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Paragraph Writing Prompts

April 13, 2017 By Valerie Mcclintick Leave a Comment

Today we have a handy set of writing freebies to share with you! This collection includes five different writing prompts, each with fill-in-the-blank paragraph frames for students to fill in.  Across the top is room to draw in sequenced pictures of the story.

 

 

My Birthday: Paragraph Writing Prompt

A free kindergarten paragraph frame for students to complete. Children write about their birthday and draw sequenced images to match.

Field Trip: Paragraph Writing Prompt

A free kindergarten paragraph frame for students to complete. Children write about a field trip and draw sequenced images to match.

Favorite Relative: Paragraph Writing Prompt

A free kindergarten paragraph frame for students to complete. Children write about their favorite relative and draw sequenced images to match.

 

Park Trip: Paragraph Writing Prompt

A free kindergarten paragraph frame for students to complete. Children write about a trip to the park and draw sequenced images to match.

Animal: Paragraph Writing Prompt

A free kindergarten paragraph frame for students to complete. Children write about an animal and draw sequenced images to match.

 

Print Paragraph Writing Prompts Free from KindergartenMom.com

 

Looking for more?  Try our new How to Write a Paragraph Pack:

Filed Under: Homeschool Curriculum, homeschool printables, Writing Printables Tagged With: paragraph, writing

Simple Daily Homeschool Journal

Homeschool writing curriculum doesn’t have to be expensive.  We offer many affordable writing guides for children in our eStore, most of them under $5.00, but you can also put together a custom writing journal without breaking your homeschool budget.  Using three different notebooks, you can provide children with simple writing opportunities they can use to build important independent writing skills.  Purchase an inexpensive set of lined notebooks with the appropriate spacing for your child.   Use the printable schedules and title pages below to build and customize your writing journals.  (Alternatively, you can use these to create one single writing binder by using our printables as dividers in each section.)

DailyJournals

Print these four daily journal printables then read below for complete assembly and tips.

  • Daily Spelling Journal Printables
  • Daily Vocabulary Journal Printables
  • Daily Writing Journal Printables
  • Daily Helper Journal Printables

DailyVocab

How to Set up a Daily Vocabulary Journal

Step 1:
Paste the title of the journal on the outside of the notebook. On the inside cover paste the instructions.  Additionally you can customize these with your own instructions by writing them in.

Step 2:
Make two pockets to hold your spelling words.  Glue the first pocket to the front and write NEW on it.  Glue the second pocket to the back and write OLD on it.  Then cut index cards in half and write the words you want your child to work on.  Do an online search of grade specific vocabulary words (or choose from the list you’ll be making with your Daily Helper Journal.) 

Step 3:
Place a paper clip at the top of the first page and your ready to go!  At the end of the week have your child place the word into the OLD pocket in the back.  Every so often you can use these index cards as flashcards, for review purposes or to create additional learning opportunities.  (i.e. play an alphabetical order game, or match cards by number of syllables….etc.)

 

DailySpelling

 

How to set up you Daily Spelling Notebook:

Step 1:
Paste the title of the journal on the outside of the notebook. On the inside cover paste the instructions, filling in the blanks according to your child’s ability level. Alternatively you can write in your own custom weekly instructions as well.  You might also consider adding in some fun spelling websites or games on Friday for children to practice typing their words.

Step 2:
Make two pockets to hold your words.  Glue the first pocket to the front and write NEW on it.  Glue the second pocket to the back and write OLD on it.  Then cut index cards in half and write the words you want your child to work on.

Step 3:
Place a paper clip at the top of the first page for your child to store the current word list. At the end of the week have your child place the word into the OLD pocket in the back of the book to keep for later review.  You might consider providing children with additional hands on spelling ideas such as our alphabetical order train or letter tiles, making one day a week for games or review.

DailyWriting

How to set up your Daily Writing Journal

Step 1:
Paste the title of the journal on the outside of the notebook.  On the inside cover paste the instructions, filling in the blanks accordingly.  For my young daughter I decided to have her write five sentences or for at least 10 minutes.  This seemed to encourage her to write a bit faster :) Older children can easily  write more so you can choose what is best for your child.  

Step 2:
Setting up a daily journal is very simple!  Print a list of Story Starters, ( a quick internet search will pull up a ton, you can find age/theme appropriate for your child) and cut them into strips. Store them in a pocket in the front of your notebook.  Provide a paper clip for your child to place the story strip at the top of their sheet of paper.

DailyHelper

How to set up your Daily Helper Journal

Step 1:
Paste the title of the journal on the outside of the notebook.  On the inside cover paste the instructions.

Step 2:

Provide children with tabs, paperclips or bookmarks to organize this journal into different sections.  Label the sections with the suggested titles above or with your own as you see fit.  This journal can be used as a reference for newly learned words, grammar rules, and for keeping track of future words to add to spelling and vocabulary lists.

 

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Poetry Notebooking Printables

April 28, 2013 By Valerie Mcclintick 16 Comments

Happy Monday!
We’ve got another awesome freebie for our Subscribers!

Our Poetry Notebooking pack is just what you need to guide your children in the process of starting a poetry journal! We cover nine different forms of poetry:

Couplet
Triplet
Quatrain
Acrostic
Concrete
Haiku
Limerick
Cinquain
Diamante

For each type of poetry we’ve made these handy guides that provide children with the specific rules of form, an example, and a brainstorming exercise.

There are “Final Draft” notebooking pages as well so children can display all their creativity in a fun and colorful way.

If you’re looking for a fun unit to finish up your homeschool year, this may be just the thing!

 

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You can purchase our Writing Poetry Pack from our eStore.

Stay tuned for more helpful resources,
Come visit me on Pinterest for more poetry inspiration!

 

 

Filed Under: Language Arts, Poetry Printables, Writing Printables Tagged With: homeschool, Language Arts, notebooking poetry journal, poetry printables, teaching resources, writing

Can History be Engaging?

July 23, 2012 By Valerie Mcclintick 2 Comments


Warning: Soapbox Post Ahead
The printables and Free Curriculum Offers are at the bottom, scroll if you must.

So, what do you think?

CAN History be engaging?

If you would have asked me that 20 years ago,
I would certainly answer that with a big fat,

NO!

In fact,
I can even go further and tell you the specific night
that I decided that I HATED History.

H.A.T.E.D.
I would use a milder word,
but it really wouldn’t convey my actual (10 year old) feelings about History

(and yes, if you do the math that makes me 30)

Ahem…..

So, it was 20 years ago and
I vividly remember sitting in my uncomfortable wooden chair,
with my gigantic 5th grade (public school) History book propped on it’s spine.
The tendons between my thumb and pointer finger ached from holding
this monster of a book upright.
It was massive.

I was tired.
It was late,
Homework was due,
and I had more pages to read then I cared to count.

I tried my best to read. I willed myself to focus.
Self motivation kicked in; “You can do this!”
With heavy eyelids I read a full page.

Great!
Until I realized,
I hadn’t a CLUE what I just read.

(ever done this?)

Giggling at myself,
I started to read again…..this time outloud.

An hour passed, until I just couldn’t stomach any more.
I had no idea who these “historical” people were.
I had no personal frame of reference for where they were at in the world,
or even what period of time they existed in.
There were dates and numbers and facts,
graphs and arrows and lists of accomplishments.
I had no connection to any of it.

My brain was jumbled.

That was the moment I realized my complete hate disregard towards History.
(yes, I was a moody young girl and my feelings quickly swept from hatred to apathy)

I closed my book,
went to bed and
took an incomplete on my lesson the next morning.
No Joke.
Big fat ZERO.

And, now that I’ve written that all out,
It is almost sad to remember how much
I actually loathed History lessons.

I know better now.
I’ve actually become quite fond of History over the past few years,
Mostly from reading His-Story from an entirely different perspective,
but also out of a necessity to teach it to my own children.

I want my children to actually connect with the people and stories they read about.


This is one reason we will be using many living books
from our Heritage History Curriculum.

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So mostly I’ll be assigning these living books during independent reading time,
but for some of the titles I’ll be following up the reading time with
actual assignments. It is for those times that I made a set of Notebooking pages:

notebooking living books

And of course I couldn’t wait to share them with you too!
If you use living books or any kind of chapter book as part of your weekly lessons,
you’re going to love this 5 day spread of self-guided notebooking assignments.

You can read all about each daily assignment and print the free notebooking pages here.

TIP: Print up an extra set and keep them in a folder
for one of those “mom is sick, everyone pick a book” moments.

Happy Notebooking!

Filed Under: History Printables, homeschool printables, Living Books, Notebooking Printables, Reading Printables, Writing Printables Tagged With: free printables, heritage history, homeschool, Lessons, living books, notebooking, notebooking pages, printables, questions, quiz, reading, writing

Notebooking Printables

June 6, 2012 By Valerie Mcclintick 5 Comments

Looking back on the different Homeschool techniques we used
over the past year, there is one method that really stood out:

Notebooking.

As my children have grown we have slowly progressed from Lapbooking to Notebooking
and a somewhat middle ground of LapNoting or NoteLapping.
(Them are progressive homeschool words right there folks)

Anyway.

The Notebooking Fairy -- printables and how-tos with a pinch of pixie dust

Ever since Jimmie came out with her Notebooking Success eBook
I am a stalker follower of her blog The Notebooking Fairy.
(In fact, she has a hilarious post up right now that made me giggle all the way through)

Besides being super funny, she has some AMAZING tips for
successfully implementing notebooking techniques with your child.
I love, love, love the simplicity of her tips.
Be sure to check her out!

So, back over here at our house,
the binders are staking up, and I’ve found myself
making more and more notebooking-type printables.

So I decided to just go ahead and make it official with a page dedicated
to all of our Notebooking Printables.

notebooking printables

Now it looks all official doesn’t it?

Currently we have:

History Notebooking Printables
Writing Notebook Printables
Dinosaur Report Printables

And I just added a small set of

blank notebooking printables

Blank Notebooking Printables.

I made these to go alongside our History Notebooking sheets,
but I suppose you could use them for whatever you like!

So there you have it.

We are officially Notebookers.

What about you? Do you notebook?


Filed Under: homeschool printables, Notebooking Printables Tagged With: blank, dinosaur, guide, history, homeschool, lined paper, notebook, notebooking, printables, teacher, worksheets, writing

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