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My girls and I are studying bees this spring – what a fun unit study! Spring is the perfect time to dive into a bee unit study, and these Bee Life Cycle Worksheets are a hands-on way for my children to explore the transformation from egg to adult bee! My girls and I started with …
I have another fascinating book to share with you today: Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude. For many years, my children and I used the Tapestry of Grace curriculum. While it can be a bit difficult to wrap your brain around, Tapestry offers a wide selection of books for grades K through 12th. Most of …
This post was originally published in April 2014! We still study seeds almost every year because the warmth of spring begs us to do so. ❤ I’ve updated this post and the Seed Writing Activities with fresh fonts, page layouts, and a big update to the How a Seed Sprouts Booklet. The weather is finally …
My 1st and 3rd grade girls can’t get enough of the writing booklets with picture dictionaries! I’ve published a few over the past year, and I have several on my laptop that I have not yet had the chance to post. I don’t use any type of formal writing curriculum until 4th or 5th grade, …
If you’re planning a bee unit study this spring or summer, there’s no better place to start than with rich, engaging literature. In our homeschool, we revisit favorite science themes year after year — and learning about bees never gets old! This carefully curated list of books about bees for kids includes a mix of …
Oh Friends, it has been a long time since I published a literature-based unit study! While my girls and I have studied a few books off and on this semester, I haven’t posted about that type of learning since Christmas! Eek! Since my youngest two are at the age where book unit studies are still such …
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, my 5 and 7 years olds are intrigued by Venn Diagrams. They love to compare everything from themselves to the birds in the front yard. I made several Venn Diagram worksheets for my 7 year old, who is an avid reader. They were far too advanced for my …
Benjamin Franklin is such a fascinating person to study! While we only scratched the surface of his life in our last unit study, we’re going to dig a bit deeper in our learning in the coming year. There are only a million different aspects of Franklin’s life to consider for a unit study: his service …
My children are having such a good time with our fruits and vegetables unit study this week! I hope you’re enjoying these posts and I especially hope they help you with some ideas for your own fruits and vegetables unit study. I am also adding a few of these Vegetable Vocabulary Cards during our study. …
Since we are studying fruits and vegetables this week in our science unit study, I wanted to include a set of free printable fruit vocabulary cards for my younger girls, ages 5 and 7. These types of vocabulary cards are also called 3-part cards in some homeschool and teaching circles. I’ve only made a few …
My kiddos and I are continuing on in our fruits and vegetables unit study today. We are having a great time learning all kinds of fruit and vegetable vocabulary, learning how these plants grow, and how they’re categorized. We’ve taken a long break from science and it feels great to get back into the swing …
