Winter Olympics, Valentine's, & President's Day Lapbooks, and Freebies!

Right now, you can grab The Winter Olympics 2014 Lapbook with Study Guide for only $1! This is 3 file folders big! Plus, you can learn all about where the Winter Olympics will be held with the Exploring Russia Lapbook - $4.50! Only 3 days left until the Winter Olympics!

Learn all about Valentine's Day with this Valentine's Day Lapbook with Study Guide - $4.50. 3 folders big, educational, creative and very colorful!

Valentine's Day Cards and Coupons FREEBIE!

Get the Valentine's Day Express Lapbook FREE when you snag the Valentine's Day Bouquet from The Old Schoolhouse! This Bouquet is filled with freebies! Read more about that here & grab yours!

Just in time for President's Day! This Washington/Lincoln lapbook is an "Express Lapbook," which means it is ONE FOLDER and can be done in one to two days. Not only do you get the lapbook templates, they also include extras- clickable website links, coloring pages, craft ideas, and games! 35 pages for only $1!!

This Presidents notebooking pages set covers every US President from Washington to Obama. Upon completion, your child will have a complete diary of the presidents in his/her own words and handwriting. The best part? It's only $4.50! 

NEWEST RESOURCE

This History Revealed- Romans, Reformers, Revolutionaries Lapbook is broken up into 9 Units. By using the Binder-Builders along with this wonderful program, you will be able to bring and gather so much of what your student is learning and store it into one fun-packed binder! No more lost papers. In one location your student will store reports, art, science, reading list, timeline, and more!

Each unit has two or more fun booklets to complete. So, gather the kids and let the learning begin! $18

***Romans, Reformers, Revolutionaries by Diana Waring is required to do this Binder-Builder.

New Series of Lapbooks About Diabetes, Asthma, Autism, & next to be Epilepsy!

Knowledge Box Central feels like it is important to equip children with knowledge about WHY some children have challenges and differences. With this knowledge comes the power to love unconditionally, the way Jesus did. All of this has led to their decision to create a series of Lapbooks that help you to discuss these sensitive issues with your children. Each one comes with a complete Study Guide and instructions to create a beautiful keepsake. These can be done within your own family or in a group. So far, theye have completed these for Diabetes, Asthma, and Autism, & the next to be Epilepsy. Watch for more in this series!

Autism Lapbook

Starting at: $5.00

Diabetes Lapbook

Starting at: $5.00

While you're there, check out the Specials for this week only & for the month of February!

Make sure to sign up for their Knewsletter to receive a $5 coupon toward your first order! 

The Knewsletters also contains their new Freebie Feature! 

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, Urinary System, & Muscular System Lapbooks starting at $1.00!

Knowledge Box Central is having a special on some of their lapbooks this week only!

2014 Winter Olympics Lapbook - EBOOK

$5.00     $1.00

Save: 80% off!!

Urinary System Lapbook

Starting at: $5.00      $2.50

Save: 50% off!!

Muscular System Lapbook

Starting at: $5.00      $2.50

Save: 50% off!!

Winter Olympics 2014 Lapbook with Study Guide-1.00!

Get ready for the 2014 Winter Olympics with this educational, hands-on 3-folder lapbook by A Journey Through Learning!

Folder 1 covers the history of the Olympics.

Folder 2 covers the 2014 Olympics- dates, symbols, logo. mascots, winter games, Russia, a Winter Olympics word search, and more.

Folder 3 includes a booklet for every event in the Olympics. Within each book, your child will write which country wins the Gold Medal! How fun and interactive!

This lapbook is for every child who would love to learn more about the 2014 Winter Olympics!

58 pages!

Weekly Wrap-Up/Homeschool Mother's Journal

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  This week we started a few different things. Since Thanksgiving is next week, we have been working on a large Thanksgiving Day Lapbook. It's a mix of a few different lapbooks that I pieced together, The Pilgrims Project Pack, Thanksgiving Day Speedy Lapbook, & Thanksgiving lapbook. This thing took 3 file folders!

  We also watched Squanto and the First Thanksgiving, Told by Graham Greene with Music by Paul McCandless & did some activities from my list of resources. You can find those here.
  Another thing we started this week is Write From Medieval History Level 1. This fits perfectly with our Middle Ages theme this year & the kids love the stories! Watch for my review on this in the next few weeks. It is manuscript for M6 & L8 so to have J12 involved I have her write it in cursive.
  You can see our volcano project that we did earlier this week here.

  The beginning of this week was very exciting for all of us. My baby sis had her 1st baby! A baby girl! We got to visit her Tuesday at the hospital & then went to her place to help get it ready before she came home. She is so tiny!

  Next week we will be doing some more activities from my list of resources, especially since M6 was on a roll & did this whole weeks worth in 2 days! We will also be getting the house more organized for Thanksgiving & of course we can't forget to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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FREE Thanksgiving Resources Round-Up

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  I still can't believe that Thanksgiving is right around the corner! Here in FL we are *just now* starting to feel a bit of the Fall weather. Just the other day it was in the 80's, yesterday was 63, today is 73, & then right back up to the 80's tomorrow & the rest of the week! It's hard to get into the holiday spirit with weather like that. So to help me,  I've gathered a ton of freebies from around the internet for Thanksgiving. Here is a list of what I've found:


~Printable Thanksgiving Placemats, Pilgrims Unit Study (1st - 5th grade), Thanksgiving Unit Study (PreK - 5th grade), Coloring pages, & "What I'm Thankful For" Write & Draw sheets from In All You Do.

~Contented At Home has a list of free classical Thanksgiving Kindle books.

~Scripture Place Cards from The Road to 31

~The Road to 31 also has 5 free unit studies (1 has 4 full unit studies!) & lessons to cover the meaning of Thanksgiving from every angle!

~7 free Pilgrim Themed Kindle books 

    

~Amanda Bennett Thanksgiving Lapbook (scroll down for lapbook)

~Homeschool Freebie of the Day has 3 e-books:
  -Pilgrim Stories I - From Old Homes To New
  -Pilgrim Stories II - The Wild Land & Thanksgiving
  -Pilgrim Stories III - Little Pilgrims & The Red Men (plus Teacher's Guide)

 

~Thanksgiving Q-tip painting from 1+1+1=1

~Printable Thanksgiving Prayer Cards from rachelwojo.com

~Thanksgiving Unit Study for Little Ones from the Modest Mom

~T is for Thanksgiving packet for little ones from Oopsey Daisy

~Plimoth Plantation Virtual Field Trip! from Scholastic

Thanksgiving Printable Pack includes 60 activities for kids ages 2-7 from Gift of Curiosity.

Thanksgiving Turkey games & activities from Fran's World of Discovery.

~Currclick has some free Thanksgiving themed resources. Check prices before downloading!
   -November Daily Assignments---Mini-Helper
   -Pumpkin Mini Helper
   -Turkey Mini Helper
   -Counting, Cut, & Paste-Numbers 0-10 (Thanksgiving Theme)
   -Counting, Cut, & Paste Numbers 10-20 (Thanksgiving Theme)
   -Thanksgiving Notebooking Pages
   -Cornucopia printable
 
~Turkey Fun mini-pack from Homeschool Giveaways & Freebies

~Thanksgiving Mad Libs! from Are We There Yet?

~Printable verses about thankfulness with activity ideas from Creative K Kids.

~Thanksgiving PreK pack from Confessions of A Homeschooler.

~Thanksgiving Bible Crafts & Printables from Christian Preschool Printables.

~More Thanksgiving Bible activities & Crafts from Bible Story Printables.

~Mosaic Cornucopia craft from Confessions of a Homeschooler

~Paper Bag Turkey craft from Homeschooled-kids.com

~Handprint Turkey craft from Meet the Dubiens

~Pilgrim Shape Craft from 2 Teaching Mommies

~T is for Turkey multi-age pack from All Our Days

~Thanksgiving Unit from 2 Teaching Mommies

~Printable Timeline from 2 Teaching Mommies


Enjoy!

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