Awesome Worksheet Printable Site!

Just in time for summer!

http://www.tlsbooks.com/

See, I am one of those mean moms that makes my kids EARN electronics over the summer. No zoning in front of a screen all day around here.

The 13 yr old will still homeschool and do his daily basics and the almost 8 year old has to do 7 worksheet pages a day (from various sources) but in another month he will have to do 8 (our rule is you do the same number of how old you are) and he has to do 1 small paragraph of copy work. I like to have him use an animal or nature book – like DK or something with little blurbs about animals.

Check out that site – loads of printables in all subjects and ages/grades!

Caterpillar Project – homeschooling Hijacking a classroom assignment

The 2nd grader has to make a model of a caterpillar so of course I morphed his assignment into a homeschool project, too.

I went a-googling and found some pictures for him. I like the real caterpillar with the labeled parts and the diagram and photo of the prolegs and true legs. The gross looking caterpillar is camouflaged to look like bird droppings – of course that went over great with the 2nd grader!

We are working on the model but I trimmed some cardboard and he is making a booklet to go with the model.

Valentine’s worksheets

Here are some valentine worksheets for you to enjoy. I have some of these colored, cut out and taped to my livingroom windows. Cute!

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

Enjoy!

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Vintage Vals - Remixed

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A little photoshopping on a few of my faves from this post and these are ready to print. This weekend we did spin art t-shirts so this project will be next weekend’s. I am thinking thumbprint hearts and names (in cursive, print and by mommy, respectively) on the back of the cards and use the envelopes I got for free.

How do you score free envelopes, you ask- easy! Hit all the targets, CVS’, etc you can on the day after valentine’s day, Halloween etc and ask the folks changing out the greeting cards nicely. They will give you as many as you want- otherwise they get THROWN AWAY!!

(Note: not completely happy with the cowboy card- but it was trickier to work with. might re-do it)

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st pat’s printable’s etc

 

http://www.coloring.ws/patrick.htm – alphabet dot to dot, color by letter & more

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/ - cute worm & bow tie & more to color

http://www.thekidzpage.com – online games to play

Today we made 2 batches of Kool-aid. First a red one – we measure out the water and sugar and usually the kid stirring counts to 100 but he is too good of a counter so now I try and make them do it in Spanish. Then we added green food color paste. It only made it darker red.

Then we made a lemonade (again measuring and stirring and adding green. Viola!! It turned green!!

Later we are making sugar cookies (from a mix) and will drink green milk with them.