Tools for the Homeschool Handy-Mom
Our Wonderful World by Emery Lewis Howe is a rich nature study book available for free download covering backyard neighbors, feathered friends, garden life, four-footed comrades, and the earth and its neighbors. By covering one chapter a week, there are 32 weeks worth of lessons. Enjoy the complete series! A Story of the Rocks [...]
The date is April 22, 1889. It is five minutes till noon in central Oklahoma. The solid wall of horses, extending as far as the eye can see in either direction, bends and ripples restlessly, hooves pawing the ground and eye whites flashing. Their eagerness is mirrored in the faces of their riders and drivers, [...]
Ready to teach your children about the water cycle? This free poster from the U.S. Geological Survey can help! Available as a .pdf, 11×17 image or a large poster image, the printable download explains the processes of evaporation, precipitation, and groundwater storage in a colorful and interesting way. The water cycle poster makes a perfect [...]
When we were teaching our children the calendar, we purchased a very nice wooden magnetic calendar similar to this one, to attach names, dates and holidays to as we kept track of each day. For those who would prefer to avoid that expense, you’ll appreciate this free Calendar Activity Set! This 4-page download includes a [...]
We are not of the group that believes that grammar needs to be taught each year from first grade through high school. If you are using a traditional textbook course, that may be the scope and sequence you will follow, and some of our notebooking suggestions will still work for you. We used a more [...]
Our Wonderful World by Emery Lewis Howe is a rich nature study book available for free download covering backyard neighbors, feathered friends, garden life, four-footed comrades, and the earth and its neighbors. By covering one chapter a week, there are 32 weeks worth of lessons. Enjoy the complete series! Neighbors in the Sky We [...]
What are foldables? Foldables are multi-dimensional graphic organizers that can be used for skills reinforcement, practice, and/or information organizing. We call them lapbooks. Early in our homeschooling career we purchased Dinah Zike’s Big Book of Books and Activities which was full of hundreds of foldables, booklets and manipulatives. We have also used her Great Science [...]
How well do you know the birds in your area? Can you recognize them by their calls? Are you up to a bird call challenge? eNature’s Bird Call Challenge is a nifty interactive that will test your bird call knowledge for those birds in your specific area! Enter your zip code and choose all the [...]
On April 11, 1875, German astronomer Samuel Heinrich Schwabe died, leaving behind him a discovery that continues to both intrigue scientists and plunge them into controversy—the eleven-year solar cycle. Discovery Schwabe had no such intent when he began observations in 1826. In fact, the sun wasn’t really what he was interested in at all. Schwabe [...]
Another one of the earliest notebooks we implemented in our homeschool was a writing notebook. The writing notebook was the one that was typically bursting at the seams by the end of a school year. At times this large notebook just expanded beyond the current year into the next year, and the next — never [...]
Our home has been filled to overflowing (at various times) with amplifiers, bugs, bridges, chickens, dogs, electronics, birds, horses, cows, fish, and better mousetraps -- fortunately, mostly … Continue reading →
