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50 Free Summer Printables for Kids

May 22, 2015 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

It’s nearly summertime! Woohoo! That means a much more relaxed approach to learning in our family. We still manage to keep teaching the kids, but it’s in a more casual style.

So, since we’ve already compiled free fall printables, free winter printables, and free spring printables, it was time to make another roundup of free summer printables for kids!

In this list you’ll find plenty of educational summer-themed printables for kids of all ages!

50 Free Summer Printables for Kids

Summer Reading Log – What Do We Do All Day?

Ice Cream Math Printable – Housing a Forest

Printable Summer Bucket List – Motherhood on a Dime

Summer Toddler Printable Pack – Totschooling

Printable Beach Shoebox Diorama – Look! We’re Learning!

Printable Summer Activity Sheets – Kids Activities Blog

Printable Summer Word Search Puzzles – Itsy Bitsy Fun

Simpler Summer Bucket List Printable – The Chaos and the Clutter

Summer Activity Bingo Printable – Pre-K Pages

CVC and CVCC Beach Writing Printable – 3 Dinosaurs

Printable Outdoor Scavenger Hunt – Spaceships and Laser Beams

Addition Ocean Puzzles – Life Over C’s

Alphabet Ice Cream Printables – True Aim Education

Printable Ocean Preschool Number Puzzle – Living Montessori Now

Printable Ladybug Learning Pack – Look! We’re Learning!

Printable Soccer Coloring Pages and Emergent Readers – In All You Do

Printable Ocean Themed Handwriting Practice Sheets – Crystal and Comp

Free Butterfly Printable Worksheets – Learning 2 Walk

Free Camping Unit Study Printables – Year Round Homeschooling

Free Printable Summer Word Search – Superheroes and Tea Cups

Printable Family Fun Night Bucket List – Embark On the Journey

Free Ice Cream Color Grading Printable – Gift of Curiosity

Printable Count the Clownfish Cards – 3 Boys and a Dog

Free Ocean Animals Printable Mazes – Kids Activities Blog

Free Camping Coloring Pages – In All You Do

Ice Cream Roll and Color Printable – The Preschool Toolbox

Printable Summer Sight Word Flashcards – Look! We’re Learning!

Color by Number Butterfly Printable – B-Inspired Mama

Preschool Ocean Animals Count and Clip Cards – Preschool Powol Packets

Butterfly Garden Life Cycle Printable Board Game – Life Over C’s

Free Ice Cream Do A Dot Printables – Gift of Curiosity

Free Ocean Activity Books – Itsy Bitsy Fun

Free Ice Cream Printables – Royal Baloo

Free Family Movie Night Printables – Year Round Homeschooling

Printable Ocean Play Dough Creatures – NurtureStore

Free Ocean Animals Writing Activities – In All You Do

Printable Butterfly Identification Flashcards – Look! We’re Learning!

Free Ice Cream Coloring Pages – Kids Activities Blog

Preschool Printable Beach Puzzle – B-Inspired Mama

Free Bugging Out Printable Activity Pages – The Multi Taskin’ Mom

Free Ice Cream Cone Number Matching Printables – From ABCs to ACTs

Free Summertime Math Activity Pages – Embark On the Journey

Dolphin Dots Preschool Printable Pages – Preschool Powol Packets

Free Ice Cream Printable File Folder Game – The Measured Mom

Lemonade Stand Printable Play Dough Activity – Life Over C’s

Free Ice Cream Printable Pack – Look! We’re Learning!

Preschool Alphabet Ocean Hunt Printable – I Heart Crafty Things

Free Ocean Animals Printable – A Little Pinch of Perfect

Free Bee Maze Printable – B-Inspired Mama

Lemonade Stand PreK/K Pack – In All You Do

Did I miss any free summer printables that you love? Share them in the comments! 🙂

50 Free Spring Printables for Kids

March 10, 2015 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

This past weekend the temperature got up to 73 degrees! So, I’m declaring that spring has officially begun here in Georgia. I know it’s actually two weeks out, but once we’re in the 70s, that’s spring to me! 🙂

To celebrate, I’m sharing links to 50+ free spring printables that are loads of fun for kids!

If you’re homeschooling, you can use these along with your regular lessons to make a spring theme. If you’re afterschooling, you can use them to reinforce their school objectives!

Don’t miss our list of spring books for kids to read and our list of fun spring crafts for kids!

50+ Free Spring Printables for Kids

Free Over the Rainbow Playdough Mats – Look! We’re Learning!

Free Spring Pack – 3 Dinosaurs

Printable Spring Tulips Count and Clip Cards – The Measured Mom

Spring File Folder Games – Itsy Bitsy Fun

Spring Playdough Mats – This Reading Mama

Spring Scavenger Hunt Printable – The Chirping Moms

Spring I Spy Game – Pleasantest Thing

Colorful Birds Color Matching Activity – Look! We’re Learning!

Do a Dot Spring Printables – Totschooling

Handprint Flower Printable Craft – All Done Monkey

Printable Bugs Worksheets – Learning 2 Walk

April Art Symmetry Printable – Enchanted Homeschooling Mom

Spring Flower Bulb Identification Cards – Wildflower Ramblings

Printable Playdough Garden – Picklebums

Outdoor Scavenger Hunt Printable – Hands On As We Grow

Spring Bucket List Printable – Glued to My Crafts

Rainbow Coloring Pages and Math Facts – In All You Do

Printable Nature Journal for PreK – To the Moon and Back

Spring Coloring Pages – Kids Activities Blog

Tractor Ted Spring Printable Activity – In the Playroom

Preschool Do a Dot Spring Printables – Crystal and Co.

Gardening Coloring Pages – Mama Goes Frugal

Fanciful Flowers Labeling Activity – Scholastic

Spring Bingo Cards – DLTK-Kids

Flower Learning Pack – 3 Dinosaurs

Insects Printable Pack – Gift of Curiosity

Bean Seed Science Printable Activity – Buggy and Buddy

Insect Printable Unit – Every Star is Different

Ladybug Learning Printable Pack – Look! We’re Learning!

Spring Writing Prompts – In All You Do

Flower Shape Sort Printables – School Time Snippets

Catch a Bug Printable Game – Picklebums

Spring Worksheets – Sight and Sound Reading

Bug Coloring Pages – Easy Peasy and Fun

Preschool Spring Worksheets – Learning 2 Walk

Butterflies Tot and PreK Pack – In All You Do

Printable Flower Hunt Game – Preschool Powol Packets

Spring Bucket List for Kids and Families – KC Edventures

Spring Word Search Puzzles – Itsy Bitsy Fun

Spring PreK and K Pack – This Reading Mama

Printable Spring Early Reader Books – The Measured Mom

Spring Coloring Pages – Blessed Beyond a Doubt

Flower Number Bond Puzzles – Live Over C’s

Search for Spring Printable Booklet – Kitchen Counter Chronicle

Spring Flower Flashcards – Look! We’re Learning!

Spring Trees Printables – Mommy Loves Trees

Spring Number Printables – 3 Dinosaurs

Gardening Unit Study – In All You Do

Printable Spring Flower Coloring Craft – Kids Activities Blog

Printable Bird Unit – Every Star is Different

Busy Bee Scissor Skills Worksheets – Look! We’re Learning!

Round out your spring unit with these other spring learning ideas!

Plus, get more ideas on my Spring Activities for Kids Pinterest board!

Free Printable Pet Flashcards

February 10, 2015 by Selena Robinson 2 Comments

We’re sharing another set of free printable flashcards today! These are free pet flashcards, which are perfect for little ones who are learning about animals!

Free Printable Pet Flashcards

In this free flashcard pack, you’ll find flashcards for six common household pets, including:

Puppies
Kittens
Bunnies
Turtles
Mice
And Goldfish!

Combine these with our A to Z Animal Flashcards to teach kids about all kinds of animals, big and small!

Scroll down to get your copy of our free printable pet flashcards!

Kids’ Books about Pets

For even more pet learning fun, try these children’s books about pets! (Affiliate links are provided here. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

1. Tails Are Not for Pulling by Elizabeth Verdick and Marieka Heinlen

2. Pet Show! by Ezra Jack Keats

3. The Perfect Pet by Margie Palatini and Bruce Whatley

4. Pete the Cat: A Pet for Pete by James Dean

And see more ways to make learning fun for early grades on my Learning for Little Ones Pinterest board!

To get your copy of our free printable pet flashcards, click the image or the link below to download them!

>>>Free Printable Pet Flashcards<<<

Free Printable Flashcards: Ser and Estar Flashcards

January 6, 2015 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

¡Hola, todos! It’s time for another edition of our Free Printable Flashcards series! This week, I’m sharing a free set of ser and estar flashcards, which are great if you’re learning español!

Ser and estar are very important verbs in Spanish, but it’s easy to confuse them. Although they have the same basic meaning, they are used in different settings. Also, they are conjugated differently, so if you’re talking about yourself, you use one form of ser or estar and if you’re talking about someone else, you use a different conjugation for each one.

These printable Spanish flashcards are awesome for young ones (and adults) who are working on memorizing these basic Spanish verb conjugations!

Want more printables for learning Spanish? Don’t miss our Spanish family words worksheets and our printable Spanish verbs flashcards!

Free Spanish Ser and Estar Flashcards

To use these flashcards, you’ll need the following: (Affiliate links are provided here for convenience. For more, see our Disclosure Policy.)

Learning the difference between the verbs ser and estar is a huge stumbling block for a lot of Spanish students. The problem is that both verbs literally mean “to be”, so it’s very easy to mix them up.

The trick is learning when to use each one, since they’re reserved for specific contexts and meanings. If you’re unfamiliar with the usages of ser and estar, SpanishDict has a great primer you can use to learn the basics.

In the meantime, grab our free flashcards to learn how to conjugate each verb correctly for the appropriate pronoun, such as yo (I), tú (informal you), and nosotros (we).

The pack includes one set of flashcards featuring the Spanish forms of ser and their English equivalents and a second set of cards featuring the forms of estar. There is also a set of blank cards with just the Spanish conjugations, which kids can use to memorize their English meanings.

What we did was laminate the ser and estar flashcards that included Spanish and English. We left the set of just Spanish cards unlaminated, so the kids could copy down the vocabulary themselves.

Scroll down to get your printable Ser and Estar flashcards!

Be sure to see these other Spanish learning resources!

And follow my Foreign Language for Homeschoolers board on Pinterest to find more Spanish language learning inspiration!

To grab your copy of our free printable Ser and Estar Flashcards, click the image or link below to visit our Store!

>>>>> Spanish Ser and Estar Flashcards <<<<<

Free Construction Coloring Pages

November 25, 2014 by Selena Robinson 2 Comments

Do you have any little ones who love all things construction? They’ll love these free construction coloring pages!

I whipped these up exclusively for Frugal Homeschool Family – a wonderful site dedicated to making homeschooling affordable for all. 🙂 By the way, today’s another edition of the Laugh and Learn linkup! Don’t miss our favorite posts from last week below!

We’ve got two big construction fans in our family, so I put together a coloring pack that they’d love! This pack features several construction-themed pictures, including earth movers and construction workers. And it’s totally free! 🙂

Stop by Frugal Homeschool Family to get your free Construction Coloring Pack today! And don’t forget to grab our free construction themed contraction flashcards too!

Free Construction Coloring Pack – Frugal Homeschool Family

And now….it’s time for another edition of the Laugh and Learn linky! 🙂

Welcome to our ninth week of Laugh and Learn – Homeschool and Parenting Linkup. Join us in the fun and help us spread the word! Laugh and Learn – Homeschool and Parenting Linkup will be open by 6 am every Tuesday morning. My co-hosts and I will be picking our four favorite posts and featuring them on the following weeks linkup. Be sure to link your best content and maybe we will pick you! When you link your post with us it will be featured on four blogs.

Last week we had three blogs but as of today we have a new co-host! Please check out Sarah’s blog below.

We have also hit an all time high of 60 links! Whoo hoo! Please keep on linking and help us grow 🙂

As of last week we added something new to our #laughlearnlinkup. We are pinning our favorites to a special Pinterest board for homeschooling and parenting posts. Check the board out here: #LaughLearnLinkup {Featured Favorites}. It’s just added exposure for your awesome content!

Your Fabulous Hosts 😉

Tina Ernspiker

Tina lives abroad in Latin America with her husband and four children. Currently in Mexico, Tina is active in homeschool, travel, and her Bible ministry. She blogs about all of their adventures and more at Los Gringos Locos.

Find Tina at her blog link above, and on the following social media networks:
Facebook
Twitter
Pinterest
Google +
Linkedin

Selena

Selena is a writer and a homeschooling mom to four kids, including three with ADHD/SPD. Selena and her husband, Jay, are committed to teaching their children at home and loving every minute of it! You can read about the family’s homeschooling experiences at Look! We’re Learning, written by Selena!

Find Selena at her blog link above, and on the following social media networks:
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Michelle Cannon

Michelle is a single mom homeschooling two daughters. Michelle currently writes at The Heart of Michelle where you’ll find articles about anything from homeschooling to special needs, opinion pieces to fandom posts.

Find Michelle at her blog link above, and on the following social media networks:
Facebook
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Sarah Thornton

Sarah lives in Kentucky, USA, where she and her husband homeschool three children. Sarah writes for and about, families with special needs. She hopes to provide support and encouragement to all special needs parents in the homeschool community. Visit Sarah at Dedicated Homeschooler.

Find Sarah at her blog link above, and on the following social media networks:
Facebook
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Our Favorite Posts for the Week of November 24th:

Written by Sarah at Stay At Home Educator

Explore Lebanon – Written by Laura at Mommy Maleta

Written by Liz at Love and Marriage {and a baby carriage}

Thanks to everyone who submitted a post. Please check out the posts above by clicking on the image, if you have a minute for some good reading. Thank you Sarah, Laura, and Liz for your great homeschool and parenting posts!

Now, let’s see your best posts for this week so we can share them as next week’s favorites!

An InLinkz Link-up

Free Homeschooling Printables with Family Fun Friday!

October 30, 2014 by Selena Robinson 3 Comments

Since we’re homeschooling on a budget (like many of you are), we love free homeschooling printables in our family! In last week’s Family Fun Friday, there were plenty of great homeschooling activities, including several great printable activities. Today we’re featuring our favorites!

If you’re a blogger, be sure to link up your posts to this week’s linky. Your posts could be featured next week!

Keep Reading…

Free Printable Flashcards: Polygons

October 7, 2014 by Selena Robinson 6 Comments

Pooh and I were working on his math lessons using Khan Academy the other day and he ran into a little trouble when it was time to learn polygons. He’s six, after all. 🙂

For our free printable flashcards series this week, I thought I’d whip up a set of Free Printable Flashcards: Polygons! This set includes the eight simple polygons, which makes it easier for little ones to get an introduction to geometry.

These free printable polygon flashcards are awesome for introducing preschoolers and kindergartners to basic shapes, but since they include more complex shapes as well, they’re a good review for elementary students too!

If you enjoy using these printable polygon flashcards in your homeschool, check out some of our other math printables, including Amusement Park Addition Flashcards and our Aquarium Arithmetic Printable Pack!

What’s In the Free Printable Flashcards: Polygons Set?

To use these flashcards, you’ll need the following:

Printer (with ink)
Printer paper
Scissors
Laminator (good for cards you plan to reuse)

The word “polygon” actually means multi-sided shape. So any shape with “many” sides counts as one. In this set, though, we’re focusing on shapes with three to ten sides.

In the set, you’ll find flashcards for all eight simple polygons:

Triangle (3-sided shape)
Rectangle (4-sided shape)
Pentagon (5-sided shape)
Hexagon (6-sided shape)
Heptagon (7-sided shape)
Octagon (8-sided shape)
Nonagon (9-sided shape)
And Decagon (10-sided shape)

There’s a set of all eight with words and without for quizzes or playing a game of concentration. Take a few minutes to quiz the kids with the unlabeled cards!

Or have them count the sides of each shape and guess which it is!

Scroll down to get your copy of our free printable polygon flashcards!

Resources for Teaching Kids about Polygons:

For more great polygon resources, try these books and activities!

Polygon Activities for Kids:

Make learning about geometry into a hands-on lesson with these fun polygon activities!

Stop by and take a look at some of our other math learning ideas!

$Sidewalk Chalk Outdoor Math Game$

$Fun Math Books for Middle School$

$Math Activities for ADHD Students$

Plus, follow my Math Mania board on Pinterest to get more tips for teaching math!

To get your copy of our free printable polygon flashcards, click the image or the link below to visit our Store!

Free Printable Polygon Flashcards – Look! We’re Learning! Store

Fire Safety Smart: Fire Safety Printables for Kids

September 29, 2014 by Selena Robinson 6 Comments

According to the National Fire Prevention Association, some of the most important aspects of fire safety planning are testing the home smoke detector and developing a home fire escape plan. A fire escape plan should include the rooms in your home and the route that the entire family will take to escape in case of fire.

Since fires often break out without warning, it’s critical that families decide on an escape route in advance and practice evacuating the home. In honor of National Fire Safety Week, I’m thrilled to announce the release of our newest printable pack: Fire Safety Smart! With this pack of cut and paste fire safety printables, you can get the kids in on the fire safety planning for your home!

How to Use This Pack of Fire Safety Printables

Fire Safety Smart! is designed to help kids learn the layout of their homes and to help develop the best escape route from the house. With the pack, you and your kids can do a walkthrough of the home to identify all of the rooms. Then, you can decide which direction the entire family will go to meet at a safe place outside the home.

Since the pack includes cut and paste cards for common household rooms, you can use it to teach fire safety, practice scissor skills, and basic reading!

Fire Safety Smart! is now available in our store for instant download for just $1.99! Click the image below to visit our store and download your Fire Safety Smart! pack.

Fire Safety Printables: Look! We’re Learning! Store

For even more fire safety lesson ideas, visit Ready.gov’s page on fire safety or read the following books with your kids!

Books about Fire Safety for Kids:

The Berenstain Bears: Safe and Sound! – Jan & Mike Berenstain
Big Frank’s Fire Truck – Leslie McGuire
Stop Drop and Roll (A Book about Fire Safety) – Margery Cuyler
Arthur’s Fire Drill – Marc Brown

This post is part of the “Fire Safety for Kids” linkup! Visit our fellow bloggers for more great fire safety ideas for kids!

All Done Monkey – Make a Fire Safety Escape Plan

Creative World of Varya – Fire Safety Theme Park

Free Printable Flashcards: Spanish Days of the Week Flashcards

September 22, 2014 by Selena Robinson 7 Comments

We’re continuing with our Spanish learning with this pack of free printable flashcards for learning the Spanish days of the week! We’ve already covered days of the week in English, so it’s adelante a español (on to Spanish)!

I love teaching Spanish to my kids. It helps them to converse with others, learn more about another culture, and even broadens their understanding of English! (There are several English terms that are heavily influenced by words from Latin languages, including Spanish, French, and Italian.)

If you enjoy these Spanish days of the week flashcards, don’t miss our other Spanish learning resources, including our Spanish community helpers printable pack and our Spanish alphabet mega-pack!

Spanish Days of the Week Flashcards

To use these flashcards, you’ll need the following:

Printer (with ink)
Printer paper
Scissors
Laminator (if you want to reuse the cards later)

In the pack, you’ll find flashcards for each day in both English and Spanish:

Monday – lunes

Tuesday – martes

Wednesday – miércoles

Thursday – jueves

Friday – viernes

Saturday – sábado

Sunday – domingo

Don’t know how to say those words in Spanish? No worries! The flashcard set has a pronunciation guide too. 😉

Stop by Year Round Homeschooling to grab “¡Los Días de la Semana!¨Free Printable Flashcards: Spanish Days of the Week!

And don’t forget to grab our other free Spanish flashcards for learning opposite words and for learning Spanish food words!

Read “Learning the Days of the Week in Spanish” at Year Round Homeschooling

Want more awesome resources for teaching Spanish to your kids? Try these posts!

Plus, get more tips for teaching foreign languages to your kids on my Foreign Language for Homeschoolers Pinterest board!

Free Printable Flashcards Days of the Week

September 3, 2014 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

We’re back with yet another set of free printable flashcards for kids! In this edition, we’re focusing on learning the days of the week.

Our boys are working on calendar skills this school year, so we’ve been memorizing the days of the week and the months of year (in order) to help them keep up with the date every morning. I hope that you find our set Free Printable Flashcards Days of the Week Cards to be useful for your young learners as well!

What’s Included in Free Printable Flashcards Days of the Week?

This pack includes flashcards for all seven days of the week, along with their corresponding place in the calendar. The first set features both the name of each day and the calendar image, while the second set features the calendar image only.

Make a game out of the lesson by printing two copies and playing a game of “Go Fish”! If you’d like to add an art activity, print the cards in black and white and let the kids color them.

Scroll down to get your Days of the Week Flashcards!

Resources for Teaching Children the Days of the Week

Want to include even more resources in your calendar unit? Try these books and activities for teaching the days of the week to preschoolers! (Affiliate links are provided here for convenience. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

Books about the Days of the Week:

Days of the Week Activities:

More Free Printable Flashcards:

To download your copy of our Free Printable Flashcards: Days of the Week, click the image or the link below to download them!

>>>Free Days of the Week Flashcards<<<

Free Printable Flashcards: Colors

August 15, 2014 by Selena Robinson 2 Comments

We’re back with another set of free printable flashcards! Last week, we featured free shape flashcards and this week we’re on to colors with a set of free printable color flashcards!

Little hands just seem to like little objects. It’s only natural. 🙂 So these flashcards are a bit smaller than traditional cards, which makes them perfect for toddlers and preschoolers!

If you enjoy using these, don’t forget to check out our other preschool flashcards, including our Sign Language Alphabet cards and our Snowflake Counting Flashcards! And if you’re introducing your kids to Spanish, our Spanish Color Flashcards are perfecto!

What’s In the Free Printable Flashcards: Colors Pack?

To use these flashcards, you’ll need the following:

In the pack, you’ll find printable colors flashcards for the following colors:

Red
Blue
Yellow
Green
Purple
Orange
Black
White
Pink
Brown
Beige
and Gray

The first set includes both color swatches and words, so you can use them to teach the colors. The second set only features the color swatches, which makes them a good tool for a miniature pop quiz!

If your kids are anything like mine, your flashcards can start to look at bit “weathered” after a few lessons, so you might want to laminate them to make them more durable.

To get your set of Free Printable Flashcards: Colors, click the image or the link below to visit our Store!

Free Printable Colors Flashcards – Look! We’re Learning! Store

More Resources for Learning Colors

If you’d like even more resources for teaching colors to your toddler or preschooler, check out these great suggestions!

Color Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Books for Teaching Colors

Grab more awesome flashcards for little learners below!

And don’t forget to follow my Learning for Little Ones board on Pinterest for more ideas you can use for early childhood education!

Polar Bear What Do You Hear Printable Animal Notebooking Pages

June 25, 2014 by Selena Robinson 3 Comments

We love reading Eric Carle books! One of my kids’ absolute favorites is The Grouchy Ladybug. That’s been a huge hit in our family. (Secretly, I think they like the grouchiness.) But one of the other books we love is Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?

These wild animal notebooking pages are a simple way to introduce kids to these animals as you read the book! Read on to see how to get your copy absolutely free!

Don’t miss our other animal notebooking pages, including our free Polar Animals Notebooking Pages and our Sea Monsters Notebooking Pages!

Polar Bear What Do You Hear Printable Animal Notebooking Pages

We’re linking up with iHomeschool Network again today to offer a great set of printable animal notebooking pages! Today several of iHN’s bloggers are sharing activities for Eric Carle books, so we decided to focus on the book Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?.

Throughout the book, several kids get to act out the parts of wild animals such as polar bears, walruses, peacocks, and zebras, including making the correct animal sounds. To help our young kids work on identifying wild animals and learning about them, we put together a free set of wild animal notebooking pages called “Animals Gone Wild!”

To use this pack, you’ll need the following:

Printer (with ink)
Printer paper
Scissors
Laminator (if you want to laminate the flashcards)
Pencils

In this pack, you’ll find notebooking pages for eight animals, including:

Polar Bear
Walrus
Peacock
Zebra
Lion
Leopard
Hippopotamus
Elephant

Each notebooking page includes spaces for the average lifespan and weight of each animal, as well as their native habitats, diets, and species names. You’ll also find links where you can locate the information for each fact. Younger kids can get in on the action with animal flashcards, including a set of blank cards for them to practice naming each animal.

To download your free copy of “Animals Gone Wild”, click the image or the link below!

>>>>> Wild Animal Notebooking Pages <<<<<

If you love these printables, don’t miss these other posts!

And get even more awesome printables from my Homeschool Printables board on Pinterest!

This post is part of the “Homeschooling with Eric Carle” linkup from iHomeschool Network! Click on over to find out what activities our fellow bloggers are sharing today!

The Aristocats Unit Study

January 10, 2014 by Selena Robinson 6 Comments

Let’s face it: Kids will always love to watch TV. There’s nothing we can do about it. But we can turn TV into a way to learn and that’s why we put together a fun The Aristocats unit study! This is a neat way to weave learning into movie watching, especially if kids are obsessed with classic Disney movies (like mine are).

Since The Aristocats takes place in France, you can talk about geography. But you can also learn about pedigree cats, art, and much more! Read on to see what kinds of activities we did to go along with this children’s movie!

If you enjoy this lesson, try some of our other unit studies, including our Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs unit study!

The Aristocats Unit Study

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Naturally, we got started by watching The Aristocats. It was our first time seeing it, so we let the kids get comfy on the sofa.

That’s the life, isn’t it?

We watched it on Netflix, but if you don’t have Netflix, you can rent it from Amazon for just $2.99.

The kids loved it, but we wanted to make watching the movie into a learning experience. So we decided to spend some time learning about pedigree cats and the city of Paris!

We created a set of notebooking pages featuring several pedigree cat breeds, including the Siamese Cat, the Persian Cat, and the Japanese Bobtail Cat. If you want to use it with your kids, feel free to download our Pedigree Cats notebooking pages by clicking the image or link below!

>>>>> Pedigree Cats Notebooking Pages <<<<<

To do our research, we made liberal use of the Internet. About a month ago, we bought an HDMI cable for our television and now we do most of our online research in the living room using the TV. It’s much better than trying to crowd everyone around the computer screen.

As we looked up the basic information about our cat breeds, Tigger wrote down the vital statistics on the notebooking pages. By the way, all of the facts in the notebooking pages can be found on Wikipedia.

It must be pretty nice to have school in your robe.

After we finished our research into the world of pedigree cats, we decided to take a virtual tour of Paris. A lot of the iconic sights of Paris appear in The Aristocats, including the Eiffel Tower, the River Seine, and the Cathedral of Notre Dame.

We watched a playlist of Paris travel videos from Rick Steves to learn more about these and other sights of Paris.

After that, it was time to make our own pretend “Plaster of Paris”! We used a great recipe for foam dough. And the kids loved playing with it!

We all loved learning with the movie “The Aristocats”! We had a great time learning about cats, the city of Paris, and how to make foam dough!

Ready to try some other homeschool unit studies?

Plus, see more fun thematic units on my Unit Studies Pinterest board!

This post is part of the Movie and a Big Idea linkup from iHomeschool Network! Click over to read more fun movie-themed homeschool lessons you can use!

Free Snowflake Math Factors Printable Activity

December 19, 2013 by Selena Robinson 3 Comments

Hey everyone! We’re back from a short break this week with a free set of homeschool printables that are perfect for winter learning!

Tigger’s had her struggles with math over the years, so we’ve had to add a little fun to our math work to help her stay focused. This month, we decided to tackle multiplication factors with set of free snowflake math factor printables! Read on to see how to get your copy!

If you like these, don’t miss our ideas on how to use them for a fun snowflake math factor craft!

Free Snowflake Math Factor Printables

To use these printables, you’ll need the following: (Affiliate links are included in this post. For details, see our Disclosure Policy.)

We designed the activity so that the snowflake arms all show numbers that are factors of the larger number in the center. They work on a diagonal, so there are three numbers already given and the kids have to find the other number that makes a factor pair.

$Printing Snowflake Math Factor Printables - Look! We're Learning!$

Example: On the sheet above, the center number is 36, so all of the numbers on the snowflake are factors of 36. Kids will need to find the missing number in each factor pair: 18 x ? = 36; 9 x ? = 36; 3 x ? = 36, and so on.

$Working with Snowflake Math Factor Printables - Look! We're Learning!$

To give Tigger a helping hand, we walked her through the first one. We’ve covered multiplication with her in the past and found that the circles and dots method seems to work best for her.

$Working with Math Factor Printables on the Chalkboard - Look! We're Learning!$

We decided to let her try the next one on her own.

$Using the Blackboard with Snowflake Math Factor Printables - Look! We're Learning!$

She did great! She counted up the numbers and filled in the spots pretty easily.

$Completing the Snowflake Math Factor Printables - Look! We're Learning!$

We added some larger numbers in the pack as well to help kids test their multiplication facts, but a full answer key is provided at the back.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Unit Study

November 12, 2013 by Selena Robinson 2 Comments

Remember the first time you read the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Or the first time you saw the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? Those were basically life-changing experiences for me. So when it was time to introduce our kids to Charlie Bucket, Willy Wonka, Veruca Salt, and all the others, I wanted to make it memorable for them too.

And that’s why we put together this Charlie and the Chocolate Factory unit study! There are crafts, printables, and activities here that relate to both the story and the movie. If you love this one, don’t miss our other homeschool unit studies, including our Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs unit!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Unit Study

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We began by reading the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. We split the reading up into three chapters per school day and both Jay and I took turns reading it aloud. The kids were fascinated with it right from the beginning. Probably because of all the talk about candy. 🙂

Tigger looked up some of the unusual vocabulary words along the way and she completed a character map all about Charlie – what kind of personality he had, his family’s living situation, and the way he looked. Charlie is probably one of the most sympathetic characters in all of children’s literature. You really root for him through the whole book.

These free chocolate notebooking pages are a fun way to help kids keep track of their vocabulary words through the book! To get your copy, just click the image or the link below.

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Once we finished the book, we did a Willy Wonka toilet paper roll craft using a circusmaster toilet roll craft from DLTK Crafts.

We just printed out three copies – one for each child.

Then we cut out the pieces and slowly began assembling them. I liked this project because there weren’t a lot of pieces and the kids only had to glue a few of them together.

We also found out that liquid glue is much better for this than glue sticks. Just so you know.

Three Wonkas!

We decided to finish the unit by watching the original movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Of course, we couldn’t enter the factory without finding a golden ticket in a Wonka bar.

The problem is that we couldn’t find any Wonka bars for sale. (I remember seeing them when I was younger, but I guess they stopped making them.) Amazon.com to the rescue!

We bought a super cute Willy Wonka Chocolate Bar wrapper with a copy of the Golden Ticket and used a regular 4.3 ounce chocolate bar as the candy.

The golden ticket actually uses the exact wording from the story. Awww…

We wrapped the chocolate bar and placed the golden ticket inside. Then we opened it as a family and shared the chocolate. The kids don’t eat a lot of candy, so that was a real treat for them.

Time to watch the movie! We rented it through Amazon Instant Video. Took about 30 seconds.

I literally get nostalgic whenever I see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I watched it along with my third grade class and it just instantly transports me back to my childhood when imagination was truly the most important thing I had.

We had so much fun with this Charlie and the Chocolate Factory unit study! Why not give it a try with your kids?

And be sure to try some of these super Charlie and the Chocolate Factory activities to round out your unit!

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Free College Basketball Worksheets for Kids

March 18, 2013 by Selena Robinson 10 Comments

Something interesting happens to my husband and I around mid-March. We go just a little bit crazy. But what would the NCAA college basketball tournament be if we didn’t go a little mad about it? I mean, we’re talking about almost three straight weeks of college basketball with over 60 teams from all the conferences!

This year, we’re going to get the kids involved by adding a few educational activities. And I’m sharingthese free college basketball worksheets for kids with you!

$College Basketball Math Printable for Kids$

Read on to see how to get your set free! And for more fun with hoops, check out our free basketball skip counting flashcards and our easy coffee filter basketball craft too!

Free College Basketball Worksheets for Kids

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This pack includes three different worksheets.

There’s no specified grade level for these, but they would work best for elementary-aged students.

A history of basketball worksheet features questions about the first college basketball tournament. (The kids can find the answers here.)

Use the college basketball geography worksheet to help kids learn about the cities where the tournament regional finals will be held this year. (Find the list of region locations here.)

Plus, there’s a college basketball math worksheet that helps kids practice skip-counting in reverse from 68 down to 2 – just like the tournament! (Our basketball skip counting flashcards would be helpful here.)

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