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World Turtle Day

According to my special days calendar, May 23 is World Turtle Day! I have found some great free resource links to follow as we learn about turtles in our homeschool!

Lapbook from here http://www.homeschoolshare.com/turtles.php

Much about turtles, conservation, rescue, and more here http://www.seaturtleinc.org/

More cool turtle stuff here http://www.conserveturtles.org/turtletides.php

Look inside a turtle’s shell! http://boredomtherapy.com/inside-tortoise-shell/

List with photos of different types of turtles with quick facts https://animalsake.com/different-types-of-turtles

Turtle myths and legends http://www.ancientpages.com/2015/08/29/myths-legends-reveal-ancient-turtle-worship-linked-creation-world/

Children’s Bible Ministry lesson with a turtle theme http://www.bibleline.org/turtles.html

Something challenging for an art project. Origami instructions https://www.freekidscrafts.com/origami-turtle/

Learn to draw 4 different turtles https://www.wikihow.com/Draw-a-Turtle

Rock painting tutorial https://garden.org/thread/view/3659/Turtle-Rock-Paint-Project-Tutorial/

Turtle jokes https://www.jokesbykids.com/turtle/

“What kind of jokes do turtles tell? SHELL-arious ones!”

And finally notebooking pages with ocean animals including turtles from here https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ocean-Animal-Themed-Writing-Paper-FREEBIE-1213370

It looks like we’ve got science, language arts, computer lab, art, and fun covered for our homeschool summer school today (actually a few days worth of resources)!

betty jo

Homeschool of Rock

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Psalm 98:4^“Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music;”

We are within days of having completed our state’s yearly required 185 days of education. However, this means very little, because we continue learning throughout the summer months just not all day long every day. We did not include instruments or composers during our middle ages unit studies because we had decided to learn more about music during our summer school session and they would fit in nicely there. But the kids and I were wanting our music studies to cover more than just the middle ages.

For the past few weeks I’ve been collecting “music” resources to use for summer school studies. We’ll be including composer biographies, theory, appreciation, instrument recognition, reading notes, and different styles of music in our lessons. It’s shaping up to be a good study, but I was thinking it needed a little something more. The kids thought Jack Black’s movie, School of Rock, would add some fun and I agreed. I love that movie.

Oh, but I was wanting even more. A friend of mine recently shared this link on Facebook. I was WOWED! This was exactly what our upcoming music studies need.

Watching this made me realize how we can easily incorporate culture, geography, and technology into our summer music studies.

I am anxious to watch this on a bigger screen and listen on better speakers than my laptop has. But, I’ll wait until our summer school begins and view them with my kids.

For the complete playlist of Playing For Change music videos

I’ll be blogging more about our music studies and sharing links as I get it somewhat organized.

betty jo

Yuck! Worms!

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“Mom, why do worms go to the sidewalk when it rains?” I answer that I don’t know, then tell him to pick them up and throw them in our garden. Of course that leads to his next question, “Why?” Before another worm question can be asked, the idea for a new mini unit study is already forming in my head. And since the weather forecast is calling for more showers, I am thinking now will be a good time to begin.

I found this at our library for the younger boys, but we will all read it because we all love picture books.

For the answers to the worm questions, we’ll take a look here http://www.biologyjunction.com/earthworm%20facts.htm#How%20long

Because very few science studies are complete without a lapbook project, we’ll download from here http://www.homeschoolshare.com/worms.php

Worm jokes for fun from a wonderful kids and garden site http://www.kidsgarden.northwestwigglers.com/worms-and-bugs/worm-jokes/

And for the grand finale, gummy worms and the movie, How To Eat Fried Worms.

For more about our homeschool’s gardening project click here https://stilllearningsomethingnew.com/2013/04/14/homeschool-gardening/

In case you are wondering why the worm crossed the road, I know that answer. To get away from the chicken!

betty jo

National Day of Prayer

2 Chronicles 7:14 “If My people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

We believe that we are “MY people”. We consider ourselves to be GOD’s homeschool. . Our name implies it, The Hendrickson Covenant In-Home School. That “Covenant” part comes from our agreement with our Heavenly Father in the Name of Jesus Christ to home educate our children as long as The Holy Spirit guides us every step of the way, because I wouldn’t know how on my own.

Our language arts lessons will be writing prayers and Scripture journaling. We’ll be using free customized writing paper from http://www.dltk-kids.com/type/writing_paper.htm

Our social studies lessons will come from here http://www.wallbuilders.com/

We will let God take care of the science lessons as we observe Him healing our land.

Oh yeah, math lessons. We’ll just forget about them this one time. My kids can have the testimony that GOD does answer their prayers.

betty jo

Sweet Days of May

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I know that this close to the end of our homeschooling year and having a bit more to go to be finished, I won’t be adding any extra learning days to our calendar. However, I suppose I’m a creature of habit, for once again I’m searching the activity calendars. There are several famous people’s birthdays and major event anniversaries coming in May that won’t be studied in our homeschool, but I thought that there might be days that we can still recognize just for fun.

After reviewing these calendars I have learned that May 6 is “No Diet Day”, but maybe that should be the theme of the entire month. My pancreas is going into insulin producing overload just reading through some of May’s special days.

1 – Parfait Day

2 – Truffels Day

11 – Eat What You Want Day

12 – Nutty Fudge Day

15 – Chocolate Chip Day

19 – Devil’s Food Cake Day

20 – Strawberry Shortcake Day

31 – Macaroon Day

Here are my favorite calendars with educational links in case you have room on your planner to include some special learning days.

May Holiday and Event Calendar http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/may-2013.html

Making the Days Count Calendar http://www.homeschoolshare.com/blog/2013/04/may2013-making-the-days-count-activity-calendar/

Famous People and Events Calendar http://www.se7en.org.za/se7ens-may

May’s Teachable Moments Calendar http://www.hsclassroom.net/free-math-resources-for-elementary-students/

Hoping you have a sweet May,

betty jo

Avoiding It Like The Plague

Galileo

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GALILEO GALILEI

Astronomer, Physicist

1564 – 1642

As we continue our homeschooling Middle Ages/Renaissance unit studies, we will be adding Galileo to our lessons. Not only will we be focusing on his inventions and discoveries, but also his character. He showed great respect for those he disagreed with. His willingness to speak out for his beliefs when such beliefs were considered heresy, is inspiring. It’s going to be an interesting study. I found fantastic links and want to share them with you.

Short Biography, quiz, and printables (for younger students) – http://www.gardenofpraise.com/ibdgalil.htm

Galileo Biography, Discoveries, and Inventions (for older students) [Parental Warning! There was an inappropriate ad in the middle of the biography! I was able to close it. It may be a smart idea to check the page before handing it over to you kids to read.] https://www.famousscientists.org/galileo-galilei/

Galileo quotes – http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Galileo_Galilei/

Galileo notebooking pages (3rd down on the pdf list) – http://jimmiescollage.com/downloads/science/

A re-creation of Galileo’s “falling bodies” experiment at Pisa – (This physics professor goes all out for this one!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kv-U5tjNCY

Galileo Experiments Interactive – http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/galileo-experiments.html

“What Galileo Saw With His Telescope” documentary video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCIEYUeXll8

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use”. Galileo

betty jo

Homeschooling On Earth Day

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Genesis 2:15^“The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.”

That’s the verse we will be concentrating on for our devotion/discussion and lead in for our other Earth Day lessons

Huge List of Earth Day related vocabulary words and several word puzzles https://myvocabulary.com/word-game-puzzles/earth-day-vocabulary/

Earth Day Related Quotes http://www.dgreetings.com/earth/quotes.html

Earth Day Related Math Activities https://www.yummymath.com/2018/earth-day-2018-12-activities/

Water Life Interactive Game and Educator Resources https://games.noaa.gov/oscar/welcome.html

Earth Day Projects, Activities, and Ideas http://www.blessedbeyondadoubt.com/27-earth-day-projects-for-kids-and-more/

https://www.weareteachers.com/5-earth-day-math-and-science-activities/

http://lessonplanspage.com/earthday-htm/

Make a Difference – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

REDUCE: Since there is always room for improvement for energy conservation at our house, we’ll be brainstorming ways to cut back on our usages. (I sure hope someone will feel motivated to fix the toilet that flushes on it’s own what seems like hundreds time a day for the past week.) Here’s some tips and resource for energy conservation for kids http://www.homeadvisor.com/r/home-energy-conservation-for-kids/#.Vxo8_0dezIU

REUSE: We keep a large box of paper towel rollers, scrap paper, small boxes, plastic containers, rags, and various jars and bottles to use when we want to work on crafts, building model projects, or to make games. However, the box is just a big mess presently. Earth Day is a great excuse to dump and reorganize that box. And, make some plans to use those items. Fran (our family’s favorite “substitute teacher”) is our first go-to source for using recyclables! http://www.franw.com/2017/04/earth-day-activities.html

RECYCLE: Our town has a recycling center. We’ve visited several times to drop off “trash”. And, we toured and worked there a few years ago with our local homeschool group. I think I’ll check into scheduling another group visit. If you’re not able to visit a recycling center, you can watch a video or two.

Reading Rainbow – How Trash is Recycled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1l8HXa3HLk

What might it look like is we didn’t reduce, reuse, and recycle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWsl5wn6x0Q

Have a happy Earth Day,

betty jo