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Homeschool Freebie of the Day has some classic children’s audio for us today:

Fun & Music Down on the Farm (mp3 audios) –First up is a jolly version of the classic children’s song, “Oats, Peas, Beans”; then a visit with “The Little Crooked Man” (of the Mother Goose rhyme) with his crooked cat and crooked mouse; a journey with “Uncle Don Down On The Farm”, and finally we’ll stop in for a delightful concert put on by a little mouse and a whole menagerie of barnyard animals.

These audios are hosted at HomeschoolRadioShows.com, so they should be available through next Monday.

You can find even more classic children’s songs at Kiddie Records Weekly and in the archives of Children’s Records & More.

Denese

Tags: children, childrens-classics, class, education freebies, free audio, free mp3s

Today’s free resources are all about the 50 states of the United States of America.

Homeschool Freebie of the Day brings us a nice little ebook to help teach your children the 50 U.S. States and their abbreviations:

Learn the States & Postal Abbreviations (PDF ebook) –This nifty 29-page e-book by Joy Miller of fiveJs.com includes everything you need to teach your children the states and postal abbreviations — lesson plans, worksheets, flashcards, printable maps, and more. Written to be used with children of any age, this e-book will equip your children with information much more useful than learning just the states and capitals. A great teaching resource for your young learners!

You can find free outline maps of each state at NotebookingPages.com:

Free Outline Maps & Geography Notebooking Pages –Free resources include outline maps for each of the fifty United States, a list of state abbreviations and geography notebooking pages. PDF format.

Teach your children about each state with free lesson plans from the U.S. Mint:

50 State Quarters Lesson Plans – Create stimulating learning experiences for your students with these fully adaptable lesson outlines. Includes reproducible graphic handouts, interactive games, learning activities and suggestions for evaluation exercises. Lesson plans are available in PDF or RTF (MS Office Word) formats, for all grade levels.

Sheppard Software has several free educational games about the U.S.A.:

U.S.A. Games -Online geography games for all skill levels to help your child learn the U.S. states, the state capitals, lakes, rivers and more.

Finally, make learning the names of all fifty states easy with this fun song and slideshow:

Lyrics for Fifty Nifty United States can be found here:

The Fifty Nifty United States Song -Lyrics in PDF format

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: education freebies, educational-games, free e-books, free notebooking pages, free videos, online-games, The United States

A classic chemistry experiments ebook is today’s free resource at Homeschool Freebie of the Day:

The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments (PDF ebook) – Here’s a great Chemistry experiments book from the 1960s that was actually BANNED and removed from libraries across the country for being too “dangerous” for young experimenters. Even though most of the activities and experiments in this Golden Book are safe, a few will need parental supervision should you decide to persue them.

Just in time for gardening season, American Montessori Consulting has a new unit study out:

Montessori PreK-Grade 8 Gardening Unit Study -This is an online unit study for a complete summer gardening unit study. Contains links to articles, hands-on activities and other exercises for reading, language arts, life skills, social studies, science, art, math and more.

In The Hands of a Child offers a free semi-annual project pack and right now you can get one about America’s first ladies:

First Ladies of the United States Project Pack -Contains a complete lapbook unit and notebook unit about the first ladies of the United States of America. For grades 3-6.

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: chemistry, education freebies, experiments, free e-books, gardening, lapbooking, notebooking, summer, The United States, Unit Studies

Westvon Publishing has a copywork freebie for the month of April:

Happy Scribe Handwriting Book for April -A month of copybook handwriting exercises. Have fun writing about April and the holidays and special events!

Get a free Pockets of Time this month from Fortunately For You Books:

Pockets of Time for Ginger Pye -A wonderful hands-on reading comprehension program to go with the book “Ginger Pye” by Eleanor Estes.

This weeks free product from CurrClick is an ebook of constitutional documents:

Important Constitutional Documents -There are many, many documents that came before the U.S. Constitution, and contributed to it directly or indirectly. These work well for a “compare and contrast” study between any of the various documents and each other, and between these and the Constitution itself.

You can find more free resources from CurrClick on their freebies page. Some recent additions include:

4R Bible Study on Education -How does the Bible define education?  In this 4R Bible study, learn what education truly is, and how the God’s view of this topic can give you a vision for your homeschool.

Flower Mini Books -These little flower mini books are just fun to use as you wish. Just cut out, fold in half and use as desired.

Island of the Blue Dolphins Mini-books and Notebooking Pages -Mini-books and notebooking pages to compliment a study of Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Blessings,

Denese

Tags: Bible lessons, copywork, education freebies, free e-books, free notebooking pages, handwriting

Today’s free resource from Homeschool Freebie of the Day is an ebook about the sinking of the Titanic and other great sea disasters:

The Sinking of the Titanic & Great Sea Disasters (PDF ebook) – Today is the 98th anniversary of the sinking of what was then the largest and finest steamship in the world – the Titanic. On her maiden voyage, loaded with a human freight of over 2,300 souls, the Titanic collided with a huge iceberg 600 miles southeast of Halifax, at 11.40 P.M. Sunday April 14, 1912. She sank two and a half hours later,  carrying over 1,600 of her passengers and crew with her. This is a GREAT collection of first-hand accounts and stories of what happened that fateful night.

Learn about Bees with this week’s free theme unit from SchoolExpress:

SchoolExpress Newsletter: Week of April 11, 2010 -Available through April 17th, 2010 is a free unit on Bees. Also available is a set of activity pages to go with the Bees unit plus new ending consonants worksheets were added to the free worksheets area .

Simple Schooling has a three free unit studies -one about Bees, one on Photosythesis and one on Spring:

Free Interactive Unit Studies -All About Bees is a fun and educational interactive unit that takes your students through insect anatomy, bee anatomy, hive life, lifecycle, pollination, and much more! Photosynthesis is for middle school and up and covers the molecular basis of photosynthesis.  Your students will learn the reaction, the reactants and products, the fate of each molecule, the difference between light and dark reactions, and much more!

Simple Schooling March Freebie -Printable unit study on Spring in PDF format. Note: This was March’s freebie but it is still available as of today.

The Golden Age of Flight is the newest mini-unit from Learning Through History:

The Golden Age of Flight Unit Study -In this online mini-unit, you can learn how planes fly, view planes from the golden age, see a timeline of historical aviation events, find an airshow to watch near your home, learn about two famous golden age aviators – Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart  – and write news stories about their adventures.

Denese

Tags: bees, education freebies, flight, free e-books, history, spring, Unit Studies

Today’s resources from Homeschool Freebie of the Day are about the famous ride of Paul Revere -which happened 235 years ago this Sunday, April 18th:

Listen My Children -A great half hour audio story about Revere’s life and influence, including the events of that fateful night, as originally dramatized on the radio program “Cavalcade of America”, in December, 1952. Also included is a PDF “Listening & Discussion Guide” that accompanies the audio program plus an audio reading of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s classic poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride” as performed  by the great actor, Frederic March.

(These free resources are hosted at Homeschool Radio Shows, so they should be available through next Monday.)

Learn More About Paul Revere

The Paul Revere House -Website of the Paul Revere Memorial Association. Site includes a brief biography of Paul Revere, information and images of his home, activity pages and articles for children, a “Virtual Midnight Ride” and much more.

Paul Revere, Messenger of the Revolution -Multimedia presentation about Paul Revere’s ride

Paul Revere’s Ride – April 18, 1775 -Full text of the Longfellow’s poem and audio reading (listen online or download mp3 file)

Paul Revere’s Other Ride -Story about Paul Revere’s ride to Portsmouth, New Hampshire on December 13th, 1774

Paul Revere Listening/Comprehension Lesson -This lesson introduces students to Paul Revere with a short listening/reading passage and worksheet activity. Printable pdf, for grades 3-6.

Apples For The Teacher Paul Revere Coloring Sheet -Interactive, may be colored online before printing or print and then color

Paul Revere Coloring Page from Crayola -May also be colored online or print and then color

Denese

Tags: American history, education freebies, free audio, free mp3s, free printables, history, Paul-Revere

Did you get the Free Worksheets Directory Ebook from Homeschool Freebie of the Day?

If not, it’s still available for free for one more week -just sign up for their weekly newsletter by next Monday, April 19th.

Don’t miss out on this great resource!

Blessings,

Denese

Update: Sorry, this offer is no longer available.

Tags: education freebies, free e-books, free worksheets

Today’s freebie from Homeschool Freebie of the Day is a collection of fun Physics experiments:

Physics Experiments That You Can Do At Home (Pdf ebook) -A 22 page collection of fun and easy to do experiments about motion, heat, sound, electricity, magnetism and light. Published by Professor Clint Sprott and his associates as a part of the Wonders of Physics outreach program at the Physics Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

For even more fun with Physics, check out the following links:

Rader’s Physics4Kids
An introduction to the science of physics -contains basic information on:

• motion
• heat and thermodynamics
• electricity and magnetism
• light
• modern physics -nuclear and quantum physics, radioactivity, fission, fusion

Includes online quizzes to go with each subject.

Little Shop of Physics: Online Experiments -Do some experiments right now, right where you’re at. Includes experiments with common household items, experiments with your computer to learn about your brain plus a few online, interactive experiments (needs the Shockwave plug-in). For all grade levels, some experiments require adult supervision.

Marvelous Machines -Teach your children about simple machines with this series of 21 experiments for levers, wheels and inclined planes. Designed for the 3rd grade.

Physics Central: Color Me Physics -Introduce children to physics in a fun, exciting way with these free pdf ebooks.  Includes:

• a coloring book of 10 famous physicists
• a fun activity book starring Abigail Atom with games and puzzles

Physics Central: PhysicsQuests

Story-based activities that expose middle school students to the fun and relevance of science. APS provides a free PhysicsQuest kit to registered 6-9th grade physical science classes, home school groups, science clubs, and after-school programs. The kit includes a user’s manual and materials for four physics experiments.

Past PhysicsQuests are available as free downloads in PDF format and include:

• Spectra’s Power
• Nikolas Tesla and the Electric Fair
• Marie Curie’s Floating Classes
• Ben Franklin’s Secret Message
• The Search for Einstein’s Hidden Treasure

Strange Matter -Discover the secrets of “materials science” on this fun, interactive website. Learn how stuff is put together, how it can be used, how it can be changed and made better to do more amazing things. Site contains games, experiments, videos, downloadable family and teacher’s guides and much more. Really neat stuff!

Denese

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Tags: education freebies, experiments, free e-books, hands-on activities, physics, science

Homeschool Freebie of the Day brings us another adventure of Peter Wheat plus a coloring book to download:

The Adventures of Peter Wheat: The Mysterious Thief plus The Peter Wheat Coloring Book (PDF ebook) -Peter Wheat and the inhabitants of the wheat field are back with more fun comic book adventures! Written & illustrated by the great Walt Kelly, these little known 16 page comic books were originally published in 1950 as giveaways for local “Peter Wheat” bakeries.

Today’s adventure is “The Mysterious Thief” – somebody or someTHING has broken into the bakery and made a huge mess of everything, and it is up to Peter and Sammy Sweet to find out who it is… before it’s too late!

Plus…

The delightful Peter Wheat Coloring Book features full page illustrations of Peter and his friends for young hands to color and enjoy!

Denese

Tags: education freebies, free e-books, free-comics

In honor of International Bird Day, Homeschool Freebie of the Day has two wonderful resources for us:

The First Book of Birds by Margaret Williamson (PDF ebook) -A delightful introduction to birds of all types; how and why they can fly; where they live; what they eat; why they build nests; and much, much more. Heavily illustrated with Williamson’s fine black and white line illustrations, this is a great chapter book for use with younger learners.

Birdwatching for Beginners: A Guide for Homeschoolers (PDF ebook) — An excellent starter guide on birdwatching… How to get started, what resources and equipment you need, where to find birds and how to identify them, how to keep records of your sightings, “etiquette” for watchers, how to attract birds to your own back yard, and much more! An educational and fun hobby that is perfect for these glorious spring and summer days!

Stop by CurrClick for a couple of more free resources for studying birds:

Nature Study ~ Birds ~ Notebooking Pages —This set of 50 notebooking pages will compliment any study of birds and will work nicely as narration pages or copywork practice pages. The illustrations are black and white and could be colored in to add more beauty to these already lovely pages. Included in this set are 2 title pages, one for narration and the other for copywork, as well as basic and primary lined pages.

Birdcall Memory Game with Audio —This is a free, fun excerpt from “My Favorite Backyard Bird” that includes 8 high quality recordings along with pictures that can be matched up to the audio recordings. This activity also includes a description of what each bird call sounds like so kids can have fun figuring out which bird call matches up with each bird.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has quite a few Citizen Science Projects to participate in, including:

BirdSleuth —Citizen-science curriculum for middle school kids.

Celebrate Urban Birds! —Promotes conservation in cities through gardening, the arts and observing birds.

eBird —A real-time, online checklist program.

NestWatch—Learn how to effectively monitor nests & collect breeding data to track the reproductive success of all North American breeding birds.

Denese

Tags: birds, citizen-science, copywork, education freebies, free e-books, free notebooking pages, notebooking, summer