Wednesday, May 16, 2007

HomeschoolFreeStuff Curriculum Add-ons 5-14-07

Language Arts

Word Confusion Online Game
This is a fun online game that helps your child learn sentence structure by completing sentences in this game.

Brrr It's Cold! Crossword Puzzle
Pictures and a wordbank make this a fun language arts game. Perfect for those cold homeschool days, just before snowman making begins.

Math

Magic Trick Of The Week - Card Trick 6
Someone in the audience chooses one of eight cards while the magician is out of the room (or has his back turned). The magician's assistant points to the cards one at a time, asking the magician if each is the chosen card.

Three digit number magic squares (Addition)
Add across and down to see the relationships in addition and subtraction. The best part is that you can hit refresh, and you get a whole new worksheet. Create an unlimited supply!

Multiply Three Digit Numbers
The best part is that you can hit refresh, and you get a whole new worksheet. Create an unlimited supply!

Sequencing (Flowers)
Print this fun activity and let your child explore number sequencing and numeral order.

Fun Match (6 through 10)
Print this out and have your child match the number of fun shapes to the word. Helps site reading numbers, writing numbers (tracing) and recognition.

Count and Color (Turtle Race)
Print out this activity, and let your child color according to the instructions as to which color turtle is winning the race.

Science

Forces Science Lab
Squeezing, stretching, sliding, twisting, and bending -- try them all! Play this interactive online game and have fun (be careful you don't learn something at the same time!)

The Ultimate Engineers Challenge
Big challenges. Tape, paper and skill. Print out this fun challenge and start building with stuff around the house!

Free Model Kit For The Week - Aeronautics
The activities are divided into three chapters: Air, Flight, and We Can Fly, You and I. They are designed to be uncomplicated and fun and have been tested in countless classrooms and workshops.

Amazing Ants
Do Ants eat peanut butter faster, or apples? Does the peanut butter stick to the roofs of their mouthes slowing them down? Try this experiment at home!

Social Studies

Barkerville Bound - A Timely Occupation
If you are teaching your child about the gold rush era, here is a fun game-card to put it in perspective with today.

The Poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox Was Born This Week
This is the poet that wrote "Laugh and the world laughs with you..." as well as other quatrains that "raised hope and made the blood sing!" You can read more about here here!

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