Plant and animal cells

There's nothing better than live plant and animal cell animation...go check it out for this week's science memory work. :)

Cells Alive - Plant and animal cell animation

The Biology Corner - plant and animal coloring sheets

A wonderful site for printable worksheets.
Plant and Animal Cell worksheets

Free Lapbooks - Ancient Egypt

For many homeschoolers, we desire to do all the fun, creative hands on projects, but time gets in the way.
A wonderful resource for lapbooks is the Homeschool Share site.
Have fun browsing all the remarkable resources that have been put together through a wealth of creativity.

Free for your use is an Ancient Egypt Unit Study to go along with our studies.

The Euphrates Today

Here is a New York Times article on the current state of the Euphrates River as it shrinks. As we study Africa and the Middle East, I love to show kids interesting real life pictures of the areas as well as just the maps. It takes teaching geography to a new level.

Iraq Suffers as the Euphrates River Dwindles

Making Books with Kids

Susan Gaylord offers an amazing site for making books with children. I just love all the ideas she gives for making books with kids and she has detailed instructions, along with a blog, where she has additional tutorials.
Enjoy some of her free activities below.

Free Activities

Weather Unit Study for Kids

All About Weather

from BrandenburgStudies

Debbie Brandenburg from BrandenburgStudies is giving away this excellent E-Book, including the Test Booklet and Answer Key!

No matter where you live or who you are, the weather affects your life. From the high humidity and heat indexes, to frozen weather, weather is all around you. In this unit you will learn about:

-What is Weather?

-Weather Basics

-Cloud Formations

-Seasons

-Storms of Every Type

Grab this amazing freebie offer while you can by clicking HERE to go to the download page.

Thank you, Old School House Mag. Friday Freebie

Ancient Egypt - sites for children

As I am preparing for our Classical Conversations Cycle 1 year to begin. I have found some wonderful Ancient Egypt sites that will be a blast for the kids. I have an entire file that I will slowly be updating to this site, so check back as I have time to upload these resources.

1. Ancient Egypt - Guardian Egypt
An amazing site with everything imaginable about Ancient Egypt.
In the site owner's words, "Now, through the marvel of modern technology, you can visit Egypt, both past and present! You can actually "surf" the ancient world! Here are my Egypt pages which provide great pictures, facts and information about Egypt, and offer many links to Egyptology and Egypt resources throughout the Internet.

2. Tour Egypt - kids on tour in Egypt

3. A huge variety of Ancient Egypt printables including lesson plans, acrostic poems. word scrambles, venn diagrams and more.

Free Home Schooling downloads

I know how much we home schoolers love to find free resources all in one place.
My friend, Joy from the Five J's, has a plethora of one stop wonders on her blog.

She has categorized them by subject to meet all your needs.

Make sure you thank her for all her hard work. :)