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Art

How Am I Supposed to Teach Art When Nobody Taught Me?! -free e-book of great advice, tips, resources and strategies for teaching art in the homeschool, by Michelle Geffken of Yes You Can! Publications. Brought to you by Homeschool Freebie of the Day, available today only.

Draw Cowboy Calhoun -online drawing fun with Ed Emberley, requires free Shockwave plug-in, from Funorama.

St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day Activity Fun -two free activity e-workbooks from SchoolExpress (scroll down)

St. Patrick’s Day Theme Unit – also from SchoolExpress (scroll down)

St. Patrick’s Day Theme Page -a whole page of links to units, lessons and worksheets from Teacher Planet.

Nature

Marshes and Habitats Worksheets -free worksheets for grades K-4 from LearningPage.com.

Planning

Momma’s Saving Grace Homeschool Planner -weekly planner created especially for homeschooling moms by Melissa Ringstaff of AVirtuousWoman.org, from Homeschool Freebie of the Day, free today only.

School and Chore Charts -a selection of charts for home and school published by Notebooking Nook, weekly free product from CurrClick.

Audio Story

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe -old-time radio episode of Adventures Away! originally broadcast in 1944, from Homeschool Radio Shows. Free all week.

Saint Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick’s Day: A Unit Study -free online unit study from Knowledge Quest.

Farming Unit

OHC Co-op Farming -a free unit study on farming created by Oakes Homeschool Consulting Free Co-op, free product from CurrClick.

U.S States Theme Units

United States Thematic Units -SchoolExpress has added Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina and North Dakota free theme units. Find them here.

History Theme Unit

Modern Exploration – the latest free history unit from SchoolExpress.

Free Map

Map of the Humanities -covering the ancient world through the modern world, free from Tapestry of Grace.

Math

Math Can Be Fun! Sample Lesson -a free sample lesson from Homeschooling ABC’s class Math Can Be Fun!.

Denese

Experiments from NASA

Homeschool Freebie of the Day gives us another great goodie today, “Rockets and Flying Machines“. Learn the basic principles of flight and make all kinds of neat flying contraptions with this pdf e-book by NASA. Free today only.

Old-Time Radio

Homeschool Radio Shows free Living Books for the Ears program for this week is an audio of the classic children’s book “Toby Tyler (or Ten Weeks with the Circus)” by James Otis. This classic old-time radio program was originally broadcast in 1944 and makes for some great listening. Available all week.

Lent Resources

Homeschool Radio Shows also has a free download of “Lent Activities for the Family” pdf e-book by Miiko Gibson. Have a meaningful Lent by doing a special activity each day of Lent, then fill in the fruit on the Lenten Tree Chart and countdown to Easter.

Alexandra at Happy Hearts at Home has a whole slew of Lent and Easter printables including; hymns, poems, lessons and classic stories. You can always find great classic resources there, thank you Alexandra.

Denese

Hello all.

Is it cold at your house today? It was 10°  this morning , 14° right now. Brrrrrr!

I have moved all my gift in a jar links from my old blog. You can find them and a few more at the following link.

Gift In A Jar Recipe Links

Have a great day and try to stay warm.

Denese

Here are a  few more holiday freebies:

If you didn’t get your freebie from Homeschool Freebie of the Day yesterday, never fear, it’s still available! It’s a Christmas Surprise Package full of classic Christmas audio shows, crafts and more; and you can get this through the end of next week.

Do you do notebooking? Head over to NotebookingPages.com and get free Christmas notebooking pages and free recipe cards and labels.

What do you do with all those Christmas cards? When I was little, some of our ornaments were stored in a big cardboard box covered with Christmas cards. For more ideas check out this post from Unclutterer. Anyone else have any good ideas? I’d love to hear them.

Denese

Christine Steendahl at Menu Planning Central has put together a Christmas care package for moms.

This freebie includes a Christmas Carol Songbook, Gingerbread House Instructions, How to Face Paint a Snowman, an online activity for children and a free menu planning guide.

Get it here.

Thank you Christine.