“Let the youth look upon the divine standard, and never be content with a low aim….”
The Youth’s Instructor, July 5, 1894.
Category: Special Needs
Great Resource – Teach Art at Home
Masterpiece Art Instruction – View and print dozens of free drawing projects and lessons, with new ones being added regularly. Includes how-to-draw lessons as well as project ideas for all ages and skill levels.
Source: teachartathome.com
Great Idea – Upcycled Story Magnets
Source: sunhatsandwellieboots.com
Upcycled story magnets- what a great idea! Old or torn picture books and old Sabbath school papers are excellent sources for pictures. This is a great way to occupy little ones while you are working with older children. Ask a child to arrange the pictures to suit them and then tell you a story- you’ve just worked on some great literacy/pre-writing/early composition skills. Fun!
Click on the image or the source link to get details on how to make story magnets.
Journey North: Nature Study via Migration Patterns
For those of you with children that are naturalists at heart, this might be the foundation of a great season-long unit study. Since it is based on Spring migration patterns, NOW would be a good time to examine the materials carefully to see if they will work for your family.
Program Description:
“Journey North engages citizen scientists in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes, gray whales, bald eagles— and other birds and mammals; the budding of plants; changing sunlight; and other natural events. Find migration maps, images, standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context. Widely considered a best-practices model for education, Journey North is the nation’s premiere citizen science project for children. The general public is welcome to participate.”
Source: learner.org via Ann on Pinterest
LEGOs Chemical Reation Lab Activity
Use your child’s LEGOs as manipulatives for learning about chemical reactions. This activity uses LEGO bricks to represent atoms bonding into molecules and crystals. To find the lesson plans, click the image below or use the source link below.
Source: howtosmile.org
Fun Freebie: Alphabet Pattern Blocks
Here’s a fun way to add a kinesthetic (hands-on) element to learning the alphabet. Click on the image or the source link below to connect with these fun free printables. Don’t have pattern blocks? You can print these on sturdy paper, cover with contact paper and have some fun!
Source: confessionsofahomeschooler.com
The Great Backyard Bird Count – February 13-18, 2013
The Great Backyard Bird Count is coming soon – now is a great time to add this to your lesson plans and enjoy a great bird study. In the past, the GBBC was limited to just the US and Canada. Starting this year, the GBBC is accepting bird reports from anywhere in the world! Click on the image above to learn more.
It is not difficult to turn The Great Backyard Bird Count into a full unit study. Here are some great resources that will help you begin to create lessons of interest your family.
**A compilation of bird unit study ideas from AHE families.
https://ahefamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/bird-unit-study-july-7-20111.pdf
**The Adventurer bird award and the Pathfinder bird honors make great ready-to-go unit studies.
Adventurer
http://www.adventurer-club.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30:feathered-friends&catid=6:grade-2&Itemid=16
Pathfinder
http://www.pathfindersonline.org/pdf/ayhonors/birds_a.pdf
Cornell Lab of Ornithology is one of the best online resources. An online bird guide, printable games/activities and a 50 page coloring book are just a few of the benefits of exploring their website.
http://allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=1189
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/education2/kids/edgames
Bird Lapbooking Pages
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/backyard_birds_lap_n_note.php
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