
Start the year with enjoyable read-alouds, free unit studies, fun celebrations, and helpful books and tools!
- Draw with Millet (free eBook & go-alongs).
- It’s fall! Study apples.
- Learn what causes hail with this free unit study (September 3).
- Follow these 10 steps to build a better speller.
- Download Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston — or complete the entire history book study!
- If you want to focus on science instead download Great Inventors and Their Inventions by Frank Bachman and/or the complete science book study.
- Visit the Chicago World’s Fair (September 4).
- Make your own ABC book.
- Enjoy these poems (and associated activities) from our Online Poetry Anthology:
- Pump gasoline (September 5).
- Make way for ducklings (free video & activities).
- Write a book review.
- Download our free Drawing & Writing notebooking paper set.
- Enjoy the works of Grandma Moses (September 7).
- Experiment with the “Father of Electronics” (review & activities).
- Follow these 10 steps to write a research paper.
- Hug a grandparent (September 11).
- Keep art simple this year using these 7 ideas for picture study.
- Practice writing something every day beginning with rhyming couplets.
- Study DNA & genetics {Free unit study} (September 13).
- Play with Ginger Pye (book suggestions & activities).
- Create a Reading List using these 5 tips.
- Become a junior spy (September 18).
- Tell a story.
- Learn how to correctly use hyphenated compounds.
- Pop some popcorn (September 19).
- Give a mouse a cookie (book activities).
- Grab a narration idea.
- Celebrate Constitution Day (September 17).
- Learn how to correctly use the em dash.
- Determine what type of learner you have.
- Travel to Delaware (September 20).
- Develop these 45 life skills — don’t let them leave home without them!
- Write a biography or autobiography.
- Try not to be too busy.
- And make use of multitasking!
- Download these free eBooks {and go-alongs!}:
- Science for Beginners {Free eBook}
- Workbook for the SAT Essay {Free eBook}
- Beautiful Girlhood {Free eBook}
- Wheeler’s Graded Studies in Great Authors {Free}
- The History of the United States {Free eBook for Early Readers}
- The First Book of Trees {Free eBook}
- Three Years With the Poets {Free eBook}
- First Book of Birds {Free eBook}
- Trains at Work {Free eBook}
- Wheeler’s Graded Studies in English {Free eBook}
- Peeps at Heraldry {Free eBook}
- Cloud Studies {Free eBook}
- Poems of American History {Free eBook}
- Little Friends in Feathers {Free eBook}
- A Book of American Explorers {Free eBook}
- Calculus Made Easy ~ Free eBook
- Poems Every Child Should Know ~ Free eBook
- Entomology for Beginners ~ Free eBook
- An Introduction to Nature Study ~ Free eBook
- As a new year begins, concentrate on setting the pace.
- Do something creative with your child’s artwork!
- Stay organized.
- Take advantage of one of these great finds:
- 4 Apple Unit Studies {Free}
- Math Fact Worksheet Creator {Free}
- College Prep Reading List {Free}
- The Revolutionary War {Free Unit Study}
- 20 Graphic Organizers {Free}
- Smithsonian Nature Journal Instruction {Free}
- Flight Adventures Unit Study {Free}
- 62-Page Nutrition & Cookbook Download {Free}
- Animal Facts Page Creator {Free}
Enjoy our Things to Do each month:
