Some Freebie Links!

I swiped these from Christine over at Our Home School Review ....  go check out her blog :)  I'm going through her Thrift Thursday posts and I want to share some of the links I've really liked!

FREE Science Experiment Guide {$25 Value} @ Supercharged Science

FREE Online Homeschooling Workshop {TODAY ONLY} @ How to Homeschool My Child

FREE Printables @ Hearts and Trees 

FREE Complete Curriculum @ Easy Peasy - All In One Homeschool

FREE Butterfly Preschool Printables @ Homeschooling Hearts & Minds

FREE Summer Learning Packet @ A Journey Through Learning Lapbooks

FREE Homeschool Planners, Forms, and More @ Free Homeschool Deals

FREE Children's Classic Literature on Kindle @ Amazon

FREE Subscriber Only History Unit Study {Heroines of the Past} @ Homeschool Giveaways and Freebies

I checked out the Science Experiment Guide, you sign up for an email, the email has a link to a PDF file (I added the link to the side bar under Science) ... and she also sends a link for her FREE Science Class.  The next one (on the 21st) is to make a solar oven.  I have fallen in love with the All in One Homeschool site!

So I started to look through the older links....

Math Printables 
Free Multiplication Worksheets and Cards

This is really put together well and we're going to be using these for sure!!

Free Homeschool Lessons at Kahn Academy
Kahn Academy has over 2,000 educational videos on subject from math to history.  ALL FREE!  And if you use Singapore Math, you will be excited to learn that they are starting with Grade 3a, Unit 1 and will (eventually) do all of the lectures in the Singapore Math curriculum!!  Just scroll down to "S". 

I love this one too!!  Pretty awesome!

Disguise Kit for Kids
Get you free disguise kit for kids printout.  Very cute!

This is a pretty cute set - Here is a screen caption of it :)

She has a lot of great freebie links - definitely worth checking out :)

Great Grade Posters!!

I managed to find these on Google ...  These are fantastic :)  ... we actually printed off and used one of the Kindergarten one at the beginning of the school year, and I'll definitely be using these from now on ...

Remember that you can click on the poster to get the original size :)

PRESCHOOL

Kindergarten

And here are the rest of the grades .... in the "I'm a ..." posters ...

Some Free Summer Reading Programs!

There is nothing that I love more than allowing myself to completely get lost in a book.  I have my favorites.  Perhaps because of whom gave them to me.  My Grandmother gave me the books Little Women and the Anne of Green Gables series for two different birthdays.  To this day - more than twenty years later, they happen to be some of my favorite books.  I also love the movies!  But you have to read the books before seeing movies - because it's just better that way.

If you FB Friend me - you'll find that I post a lot of "reading" and "book" graphics.  If I could build my own house, I would have a room with bookshelves on every wall, one of those ladders that spins around the room, deep carpet that your toes could sink into, a fireplace, and a bay window or window seat - and a rounded tower type area.  That would be my library.

So of course, my love for reading HAS to rub off on my kids, right?   Well.... thankfully... it has!  We're beating Dysgraphia and Dyslexia one book at a time!!

So of course - why not get involved in some great summer reading programs???

Top 10 FREE Summer Reading Programs

1. Barnes and Noble – earn a FREE book when you read 8 books this summer
2. Half Price Books – earn bucks to cash in
3. Showcase Cinemas Bookworm – bring a book report on Wednesdays for a FREE movie
4. Sylvan – offers prizes for taking book quizes and this program is always available
5. Pizza Hut - Book It Program offers tips and printables, too
6. Chuck E Cheese - complete the reading reward chart and receive 10 FREE tokens
7. Scholastic – earn digital rewards
8. Pottery Barn – children will receive a reward after they read all the books on the list
9. PBS Kids - games, printables, and challenge, starts June 17th- , 4 weeks
10. American Girl – has lessons and book suggestions

Sharing ...

It's time for me to really buckle down and figure out what we are going to do the first couple of months.

There are a couple things I want to share - as much for me - for record - and for my readers ......

Readers?


(knock:::knock)  Is anyone out there?

First, does your kids love Legos?  I know my boys do.  Even my little ones who really aren't into Legos, they just like them because their brother's think it's cool! 

Lego Magazine is giving away 2-Year Subscriptions for free....  I signed all my boys up (minus the teen) ...  There is a JR version of the magazine for those under 7 and I know all my boys would like to get mail, and upon getting their own magazine, it'll reduce fighting over them. 

(Click the pictures to take you to the link, same link for both)

Also - I saw this fun little thing on Facebook .... 

For a mom with a child, who has (had) a cleft palate .... It thought this was great!!!  It can control the little bit of air they can get through ....

Sometimes preschoolers have a hard time blowing bubbles with traditional bubble wands. The wands can get slippery and difficult for little hands to hold and blow.

Cut a small hole at the bottom edge of the water bottle (single serving size), this will become a mouthpiece for blowing bubbles. Make sure there are no sharp edges! 

Dip the bottle mouth into the bubble solution and then blow through the hole you created.

 We haven't tried it out yet.  Will definitely share - when we do :)


And this has been meandering around Facebook .... 

For camping or late nights at the beach? Leave 1/4 of Mountain dew in bottle (just dont drink it all), add a tiny bit of baking soda and 3 caps of peroxide. Put the lid on and shake - walla! Homemade glow stick (bottle) solution. kids

 I want to save you a little bit of trouble ....   this doesn't work.  I have had friends try it and no luck.  Dennis had looked it up and found out it doesn't work.  One of my friends left this comment on my facebook when I shared it... 

ok, thought this looked cool, tried it with the kids just now and it's such a dud!!! Didn't work, even tried doubling the baking soda and peroxide after it didn't work the first time. Still no glow...so I believe this has been BUSTED!! (Myth Busters comment)

So I want to save everyone the trouble of trying (unless you want to try it for a science experiment that fails!) ...