These are just some various things I've made for homeschooling. The time it takes for me to create these varies. I enjoy sharing these freely with visitors and welcome feedback. If you use something here please leave a comment below. If you have ideas/need for a particular item, please let me know. If I have time... well, who knows!
These are things we've used in the past and/or use currently. Check back reguarly as I'm always finding old things I created and ALWAYS finding a need to create something new. Feel free to download them and use them in your own homeschooling. Not for resale or other distribution.
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GENERIC NOTEBOOKING/LAPBOOKING ITEMS
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THEMED NOTEBOOKING ITEMS
ART
- Art Appreciation with Lucy Micklethwait books
- Meet the Masters (level A) supplement projects
- Artist Study Notebooking page templates (.pdfs in .zipped format) see an example of one here Or, if desired you can download them individually below:
- Artist Notebook First page
- African Artists notebook page
- European Artists notebook page
- United States Artists notebook page
- Asian Artists notebook page
- South American Artists notebook page
MUSIC
- Shutterflap for intro the music (usable for any genre)
- Jazzy Jive Words Diamonds
- DUKE ELLINGTON-- Notebook page for older students
- DUKE ELLINGTON-- Notebook page for younger students (HWT lines in 48pt.)
LANGUAGE ARTS
- Core Knowledge Sayings and Phrases (grades K through 3)
- HWT cursive alphabet wall strips (cut out and tape together)
- Discussion Prompts bookmarks Word template (a template I use for making bookmarks with the discussion questions/openers for TOG literature and history books, but usable for any)
- Same bookmarks in PDF format so those that don't use Word can still have a looksie
HISTORY
- Aztec Sunstone Info Cluster sheet
- Aztec Society flap book (landscape)
- Aztec Society flap book (portrait)
- Huguenot notebooking page (landscape)
- Notebooking page for Martin Luther
- John Calvin notebooking page
- Fact spinner on Henry VIII (write facts on spaces of page one, cut out the opening on page two and assemble)
- Shakespeare / Globe Theatre notebooking page
- Queen Elizabeth I notebooking page (landscape) -- we used the squares to list 10 different things about QE.
- Queen Elizabeth I cursive copywork (HWT) -- from the Good Queen Bess book
- A few comprehension/discussion questions on QE (geared towards readers of the aforementioned book.)
- Top tab mini-book on Jamestown Settlement
- 3/4 fold mini-book for Captain John Smith
- Cursive copywork on Davy Crockett (HWT) from the book American Tall Tales by Adrien Stoutenburg
- Anne Hutchinson, Puritan, mini-matchbook printable
- 13 Colonies Memory sheet
- Flap book for Classes of Colonists
- Colonial Whaling & Fishing T-fold booklet
- Causes of the French & Indian War diamond booklet
- Colonial Militia Equipment shutterfold
- Key Word Outline Exercise for French & Indian War (See my DD's actual sample of this sheet)
- French & Indian War Biography Cards
- Notebooking Sheet for Causes that lead to the Revolutionary War
- Two Notebooking sheets for the Overview of Early Slavery in America
- Notebook Sheet for Religion for Slaves (HWT cursive 36 font)
- Memory Work: Excerpt from Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death!" Speech
- Declaration of Independence memory work sheet (after doing the memory work, your student should have no problem completing this little game. A certificate is available at the end.)
- Thomas Jefferson 3-paragraph biography (for keyword outlining, etc.)
- Key events in the life of William Carey in India (collected text & maps from the internet, to use as an aid to mapwork.)
- New John James Audubon notebooking page (HWT, cursive size 36)
PLANNING AND RECORD KEEPING
**Please note that I no longer am using any of these items below. Instead I use Homeschool Tracker software for my planning and record keeping.*
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Lesson Planner January - April 2007 Example of a planner I previously used. (I've since decided to try more computer-based planning/journaling/assigning, called HOMESCHOOL TRACKER)
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How-to (explains how the perpetual book works)
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Weekly Layout Grid of our daily lessons, with notes (this is a previous schedule of ours, but I leave it here as an example)
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- CM FRIENDLY landscape planner
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NOTES for the CM Friendly landscape planner above (explains the areas of the planner)
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I just love your planner pages