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Homeschool/Education Freebies: Hands-On, Montessori-Style Winter Lesson Plans/Unit Studies

From American Montessori Consulting:

Free! Wonderful Winter Lesson Plans –AMC 2009 Montessori Winter Hands On Newsletter full of crafts, activities, mini-units and recipes. 7 parts, PDF format.

Animals in the Winter –Online, link-based unit study

Visit the American Montessori Consulting home page for more free units and lessons.

Blessings,

Denese

Don’t forget your daily and weekly homeschooling freebies from Homeschool Freebie of the Day, CurrClick and SchoolExpress.

For even more free educational resources, please check my educational freebies tag archive and my Free Homeschooling Page.

It’s A Bear!

We have bears here in the Pawpaw Holler, but we hardly ever see them close to the house because our dogs keep them run off –most of the time.

Coming home this afternoon, about a 1/2 mile from the house, we rounded a curve and there was this black thing coming up over the bank.

It was a bear!

He wasn’t huge, but he wasn’t that little, either. Lacy says he’s a yearling and probably weighs about 100-125 lbs.

Our presence didn’t seem to bother him; he just looked at us a time or two and slowly continued on his way around the mountain –probably going to Rocky Top and get in their dumpsters.

Hope you all enjoyed these; I’m sorry the picture quality isn’t any better, but I wasn’t getting any closer to him than I was -plus I may have been a tad excited, Abby and Daniel sure were!

Blessings,

Denese

Flood Side Effect: A Big Evil-Looking Snake

Lacy has been repairing our flood damaged roads and he graded a little more than gravel yesterday evening -apparently it didn’t see the tractor and the tractor didn’t see it.

This is a 40 inch Timber Rattler –the second biggest one we’ve seen up here. The biggest one we saw was 54 inches long.

Talk about evil lookin’!

Do you know why snakes have no legs?

And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: Genesis 3:14

Blessings and watch out for snakes,

Denese

Smoky Mountain Salamander: Eastern Red Spotted Newt

Hello…Where am I?

Maybe if I’m real still they’ll forget about me.

I thought I’d never get away!

This salamander is an Eastern Red Spotted Newt (Red Eft) and can be found throughout the eastern United States.

This is one of more than 30 species of salamanders found in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park which, by the way, is also known as The Salamander Capital of the World.

More Information:

Notophthalmus viridescens: eastern newt

Amphibians of The Great Smoky Mountains

Homeschool/Education Freebies: Herman Melville Audios, Farm Notebooking Pages, Homeschool Bundle

Listen To Classics By Herman Melville

The Strange Mr. Bartleby –old radio dramatization of Herman Melville’s classic short story, originally broadcast on "Favorite Story" in April, 1947. This week’s freebie from Homeschool Radio Shows.

Charles’s Isle and the Dog-King –another short story, narrated by Grover Gardner. Free audio download from Listen To Genius.

Moby Dick –old time radio show of the most well-known work of Melville’s. Originally aired on NBC University Theater in the 1940’s.

More About Herman Melville:

Novels of Herman Melville –read free online
The Life and Works of Herman Melville –all about Herman Melville

Farm Notebooking Pages

Down On The Farm Notebooking Pages –covers 12 farm animals with 3 notebooking pages and 1 coloring page per animal. Weekly free product from CurrClick.