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Homeschool Radio Shows

This week, the Living Books for the Ears program from Homeschool Radio Shows is “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift. This is an old radio show dramatization originally broadcast in the late 1940s.

President Lincoln Lesson Plans

Celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth with free lessons from The Bill of Rights Institute. “Lincoln’s Refutation of Secession,” “To Free the Slaves,” and “Emancipation” will be available through Monday, February 23.
Pdf files.

Denese

Tags: education freebies

Children’s Fiction

Today’s freebie from Homeschool Freebie of the Day is “A Chinese Wonder Book” by Norman Hinsdale Pitman, an ebook edition of  fascinating collection of Chinese stories and legends from Bright Ideas Press.

Israel and Around the World Unit Studies

Terri Johnson at Knowledge Quest has put together a free unit study on Israel.
While you’re there, sign up for the Knowledge Quest newsletter (right sidebar) and you’ll also get the Around the World unit study series for free.

President’s Day Holiday Helper

Sorry I missed this one yesterday.
Get the President’s Day Holiday Helper pack for free from CurrClick. This contains copywork, stories and a picture study of both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Also, there are several new additions to CurrClick’s freebie page including some Valentine’s Day activities and notebooking pages, a reading comprehension and copywork e-book, and a Teacher Book Bag Grand Opening Goodie Bundle.

Parent Resource

Simply Charlotte Mason has available for free, “Masterly Inactivity” e-book by Sonya Shafer.
From the site:
“Do you ever feel like you’re on the Mommy See-saw? “I must teach my child to obey, yet I don’t want to be a dictator.” “I want my child to enjoy his childhood, but I can’t just allow him to run wild and do anything he wants to do.”
Up and down, back and forth we teeter, wishing we knew the secret to keeping a happy balance. Charlotte Mason called that happy balanced state Masterly Inactivity.”

Denese

Tags: education freebies, free e-books, Unit Studies

Here are some neat sites I ran across this weekend, all about cooking.

Relish Magazine Online -America loves to eat, recipes and stories from the people and places that make our food great.

Baking Bites -A site for those who love food, especially baking. Recipes, tips, advice, news and reviews.

McMenu: Do-It-Yourself McDonald’s Restaurant Recipes -Just what it says.

Culinary History Online -Historic cooking website, thousands of links pertaining to open hearth, bake oven, wood stove and other pre WWI forms of cooking and related subjects.

HomeBaking.org -Educator resources, recipes, tips; free monthly e-newsletter that includes baking activities, projects, lessons and recipes.

Denese

Tags: Cooking, freebies, recipes

“That gate sounds like a whistle with a toothache.”

“You’re workin’ us like we’re makin’ honey!”

“Everyone’s kin to each other, we all came from Noah.”

The fruit don’t fall far from the tree.

Denese

Tags: children, The Ol' Hermit

Happy Presidents Day!

Or, if you’re in Canada, Happy Family Day!

There are all kinds of online homeschooling freebies for Presidents Day.

Some great educational resources on George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are available at Homeschool Freebie of the Day, today only.

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello -The Home of Thomas Jefferson

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum: A President’s Day -Materials, Resources and Activities for Teachers

American President’s Life Portraits is a site to complement C-SPAN’s 20th Anniversary television series, American Presidents: Life Portraits March-December 1999. Biographical facts, videos, key events of each presidency, Presidential places and reference material.

Listen to or download The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, at Radio Nostalgia Playhouse. This is an episode of “You Are There”, an old-time radio program that takes you back in history.

Moments in Time, a podcast of historical events that changed the world, you can listen to or download FDR Speaks bout the War Beginning In Europe 9/3/39.

Old Time Radio History Shows has some free historical audio downloads of past presidents’ speeches, scroll down the page to listen or download.

There is a ton of little-known facts at Presidential Fun Facts.

Also see 20 Things You Didn’t Know About U.S. Presidents for more presidential trivia.

Want to know what ailments George Washington suffered from? Check out Medical History of American Presidents.

Life of George Washington : Written for Children is a classic bioography you can download in e-book format.

Learning Through History has an Abraham Lincoln Mini Unit Study.

Free George Washington lapbook

The American President Unit Study

Worksheets and Printables

U.S. Presidents Worksheets

President’s Word Search

Connect-the-dots Lincoln -for younger children

Help Lincoln Get to The Whitehouse Maze -for younger children

Presidents Day Crafts

Make Washington’s wig

Make Lincoln’s Log Cabin

Make the American Flag

Make Presidential Puzzles

Kaboose President’s Day page -12 different crafts including; powdered wig, future president pin, Abe Lincoln hat, finger puppets, pretzel log cabin

Denese

Tags: American history, education freebies, The United States, U S Presidents

“‘Em ‘at yacks a lot ‘d do ta watch.”

Need a translation?

Denese

Tags: The Ol' Hermit

Looking for something fun and educational to do with your children this weekend?

The Great Backyard Bird Count 2009 kicked off today and continues through Monday, February 16th.

What is The Great Backyard Bird Count?

“The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across the continent. Anyone can participate, from beginning bird watchers to experts. It takes as little as 15 minutes on one day, or you can count for as long as you like each day of the event. It’s free, fun, and easy—and it helps the birds.”

The site also includes a poster and  participation certificate to print, regional bird tally sheets, a kid’s page and a photo contest.

Go to the website, print off a data form and start counting!

Thanks go out to Renae for the lovely reminder.

Denese

Tags: nature, wildlife

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine Store has launched a new line of bite-sized, affordable e-books for homeschoolers and you can try them out with two free ones.

E-Book: WeE-book™-Homeschooling the Rebel, Part 1

E-Book: WeE-book™-Lincoln vs. Darwin: What’s the Difference?

These are free for the next few days only.

Denese

Tags: education freebies, free e-books

Today is Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.
It’s also my little Daniel’s, he is a big 8 years old today!

In honor of Lincoln’s birthday, Homeschool Freebie of the Day has a couple of audios for us today. The first is Lincoln’s “Farewell Speech” and the second is about his presidency and the Civil War.
These are available today only.

Here are a few more resources about Lincoln that I previously posted on my old blog.

Learning Through History has an Abraham Lincoln Mini Unit Study.

Another unit study that’s based on the book “Just Like Abraham Lincoln”:  Abraham Lincoln Unit Study ,grades K-2

Abraham Lincoln notebooking pages are free from Homeschool Helper Online.

President’s Day notebooking pages are free from NotebookingPages.com. (scroll down)

Absolute English has a short lesson on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address for grades 9-12.

Drafting the Gettysburg Address, from Education World is another short lesson, for grades 6-12.

At FreeAudio.org, you can download and listen to recordings of the Gettysburg Address, the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln’s second Inaugural Address and Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863.

Gettysburg National Military Park’s Civil War Page For Kids

Abraham Lincoln Coloring Page

Denese

Tags: education freebies, U.S. Presidents

The comment format is fixed, it was writing right to left on the right side of the form. I had that on my to-do list to fix the other day and got busy with something else and plumb forgot all about it. Thank you Renae for pointing that out.

Denese

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