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It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

Our homeschooling week was spent on more Thanksgiving themed studies. But, on the homeschooling social media groups and the e-mails I’ve received, it is all about Christmas. And with the Christmas teaching season starting in just another week, I’ve started my Christmas study link collection and I’m passing those links on to you today.

50 fun activities and projects for advent http://www.onlypassionatecuriosity.com/holiday-traditions-free-printable-activity-advent-calendar/

Resources and lesson plans for all grades and ages that teach giving and volunteerism, civic engagement, and character through service. This looks just perfect for countering the commercialism and greediness that comes along with the season. http://learningtogive.org/teachers/

5 Days of Christmas Carols study with lyrics, printables, videos, and more http://www.homegrownlearners.com/home/2012/12/20/5-days-of-christmas-carols-day-5-o-come-o-come-emmanuel.html

100’s of free Christmas themed printables for all grade levels and most subjects http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/PreK-12-Subject-Area/ChristmasChanukahKwanzaa/Grade-Level/Homeschooler/Price-Range/Free

Interactive Christmas themed games http://www.akidsheart.com/holidays/christms/chgames.htm

Science, language arts, history, and art resources and lessons plans with Christmas themes https://www.teachervision.com/christmas/celebrations-and-festivals/6604.html

3 levels of Christmas Trivia http://triviapark.com/quizzes/xmasquiz.html

Printable notebooking and journaling pages here http://www.teacherfiles.com/resources_bp_holidays.htm and here http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/christmas-writing-paper

Holiday TV Guide http://m.washfm.com/articles/happy-holidays-444238/holiday-tv-guide-2013-9483051/

Since our history studies are centered around early America this year, we will be learning about the Christmas celebrations of that time. This article explains some of the Christmas traditions of the American colonists. http://foundersacademy.net/2013/colonial-cmas-decor/

This site has an overview of American Christmas history http://www.thehistoryofchristmas.com/ch/in_america.htm

“Bet You Didn’t Know” is a short Christmas history video which includes a bit of American Christmas history http://www.history.com/topics/christmas/videos#bet-you-didnt-know-christmas

Colonial American history, decorations, and recipes http://www.history.org/almanack/life/christmas/

Video, Christmas in 18th Century America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ9Iaw0iKLY

Short story, Christmas in 1776, http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/christmas/stories/christmas-in-seventeen-seventy-six.html

Of course Christmas is not the only special day in December. Be on the lookout for my listing of special days in December coming soon!

To find your own study links and tons of “freebies”, consider joining some homeschooling social media groups. I recommend these! https://www.facebook.com/groups/567122276640599/ and https://www.facebook.com/groups/210519735725683/

Happy Holiday Teaching!

betty jo

World Sight Day

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According to the special days calendar for October, the second Thursday is World Sight Day. This awareness day is sponsored by WHO (World Health Organization) and was established to draw attention to blindness and vision impairment. Below is a collection of free resources for teaching about the human eye and blindness.

Printable human eye diagram and eye vocabulary list http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/anatomy/eye/

Follow a videotaped dissection of a cow eye and then compare and contrast what you’ve seen with an interactive diagram of the human eye. http://illinois.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/lsps07.sci.life.stru.coweye/cows-eye-dissection/

These are articles written for middle and high school levels which discusses how the eye works, the causes of blindness, and what doctors can do to detect and treat visual problems http://kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/sight/visual_impaired.html# and http://www.planet-science.com/categories/over-11s/human-body/2010/12/let-there-be-light.aspx

Interactive quiz to test eye knowledge http://kidshealth.org/kid/quizzes/EYEquiz.html#cat20913

Vision experiments http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chvision.html

There are many Bible verses relating to the eyes, blindness, and healing of the blind. However, Isaiah 42:16 is what I have selected for our homeschool Bible discussion, copy work and journaling

“I will lead the blind by ways they have not known,
    along unfamiliar paths I will guide them;
I will turn the darkness into light before them
    and make the rough places smooth.
These are the things I will do;
    I will not forsake them.”

To conclude our World Sight Day study we’ll be watching this informative video about the history, training, and use of seeing eye dogs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udUWaXxGo_U

Human Eye and vision resources and videos http://www.franw.com/2015/08/the-human-eye.html

BIG List of Special Days in October, 2018

betty jo

Teaching Resource Links for Fall

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Fall will be starting in just ten more days! It is my favorite season. Also, autumn makes for some great learning opportunities. Below are some fall themed teaching resources I have had saved in my resource files. I hope you will find these helpful as you plan your fall themed lessons.

Very nice assortment of seasonal and holiday notebooking pages http://www.teacherfiles.com/resources_bp_holidays.htm

Interactive fall themed games http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/fall/index.html

Printable poetry, writing prompts, and boarder paper http://www.storyit.com/Seasonal/autumn.htm

Unit studies and lapbooking resources http://www.homeschoolshare.com/connections__fall.php

Printable word puzzles http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/autumn-puzzles

Time lapse videos of pumpkins growing http://www.squidoo.com/pumpkin-time-lapse-videos

Fall themed math lessons http://www.mathwire.com/seasonal/fall06.html#activities

Vikings

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Recently a friend asked about our Viking studies from last fall. Here are the links I had saved. I thought I’d pass the collection on to those of you who might be thinking about a Viking study as well.

Movies to include: Veggie Tales: Lyle the Kindly Viking, Brave, and How to Train Your Dragon

Interactive History Games http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/vikings/

Unit Study and Labook Printables http://www.homeschoolshare.com/viking_adventure.php

And another Unit Study and Lapbook Printables http://www.tinasdynamichomeschoolplus.com/middle-ages-to-reform/vikings-lapbook/

Leif Erickson Biography Resources http://cybersleuth-kids.com/sleuth/History/Explorers/Leif_Ericsson/index.htm

paper dolls printables (this site is interesting, it is written in (perhaps?) Scandinavian so I have very little idea what it says, but wonderful art to browse) http://www.ungafakta.se/pyssel/klipp/klippdockor/

Arts and Craft Projects https://www.diys.com/viking-themed-projects/

Walkthrough type videos http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/vikings/

168 page English to Norse dictionary. (we didn’t spend much time learning this, but it was an interesting list to look over a few times) http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/language/English-Old_Norse.pdf

And this was our chalkboard wall mural!