Tag: elementary
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World War 2 unit
One of my favorite authors sent out an email reminding us that this week is the 70th anniversary of D-Day. I was lucky enough to be in France during the 50th anniversary of D-Day, and in honor of that, I’d like to share with you all of our World War 2 unit which is an…
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Animal Cell Model
A few years ago, we studied anatomy for our homeschool science, and we made a wonderfully complicated edible cell model. We are reviewing biology this year with the kids, and we reviewed all about animal cells. To help get it into their heads, we made an animal cell cookie model. (This post contains affiliate links)…
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Botany Unit
We never officially studied botany in our science lessons. We just ran into the occasional botany lesson, and I think we may have had a short botany unit when we had a year of zoology. Mainly because I remember having a lesson about different leaf types. Okay, but either way, I was realizing I had…
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Homeschool Halloween
Halloween is a contentious subject among homeschoolers, but my kids love to dress up and pretend, so it’s a big hit in our family and because of that, we’ve had a lot of Homeschool Halloween lessons. Of course, our lessons have become less common as the kids have grown older. There were quite a lot…
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Historical Thanksgiving picture books
Okay, this booklist came from an amusing source, as I was working on our Massachusetts unit I was finding all of these historical Thanksgiving picture books, so many that I had to severely limit what I picked up for our unit and I thought, “I should actually make a historical Thanksgiving picture book list, it…