Finish up summer with some summer-fun experiments and units, nature walks, good reads, and good food — while gathering up resources for the new year ahead!
- Feel the heat.
- Experiment with watermelons.
- As you look ahead to next year, consider these Benefits of Home Education (and what to do next)!
- Learn more about our dollars and cents and the U.S. Mint (free unit study) {August 7}.
- Build a sunspot viewer.
- Take a stroll through Grammar-land (free eBook, activities, and notebooking pages).
- Tell a story.
- Explore the farm.
- Eat your fruits and veggies (free unit study) {August 8}.
- Or use them for noun or adjective exploration!
- Enjoy blueberries with Sal {free book activities}.
- If you are planning to use living books, you’ll want these 6 tips for getting the most out of your literature-based studies.
- Start a nature journal {free notebooking pages}.
- Learn about fires and fire safety with Smokey Bear {August 9}.
- Take Teddy to the beach.
- Teach your children to appreciate music…the easy way!
- Catch a butterfly (free eBook).
- Enjoy these poems (and associated activities) from our Online Poetry Anthology:
- Explore the Bayeux Tapestry (free unit study) {August 22}.
- Follow directions.
- Carry a big stick.
- Teaching a child to read this coming year? Use Noah Webster’s Reading Handbook.
- And while you are at it, enjoy these 10 Free Read Alouds for the pre-K to 2 group.
- Travel to Egypt and investigate the Rosetta Stone {August 24}.
- Last-minute books to buy? Borrow these 7 tips for choosing materials.
- Download these free eBooks {and go-alongs!}:
- Beacon Lights of History {Free eBooks}
- The Elements of Style {Free eBook}
- Understood Betsy {Free eBook & Go-Alongs}
- The Romance of the Microscope {Free eBook}
- A Book of Birds {Free eBook}
- Popular Scientific Recreations {Free eBook}
- Glimpses of Ocean Life {Free eBook}
- Wheeler’s Elementary Speller {Free eBook}
- How It Flies {Free eBook}
- Historical Events of Colonial Days {Free eBook}
- Bird Houses Boys Can Build {Free eBook}
- Introduction to Botany {Free eBook}
- 100 Desert Wildflowers {Free eBook}
- The Common Objects of the Country {Free eBook}
- Second Boys’ Book of Model Aeroplanes ~ Free eBook
- Tropical Fish Handbook ~ Free eBook
- The Butterfly Book ~ Free eBook
- Johann Sebastian Bach ~ Free eBook
- Create a Good Times book (free eBook).
- Be ready to build a writer.
- Wrap up your summer with a photographic collage.
- Or one of these 10 End-of-Summer Ideas!
- Start working your schedule by utilizing these 6 tips.
- Speaking of scheduling, plan to learn during car trips!
- Use these 15 Ways to Improve Concentration to help make the transition from summer to focused!
- Make use of these great finds:
- Internet Surfing Tools {Free!}
- Beautiful Coloring Alphabet Notebook Pages {Free}
- Shape Books {Free}
- Baking & Cooking Unit Study {Free}
- Music Unit Study {Free}
- Country Study {Free Unit Study}
- Our Flag {Free Download}
- Find: Blackline Math Masters {Free}
- Tour the Postal Museum
- Summer Find: Let’s Go Fishin’!
- Bird Unit Study {Free}
- Exploring the Milky Way ~ Free NASA Download
- Editable Graphic Organizer Templates ~ Free
- Picture Match ~ Free Phonics Interactive
- Animated Engines ~ Free
Enjoy our Things to Do each month:
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