Consonants

Here's a sheet to print off for finding the consonants vs. vowels. :) and another by the same folks.

From TLSbooks comes Consonants worksheet and this one too.

Check out this website for free phonics materials which includes learning the consonants!

Kidzone has this page.

Phonicsworld has all kinds of pages.

Free Kindergarten worksheets.

Fun Fonix.

Free printable phonics worksheets, free printable activities, printable workbooks, and phonics worksheet makers from Fun Fonix.com.

Fun Fonix Intro: hard consonants and short vowels with writing practice for each letter

School Express this site has tons of stuff. Will take a while to go through it all.

More links to free sites

Homeschool Resources by the same person who does Mama Jen. From the welcome page:

As the homeschooling mother of five little ones, I am always on the lookout for inexpensive homeschool resources. This is a collection of resource sites that I have found or have been referred to. Many of the sites are completely free! ........ As I discover new sites, I will add them to the list. If you know of sites that should be added, please leave me a comment or email me so that the site can be added. If we put our minds and efforts together, we can spend more time homeschooling and less time searching for resources! So, please check back often and as always,
Happy Homeschooling!!!

More File Folder games

and more FFG again :)

watermelon File folder game

Make your own game boards! This site looks cool!

Activity Village has these file folder games.

Free Reading, a free on-line program for teaching reading Kingergarten to grade three. Here's one program.

Teaching counting skills. These put out by education.com. With Preschool worksheets and much more.

teachers.net has a variety of resources as well.

This is cool! Make a wind chime! :)

Variety of things

Child Care land has free stuff! :) Lots actually. Rather a fun find!

Mathwire. A site for teaching math to children. Looks interesting.

Learning Treasures. Here's a link to a page on Using Mice to learn counting. :)

Kinderplans They have a variety of themes/studies. here's one for working on Number 1-10.

Worksheet Universe. Preschool, Kindergarten and Grade One.

Primary Games. Needs a certain skill with the computer.

AAA Math. Math for children. Looks to have a variety of games/worksheets.

Suite 101 often has articles with links to a variety of resources. here's one for Learning to count.

Using the Spud of Bob the builder to learn counting. On-line activity.

Anyways, I'll add more as I discover them! :)

TOS Information

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Memory Card Maker

My hubby sent this link to me. Once I figured out what it was useful for I thought COOL!

Anyway, it's a memory verse maker.

I'll have to do a search on-line to see if there are any others out there.

Cereal box ideas

Jamin's cereal box ideas.

i want to look at the links here abit more, but thought I'd save this before I lost the link.

The Jesus Storybook Bible

I would like to get this book. The Jesus Storybook Bible.



The blog reviews that I read are very positive.

Written for children ages four and up, The Jesus Storybook Bible tells the one story underneath all the stories of the Bible and points to the birth of a child, the Rescuer, Jesus. Complete with 44 Bible stories, The Jesus Storybook Bible paints a beautiful portrait of Jesus and invites children to see that he is not only at the center of God’s great story of redemption—he is at the center of their story too. Children and adults alike will be captivated by the beautifully written narrative and the original and unique illustrations by accomplished artist Jago. Lloyd-Jones’ powerful gift of storytelling draws the reader into the greatest adventure of all time in an exciting page-turner that kids (and adults) find hard to put down.

File Folder Games

Have I ever told you to go the The Old Schoolhouse and get on their email newsletter lists? Well, go do it! Free homeschool goodies and oodles of ideas await you!

File Folder games is one such letter they sent out.

In a nutshell...you take a file folder, you put stuff inside it, keeps everything compact and you have a game or activity that your child can do.

I got the preschool set from the teacher's book bag. Our son LOVES the games (most of them). The one I got seems to focus on alphabet stuff...he thinks the honey pot game is just too much fun. :) But he likes the others as well. I don't use file folders as that would have cost more dollars...and I have oodles of card stock because I scrap book! So tape, cardstock, worksheets and voila! I can make a file folder type game/activity for him.

Here are Jamin's freebies on File-folder games. She has more on her page so make sure you go there as well. :)

File Folder Fun offers free file folders for preschool through second grade. You will find file folders for science, language arts, math and more! You can browse by subject or grade level. The more you click the more you find at this website!

Looking for phonics games? Check these out!

Adding and rhyming? Click here.

Simple addition, telling time, and counting money. Click here.

For preschool file folders, click here. (There are 22 to chose from on the yellow sidebar on the left.)

For more preschool file folder games click here. You will find them mixed in with a lot of other free printables for little ones.

and the following list is ones that I've found as well. See...I just love how one list inspires people to look further! :)

File Folder Games and Other Games
Activity Village
Essortment: Preschools educational file folder game
My File Folder games
File Folder game - opposites
bellaonline
Childcareland
GigglyGames
File Folder heaven has purchase options as well as free options.

Things to Try with File Folders
File Folder Games for teachers
come up with themes: seasons, months, alphabet books, and such like. Basically whatever you want, you can do if you just think about it.
Come up with different ways to do things: cut outs, hideaway, pop-ups and such like.
MakePlayDough.com
Ezine articles

This one I think does more that file folder games but it looked intriguing.
Printables for your classroom.

Handwriting Worksheets

first School

Handwriting and creative writing printable materials to learn and practice writing for preschool, kindergarten and early elementary.

Internet4Classrooms All sorts of sheets to use

TLS Books

Welcome to tlsbooks.com, where you'll find a variety of free printable worksheets for home and school use. Use our free worksheets to help your child gain valuable readiness skills or to reinforce material they may already be learning in school.

Keep and Share

Our free printable handwriting paper and handwriting worksheets are ideal for home and school lined paper use for kindergarten

, 1st grade & 2nd grade to learn both print and cursive handwriting. Using printable paper & lined paper to practice handwriting for preschool and kindergarten is essential for all young school students.

Each handwriting worksheet is printable in a high quality PDF download. Choose from a variety of lined paper and printable handwriting paper. Printable handwriting worksheets for general handwriting practice.

ABC Writing Worksheets this page links to a variety of resources.

how to mke silly putty

Hubby dear sent me this link on how to make silly putty.

Innovative Classroom

I like this site. It's called the innovative classroom.

it's not a big site. has lesson plans, classroom ideas and such like. Just a nice little site.

Printable Certificates etc for Homeschooling

We all need printables for homeschooling.

123 Certificates gives you forms for almost any school based achievement.

Just mommies gives you homeschool Report cards! :)

Chart Jungle gives a variety of printable resources. Charts, diplomas, calendars etc.

Educator

WAY beyond Justin at this point.
This site has free videos on biology, science, maths etc.

The site is called Educator.

How to teach a child to write a novel

I learned about this page through HomeSchool Freebie of the day.

What Little Blue School did was put together a PDF on How to Teach a Child to Write a Novel. My boy isn't quite old enough for this yet, but it looks like something we'll do in the future. :)

Go check it out.

Alphabet Lap books - A

This will of course be a series of 26! After all there are 26 letters in the alphabet.

I am hoping to every week design a week around one letter of the alphabet.

I will hopefully have games to play, poems to read, scripture to memorize and so forth.

I'll be using a variety of sources.

These three to start with:
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/alphabet_notebook.php
http://www.dltk-teach.com/minibooks/index.htm
http://www.homeschoolshare.com/level_1_lapbooks.php

But I won't of course use everything on the different sites. I'll be pulling off what I think I"ll use and all that. :)

Here's what I have to start
an alligator poem and an apple shaped letter book and a letter size sorting game.

I want to make a stencil of the letter A and put it up on the fridge with "a" pictures we find or can draw so that we remember what letter we're working on for the week. :)

I'm not sure about doing this one from DLTK's, book is cute, but seems Like you need LOTS of paper to do it. So just thinking on it yet.

I used this Letter A reproducible from Innovative Classroom.

Here's a neat site! Teacher Planet. Got a craft idea which I'm revamping to make a construction paper apple.

and then I got this idea, since Justin likes cats, to find pictures of cats that begin with the "letter a", so then I went here which got me cat names, and then all I had to do is find pictures. :) Here is an Abyssinian. American Bobtail. American Shorthair.

How to Do research

I thought this site pretty good.

It's from the Kentucky Virtual Library. Teaches children how to do research. :) It's interactive. Taught me a thing or two as well.

Should mention, it was sent to me in an email from TheHomeSchoolMom.

Independance Day?

I'm Canadian, so doing the whole independance day (US based) is not really my thing.

But I thought I'd post up these links because who knows....maybe I can rework them to do a Canadian theme for CANADA DAY! :)

Homeschooling 4 Free lists off different July 4 stuff people can do.

ABC teach has stuff as well.

Homeschooled Kids OnLine gives the history to it.

For Horse girls

TOS sent out this as well,

The Girlhood Home Companion’s Happy Trails Horse Club™ is a one-of-a-kind resource for girls who want to learn more about horses and explore the many positive ways to get involved with various riding disciplines. Each month features a different breed and discipline, weaving together a collection of fact and fiction about equestrians from the past and those who are making a difference in the world today.

So know any horsey folk? Perhaps that website might interest them. :) Here's the direct link.

TOS freebies

Have I ever told you to go the The Old Schoolhouse and get on their email newsletter lists?

Good way to get free stuff you can use when you homeschool.

yes, it's a pain to try to figure out the whole storage space thing, but it's free!

And what does it cost yah to get a couple of discs to store things on? not that much!

I'm on one list that sends me out stuff every Friday.

This past week they sent out their October Module from 2008 that normally you'd have to pay $7-12 for. And just by waiting a spell...I got it free! can't beat that now can you? :)

if you go here, you can even see what they've sent out. Happy looking!

Music Appreciation for the summer

Harmony Art Mom has put together a summer music/art appreciation course. It's mostly free! :)

Go check it out.