Tag: 3rd grade
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The BEST Animal Report minibook for beginning writers
Almost 10 years ago I started researching the different states here in the United States to see what made each one different as we were studying them. I was amused to discover every state had a state animal, and we started studying the animals. This led to the need for a quick and easy way…
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Everything you need to know to get started with All About Reading
The one thing I thought was scary about homeschooling was teaching my kids how to read. I taught first grade, and an entire class full of students how to read, and yet I still found the idea scary. Probably because learning how to read is so fundamental to everything we do. I tried a few…
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Ancient Egypt activities for kids
In case you can’t tell ancient history is one of my favorite time periods for history lessons. I find the ideas and activities you can do with this time fascinating, the history, the people, the mythology. My bookshelves quite agree from the numerous books gracing them. Ancient Egypt is one of my favorites, I find…
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How to make an edible Roman Road
A few years ago I read a post by Phyllis over at All Things Beautiful on how to make an edible Roman road (she has made most posts private now, so I removed the link). I thought, “I’m totally doing that in my history lesson when we next study Ancient Rome.” Fast forward a few…
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Anatomy Unit
This coming year we’re going to be studying anatomy, and I am super excited about it. I’ve been pinning and storing ideas for our science lessons on my anatomy Pinterest board. As I wrote my anatomy lesson plans (all our lessons inspired by these anatomy lessons) I organized the ideas to do for the year,…