Category: Activities
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Activity: Choose a Title
Activity: Choose a Title ~ The first step to writing a simple story is to choose a title. Here are ideas to help a student choose an interesting one.
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Activity: Steps for Developing Storytelling Skills
For beginning writers, retelling the best stories is the first step in developing our writing skills. Steps for developing storytelling skills.
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Activity: Filling Out A Form
It is one of those life skills we homeschool moms don’t want to forget. Our children will need to know how to correctly fill out forms!
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Activity: Words That Describe
By using a sensory detail form we can make a note of words that appeal to the five senses — words that describe.
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Activity: Describe ~ Free Form
Use this free sensory detail form to capture words and phrases that describe.
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Activity: Storytelling Prompts
Storytelling prompts encourage a student step-by-step through the process of creating his own story.
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Activity: Rhyming Couplets
Rhyming couplets are two consecutive lines of poetry that have the same sound at the end.
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Activity: Storytelling
Four ways to develop the art and skill of storytelling.
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20 Fun Holiday Activities
20 fun holiday activities to enjoy with your family.
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Activity: Measure Length and Distance
Here are ideas for exploring measuring length and distance — in a natural way:
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Holiday Fun Activity: 25 DIY Thanksgiving Treats!
You and your kids can create pretzel turkeys or chocolate caramel turkey legs with these 20 fun DIY Thanksgiving treats!
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Activity: Make a DIY Pumpkin Bird Feeder
Here is a fun nature activity for you and your family to enjoy this fall: Make a DIY pumpkin bird feeder.
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Activity: Apple Study & Thematic Resources
Fall! And that makes us think apples! 17 apple activities!
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10 Activities: Winter Nature Study
What type of nature study activities can you do in the winter? Here are several ideas.
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12 Fun Ways to Learn with Kites
April is National Kite Month. Here are 12 fun ways you can go fly a kite — and learn something along the way.
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Activity: Make a Bird Feeder
It’s nearly winter! Time to consider putting up a bird feeder for that extra energy in times of temperature extremes.
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Holiday Fun Activity: Thankful Pumpkins
Now this is original! Combine fall pumpkins with the Thanksgiving theme to create a decorative centerpiece or gift: thankful pumpkins!
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Activity: Create a Timeline Notebook
Once your children have their reading and writing skills down, they may benefit from creating a timeline notebook to hold everything studied in chronological order.
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34 Things to Do With Your Preschooler
34 concrete ideas or things to do with your preschooler that go hand in hand with the basic natural framework.
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Activity: Preparing a 1040 Income Tax Form
Now is a great time to help our students understand why we pay income tax, what withholdings are, and how to prepare a simple 1040 income tax form.
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Activity: Collect Vocabulary
We’ve already provided 5 ideas toward a richer vocabulary. The takeaway is that developing a rich vocabulary is directly correlated to the amount of attention paid to it. In other words, a rich vocabulary is dependent upon the habit of collecting words. So let’s get to it: Collect Vocabulary! Suggestions Some of us are simply…
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Activity: Learn to Sew
From learning to follow directions to building fine motor skills, there are many reasons to learn to sew!
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Activity: Slicing Verbs
Sometimes it is a good idea to illustrate or reinforce a concept with a hands-on approach.
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12 Days of Christmas {Activities}
12 Days of Christmas activities and resources!
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Holiday Fun Activity: Pumpkin Pie in a Cup
Celebrate Thanksgiving by making pumpkin pie in a cup! Easy holiday recipe that uses only a few ingredients.
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Activity: Pyramid Poem {Learning Alliteration}
Learn alliteration — a literary device where words in a sentence or phrase begin with the same beginning sound — by writing a pyramid poem!
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