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A Colorful Creative Profile Collage

A Colorful Creative Profile Collage

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Creating a colorful profile collage was an idea I thought of from previous experience in Art Club during my high school years. However, what I envisioned and what occurred were two very different things. But I share this because homeschooling and teaching is a journey, not a one and done. It’s about taking on challenges and working with them. What I envisioned… What actually occurred… So while this is the first stage to my collage art experiment with three boys,…

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Free Homeschool Printables by Subject

Free Homeschool Printables by Subject

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Free printables by subject that we have found or created. Here are some of our quick favorites to use in your everyday homeschool… We have collected websites and free printables over the course of many years in homeschooling. As many homeschooling families do, we find our favorites and try to keep them organized in one place. This list will be a working list since we are always finding more resources and ideas as we teach. Reading Freebies For our reading…

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How to Survive & Teach a Child Who Tinkers

How to Survive & Teach a Child Who Tinkers

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For your child who is a tinkerer, there may be a variety of ways they approach the day to day. Is the house filled with half done projects or experiments all over? For us, life with a tinkerer is: How you teach a tinkerer Guide them and give them structure but allow them to figure out how to safely experiment within their means and within their age range and capacity while also building autonomy and finding out how things work….

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Teach Your Child Typing with Mavis Beacon

Teach Your Child Typing with Mavis Beacon

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A great and affordable typing program that gives kids access to the basics of typing and is fun and easygoing. User friendly, full of games and shows progress. Why Typing is Important Using a computer is very valuable in any profession. This is the age of technology and over the generations, many things have changed. The current generation knows much more about touch screens and using an iPhone as a mini-computer than actually using a desktop computer. Typing is valuable…

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Magical Mysterious Art with Matisse

Magical Mysterious Art with Matisse

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From painter and sculptor to a magician with paper, Matisse created wild and colorful art that are both magical and modern, creating art designs of perspectives before his time. Who Was Matisse? Matisse was a man of many talents and a hard life. He started as a painter and sculptor. Very little is known about some of his paintings and sculptors. He is mostly known for his paper art motifs and murals/collages that he designed after a divorce and severe…

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A Glorious American Revolution Curriculum

A Glorious American Revolution Curriculum

Gaining independence through revolution in 1775 Over the past few years we have been struggling to find good, clear cut curriculum for American History. Our eldest child loves history and has already utilized a lot of the history curriculum out there. After a lot of trial and error, trying to find books that were age appropriate but also interesting (not those 500 page biographies on one topic!) we finally found a good set. It wasn’t without failure. The first lesson…

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Exploring Amazing All American History

Exploring Amazing All American History

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An interactive journal activity using a great American text. As you read, you learn an overview of American history from Vikings to the presidents and everything in between… Free Printable Lessons 1-28 Below: What this American History teaches… This history book with lessons covers a wide range of general history in easy to read chapters. Each chapter is about 10 pages or less, with pictures and large print. Simply using Google images and the key concepts and phrases of each…

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Early Settlers of American History Come to Life

Early Settlers of American History Come to Life

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Using Southwest Advantage – an American History Curriculum for the Teaching the Settlers of America This curriculum design was inspired by our family vacation plans (long awaited and desired!) to visit Jamestown and Williamsburg, Virginia. We studied this unit both before and after visiting Jamestown. History really came to life. If you haven’t seen Virginia yet, I highly recommend it! Below are the lessons we designed using Southwestern Advantage materials about the Early Settlers. Bringing our trip to life, we…

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Bringing All American History to Life

Bringing All American History to Life

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These days it is getting harder and harder to find good and accurate American History curriculum. While there is a plethora of world history in the academic world, finding age appropriate history books is a challenge. We have found many books over the years that have been a great resource. Although there are history books of all kinds, elementary is what has been the hardest. Below are three units I have created for elementary and middle school age to get…

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Rembrandt: A Wonderful Baroque Painter

Rembrandt: A Wonderful Baroque Painter

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Rembrandt was a 1600’s artist of realism and portraits….a wealthy famous painter Who was Rembrandt? A painter from the Netherlands Resources: Art Activity: Silly funny portraits of faces here: Courtesy of Hundred Acre Wood Other Option: Books: Art in Early America by Randy Osofsky A Child’s Introduction to Art: the Worlds Greatest Paintings by Heather Alexander MagellanTV: Exhibition on Screen History’s Greatest Painters show Season 1 Episode 7 (minute 27-39 shows process of painting) Printables for Faces below: Extensions: Compare…

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