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Practice handwriting, reinforce grammar and spelling rules, and discuss practical morals with this pack of Aesop’s Fables Copywork. What’s Included in the Aesop’s Fables Copywork? This printable file includes 48 pages of copywork for your student. Each page includes 1-2 copywork exercises with excerpts from Aesop’s Fables. The pack includes a total of 92 copywork […]
When winter break comes, it’s hard to motivate students. They are antsy, dance-y, and ready for holiday fun. Try this flip, mix, and match Christmas Story Writing Prompts to keep your students writing, even when they are dreaming of sledding, snow, gifts, and hot cocoa. What’s Included in the Christmas Story Writing Prompts? This set […]
Read great books, exercise, sing, lapbook, dance–this My Body preschool and kindergarten science class has it all! Using Homeschool Share’s FREE My Body Lapbook as my base, I put together a co-op class for preschool and kindergarten. I only used parts of the lapbook, but all the pages you need to print are noted in the weekly […]
One of my favorite features on the old Homeschool Share blog was Cook with Books. I am revamping things at Homeschool Share, but I wanted the Cook with Books posts to have a permanent home on Walking by the Way. I love to cook, and I love books, so what could be more perfect? Cook […]
I originally wrote this post for Homeschool Share. Trying to clean up the site, and moving this one here. Sometimes in the middle of a four digit subtraction problem, I find one of my children on the verge of a brain meltdown–as in brain juice is starting to run out of his eyes, or leak […]
I recently received an email from a preschool special needs teacher: “I stumbled upon your pre-writing sheets today and love them! However, I teach special education for little ones and hoped( if time allows) that you could edit these to make the prewriting strokes much larger- at least double.” I thought: Wow. Nine years later […]
Are you gearing up for a study of US Presidents or an elections study? Consider using copywork quotes as part of your student’s course. I had the privilege of facilitating a government class about four years ago. I was browsing through some old files and found these simple copywork pages. DOWNLOAD Government Quotes Copywork Pages […]
I love a good reading challenge. I have several posted here as well as a Biography BINGO Challenge and the Reading Punch Card Challenges. I don’t think I’ve mentioned it on the blog, but about a month ago, I took my dream job as a librarian at our public library. With all the recent school […]
Maybe it’s a snow day. Maybe it’s a pandemic.Or maybe you just forgot your library’s summer hours. Whatever it is, you aren’t able to go to story time or check out a new stack of books for your kids. Now what? Did you know there are gobs and gobs of easy-to-access books online? I’m not […]
I’m not a fan of book reports. Kids slogging through books with the underlying dread of knowing they are reading for one reason: to complete a report. Nope. Not a fan. However, I understand that sometimes we like to have some kind of written record of what our students have read. I also understand that […]
Kids love food, right? My kids do. My older son’s favorite snack used to be cheese crackers. I guess his love for those crispy baked squares inspired me to make this cheese cracker counting book. This is an engaging way to teach counting and quantities for numbers 1-12. You don’t need much for this one: […]
Oh, Pippi! Or should I say Oh, Pippilotta Delicatessa Windowshade Mackrelmint Efraim’s Daughter Longstocking? This girl has invaded our home and our hearts and just the mention her name brings a smile to my face. In the first book, Pippi Longstocking, our beloved main character, makes thin, spicy cookies: “That morning Pippi was busy making […]
I don’t know about you, but for me it seems that providing language arts activities for preschoolers is easy, natural, and ordinary. But math. Math is different. When my boys were young, it was harder for me to use our everyday environment to learn math. But it can be done. Sneaking math into your preschooler’s […]
I love to concoct fresh new ways to get readers reading. Here is a new challenge for your students. All you need to do is print the file, cut out the cards, and grab a hole punch. What I love about this reading challenge is that you can use it to teach genre. And this […]
I love pumpkins. Let me count the ways: Pumpkin bread. Pumpkin muffins. Pumpkin pie. And especially pumpkin cookies. I also love the pumpkin patch. Pumpkin picking. Pumpkin carving. All the pumpkin things! And it’s almost pumpkin time. And since it’s almost time for all the pumpkin things, it’s also time for some pumpkin copywork. What’s […]
Fifth grade math was a total bomb for my son. I mean total. Bomb. Sometimes I wonder if math is the bane of every homeschool mom’s existence. Things had to change for sixth grade, so I started looking for a homeschool math program that would do one thing: get the job done. I wanted to […]
Do you know the Johnny Appleseed Blessing? I remember singing this prayer every day at summer day camp before we ate lunch: Oh, the Lord is good to me. And so I thank the Lord. For giving me the things I need: the sun, and the rain, and the apple seed. The Lord is good […]
When Simon was a little guy, he loved lotto games. The concept is pretty simple for a single player game. The child chooses a board. Help the child find the corresponding picture tiles for that board. Turn over all the picture tiles and let your toddler or preschooler draw them one by one and fill […]
Summer is almost here, and it’s time to challenge our kids to read like crazy cakes! You can download this set of six bookmarks to motivate your kids to get reading! Instructions: Print the bookmarks on white card stock. Let your student choose one. There are 6-10 books on each bookmark. Each time your student […]
This post is sponsored by Atelier Arts Attack. I was compensated for the time I invested in this post All opinions are mine and truthful. For many years I relied on our homeschool co-op for art lessons for my kids. Two years ago, though, after an art class, my youngest came to me in tears. A few of the […]