Combat the Summer Slide with Printable Summer Camps
Make it the best summer ever and also keeping it educational! Work on math, reading, writing, cursive skills, and more with this free printable summer camp.Combating the summer slide can be a tough prospect. We’ve decided to school year round but even that isn’t perfect. In fact, we’ve been so busy already this summer that…
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Harry Potter Astronomy with Constellations and Jupiter’s Moons
Enjoy the stars a bit more with Harry Potter Astronomy. Learn about relevant constellations, Jupiter’s Moons, and star gazing!One of the few subjects in Harry Potter that nearly directly translates to the muggle world is astronomy. They didn’t study it quite like we do and it seems that astronomy was much more important in the…
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Harry Potter Arithmancy – Math and Logic Fun
Did anyone else ever notice that Harry never had to do math? Hermione chose to take arithmancy because…well why not? But no math was compulsory. No wonder my kids think Hogwarts is such an awesome school. But I wanted to get some math involved in our HP school so, sorry kids. But at least it’s…
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Moon Activities for Hands on Space Science
With the big eclipse coming up in a few months, we decided it was time to delve into a bit of astronomy. Truth is, my kids have always been interested in space. I think most kids have at one point or another. I mean, it’s huge and mysterious. Plus, aliens. We decided to start close…
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Simple Ways to Teach Kids About Anxiety (even if they aren’t anxious)
Have you ever had the experience where you know you’re different but you’re not sure exactly how or why?Maybe as a kid you thought you were an alien adopted by an earth family?Or you just knew something wasn’t quite right? As adults, we have enough knowledge to know when something isn’t right. We can tell…
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Self Care in 5 Minutes a Day for Homeschool Moms
I’d like you to close your eyes for a minute and picture a self care act. Seriously, do it. I bet you pictured a long bubble bath with a vase of flowers on the side of the tub, classical music playing in the background, and no kids in sight. I’d also bet that you haven’t…
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5 Ways to Print Everything and Save Money
I love printables (in case you guys haven’t noticed…) but my goodness, printing stuff is expensive. And as much as I love saving money, I like to print in color. But I’ve been working on ways to reduce my printing costs too, because I’m not made of gold! Wait until you need it. For awhile…
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Bringing Homeschool History to Life – Simple and Fun
Bring homeschool history to life with Dover Publications books on American Presidents, States, Government, Constitution, and more. Great info, great books. We have many reasons for choosing to homeschool but one of the top is that we want learning to be fun. Learning should be fun – nearly always! It is exciting to learn. But…
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Worm Fractions for Comparison and Beginning Fractions
Learn about fractions and comparing fractions with the hands on worm fractions. It’s a great way to visualize how fractions work and why!I used to be the kid that loved to hold worms. Not so much anymore. It’s weird how adulthood can affect a person! But playing with worm clip art, not so bad. Especially…
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Buggy Shape Cards Math and Handwriting
Practice handwriting, shapes and math, and fine motor skills with this gun shape game. Roll the dice, trace the shape cards, and have fun!Logi-Bear has been asking me for something to work on handwriting skills (yes, seriously!) and I’ve been a bit perplexed as to what to add. He’s not asking for worksheets so I…
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Learning to Read with Buggy CVC Short U Word Sort
Practice reading with the fun buggy CVC short u word sort! Bugs are the name of the game with this fun reading practice and CVC words.We have been working on a lot of fun reading games for Logi-Bear to practice his reading fluency. He is so excited to be a reader that I don’t even…
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Bee Themed Double E Word Slider Reading Fun
This bee themed double e word slider is perfect for reading practice with those tricky double e words! Make the words and record them on the double e sheet!Working on some of these skills for learning to read can be sort of complicated. I don’t really remember learning to read – it just comes naturally…
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