Tools for the Homeschool Handy-Mom
Currency & the Fed is a free 22-page download from the St. Louis Federal Reserve that covers: Currency features and history Federal Reserve System Functions of money This lesson plan, geared for the upper grades, includes procedures, assessments and printables that explain the features of the $5 note as it relates to the Federal Reserve, [...]
John James Audubon, born on April 26, 1875, had nothing to do with the Audubon Society. He did not found it, it was not his idea, nor was he ever a member of it. His only connection with the society was that his wife tutored one of the founding members, and that her pupil thought [...]
Once your students are accustomed to writing every day, it is a good idea to present them with a variety of writing challenges. These forms of writing each require something different from the student, and will help him develop his writing and thinking skills. Once familiar with each form, have your student try to [...]
Looking for that perfect word to fit your line of verse? Try Rhymer, a free online rhyming dictionary. You type in the word you wish to rhyme and select the type of rhyming pattern: End rhymes — final vowel sound and final consonant(s) Last syllable rhymes Double rhymes — same vowel sound in second-to-last syllable [...]
OK. We can forget the “required” part. Granted. Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing is a wonderfully arranged collection of poems for the primary student featuring the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, James Whitcomb Riley, Edward Lear, Longfellow, Wordsworth, Mary Howitt (The Spider and the Fly), Charles Kingsley, Shakespeare and many others. The easiest way [...]
In 1906 a sudden and unexpected event occurred: the Great San Francisco Earthquake. The city was severely damaged by the magnitude eight earthquake along the San Andreas Fault, felt as far away as Oregon. Even more destructive was the resulting fire caused by broken gas pipelines which exploded, burning nearly all the remaining city. If [...]
We have updated the following language arts pages, adding a copybook/notebooking option in the additional resources area: The Limerick: A Mini-Unit The Real Mother Goose: Free eBook Mother Goose Illust. by Kate Greenaway: Free eBook Milo Winter’s Aesop Fables: Free eBook A Child’s Garden of Verses: Free eBook We frequently include additional resources to help [...]
It is a never-ending challenge to find quality living books to feed our children. This is particularly true when it comes to history. Most of us realize that the interaction between student and living book is conducive to knowledge retention and intelligence development. We developed the Heritage website with the intention of helping to repopularize [...]
Cedric the Forester by Bernard Marshall takes place during the time of King Richard the Lionhearted and troublesome Prince John. Cedric of Pellham Woods, a Saxon yeoman, is an expert at the crossbow. This humble, valiant young man ends up saving the life of Dickon Mountjoy, a Norman nobleman. And that act of selfless bravery [...]
If you use a daily schedule of some sort — whether it is loosely scheduled in your mind, resembles a checklist more than an hourly planner, features blocks of time rather than hourly to-dos, or is digital instead of paper — and have yet to find that silver bullet to making it work, this post [...]
One of the ways to make history real is to include primary source documents. There is no substitute for hearing from those who lived at the time, those who had a hand in forming the laws and customs … Continue reading →
