all. I did, however, notice what a big dent that season left in our outdoor lifestyle. And I knew something had to change--specifically, my mindset about winter. I spent the entire season last year, bound and determined to fall in love with winter. I was tired of it feeling like a holding period during which everything we enjoyed was paused while we waited it out. I wanted us to treat winter like we did every other season--a unique tide, full of its own special beauty--a gift. I learned a lot, and as a result, I went into winter this year with excitement. Though there were many things that contributed to this shift in perspective, there were ten key things that really turned

Until last year, I dreaded winter. Winter, to my gardening, barefoot self was a season of eternal inconveniences, discomfort, and grayness. After leaving Colorado, our winters spent in Hawaii went largely unnoticed, other than better waves and whale-watching. I didn’t skip a beat in our daily excursions, so our nature-based homeschool rhythm had a chance to really take root. When we came back, our first winters were an exercise in patience--and I didn’t enjoy them very much at all. I did, however, notice what a big dent that season left in our outdoor lifestyle. And I knew something had to change--specifically, my mindset about winter. I spent the entire season last year, bound and determined to fall in love with winter. I was tired of it feeling like a holding period during which everything we enjoyed was paused while we waited it out. I wanted us to treat winter like we did every other season--a unique tide, full of its own special beauty--a gift. I learned a lot, and as a result, I went into winter this year with excitement. Though there were many things that contributed to this shift in perspective, there were ten key things that really turned

These fall poetry activities are a great way to encourage kids to love poetry. Seasonal poetry activies are a great addition to a language arts curriculum.

Your November morning basket is the perfect way to begin each homeschool day with beauty and goodness as a family. Gather resource ideas here!

Virtual Field Trips for kids for all the seasons of the holidays waiting for! Read more about them here! All the best resources are included!

I'm so glad you're back for another month of learning fun. I’m having so much fun with this homeschool through the year series, and I hope you are, too. Quite a few of you have left comments telling

Take these five winter nature study tips and start enjoying winter a little more in your homeschool. Layer up, enjoy a treat, and learn about nature.

'Winter is the time for home.' Edith Sitwell A basket filled with books is a beautiful and powerful thing. Sitting patiently on a shelf or in a corner, it cradles so many opportunities. Imagination, connection, wonder, inspiration, and priceless snuggle time. The humble book basket also has the ability to change our minds about things, if we let it. Take winter for example. Winter and I have not always been friends, but this year I've committed to changing that. I want to fall in love with winter and miss it when it's gone, just as I do with all of the other seasons. Our little morning basket, carefully curated with winter favorites, has made all the difference. Here are some of the winter books we love the best in our nature-based homeschool: Favorite Winter Books for Our Morning Basket Winter Story by Jill Barklem, from the Brambly Hedge series The Brambly Hedge series reminds me a lot of the Beatrix Potter books. They are beautifully illustrated with wonderful language and sweet stories about a family of mice. Like Beatrix Potter, the word choices may sometimes be unfamiliar to an American audience, and a curious child may have questions about them

Whenever cool weather gets here, we always take time to do something special. It could be simple poetry reading or a craft or two

The ultimate guide for the best fall STEM activities for preschoolers, elementary and older. Apple, Pumpkin, Halloween, and more.