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Lapbooking and notebooking pages brought to you by Homeschool Freebie of the Day:

Famous Impressionist Artists (PDF files) –A  great collection of resources for you to help your kids learn more about Impressionist artists, including:

• *Famous Impressionist Minibooks/Lapbook, featuring 13 artists, minibook templates, thumbnails of masterpieces for each artist and a well planned lapbook planner
• * Famous Impressionist Biography Pages,with 3 styles to choose from: Blank/ Primary Lined/ Black lined biography pages for each artist.
• * and a Famous Impressionist Wall Chart, with a mini gallery and a short biography for each artist.

These art resources were created by Nadene at Practical Pages. She has even more homeschooling freebies including; copywork pages, notebooking pages and lapbooks. You can find them here:

• Practical Pages: Free Pages

Free mini-unit from Learning Through History:

French Impressionists Mini Unit Study –Includes a downloadable lesson plan on Impressionism for grades 1-8.

Free art lesson from HotChalk Lesson Plans:

Van Gogh with the Flow – Learn about the Impressionistic style of Vincent van Gogh and create a hatching study of Van Gogh’s Starry Night.

You will need a copy of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” for this lesson:

Printable Pdf of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night (right click and “save as”) 

Blessings,

Denese

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

Free audio from Homeschool Freebie of the Day:

The Mysterious Pirate Pit (MP3 audio) –Almost 200 years ago, three boys found an odd tree and a shallow round pit on deserted Oak Island in Nova Scotia and realized that they may have actually stumbled across buried pirate treasure. But when they started to dig… they were amazed and mystified at what they found. This is an amazing story about one of the most mysterious and fascinating puzzles ever devised. Kids LOVE this story!

Newest free products from CurrClick:

Gladys Aylward Mini Unit Study –Would you like your pre-school and elementary children to learn about the great Christian Missionaries? This study goes through part of the life of Gladys Aylward a missionary to China. Your children will love to draw pictures and place themselves in the life of the orphans she helped escape.

The Book of Obadiah with Geometric Designs and Three Fonts –This copywork book will make it easy to study Obadiah, includes all three of our fonts and also includes geometric designs and coloring pages for added interest.

February Daily Assignments Mini Helper –Use these assignment sheets to give your children a starting point each day.

Presidents Day Notebooking Pages -Print out a decorated page and allow your child to write his own narration, copywork, or report about Presidents Day. In the blank spaces provided, he can add a map, illustration, or other graphic to accompany his written work.

This week from SchoolExpress:

SchoolExpress Weekly Newsletter: Week of January 31, 2010 –SchoolExpress is now offering a free theme unit every week, this week’s unit is Recycling and is available until February 6.

Wordplay for kids of all ages:

Free ebook of WordPlay Café – Cool Codes, Priceless Punzles & Phantastic Phonetec Phun. A fun, educational romp through the more common aspects of linguistics for kids.

HT to The Homeschool Mom

Blessings,

Denese

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

Today’s freebies are all about teeth and oral hygiene.

Free ebook from Homeschool Freebie of the Day:

A Child’s Book of the Teeth (PDF ebook) –A classic little book that teaches kids all about teeth: what they are, why we need them, how teeth do their work, animals & their teeth, baby teeth, molars, permanent teeth, wisdom teeth, the right way to brush, cavities, etc., etc. Very enjoyable text, and well illustrated with great line drawings.

Science experiments from HealthyTeeth.org:

Healthy Teeth Experiments and Activities –4 experiments for grades 4-6:

• The Power of Fluoride
• Acid Attack
• Hidden Sugar
• Floss is the Boss

Teeth Unit Studies:

• Let’s Talk Teeth –A dental health/teeth study for grades K-5.
• Homeschool Share Teeth Unit  –Includes mini-books, worksheets and hands-on activities. Uses the following books: “Throw Your Tooth on the Roof” by Selby Beeler, “Science Fair Bunnies” by Kathryn Lasky, and “Open Wide” by Laurie Keller.
• Animal Teeth –Includes activities and printables, grades K-6.

Online Fun and Games:

• Colgate Kids –Online games and activities for ages 2-9
• The Smilestones Teeth Cleaning Game –Brush away the germs that appear to keep the teeth healthy and clean.

Blessings,

Denese

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

Terri, from Knowledge Quest, has put together a free, online unit study on South Africa:

South Africa Unit Study –Includes a downloadable 5 page article on the history, culture and landscape of South Africa, a suggested reading list, maps, recipes, and hands-on activity ideas.

For more resources, plus information about homeschooling in South Africa, be sure and check out St. Aiden’s Homeschool.

Blessings,

Denese

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.

Just a quick reminder to get your weekly homeschooling freebies…

Homeschool Freebie of the Day –Be sure and visit each day for a new freebie. Today’s freebie:

• A House NOT Divided: Promoting Unity in the Homeschool Family –Mp3 audio workshop by Hal and Melanie Young, the authors of “Raising Real Men: Surviving, Teaching and Appreciating Boys”.

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The Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s Schoolhouse Store freebies –8 free ebooks including:

• Download and Go Autumn Treasures –Learn more about Autumn with this one week lapbook unit study. An excellent hands-on learning adventure for kids from K – 4th grade.

If you haven’t done so already, sign up for TOS Freebie Fridays Weekly e-Newsletter and get more homeschool freebies every week.

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CurrClick –A new free product every week plus a huge freebie page. Latest freebie:

• All Apples! A Fun Study! –grades K-2

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Homeschool Radio Shows –New free audio program every Tuesday. “The Cinnamon Bear” is still available today.

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SchoolExpress – Sign up for the weekly newsletter and get free theme units, e-workbooks and worksheets every month. Latest newsletter:

• SchoolExpress Weekly Newsletter: December 6, 2009 –Freebies for December are; “Character” and “Elephants” –plus “Elephants” activity pages.

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Blessings,

Denese

Teaching With God’s Heart for the World by homeschooling mom and missionary, Ann Dunagan, is a one-year curriculum designed to help homeschooling families and Christian educators “impart a fervent heart for world missions into the next generation”.

The two-volume, unit study based curriculum includes:

• 160 day-by-day teaching plans
• missionary highlights
• motivational mission stories
• crafts, songs and prayer projects
• field trip ideas
• hundreds of ways to incorporate a passion for the lost into nearly every subject

Teaching With God’s Heart for the World is written for elementary grade levels, but can also be used by the whole family.

Available as a free download –10 parts, pdf format.

More Freebies

Be sure and check out these other free resources from Ann Dunagan:

Homeschool File Folder Charts -How to Make File Folder Charts for the Teaching With God’s Heart for the World Curriculum.

M.A.P.S. for KIDS -A 5-Day Mission-Minded V.B.S. Curriculum

You may also be interested in:

Free Classic Bible Lessons

Blessings and happy teaching,

Denese

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

Classic Audio

This week’s free audio from Homeschool Radio Shows is a great summertime history program, the little known story of pioneer adventurer Jim Bridger.

Jim Bridger & The Discovery of Yellowstone –Jim Bridger’s stories and travels helped uncover and preserve the natural wonders which became a part of Yellowstone National Park. This excellent wild west “living history” program was originally broadcast as an episode of “Cavalcade of America” on March 2, 1937.

Available through Monday, August 17th.

Unit On Manners

This week, SchoolExpress has a free unit on Manners, along with some new phonics flashcards and math worksheets. Sign up for the SchoolExpress newsletter to receive weekly updates by email of new, free worksheets and units.

Let’s Be Scientists!

The Old Schoolhouse freebie this week is their Planner Module: Let’s Be Scientists.

Have fun with your children while learning real science! In this unit you will learn:

How to make ice cream in a baggie.
The five “states” of matter.
How to make your own weather chart.
The systems of the human body.
How to create your own “gross garden.”
What “oobligook” is.
How you can help to take care of the wonderful world God has given us by reducing trash, reusing what you can, and recycling anything else.
The science behind tasting your favorite food.

Includes a study guide, coloring and activity pages, copywork pages, recipes, resource pages and web links.

This unit is normally $7.95, so get it now while it’s free!

You can get more free educational resources every week from The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, when you sign up for their Freebie Friday Newsletter.

You might also be interested in:

Homeschool Freebies: Log Cabins, Puzzles, Home Management, First Aid

Homeschool/Education Freebies: Manners, Homeschooling Boys, The Brownies, Hairstyles

Blessings,

Denese

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

This month’s Hands-on Teaching Tips newsletter, from Homeschool In The Woods, is a mini-unit on the Spanish Empire. This unit includes printable maps, images, recipes and extra learning links.

Available through August.

Blessings,

Denese

The Perseid meteor shower is underway and should get even better over the next few nights, with a peak on August 12.

The best time to observe the Perseids is during the dark hours before dawn on the mornings of August 11-13.  They can also be seen in the early evening hours and some are spectacular –streaking across the sky and lasting several seconds -but they are few and far between this time of night.

Learn more about the Perseids, and meteor showers in general:

The Perseid Meteor Shower links & pdf ebooks –from Homeschool Freebie of the Day.

Spaceweather.com -image gallery, spaceweather radio, Perseid meteor shower iPhone application,

The American Meteor Society –weekly meteor activity outlook, meteor showers calendar, North American video meteor observations, fireball report form, 2009 fireball sightings table, history of meteor observation, audio gallery.

International Meteor Organization –worldwide observations, data and calendar.

Catch a Falling Star –two part article on meteors, with learning links, from Knowledge House.

Call me Ahnighito Unit Study –based on the picture book narrated by the famous meteorite brought back from the North Pole by arctic explorer Robert E. Peary. For lower elementary students, from Homeschool Share.

Related posts:

Clear Skies Tonight To Watch The Perseids And Our Meteor Count

No Meteor Shower In The Smoky Mountains Tonight

Blessings and happy viewing,

Denese