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Free Printable Flashcards: Colors

August 15, 2014 by Selena Robinson 4 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!

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!

Free Printable Flashcards: Colors - Look! We're Learning!

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

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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.

Printable Color Flashcards - Look! We're Learning!

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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!

Help early learners practice recognizing shapes with these printable shape identification flashcards!

Help early learners to recognize letters and letter sounds with these Alphabet Animal Flashcards!

Use printable Spanish flashcards such as these printable Spanish color flashcards to learn basic words and phrases in espanol!

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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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

>>>>> Chocolate Notebooking Pages <<<<<

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!

Don’t miss these other fun unit studies for children!

Plus, see more awesome unit studies for homeschoolers 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 great movie-themed learning ideas for kids!

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!

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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