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Jul. 30, 2009
Free Lesson Plan and Grade Keeper Book and Calenders
Hi all! Just wanted to let you know that I have uploaded some new stuff at HS Launch. You can check it out through the widget on the right sidebar. I created a F.R.O.G. Folder lesson planner with some other neat pages in it. There is a page to keep up with appointments , a menu planner , a chore planner and a grade keeping page. On the grade keeping page I created it so that I can keep grades for each week using a four block system. There is a block for the pretest grade, one for the test grade, one for a project grade if we have one and one for any extra credit assignments. You may not be able to use it but if you can then enjoy! I also created some frog calenders for August 2009 til July 2010. you can download them from HS Launch too. Come by and let me know what you think about the new stuff and if it was helpful to you. Also I wanted to share this new site I found . I wasn't able to fix the pdf so that you could type in it and then print it out because I am using the free version of Primo pdf to create my stuff. But I did find a place, PDFFiller.com, where you can upload my pdf and it creates an image of it that you can type on and then you can print it out. Hope that helps! :) Have a blessed day ! ~ Nikki
I put together a list of links for Thanksgiving pages. I have used some of these pictures to make a lapbook/notebook project. I will post a picture when we finish them. Enjoy these links.Blessings! ~ Nikki
Well it has been a nice cold, cloudy day here. You can tell Autumn is here and that winter is not far away. I would like to encourage everyone to join the Autumn Poetry Party. We have some great poems that have been posted. Be sure to check out the links on the Mr. Linky above.
We had a great day in school today. The dreaded long division for Hoopy was easily conquered and Roosie didn't have too much trouble with adding and carrying today. BabyGirl and Tman have been doing great in their math so far too.
I thought I would share some pictures with you of our Social Studies/HIStory notebooks. We have been studying the African continent and our country study right now is Egypt. We are using a wonderful ebook I bought at Currclick. Our family is ancient Egypt crazy. We could study it for months. Here is a picture of the unit study we are using.
It is on sale at currclick right now for $8.50. If you would like to purchase it please use this Currclick link.
Here are some pictures of our notebooks. They are a mix of pages from the above study plus pages from Enchanted Learning, Our Los Banos , other websites and some things I have created. The reason you see a clownfish in these pictures is because we also studied what lives in the coral reef in the Red Sea. We found those great pages at Enchanted Learning. The subscription only cost us $20 for a year and it has been great and well worth it. Hopefully you have seen something in this post to inspire you in your homeschool journey. Blessings! ~ Nikki
I have uploaded some new files to my HSLaunch Page.I finished the F.R.O.G. folder calendars and made a fall themed one for Sepember.I also uploaded some Egypt themed pages I made for our studies this year. There is a link to my HSLaunch page on my right sidebar.Gotta run for now. ~ Nikki
We finished our study on Jamestown yesterday . We had fun with it . We made the mini Jamestown that we found free at Homeschool In The Woods . We made our lapbooks out of cardstock that we taped together to form the spine so that we can fold them and they fit into our page protectors in our notebooks . We used templates from Homeschool Helper in our lapbooks . They have lots of good ones and of course they are free .We also played this game , Jamestown Adventure , and printed our results to put in our notebooks . The kids really enjoyed it . They kept playing it after school :) We took them to the Winterfest Celebration last night . Perfect weather for it because it was freezing ! We were all so cold that we left to get something to eat but we came back and watched the lights being turned on and the fireworks . Of course we watched from the comfort of our warm vehichle :) For all you Veggie Tales fans out there , (come on ...who doesn't love a talking cucumber ? GO LARRY !), Big Ideas is releasing a new movie The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything . It looks like it will be real funny . Well folks I guess thats all for now . Have a great day !
Our local Staples store is having a 1 cent sale thru Wednesday . You can get pencils , pencil cases , sharpeners and folders . You may want to check your local store .
UPDATE : 1-15-08 For some reason I missed the last comment on this post and didn't know about it til today (oops) , here is the link where you can download the Beatitude copywork pages . Sorry about that everyone . Click here to get to the pages : Notebooking Pages
I fixed the broken links ( my file host went down and I never was notified , my apologies to everyone who has tried to access notebooking and devotion printables from my sites ) on the printables page and added some new ones . They are gardening journal pages . You can go to our homeschool sight and get the notebooking printables here .
My DD has started a new blog . She is a big POTC fan and a great writer . Her new blog is for her fan fiction she has written . Check it out here and let her know what you think about her writing .
I posted a venn diagram for President's Day on the website (find link under my notebooking pages heading). All those notebooking pages are free so help yourself . Have a great day ! ~ Nikki
I made some notebooking pages for a Civil War unit . They are under the links heading . I will try again later today to get them into one file , I tried this morning but I just couldn't get it . I'll tweak on it later . Enjoy !
Have a great day ! ~ Nikki 