From reading fun books to STEM projects, this Viking Unit gave us a vast insight to where exploration began and helped set the stage for the Age of Exploration.

Check out all of these activities to help you plan unique and memorable events for your homeschool group or homeschool co-op.

When I first started looking around for Homeschooling with LEGO curriculum and ideas, I didn't know how many things I would find. Boy was I surprised!

Minecraft is popular among children so why not use that to your

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Teaching silent letters can be so much fun! In my classroom, we call these letters ghost letters! It really helps the kids learn the sounds. To begin, we make a list of all the words we can think of! At first, the kids will usually give words that just start with n or r, instead of words with kn or wr. But they quickly get the hang of it! Sometimes I even draw ghosts around the letters on the board or in their books. I LOVE when they even draw them on words they find! :) We sort words and highlight those spooky little letters. We play games to practice reading words with ghost letters. This Roll & Read helps build fluency AND practices those words. The kids always love this fun little book. They read a ghost letter word. Read a sentence with that word. Then create their own sentence. They get pretty creative with these! Then we end with a fun little mini craft. :) As a class, we brainstorm words with kn, wr, mb, and gn. They we add them to our own spooky little ghosts. They'll remember those ghost letter forever!!! Hop over and check out this fun pack!

In this six part series on How to Teach Spelling, this third post discusses and provides teaching resources for teaching the eight conventional spelling rules.

Step by step instructions for how to make a pencil catapult for a fun and hands-on STEM activity. What are you going to launch?

Do you have a budding engineer in the family? Check out these 25 simple activities for little engineers! #5 is my favorite!

Free STEM Websites, teacher Resources with fun activity ideas & well designed lesson plans focusing on thinking skills. Science Technology Engineering Math

Check out these fun activities from Award Winning Author/Illustrator Jarett Lerner to do at home or in the classsroom. Includes comics, drawing, and more.

Is your toddler making homeschool all but impossible? These easy toddler activities will set your homeschool back on track in no time at all!

Science is really cool. There are so many amazing things in this world of ours. So many science experiments for kids that just make me stop and say, "whoa" ... or "wow" ... or "What the ...!!" (depending, of course, on my company). Children, as we know, are naturally curious. They naturally want to learn

Learn all about sound in this super-fun science twist on the classic tin can telephone activity. This version is even more kid-friendly because it uses Styrofoam cups. After making your string telephone, read the string telephone explanation with your kids to discover why it works! String Telephone Explanation: How Sound Waves Travel Learn how sound waves

Science is really cool. There are so many amazing things in this world of ours. So many science experiments for kids that just make me stop and say, "whoa" ... or "wow" ... or "What the ...!!" (depending, of course, on my company). Children, as we know, are naturally curious. They naturally want to learn

Your kids will have fun learning fractions with these FREE Fraction Worksheets from Worksheet Fun! Stop by and download your copies today! The post *FREE* Fraction Worksheets appeared first on Mama

Rubber band helicopters are easy and fun to make. Learn how you can make one a home, and learn tips to really make them fly!

I am officially on Spring break! Two whole weeks off to rest and get ready for the home stretch of this school year! :-) I am so excited to catch up... on chores, seeing friends I haven't seen since Christmas, blog stalking, and so much more! Here is one of my very favorite art/writing projects we do all year!!! They always turn out adorable and they never fail to get some laughs from the adults! I got the idea from Patty at Deep Space Sparkle. If you haven't checked out her blog, you SHOULD! It is full of amazing (and doable) art ideas for your classroom (even if you aren't very artistic like me!) She even has them organized by grade level! So...the kids first did their writing about what they would be in 20 years. Here's the template we used: You can get this {HERE}! Here's a completed one: "In 20 years I will be 28 years old. I will live in a college dorm. I will be a police officer and I will take bad guys to jail. I will still love my family and I will still love meat loaf. I still won't want to eat spinach. And most importantly, I will be happy." The writing always turns out absolutely adorable! Then they drew what they would be in 20 years. They used an example I purchased from Deep Space Sparkle (from the "Fun with Self Portraits" pack!) Then they colored it in with markers and outlined their self portraits with a black marker. We painted the backgrounds, and a parent volunteer mounted them on construction paper and attached their writing. We had: Police officers (love the handcuffs!) Race car drivers (love the 'stache! And the braces!!!) Marines (so grouchy!) Ballerinas (adorable!) Artists (too cute!) And football players (not just football players- quarterbacks!) among many other things! Like I said, these are always a hit, you can keep them up as long as you want (i.e. until the end of the year because you're too lazy to change your bulletin boards LIKE ME!) because they're not holiday-ish (??? not a word! I know) and the kids love creating them! Check back soon...I'm thinking give away in celebration of Spring break! :-)

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Back to School is right around the corner for us and I am SUPER excited to kick of this school year with some fun, hands-on and engaging resources for The

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Learn what plants breathe through with this easy leaf & tree science experiment as kids get hands-on with the process of photosynthesis!

Do you ever just wonder WHERE TO START in homeschooling? What can be the basis for all of your learning? The Story of the World has been an integral part of our homeschool over the years - and served as the spine for our homeschool for many years. I want to share how we use this bas

Easily teach kids binary using a free binary app and fun binary puzzles! Kids learn and practice binary in a fun, creative, and hands-on way.

A fun activity for early finishers! This worksheet allows students to create their own Pokemon from their imagination. They can draw and design the look of their Pokemon, while also providing the information for its' characteristics, evolutions, and type(s). A popular activity amongst my middle-scho...

1st Grade Reading Worksheets can help your kids get off to a great start of a life-long love of reading. Reading is knowledge. Stimulate their imagination and help them expand their understanding of the world and communication with others. Grow a strong and intelligent future with a passion for learning. Print all of our 1st […]

STEM activities every child must try this fall! Fun, easy ideas integrating science, math, tech, egnieering, with pumpkins, spiders, leaves, ...

Printable worksheet to help in your teaching your kids the life skill of filling out forms. Guidelines for teaching are included.

The best and most fun pen and paper games to cure the boredom blues. Solo, two player and three or more player pencil and paper games for kids and adults!

Do you want to have fun while learning with your kids? Encourage your child's love of learning with these awesome and fun Science experiments with explosion! These easy science experiments are great, and often don't

Encourage language development, while fostering fine motor skills, following directions and other functional life skills. Cooking in the classroom with visual recipes, step by step recipes to foster those super important life skills, and work on those IEP goals and objectives... all at the same time!

We have crossed the 2020 finish line (hurrah!) and I think it's safe to say that we are *all* hoping for a better year. Are you looking for some strategies for a better homeschool year? I've decided to dust off this post from the archives. I hope it helps you a little bit as we all attempt to dust ourselves off and march into 2021. Oh, January. I have such mixed feelings about you! On the one hand, January is the opportunity for a fresh start. It's a time to reevaluate what is working in our homeschool... and also what

Using a magic spoon to separate salt and pepper with static electricity is a quick and easy science experiment. Perfect for preschool and kindergarten!

Follow these five steps to teach a child to read. Helpful for parents, homeschoolers, and teachers that are teaching beginning readers.

It's that time of year! Magic e! I love teaching my kids about the magic e because it means they have really grown as readers! I know th...

In patterning our life after the Savior's we should seek for opportunities to serve those around us. In Mosiah 2:17 it states, "...when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God." As Relief Society sisters, we have tremendous opportunity to watch out for those around us that need that loving hand of help. When we feel impressed to help someone we need to listen to those promptings and act upon them. We can provide service to others individually or we can do this as a family. Teaching our children the importance of unselfishness, love, and sacrifice. One thing that we did with our kids a few months back was thirty days of service. Each day we did an act of service for thirty days. It was fun to see them serve others and discuss the happy feelings we each individually felt from doing so. Here are some ideas:

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Printable Activity dice that will encourage imaginative play. Perfect for toddlers and preschoolers. Kids pretend to be animals as they play the dice games

This simple melting ice science experiment allows students to discover what variables affect the speed at which ice melts. The materials needed are in your kitchen.

'Do you think you can fit through this index card?' My daughter looked at me like I was crazy as I asked her this question and held up a 3x5 index card. She emphatically answered no, and was very curious when I told her that I could show her how she could very easily fit through an index card. What followed was one our favorite science experiments for kids as we learned how to make an index card chain. Why this experiment is fun for kids With this science experiment, kids will learn about how physical objects change. As a bonus,

Is grammar outdated or still necessary for a homeschool education? Learn the pros and cons and find some great, free resources for teaching this often maligned topic.

I had sooooooo much fun doing this monster art project in my son Elliot's kindergarten class recently! I chose to do this project because Elliot LOVES monsters and he LOVES using his imagination to make characters come to life. We have enjoyed using popsicle stick puppets for many many years and he always enjoys both creating

The kids and I have been talking about words with ing added on the end. My youngest has just started coming across these words in his reading and his big sister was showing him how to break the wo…