Explorer Units on sale until 3/2 ~ Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett

Take a journey with these Explorer unit studies from Amanda Bennett ~ only $5 each!!

Ends 3/2

Countdown to the Olympics: Last Day!

Countdown to the Olympics: Last Day!

Get a 50% discount off one of our products EVERY DAY!  But hurry, product discounts only last 24 Hours (ending at 9:00am CST)

Today, take 50% off our Olympic Study! 

This 46 page “Travelers Guide” is packed full of note booking pages which will allow you to experience the Olympic games in a whole new way without ever leaving the comforts of your home! Through researching, learn about the Olympics, each sport, a little bit about Russia, even plan a trip to Sochi for the Olympics, and track the medals of each event.

By the end of the Olympics, you will have a memorable “guide book” of information about

the Sochi Winter Olympics!

Winter Olympic Travelers Guide

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46 Pages

Countdown to the Olympics: Day 6!

Countdown to the Olympics: Day 6!

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Today, take 50% off our Treasure Travelers Study!  

3 week unit - through hands on crafts and activities, research and open ended projects/assignments, note booking style pirate journal pages included, and many literature and movie suggestions for visual learners, you will learn about what pirates wore, their weapons, ships, famous pirates, foods they ate, and more!

Treasure Travelers

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13 Pages + 8 Page Pirate Logbook Jornaling Pages

Countdown to the Olympics: Day 5!

Countdown to the Olympics: Day 5!

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Today, take 50% off our Wizard of Oz Study! 

This 3 week unit study uses the book by L. Frank Baum and offers many different learning styles such as hands on crafts and activities, research and open ended projects/assignments, note booking style pages included, and printables for an end of unit party!! Build your own small cork boat, a hot air balloon that really flies, and much more!

A schedule is included with a 5 day school week with the flexibility to personalize it for your own family. This curriculum can be adjusted to any grade level.

The Wonderful Study of Oz

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24 Pages

Countdown to the Olympics: Day 4!

Countdown to the Olympics: Day 3!

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Today, take 50% off their Adventures in Gardening Study!

Throughout this curriculum you will learn how to plant different flower gardens,

how to compost, how to make your very own fairy garden, how to plant creative vegetable

and herb gardens, and how to plant a garden so you can attract certain wildlife!

This is a 5 week study in gardening.

Adventures in Gardening

Sale Price:   $4.99

Original Price: $9.99

38 Pages

Spring VS. Winter Sale at Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett

Two winter and two spring Download N Go™ titles face off this week. They'll track the sales of each and let you know which season "wins" after the sale ends on 2/9/14.

Download your FREE copy of our "Words of Love from the Bible Copybook" to enrich your study of this season of love. 

Countdown to the Olympics: Day 3!

Countdown to the Olympics: Day 3!

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Today, take 50% off their Popular Map Travelers Curriculum!  Have you ever wanted to travel the World, but don't know where to start?  This unique curriculum offers many different learning styles such as hands on crafts and activities, research and open ended projects/assignments, note booking style pages included, and many literature and movie suggestions for visual learners. You will learn about different countries and their cultures in exciting ways!  Make an Egyptian Mask as you travel to Egypt, make truffles as you travel to France, watch RIO when you travel to Brazil, and MUCH more as you travel the world in the comfort of your home! A schedule is included with a 4 day school week with the flexibility to personalize it for your own family.

Map Travelers: Full Year

Sale Price:   $9.99

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144 Pages

NIA Unit Studies - Winter Olympics Countdown Sale Day 2‏

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10 Pages

Today, Take 50% Off Space Travelers Unit Study from NIA Unit Studies!

Join NIA Unit Studies each day as they countdown to the Olympics!  They will be celebrating by offering a study each day for 50% off!  But hurry!  Each sale lasts 24 Hours.

Today, take 50% off Space Travelers!  With this 10 week study you will explore the planets, stars, astronomers, astronauts, and space travel. Create your own space travelers log book as you explore our solar systems with many crafts, projects, videos/movies, and books!

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Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett - All Expedition Units $5!

Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett - Travel the World for Less + Giveaway

Passport Geography on Sale and More!

It's the cheapest way to "travel" Europe with your family - and learn more about the home countries of many Olympic athletes too! Passport Geography studies are ALL on sale this week! Scout (Grades K-6) or Explorer (Grades 7-12) studies for France, Germany, Italy and the UK are just $5 each or buy a Combo (Grades K-12) for just $10. Sale runs through Saturday, 1/25/14, at midnight MST.

CHALK PASTEL BUNDLE GIVEAWAY

Add another dimension to your celebration of the Winter Olympics with "A Simple Start in Chalk Pastels: Winter Olympics" by Tricia Hodges and Lucia Hames. Learn to use chalk pastels as you draw the Olympic torch, a bobsled, downhill skier, and more! Visit Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett's Facebook page for a chance to win one of five Chalk Pastel Bundles including "A Simple Start in Chalk Pastels" and the Winter Olympics edition (a $24.99 retail value). Be sure to also visit Southern Hodgepodge on Facebook to enter to win one of five Winter Games/Passport Geography bundles! 

Planning My Next Mini-Unit Study - Animals!

   So here I am, another week, another mini-unit. Last week was about the life-cycle of plants. This time, the next chapter in our Science book is about Types of Animals. Now since I am doing this unit with M6 & L8 I can just go with the basics for now & do a more in-depth unit with them at a later time. 

Some of the things covered in this section are:

• What is an animal?
• What are mammals & birds?
• What are amphibians, fish, & reptiles?

    This unit may take more than a week since I am going to get more in-depth with their history studies this week. We will be alternating each week between science & history so we (*I*) don't get burned out!

   My 1st step is to look through the chapter & see what each section will cover. Then I go to HomeschoolShare.com to see if there are any lapbooks covering any of these. Usually, I don't find one specific lapbook that covers all of the sections so I will then pull pieces I need from different ones. Also, some great places to look that have decent priced ones are AJourneyThroughLearning.com, Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett, & Knowledge Box Central. 

• WOW...my 1st search resulted in a ton of great lapbooks! Now to sift through them all!

   Doing a search for the specific subject & adding "unit study" or "lapbook" along with it works great. I use my Swagbucks search bar so I can get points for planning my unit studies!! woop woop!  You can find activities, crafts, books, videos, & tons of great ideas to go along with it!

Here is what I've found so far:

Animal Needs

• I just found this cute game to go along with the habitats lesson! 
• What Animals Need Graphic Organizer
• Exploring the Basic Needs Unit Study
• Animal Needs pdf (This one has a few lapbook pieces with it)

Mammals

• Mammals resources
• free Mammals lapbook!

Birds

• Birds resources
• Bird Characteristics

Amphibians & Reptiles

• Amphibians Unit
• Label Reptiles & Amphibians worksheet 
• Amphibians resources
• Reptiles resources
• Frog Life-Cycle printout & Label Me worksheet 
• Virtual Frog Dissection

Fish

• Free Fish Lapbook! 
• Fish resources

   Now it's time to collect & print all of these great finds that I want to use. I usually store them in a file folder that I will end up using for our lapbook. Each day, I will do a read-aloud from our book & then do a lapbook piece or activity that corresponds with that section!

Happy Planning!

Weekly Wrap-Up/Homeschool Mother's Journal

  We had fun this week studying plants with M6 & L8 while J12 continued her Victorian Era unit study. Click below for free resources for each of those units! Next week we will be starting a unit on animals & continuing our Middle Ages unit w/ L8 & M6.

    J12 wrote her own blog post on here Thursday. You should check it out! We want this to be a weekly post for her & maybe even have a link-up for other kids/teens. How's that sound?? She's loves writing so I thought this would be great for her! If you know how I can get this started or of anyone else hosting a linkup for this please let me know in the comments!

  She is also still working on her Money Doesn't Grow On Trees Lapbook from Knowledge Box Central.


 

M6's art project....she made a large paper cut-out of herself! Just realized the arms are missing...maybe she isn't done after all??

   
   The hubs & I have been going through our things & de-cluttering/organizing. It's amazing how often we do this & STILL have so much stuff!! I'm even going through all of my boxes of school books to see what I really need to hold on to since it's all getting carried away..lol.

Thanks for stopping by!

Until Next Time,

   

Our Plants Mini-Unit Study + Free Resources

   This past week, M6 & L8 have been studying the life-cycle of plants. This all came about when I found a Harcourt Science textbook in an old box of school books in my garage! 

   The first chapter is How Plants Grow. Since we learn better with hands on projects & lapbooks, I decided to do a bit of research & found some great (free!) resources online to go with our unit! If you aren't familiar with lapbooks/lapbooking, check out these How-To videos. We lapbook any chance we get!

Lapbook pieces on bulletin board

Finished lapbook!

The Needs of a Plant (song for kids)

Learn About Plants - Photosynthesis

• Plants Lapbook from Homeschool Helper Online
• Flowering Plant Life Cycle Sequencing Cards from Enchanted Learning
• Photosynthesis Coloring Page from Education.com

    We also read one of my personal favorite books as a kid, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.

    Another thing we did was the colored water & flowers experiment. (No pic!?) We took 3 white flowers & put 1 each in a jar of water colored w/ food coloring (red, blue, & green). This shows how a plant carries water from the roots to the rest of the plant! Check on it the next day & notebook/journal about your findings. You can find free notebooking pages here. 

I had done this experiment before with J12 when she was in 2nd grade with celery & red food coloring. It was so neat to see it with red stripes the next day!

Winter Olympics Travelers Guide On Sale!

Today and tomorrow only, save 25% on our Winter Olympics Travelers Guide! 

Take your family on an adventure by learning about the olympics through Notebooking pages.  Plan a Trip to Sochi Russia, Learn a little about the Russian Language, learn about each sport, and track the medals during the Winter olympics!

E-book version

46 Pages

Original Price: $6.99

Sale Price:  $5.25

Printed Version

46 Pages

Original Price: $19.99

Sale Price: $15.00

Winter Games 2014 Unit Study & More On Sale PLUS a Giveaway from Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett

There's still time to save on Winter Games 2014 this entire week. Get your copy for just $6 - that's 45% off retail! Sale runs through Saturday, 1/18/14, at midnight MST.

SEASONAL SAVINGS

Save $3.95 off Winter Wonders. And with Benjamin Franklin's birthday approaching on January 17th, you can buy the Ben Franklin study for just $5. These seasonal savings are good through Saturday, 1/18/14, at midnight MST.

                               

  

ENTER TO WIN A WINTER GAMES FUN PACK

Over $45 (retail value) of hands-on fun! Visit Unit Studies by Amanda Bennett on Facebook and enter for chance to win the Winter Games Fun Pack provided by Rainbow Resource Center.

Package includes:

• Simple Stopwatch
• World GeoPuzzle
• Ultimate Sticker Book: Flags of the World
• Make Your Own Mini Snowman World
• Make Your Own Paper Snowflakes

Weekly Wrap-Up/Homeschool Mother's Journal

It's been about a month since I wrote up a Weekly Wrap-Up post. I can't believe it! I have some posts up in between this time so instead of a 'weekly' wrap-up I can do a 'monthly' wrap-up. (I'll make it quick so I don't bore you!)  ;)

• Christmas was great for us. It usually lasts about a month since we have so much family that we can't get together with all at once! You can read all about that here & here. 

• We started back to school this week. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be! Usually it takes a day or 2 to get things back in order after taking time off but we were in full swing Monday! 

• J12 started working on a Victorian Era unit (at her request) so I was able to throw together a Webquest for her. It's my 1st one ever & so far she loves it! When I heard, "Mom, you made this?!", it kind of made me feel awesome!! She has until the end of this month to finish it & has to come up with a Powerpoint (unless she can think of another way that we both agree on) to show all that she learned. She is reading The Importance of Being Earnest,  Sherlock Holmes, & The Time Machine. You can find all of them FREE for Kindle!

• L8 & M6 are continuing on with our Story of the World studies. 
  

• And also their science. I found an old 2nd grade textbook recently in my garage & thought I should put in some more 'formal' science lessons. I added a little lapbook to go with our chapter on plants. You can find that here ------Pinterest. And I found a cute little copywork book of a poem about plants but can't remember where I found it! :/

• J12 is still working on her Money Doesn't Grow On Trees Lapbook from Knowledge Box Central.

 

     I have been splitting my time lately between family, homeschool, housekeeping, & blogging a TON more! I'm still trying to get into a routine that works somewhat for us! Along with this blog, I also have my deals blog at Daily Deals From A Nerd Mom AND I am now blogging on freetailtherapy.com!

Thanks for stopping by!

Until Next Time,