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Terrific Tigers – Day Two
Today the lad and I worked on Day Two of the unit study from Download N Go on Terrific Tigers. We worked on Day one last week. This is a unit study that can also be done as a lap book. Should you purchase it, make sure you don’t miss doing the lap book nifty stuff (I missed it from day one and went back to do it). yes… sometimes I miss the obvious stuff….
The lad had a good time learning more about tigers. Today’s focus was on the Bengal Tiger. He dictates the answers to me and I write them down. Sometimes we need to read things a few times before he gets the answers and sometimes he surprises me by knowing the answers even before I read the article to him. Go figure. 🙂
We enjoyed looking at the cat stuff at the zoo. We didn’t see the tigers on the zoo cam, but we did look at the lion cubs when they had their first check up. This elicited a lot of questions from the lad.
We made this tiger craft from DLTK. He pasted on the head and the body, the fiddliness of the rest required asking Mommy to help with the rest. 
We learned about what mammals are and all sorts of other things. The unit study comes LOADED with links. Some are a bit above the level of a five year old, and other things are pretty much where he is at. Means that sometimes I rephrase things, which isn’t all that hard to do. 🙂
I don’t think this link was part of the study (but I could be wrong), but the lad had fun doing the backyard animals game found there.
It’s a well made study, covers a variety of age ranges, I expect in three years or so we’d be able to do this study again. Anyways, this is a good study, well worth the dollars spent on it. 🙂
Cranberry Christmas Tote
Get a free limited edition, cranberry and cream, Homeschooling with Heart tote bag and a two-year subscription to The Old Schoolhouse Magazine for just $19.95. Offer good only through midnight on October 2, 2010
October 3-5, the deal changes–you’ll only receive a one-year subscription. But you’ll still get the beautiful tote bag, the Fall Issue, and the Cranberry Christmas E-Book.
Grab all of this for $19.95 before midnight PST on October 2 for the best value! This is a new color–so, if you collect the Homeschooling with Heart tote bags, this is a totally new version.
You can also get The 2010 Schoolhouse Planner and the 2-year subscription deal (with the free tote bag) for only $49.95.
Hurry–the $19.95 free tote bag deal is only through Tuesday, October 5.
DO NOTE: most of these physical item deals are for States-side only! Unless you want to pay for shipping.
Some websites with freebies to check out
Lesson Pathways – i’m already a member here, it’s a free membership.
The Store Spotlight. doesn’t always have free stuff. It’s from TOS.
Easy Fun School. Easy fun School has over 1500 pages of free unit studies, science projects, and more. They have lots of resources to make homeschooling more enjoyable for parent and child.
Teachnology Here you will find your way to well over 30,000 lesson plans
Teacher Planet. 10,000 theme based resources : lessons, templates. worksheets and more.
Education Place. Pre-K–6 resources for teachers, students, and families to support instruction in the classroom and at home.
Ebibleteacher. A variety of bible based resources. here are their sunday school lessons.
Heart of Wisdom Lesson Plans. Go check it out, not sure if it’s all free or paid. The blog lists free stuff. 🙂
Mother Goose. Mother Goose nursery rhymes introduce your child to literature.
Daily Grammar. Just as the title says, grammar, every day. 🙂
Cave of the Winds, children’s activities. Good for caving lessons. Here’s the main page.
Free Clip Art, make those lessons more fun. 🙂 Play around with it, I haven’t worked with this site much to know how easy it is to work with the images or not.
Another Clip art site, this one focused on Ancient Greece and Rome. Like the one above, play around with it, see how well it works.
The Happy Homeschool. They have a page called Fun Christian Homeschooling Unit Studies.
Inspired to Learn. A whole list of links to check out. 🙂
Asia for Educators. It’s all about Asia, so if you studying Asia, even different time periods, go check it out. 🙂
Educational Videos. Mostly science, but other stuff as well.
Letter B lapbook
I started with the base unit idea from Lapbook Lessons. But then “tweaked” it.
I added a bee poem/song (he put a line through all the b’s)
I added a hand poem … you know.. the types were your hands show that actions of the poem.
Then the DLTK’s mini book on B
Used Enchanted Learning’s B page to generate a pile of B words.
He did a couple of pages of copying out B’s. This one, and then this one.
Oh, we also found what Justin thought was a VERY neat Letter B that he wanted to put on the front of his lapbook. It’s all done in bricks. 🙂 He wanted to be able to colour it, but we couldn’t figure out (as in I couldn’t figure out) how to do it so that he could. And I couldn’t find something similar for him. So we went with what we could manage.
If I can I’ll add pictures of the final product.
It took us the morning to get it done, but we had fun and he can now spell “b”.
Did you know that the capital B is like a 3 with a line in front of it? Telling the lad that made it make SO much sense to him. 🙂
We added Duct tape to the outside of it so we could stick it into a binder. He wants to show gramma what he did! 🙂
TOS – homeschooler bundles
Hey! I just learned about these homeschooler bundles that TOS has put together. They sound like an excellent product to get!
New Homeschooler Bundles™ are on sale now in the Schoolhouse Store. Designed specifically for new homeschoolers, each Bundle provides a wealth of information and encouragement. Bundles are available in six different collections for Elementary, Middle School, High School, Preschool, Special Needs and Multi-level students.
The Old Schoolhouse® is committed to serving your bundles of joy who are growing up into fine boys and girls, men and women, and with that commitment in mind, we have an announcement of our own—the arrival of six New Homeschooler Bundles™, six collections of handpicked products and resources for brand-new homeschooling parents.
The team at The Old Schoolhouse® is here to reassure you, “Yes, you CAN do it!” We know you can, and God knows you can, or He wouldn’t have called you to this course of action. Your children are gifts from God, and we are firmly convinced—by the Scriptures—that God’s very best means of educating those children is at the hands of their Godly parents. That’s you.
Each of the New Homeschooler Bundles™ represents a value of at least $500,
but we are offering them to you for only $99!
but we are offering them to you for only $99!
Each of the New Homeschooler Bundles™ include the following items:
NEW, one-year TOS Magazine subscription plus current issue
1 Year TOS Magazine Digital Subscription
Winter 2006/07
E-Book: The 2010 Schoolhouse Planner
Homeschooling with Heart Tote Bag–publisher’s choice
Each of the New Homeschooler Bundles™ also includes several age-specific, educational, and inspirational E-books to assist you in your homeschool journey.
Select the Bundle that will best meet your needs (or select two or three Bundles of joy), and get busy! Scoop up these Bundles and begin to enjoy the fruit of others’ labor, others who have “been there and done that” and want to encourage you with their insights and wisdom, individuals whose roots have grown deep and strong.
Old Schoolhouse Expo
I bought the CD’s to this event, not the tickets to the live event since I don’t have the best of speakers on my computers. This way I can download and go to where I do have decent speakers. I think it sounds like a good event so go check it out.
Mark your calendars! The Schoolhouse Expo is quickly approaching.
Attendees will learn from fantastic speakers like:
Jon Taylor Gatto (keynote)
Dr. Jay Wile Todd Wilson
Diana Waring Carol Barnier
Andrew Pudewa Hal and Melanie Young
Zan Tyler Molly Green
Mary Jo Tate Karen “Spunky” Braun
Lee Binz Dianne Craft
Kim Kautzer Deborah Wuehler
Jeannie Fulbright Heidi St. John
Amanda Bennett Tricia Goyer
Attendees will also receive over $240 in E-book gift. Attendees also have a chance to win over 60 door prizes!
The Schoolhouse Expo will keep your ears busy with an incredible array of more than seventeen speakers for a fantastic, online, five-day audio feast! Covering a vast amount of information, you’ll hear about ways to improve your homeschool, ask your questions directly to the experts, and meet and chat with homeschooling parents from all over the world–all from the comfort of your home.
We bring the speakers right to you! It doesn’t matter if you live in the states or internationally, you will benefit from the Schoolhouse Expo as you enjoy five days of interactive Internet experience with dynamic speakers, a virtual vendor hall, fabulous physical door prizes, and a virtual goodie bag filled with over 20 downloads for every attendee!
Are you flexible? We are! The Schoolhouse Expo lets you attend the sessions you choose and continue with your day-to-day schedule, while also offering the audio downloads of each session after the conference, so you can listen to every session at your convenience—repeatedly. The MP3 downloads are included in your ticket price. Never miss an important point. Remind yourself a year from now by reviewing the experience, and still receive the benefit of years of experience shared by amazing presenters throughout the Expo—both homeschool heroes and popular vendors!
Mark your calendars:
Monday, October 4 – Friday, October 8
