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One Small Square Nature Journal

June 6, 2019 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

Nature Journals are a popular way to engage children in the great outdoors. The flora and fauna of your local neighborhood become the teachers in the ultimate open-air classroom. Detailed nature studies are exciting, but can also be a good deal of work. As a summer alternative, try a tiny square nature journal. It has all the benefits and enticements of a full-blown nature study, packed into one little square. This makes it easier for kids to do on their own, and leaves plenty of time for summer fun!

For added learning, visit your local library or pick up this fantastic series of books called, “One Small Square.” These books feature beautiful illustrations of diverse flora and fauna tucked inside a small square picture of different habitats, and your children will be enthralled by them!

Find Your “Square”

The first step to this type of study is locating a spot. This is where the entire study will take place. It should be a spot that is easy to get to frequently. One in your backyard or a close by a park that you frequent would be perfect.

Your spot should be on the small side, only 2-4 feet wide and long. It should be compact enough for a child to do a thorough investigation in a matter of minutes. Try to pick a location that has a variety of vegetation.

Make a Habit of It

The purpose of a tiny square nature journal is observing changes over time. It invites the children to take a very close look. When observing large areas, it is easy to miss so many details. The larger trees, animals, and insects grab your attention. However, even the smallest of squares is teeming with activity.

Decide how often you will visit your little spot. Every day? Once per week? Make sure you will get in enough observations to see the smallest changes, but remember it is summer. This activity should not add stress to your day. Regular visits are crucial to this project, so think of how you can make them part of your routine this summer.

The Big Picture

A little square can be packed with big life. Observing the changes each visit, and recording them in your journal, will help children understand the bigger picture of your eco-system. So many tiny creatures, subtle changes, and little food chains keep the environment healthy and growing.

Drawing or photographing your spot on visits or at different times of the day can offer a deeper appreciation of what happens when we aren’t looking. By comparing photos or drawings from early summer to early fall, or early morning to late at night, your child will grow in his appreciation and understanding of the world around him.

Establishing Some Roots

A one tiny square nature journal inspires ownership. This is your child’s special spot. He will be more inclined to protect it and learn from it long after the project is over. Just like the roots of trees stretch far down below the soil where we can’t see them. Having a vested interest in a tiny eco-system will extend far past the summer project. This is a chance to really connect with nature on a deep level with a project that takes just minutes per day.

Free Nature Journal Printables:

Use these free printable Nature Journals to track your Small Square!

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Spring
Summer
Fall

Filed Under: Nature Crafts, Nature Journaling, Science Tagged With: animals, backyard, bugs, habitat, nature, science

Thanksgiving Math & Literacy, Art, Science & More….

October 26, 2017 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

Do you ever wish someone would just plan out your entire homeschool year for you….then maybe bundle it all up and email it to your inbox on Monday morning?
Yeah….me too.
Well, I don’t have an entire YEAR of curriculum to send you, but I do have something that will make your homeschool planning super easy this November.
SMART: Science, Math, Art, Reading & Take Home activities for Thanksgiving!  This helpful set is filled with a week’s worth of fun, educational math games, hands-on activities, science experiments, art projects, early readers, writing prompts and a Bible memory verse.  Everything you need to add a little holiday fun to your kindergarten classroom this year!
Thanksgiving Science: This set includes five simple science experiments and challenges.  Each thematic activity guides students through a fun, hands-on science exploration with very little prep-work.  Students work their way through the scientific method using the step-by-step science journals.  Each experiment includes a follow-up activity for added learning.
Thanksgiving Math: Each day students will play a fun game or activity then follow up their learning with a lesson sheet to show mastery. Games focus on learning to frame numbers to ten, basic addition, counting to 100, and counting by 10’s.
Thanksgiving ART: We include five stunning autumn art projects that are perfect for Thanksgiving.  Each project comes with a full photo tutorial, printable templates and easy to follow materials list.  Students work with oil pastels, paint, textures, blending and more.  
Thanksgiving Reading (and Writing): This set includes three early readers covering social studies and history.  Each story includes a carefully controlled word list and incorporates key vocabulary for extended learning.  Students are provided narrative and comparison writing prompts that are not only simple to follow, but would make wonderful educational keepsakes. 
Take Home/Review Work: T is for Take Home Review Sheets.  These sheets can be used as review work in the homeschool classroom or as homework in a standard classroom.  Each page features reading, writing, vocabulary, and scripture memorization activities. Character thinking points are available instead of Bible memory for those using this resource in a public school setting.
SMART: Science, Math, Art, Reading & Take Home activities for Thanksgiving!  This helpful set is filled with a week’s worth of fun, educational math games, hands-on activities, science experiments, art projects, early readers, writing prompts and a Bible memory verse.  Everything you need to add a little holiday fun to your kindergarten classroom this year!
 

Filed Under: Art Curriculum, Art Projects for Kids, Homeschool Curriculum, Language Arts, Math Tools, Science Projects, SMART Packs, Thanksgiving Tagged With: homeschool curriculum, kindergarten, literacy, math, printables, reading, science, STEM, take home, thanksgiving

Scientific Method Charts for K-2

April 11, 2017 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

Smart Start Science is a new and engaging series of Low-Prep, Hands-On experiments, and activities designed for K-2 students. This specific pack, “Scientific Method Anchor Charts” includes six posters displaying the parts of the scientific method. Both color and black and white are provided.

 

Scientific Method Posters
-Ask a Question “What is something you want to know?”
-Research “Find information about your question.”
-Hypothesis “Take your best guess to answer the question.”
-Test your Hypothesis “Experiment with and test your hypothesis.
-Analyze Results “Organize your data to see what it means.”
-Report “Share your data with other scientists.”

Black and White versions are provided as well.  These can be used as coloring pages, or printed onto colored paper for classroom displays.  These would be fantastic when printed smaller to make flashcards to small booklets for children to take home.

 

Smart Start Science: Scientific Method Anchor Charts

Filed Under: Homeschool Curriculum, homeschool printables, Science Projects Tagged With: charts, coloring, first grade, kindergarten, preschool, science, scientific method, second grade

Kindergarten Science Curriculum

February 28, 2017 By Valerie Mcclintick 47 Comments

 
If there is one thing I’ve learned in my 9 years of homeschooling it’s that Science doesn’t have to be daunting….it really doesn’t!  That is why I’m thrilled to announce the release of a brand new series called, “Smart Start Science.”
Smart Start Science
Experiments for St. Patrick’s Day
Smart Start Science is a new and engaging series of Low-Prep, Hands-On experiments and activities designed for K-2 students. This specific pack, “Experiments for St. Patrick’s Day” includes five complete experiments and follow up activities that are sure to add a little color to your classroom.
St. Patrick’s Day Experiments:
-Cultivating Clovers (Plant & Life Cycle)
-Traveling Rainbow (Capilary Action & Color Mixing)
-How Much Gold Can One Boat Hold (Engineering & Data Graphing)
-Lucky Scoop (Prediction, Graphing and Data Analysis)
-Super Shiny Coins (Chemical Mixing & Reactions)
Experiment #1: Cultivating Clovers
Students plant their own pot of clovers, track growth and learn the plant life-cycle.
Experiment #2: The Traveling Rainbow
With this super simple experiment children learn about capillary action and color mixing.
Experiment #3
 Students build three different boats and put them to the test.
The boat that holds the most gold wins!
Experiment # 4: Super Shiny Gold
Leprechauns want their gold super shiny and this experiment will lead students through a test to see which chemicals will react together to make the perfect cleaning solution.
Experiment #5: Lucky Scoop
Students estimate and graph how many lucky marshmallows they find in their scoop!
Smart Start Science Curriculum Overview:

For each experiment you’ll be provided with the following teaching resources:

Experiment Overview & Steps:
This sheet features a full color photo example of the experiment, skills in focus, materials list and step by step instructions for completing the experiment.

Pre-Experiment Journal Page:
Students gather materials, form questions and develop a hypothesis.

Data & Conclusion Journal Page:
Students track their data or draw their procedure and write in their final conclusion.

Follow Up Activity:
Each experiment includes a unique activity to follow up the experiment. Many are hands-on, fun and relatable projects, games or handouts for students to try at home.

BONUS Appendix:
6 Full Color Charts outlining the Scientific Method
6 Black and White Coloring Pages of the Scientific Method

Smart Start Science
Experiments for St. Patrick’s Day
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Filed Under: Homeschool Curriculum, homeschool printables, Science Projects, St. Patrick's Day Crafts Tagged With: experiments, homeschool curriculum, plants, rainbows, science, st patricks day

Pine Cone Science Printables

September 21, 2015 By Valerie Mcclintick 1 Comment

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With Fall right around the corner, I’ve been trying to come up with as many hands on science printables as possible! One thing there always seems to be an abundance of around our property is pine cones.  Pine Cones can be great learning tools in your classroom.

Pine Cone Science Printables  This set includes a Cut and Paste Worksheet, Chart and Blank Labeling Sheet, Notebooking and Coloring Page.  The pine cone clipart is also available for those of you who like to ake your own teaching resources, just be sure to read our terms of use first.

Learning Ideas: Start with a nature walk to collect pine cones, then take them back into the classroom.  Submerge pinecones in water to watch them close up.  Extract seeds from pine cones and then break open to look inside.

More Botany Printables

More Science Printables

 

 

Filed Under: Nature Crafts, Science Projects, Tree Crafts, Worksheets Tagged With: clipart, journal notebooking, pine cone, science

Parts of a Leaf Printables

September 17, 2015 By Valerie Mcclintick 2 Comments

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It’s Fall.

Well, almost.

It sure feels like Fall here in Southern Oregon.

The rain is back, and the trees are starting to turn colors.

It’s been an much needed break from the 105 degree weather, and the smoky fire skies.

Fall is a great time to involve children with hands on science projects.

Today I have a fun set of printables you can use to study those beautiful Fall Leaves!

Parts of a Leaf Science Printables

This set includes a parts of a leaf chart and labeling worksheet, cut and paste activity page, coloring page & notebooking page.  Plus you can even grab the clipart to design your own Fall leaf resources for your students.

Looking for more??

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Find Fall Leaf Art Projects Here

Find Fall Leaf Printables Here

There are just so many changes going on in nature that children can really get excited about science discovery.

I’ve been featuring many hands on science projects and art projects on our Facebook page and Pinterest so be sure to follow along if you don’t already.

Filed Under: Fall Learning Resources, homeschool printables, Notebooking Printables, Plants & Leaves, Science Crafts, Science Projects Tagged With: leaf, science

Parts of an Apple Printables

September 6, 2015 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

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With Fall on the horizon I thought it would be a great time to start working on some Apple resources. Going apple picking has been a favorite activity for our family, and it provides wonderful opportunities for real life learning with some impromptu discussions.

Conversations at the apple farm stem from varieties of apples, tree grafting, cross pollination, bee populations, parts of an apple and so much more.

Today I drew up some simple worksheets and activities you can use with young children to learn the parts of an apple.  There are charts, notebooking pages, coloring pages, labeling worksheets and even a cut and paste activity.   Use these alongside a real apple that has been cross sectioned in half.

Parts of an Apple Printables are available free at our sister site HomeschoolClipart.com, where you can also download the apple clipart to make your own teaching resources!

Find Parts of a Flower Printables & Clipart

Find Parts of a Seed Printables & Clipart

Find Apple Printables and Games

Adam & Eve Bible Printables

Filed Under: Apple Printables, homeschool printables, Notebooking Printables, Science Crafts Tagged With: apple, clipart, science, worksheets

Free Homeschool Science Printables

June 17, 2015 By Valerie Mcclintick 2 Comments

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With the release of our latest eBook, I thought it might be helpful to post a round up of some of our most popular Homeschool Science Printables and resources!

Free Science Printables & Resources:

  • Free Scientific Method Printables
  • Free Periodic Table of Elements Chart
  • Free Anatomy Crafts 
  • Free Science Clipart & Worksheets (Anatomy, Botany, Zoology, Astronomy, & Geology)
  • Preschool & Kindergarten Science Games
  • First Grade Science Learning Centers
  • Free Printable Life Cycle Sequencing Sets

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Periodic Table of the Elements Activity Pack

Sample Pages & Photos of Games & Resources

This activity pack includes the following resources:

Reproducible Charts:

  • Full Color Periodic Table Chart (8.5 x 11)
  • B&W Periodic Table Chart (8.5 x 11)
  • A3 Size Color Periodic Table Chart (11 x 17)
  • A3 Size BW Periodic Table Chart (11 x 17)

Printable Cards and Games:

  • Element Letter Tiles
  • Element Fact Cards
  • Element Boggle Gameboard
  • 8 different Element Bingo Cards
  • 8 Element Bingo Cards with Symbols Only

Worksheets:

  • Fill in the Blank Symbols Worksheet
  • Fill in the Name /Atomic Mass/Number Worksheet
  • Blank Periodic Table in Color
  • Blank Periodic Table in B&W
  • Symbol Stumper Worksheet

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Filed Under: Notebooking Printables, Science Crafts, Science Projects Tagged With: homeschool, printables, science

Human Heart Worksheets

April 29, 2015 By Valerie Mcclintick 3 Comments

Heart Anatomy Printables

 

I’ve just created some fantastic resources for learning about the human heart.

On our sister site HomeschoolClipart.com you’ll find a set that includes a human heart coloring page, worksheet, labeling sheet and reference chart just right for young children learning human anatomy.  Click Here

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Find More Free Human Anatomy Projects & Printables Here

 

 

Filed Under: Nature Crafts Tagged With: anatomy, charts, coloring, heart, science

Brain & Neuron Coloring Pages

March 29, 2015 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

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Learning about the nervous system can be fascinating for children of all ages!

Brain Coloring, Worksheets, & Clip art

Neuron Coloring, Worksheets & Clip art

 

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Brain & Neuron Projects for Kids

 

Brain & Nervous System Books for KidsIn Brainiacs, Merrin and Pearl venture in to the nervous system when their favorite teacher, Ms. Anderson, spills hot tea on her leg. On the way to her brain to examine how she’ll react, Merrin and Pearl ride a nerve impulse, bounce among dendrites, explore the brain’s gray matter, and so much more. In the end, they not only learn how messages are communicated between the brain and the body, but they also get a firsthand lesson on the functions of the nervous system.

 


 

Filed Under: Anatomy, Coloring Pages, Worksheets Tagged With: anatomy, charts, Coloring Page, human brain, science, worksheets

Cell Coloring Page

March 23, 2015 By Valerie Mcclintick 2 Comments

Cell Coloring Page

Okay, I’ll be honest here……I can barely remember all the parts of a cell.

I have to Rap the parts or I will completely forget what each part is called and what they do.

But enough about my memory problems…..

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Here are two amazing coloring pages for you!

Animal Cell Coloring Page

Plant Cell Coloring Page

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Both can be printed free from HomeschoolClipart.com

You can even grab the clip art and make a custom coloring page for your students.

Awesome right?

 

Anatomy

If you’re really wanting to drive home the point, you could check out these awesome

4D Anatomy models by Famemaster, these would look awesome on a shelf in your classroom and you could pull them down for a quick review.

 

Or you could replay the Rap song like me.

 

 

Filed Under: Anatomy, Coloring Pages, Human Body Crafts Tagged With: anatomy, cell, Coloring Page, homeschool printables, science

Owl Pellet Lab Printables

OwlPelletPinLearning about owls is great fun, especially when it comes to learning about food. They will swallow their food whole, bones, fur and all and then later puke up the undigested goodies in small little “owl pellets.”

Materials:

  • Owl Pellet Kit
  • Owl Pellet Lab
    Black Tagboard/Foam Sheet or Cardboard

Suggest Resources for a Unit Study:

OwlPelletOwl pellet dissection is an exciting part of connecting your students to nature.At about $3 per student for all the material and resources, owl pellets make a great selection for bringing cost-effective nature learning into the classroom. Students become consumed by what they discover and the fun begins. Click here to learn more


Art Project Tutorial:

Owl Pellet Lab Book

Print up this free owl pellet lab book before dissection.

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Step 1

Assemble your minibook, you'll need one for each child. Be sure to take a peek inside the booklet as children are asked to make a prediction beforehand.

Step 2

In your kit you should find some owl pellet and more details about the type of owl it came from. You may even have a chart with illustrations

Step 3

Remove your owl pellet from your kit and observe the outside. Draw a picture of it on the corresponding page in your book.

Step 4

Begin to take detailed measurements, following the prompts in your book. Measure how long and how wide, what it feels like, and your thoughts about it.

Step 5

Start separating your bones from the feathers and fur. Keep track of any you find interesting or different.

Step 6

Once you have all your bones, clean your area of any debri, and try to identify the

Step 7

See if you can start to piece together the bones to form an animal. Look at the shapes of the skull and the different bones to take a guess as to what it might be.

Step 8

When you've put together the bones tagboard or foam sheet. different parts with white

Landform Diorama Craft

Learning about landforms can be lots of fun! Students just need to walk outside to see the beauty of God’s creation. Unique designs and features can be found in the variety of different plants, animals, and yes, even landforms! If you have any special landmarks or attractions nearby, this is a great opportunity to get out and about to explore for a homeschool field trip!

Encourage children to Look for mountains, rivers, lakes, ponds, hills, plains, and so much more! When you return, have children make a landform diorama to expand Many children are visual learners and the use of models is a great way to introduce important information. Use this fun model of the earths layers to learn all about the different components of our wonderful world!

Free Landform Worksheets for Kids

Books About Landforms for Kids

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DIY Landform Diorama for Kids

Materials:

  • Empty Cardboard Box
  • Green Construction Paper
  • Play Dough, Sandpaper, Paint, Moss
  • Labels w/Marker

Step 1:

Before you can make a landform diorama, you’ll need to find a base. You can use the lid of a cardboard box, a Styrofoam packing insert, or really anything that is wide and shallow. This is something you don’t need to keep for anything else as we’ll be gluing thing down inside.

Step 2:

Glue a piece of green construction paper to the bottom of your container. This will serve as land areas we can build on! Grab some brown play dough and make a large mountain for the corner of your diorama. Use your thumb to press a small indentation on the side of the mountain. Using white paint to represent snow, paint the top of the mountain so that is it “snow-capped.”

Step 3:

Using blue paint, paint inside the groove on the mountain (representing the snow melting and a traveling stream) and near the base of the mountain. This is a great visual for students to understand how in the summer snow melts and water travels from the top of the mountain down to the valley.

Step 4:

Continue the path of water to the upper corner of the container. This will be our river and our ocean later.

Step 5:

Add a few more landforms around your diorama. Place a small hill over near the mountain. Add a land island in the middle of your water. Use moss to represent forests. Paint a separate body of water that can represent a lake or pond.

Step 6:

Cut a small wedge of sandpaper to fit the remaining corner of the container. This can represent a dessert in our landform diorama.

Step 7:

Use a label maker or small label stickers to add titles to each of your landforms. If you are using this project for a science fair, you can number each title to correspond with your science display board or written report.

Step 8:

If you have small plastic animals available, these would be a great way to expand your project to showcase animal habitats! Just don’t place your polar bear in the desert!

Bird Nest Craft for Kids

BirdNestPinThese little yarn nests make a great craft for Spring. Build your nest a day ahead of time for the glue to dry. And have scrambled eggs for
breakfast so you don’t waste the food! Inspiration for this craft came from No Time for Flashcards a wonderful resource for children’s
crafts and activities

Materials:

Yarn, Glue, Balloon, Eggs, Toothpick, Blue Paint

 


Suggest Resources for a Unit Study:

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Art Project Tutorial:

Step 1

Build Your Nest: Since we learned in the book above that robin's use mud to help their nest stick together, we mixed glue with some brown paint to make our mud.

Step 2

Blow up your balloon, and place into a bowl. The larger the balloon, the larger the nest.....just remember it takes more yarn, more glue, and more time to make big nests. Begin by dipping your pieces of yarn into the "mud" and layering them on the balloon.

Step 3

Get the yarn nice and "muddy" to ensure that it will stick together. You don't want large piles or a bunch of yard that isn't glued on. Set this on a counter to dry at least overnight. Ours was large for two days.

Step 4

While your nest is drying, you can get started on the robin's eggs. To do this you can use your toothpick and poke a hole at either end of the egg. hole, and blow out the egg into a dish.

Step 5

Mix your paint to make robin's egg blue. We used Crayola Washable paints. We mixed together blue, green and white and came up with a very pretty color for the eggs.

Step 6

Use your paintbrush to paint the eggs. Don't worry about the holes, just paint over them, and set your eggs in a carton to dry.

All Done

After your nest is dry, pop the balloon and remove it carefully from the nest. Place your eggs inside, and keep this on your table for spring!

Scientific Method Printables

 

ScientificMethodSmallUse our printables to teach children the Scientific Method. You can print the chart and laminate it to hang in your classroom or cut out the strips for children to practice putting them in order. Great review for children learning to take the necessary steps when performing an experiment.

Suggested Resources:


SMART Start Science Pack

Teaching about the Scientific Method has never been so easy! With these full-color charts, handouts, and step-by-step journal pages this print & go Science Notebook can be used for any experiment.  31 pgs.  Click Here

 


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A printable chart you can hang in your classroom, or give to children to keep in their science notebooks. Additionally, you can cut an extra copy into sequencing strips to aid children in remembering the steps.

 

 

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A simple step by step worksheet featuring the scientific method. This is great for review, or even beginning to explain the process to children.

 

 

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Scientific Method Worksheets

I made these to use with my children as we learn to put the Scientific Method into action. This is a set of 6 steps, that will take children through the process of asking a question, forming a hypothesis, testing with variables, recording, interpreting and reporting information

Step 1: Ask a Question
Step 2: Research Topic
Step 3: State your Hypothesis
Step 4: Test your Hypothesis
Step 5: Analyze your Results
Step 6: Report Your Results

Looking for more?

Try our Smart Start Science Journal Pack for Kids

Pumpkin Preschool Printables

September 25, 2014 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

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Fall is a great time to provide children with some hands on learning fun!

Learning about pumpkins covers multiple science requirements and it’s easy to sneak in a little language and math as well.

Find Free Pumpkin Printables at PreschoolMom.com to build your thematic pumpkin unit study!

Find Christian Pumpkin Crafts at Christian Preschool Printables

Find Pumpkin Bible Verse Cards at Bible Story Printables

Find Pumpkin Learning Centers at File Folder Fun

Pumpkin & Gourds Photo Matching Game

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Filed Under: Harvest Printables, Life Cycle Printables, Pumpkin Printables, Science Crafts Tagged With: crafts, experiments, learning centers, life cycle, math, photo cards, preschool, printables, pumpkin, science

Apologia Fever Baby!

January 8, 2013 By Valerie Mcclintick 5 Comments

So over Christmas break we made a semi-BIG curriculum change.

We completely swapped out our science curriculum
(previously: Truth in Science) for Apologia Science.

Now, don’t get me wrong here,
I still love Truth in Science.
I am so very fond of the Christ centered worldview presented throughout the program.
There was really nothing wrong with the program.
We had lots of fun learning about animal classification,
plants and trees. But…


We just have been so taken with notebooking lately.
We found ourselves straying a bit from our Science lessons and
creating our own notebook adventures.

So, I finally made the call to switch over to Apologia Science
which has pre-bound notebooking elements available.

Oh Happy Day.

This is our very first Apologia product.
(can you believe that?)

And while I always find that I am in LOVE with every curriculum that I purchase
(at least for the first half of the year *snicker*)
I’m really thinking that Apologia is going to make it the Long Term at our house.

There is just no substitute for pre-planned daily lessons,

pre-bound spiral notebooks,

LAPBOOKING elements,

and multi-level accommodations.

And no, this is not a review for Apologia,
just sharing the excitement over a new addition to our classroom.

(Though if you’re looking for a great price on Apologia products,
do check out our sponsors, Hearts at Home Curriculum!
They offer 30% Apologia EVERYDAY!
)

Anyway, I love that more and more curriculum publishers
are incorporating multi-level teaching options and notebooking supplements,
it makes it so much easier for us homeschool moms!

Isn’t it fun making mid-year changes?

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Fungus….Ewwwwwe!

November 9, 2012 By Valerie Mcclintick 5 Comments

Even though we’re mid Fall,
recently I’ve been noticing lots of different colors pop up in the yard.

So today,
as crisp and cold as it was,
we donned our hats and gloves,
and headed outside for a small nature walk.

We brought cameras, a small rubbermaid bucket
and we quickly captured Fall life all around us.
They were all so pretty that we spent all our camera batteries just taking photgraphs!

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You can imagine how excited the children were as they found each new specimen.

We immediately took off for the library and found this wonderful book
called, Mushrooms of North America and it was filled with beautiful photographs
and information about each different kind of mushroom.

Over the next week, we will be notebooking in our journals about the variety of fungus in our area.

How fun that we can just step outside and marvel at God’s creation.
So glad we got Math worked out so we can have some more days like today!


Filed Under: Nature Crafts, Notebooking Printables, Science Crafts Tagged With: children, edible, fungus, homeschool, journal, learning, mushroom, nature walk, notebooking, outdoor, pacific northwest, poisonous, science, southern oregon

What’s That Bug? Notebooking Printables

August 22, 2012 By Valerie Mcclintick 4 Comments


So if you’ve been following us on Facebook this Summer,
you’ve been treated to a plethora of animal and bug photos.

We’ve been visited by many NEW and interesting creatures this Summer,
and most of them we’ve needed help in identifying.

As handy as the internet it, sometimes it’s hard to look up a bug by description.
We use these sites quite often, they are the best we’ve found:

What’s That Bug
What Bird
Animal Track Guide
Printable Animal Track Identification Guide
Another Printable Animal Track Chart

But, we have come to realize that’s it’s much more efficient to simply post the photo to Facebook.
Within a few minutes we have gotten some very interesting and often accurate identifications.

It’s gotten to the point that directly after we catch a new critter,
my son says, “Post that to facebook so we can find out what it is!”
So I must say a BIG Thank you wise Facebook Followers for all your help!

You have made my job as Mommy/Biologist so much easier.

Just to prove I’m thankful, I whipped you all up a few identification printables.

What’s That? Notebooking Printables

There is a sheet for Bugs, Birds, and Animals.
These would be great to have on hand as your children come to you with their backyard discoveries!
I’m a big supporter of impromptu research sessions, and these will help guide young children through the identification process.

It’s Child-led learning at it’s finest.
I’m convinced that this is one of the best, easiest, and longest lasting styles of teaching.
You simply capitalize on their excitement,
and milk it for every educational drop you can get out of it.

So next time your little kiddos come to you with something crazy looking like this:

or this…

or even one of these…

Stop what you’re doing and take them on a learning adventure!
They will love you for it!

Filed Under: Bug Crafts, homeschool printables, Notebooking Printables Tagged With: animal track, bird identification, bug identification, free printables, homeschool, nature walk, notebook, printables, science, worksheet

In which I spill my Dirt….

June 4, 2012 By Valerie Mcclintick 5 Comments

Literally.

I am spilling dirt everywhere.

Or…more accurately: Future dirt.

Cause it’s not really dirt yet.

It’s grass.

And leaves.

And some of this stuff.
(cause I’m just a beginner)

And water.

Good dirt takes time.

So we’ll wait

Please pray that I don’t end up with the smelly horse sludge!

Do you compost? Got any tips -or- Smelly horse sludge stories?


Filed Under: Life, Nature Crafts, Science Crafts Tagged With: 101, children, composting, earth, homeschool, homesteading, lesson, nature, science, teach

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