Archive for the ‘homeschooling’ Category
10
Jan
Posted by evelynsaenz in art, Beginning Readers, beginning to read, Educational Toys, homeschooling, learning centers, Limited Vocabulary, pre-teen suggestions, Spelling, Vocabulary, Word Games. Tagged: activities, beginning to read, children, classroom, creative, discovery bottles, educational, evelyn saenz, games, hands-on, homeschooling, learning centers, letters, prefix, root words, spelling, suffix, teaching, unit studies, wonder bottles, word attack skills, word skills. Leave a Comment
Wonder Bottles don’t have to be just for babies. Try creating a series of Discovery Bottles for your first to sixth graders with magnet letters hidden in sand, water with glitter, or snowy white beads. As they turn the bottles around, they search for the letters contained in the bottle. Try words like wintry, wintertime, [...]
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8
Jan
Posted by evelynsaenz in homeschooling, learning centers, nature, science, sealife, unit studies. Tagged: activities, animals, children, classroom, creative, educational, evelyn saenz, games, hands-on, kindergarten, learning, learning centers, teaching, unit studies. 1 Comment
Lobster Prey Learning Center: What do Lobsters eat? About midway though our lobster unit study I open the Ocean Floor Learning Center on the classroom rug. I wait until the children have enough knowledge of the lives of lobsters for them to be able to use this knowledge in the center. Set up an Ocean [...]
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12
Nov
Posted by evelynsaenz in homeschooling. Tagged: activities, calendar, children, educational, evelyn saenz, homeschooling, months, new year, parents, play, teaching. Leave a Comment
A Year of Learning by evelynsaenz create a calendar with Zazzle Children need plenty of time to play, explore and discover the world around them. This calendar celebrates the wonders of childhood with vintage illustrations of children learning throughout the year. What are some of the activities you will be doing this year?
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8
Nov
Posted by evelynsaenz in autumn, backyard habitat, board games, Educational Toys, homeschooling, Limited Vocabulary, math, nature, science, teaching social skills. Tagged: activities, board games, cats, children, christmas, classroom, cooperative, education, educational, first grade, games, homeschooling, kindergarten, learning centers, math, students, teaching. Leave a Comment
Max the Cat cooperative Board Game Max the Cat is Hungry! Scurry, Climb or Fly for your Lives! While blue jays sing in the trees, chipmunks scavenge for nuts and seeds, and mice do what mice do, a fat old cat named Max finds his way out the door of his house. His owners have [...]
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17
Aug
Posted by evelynsaenz in Beginning Readers, beginning to read, Educational Toys, homeschooling, math, Mathematics, picture books, read aloud, story hour, teaching social skills, unit studies, Word Games. Tagged: alphabetical order, ducklings, ducks, robert McCloskey, rubber ducks. Leave a Comment
Ducklings Play Follow the Leader Ducklings in Alphabetical Order Ducklings Play Follow the Leader Buy at AllPosters.com Write the names of each of the ducklings on the rubber ducks and then ask the children to put them in ABC order. This makes a wonderful activity for the first few children who come into the classroom [...]
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29
Apr
Posted by evelynsaenz in books homeschoolers would like, chapter book, homeschooling, pre-teen suggestions, teaching social skills, Uncategorized. 1 Comment
Our favorite book for girls about to turn 10 years old is Betsy-Tacy and Tib ” Betsy, Tacy and Tib are nine years old and about to turn 10. This is important, Betsy tells Tacy, because ten year olds have two digits in their ages. These girls are such good friends that they vow not [...]
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3
Apr
Posted by evelynsaenz in beginning to read, books homeschoolers would like, homeschooling, picture books, read aloud, Uncategorized, unit studies. Tagged: bears picture books, blueberries, blueberries for sal, ed emberly, klippity klop, letter k, letters, robert McCloskey. 2 Comments
Blueberries for Sal Unit Study Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey Rated: 5 of 5 stars “Kerplink, kerplank, kerplunk” As I was working on a unit study for Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey” , it stuck me that the words “kerplink, kerplank, kerplunk” all began with the letter K. Now wasn’t there another book [...]
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22
Sep
Posted by evelynsaenz in homeschooling, Uncategorized. Tagged: college, curriculum, graduation, homeschooler, homeschooling, math, methods, socialization, unschool, unschooling. 1 Comment
Results of unschooling through the elementary years: Looking back at our educational choices as our daughter turns 21.
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