Shakespeare Freebies for Homeschool

The Classic State Company has informative Downloadable Study Guides for several of Shakespeare's plays.

Experiencing Shakespeare is a video from PBS that details documents relating to Shakespeare, shows actors rehearsing for a Shakespeare performance and explores the Folger Shakespeare Library.

The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse has Study Guides for Major Shakespeare Plays.  They also have a have a Homeschool Shakespeare Camp once a year that your budding actor could attend if you live near Atlanta, Georgia.

Do you have what it takes to be a famous playwright like Shakespeare?  Find out in this game from PBS called In Search of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare Fact Sheets are available from Shakespeare's Globe.  These fact sheets cover Shakespeare, London and all aspects of theater and acting. Shakespeare's Globe also has Fun Games for older elementary and up.

Shakespeare for younger students?  Activity Village has Shakespeare Printables for K-8.

Enjoy,

Home Teacher Helps

Summer Olympic Resources--FREE!

Sparklebox has Olympic Teaching Resources for all ages.  Most the of resources are for learning and display in your homeschool or classroom.

SheKnows has Summer Olympics Worksheets for keeping track of medal counts as well as athlete and country information sheets.  These can be used for most ages.

Get two Olympics Lap Books from Homeschool Share.  One is a generic Olympic unit and the other is specifically for the Summer Olympics.  These lapbooks are for elementary age students.

Twinkl Printable Resources has Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Sports Poster Printables on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Take a look at the Summer Olympics Worksheets from School Family. These learning worksheets cover math and literacy and are great for elementary.

Science of the Summer Olympics video series from NBC Learn is great for middle or high school students.  These videos study the science and math involved in the Olympic Games.

And finally, check out these Olympic Printables from Activity Village for elementary age.  Tons of printable activities for the Olympics!

Middle School Homeschool Resources

Check out my 7th and 8th Grade Homeschool Pinterest Boards!

Time Management Quotes for Homeschool Families

"He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan caries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life."--Victor Hugo

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst."--William Penn

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing."--Thomas Jefferson

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."--Benjamin Franklin

"It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants.  The question is, what are we busy about?" -Henry David Thoreau

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come.  We have only today. Let us begin."--Mother Theresa

"You may delay, but time will not."--Benjamin Franklin

Thank you,
Home Teacher Helps

Free Cooking and Nutrition Printables for Elementary Kids Roundup

Recipe and Cooking Printables:

Get the Summer Kitchen Camp Printable Bundle from The Taylor House. It has kitchen safety tips, a measurement conversion chart and more to help you start your cooking unit.

Taste of Home has a Kids Coloring Cookbook that is pretty cool.  Each page has a recipe and pictures to color.  There are several recipes to choose from.

Here are Several Free Cooking Downloads from Kids Cook Monday.  Included are Family Dinner Date printable recipe sheets, Family Dinner Conversation Cards and more.

Kids Recipe Book  from Thirty Handmade Days has category pages and and recipes with cute pictures to use.

Sparklebox has Blank Recipe Pages for kids to write in their own recipes.  It has spaces for title, ingredients equipment, description and instructions.

Nutrition Printables:

Relentlessly Fun and Deceptively Simple has a Healthy Choices Book.  It includes facts about sodium, fiber and sugar as well as activities.

Living Life and Learning offers a Healthy Food for Kids printable that has a food group sort and daily checklist to make sure kids are getting all the nutrients they need.

The United States Department of Agriculture has Several Nutrition Downloads packed full of activities and recipes to help your child learn about nutrition and healthy eating.

Thanks,
Home Teacher Helps

Math Vocabulary Printable Helps

Print out these free math vocabulary word walls and cards. Word walls are great to hang around your classroom or homeschool room. Or you can print them out and put in a 3 ring binder for math vocab reinforcement.

• Math Vocabulary Cards for grades 1st-6th from Penny Williams.

• 2D Shape Word Cards from Twinkl Printable Resources on Teachers Pay Teachers.  There is also a 3D Shape Word Cards version.  These are for grades Kindergarten-2nd.
• Perimeter, Area and Volume Word Wall Cards from Bayside Math Teacher on Teachers Pay Teachers. Grades 3rd-8th.
• Mathmatics Vocabulary Word Wall Cards from the Virginia Department of Education. Kindgarten-8th, as well as Algebra, Algebra 2, Data Analysis and Geometry.
• Common Core Vocab Cards  from North Central ESD.  Grades Kindergarten-12th.

Here are two links to free blank math vocabulary resources for your students to fill in with the math vocabulary they are learning.

• Blank Math Vocab Notebook to use for writing definitions and examples of math vocab.

• Math Vocabulary Sheet from love2learn2day.  The sheet has spaces for vocabulary word, definition, example and non-example.

Both of the above vocabulary printables can be used with all grades.

Thanks for looking,

Home Teacher Helps

Having Kids Teach to Learn

      I have been teaching in some capacity in the school system for twenty years and homeschooled my own children for several summers and a few full time years.  One technique I found to be one of the most effective for leaning was having a student teach another student a concept.

     This idea worked for one on one and small groups the best. Standing in front of a whole class explaining something is way more intimidating to most students than presenting in smaller groups. One of the reasons this worked is it seemed to engage your mind more to teach another person a concept than it does to learn it yourself.  This is not scientific, just an observation from many years in education and teaching my own kids. I understand a subject better after I have taught it because I have had to learn it myself and when I taught it the concepts were re-enforced in my mind. (Bonus: Teaching is great for winning at trivia games because you learn so much about different subjects.)

     In a homeschool setting an older sibling could teach a younger one or a middle or high school student could present a lesson to a small homeschool group.  I would only use this technique once or twice a week so the novelty doesn't wear off and become a chore. This technique helps children learn, but it also makes the student that is "teaching" the subject feel somewhat like an expert who is sharing his or her knowledge. This helps the student feel positive about themselves.  And we all like to feel good about ourselves!

Thanks for reading,

Home Teacher Helps

Periodic Table Resources for Homeschool Chemistry

Science is one of our fave subjects in this house.  We were super excited about our 8th grade chemistry unit.  Here are some of the best periodic table printables and resources.

Printable Wall Size Periodic Table  from Stark Science.  This could be used in a bedroom for a science loving teen or in a homeschool room or classroom.

Elements.wlonk.com has Elements in Pictures or Words  to print.  They also have an Interactive Periodic Table  for research.

Check out this Interactive Periodic Table with Videos from Discovery Education. Has videos about the element groups also.

A video about every element of the periodic table is available from TED-Ed.

Search for The Elements is a 3 part video series about the history of the elements of the periodic table. There is also a Teacher's Guide available to go with the videos.

The American Chemical Society has middle school chemistry lessons on The Periodic Table for printing.

Watch the Elements Video from They Might Be Giants.  The song is very catchy and even high schoolers would enjoy it.

Print this Periodic Table Worksheet Set from Five J's.

STEM Sheets has Periodic Table Flash Cards to customize and print.  You can choose different sizes, colors and borders.

Art Interactives for Unit Studies or Fun!

National Gallery of Art Kid Zone is full of interactives for creating online art. These interactives are great for getting your creative juices going.

An out of the world visitor helps you learn about modern art at The Museum of Modern Art website.

The Time Machine from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art lets you pick a time period or theme and transports you back to check out the art of that era.

The Tate Museum in the United Kingdom has a Great Games Section for older kids.  Cuboom, Imaginary City, and Art Detective are some of the games on this fun site.

Crayola Kids Playzone has over ten art games for younger children.  These games are mostly for fun!

Perseverance Quotes for Homeschool Families

"It's not that I am so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."--Albert Einstein

"We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough."--Helen Keller

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."--Thomas Edison

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."--Babe Ruth


"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."--Charles Spurgeon

"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs."--Victor Hugo


"Success is no accident.  It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."--Pele

Free Field Trip Printables

Free Field Trip Notebook from the Notebooking Nook on Teachers Pay Teachers. This freebie has 17 pages. K-3.

First Grade Schoolhouse has three Zoo Field Trip Printables. These writing and drawing freebies are great for zoo field trip reflections. K-3.

The Traveling Praters have an awesome Field Trip Notebook Pack.  The notebook pack is great for any field trip and can be used with K-8.

Free Zoo Animal Field Trip Reports from 123 Homeschool 4 Me.  There are three reports for different age levels.

Our Cozy Den has How We Go to the Zoo Printable field trip reflection.  The printable is for various grades.

We Are Teachers offers a Field Trip Report Printable.  Two are available, one each for lower and upper grades.

Field Trip Guides  are free from Smithsonian Education.  Included are a museum observation sheet and a zoo observation sheet.  Both for upper elementary.

Thanks for looking!

Home Teacher Helps

Garden Science Printables for Homeschool

Soil-Net.com has a huge Printable Soil Packet for late elementary or middle school. 120 pages of garden science!

Free Garden Curriculum from the University of Georgia Extension Office.  These K-8 printable resources focus on the science of gardening.

Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden offers Downloadable Teaching Modules about plant science and math. These would be suitable for late elementary and middle school ages.

Teaching little kids about seeds?  Spell Out Loud has a Free Seed Journal for toddlers/preschool.

Growing Vegetable Soup printable unit from Homeschool Share.  This unit is best for preschool or kindergarten.

Sailing Through First Grade has a Plant Vocabulary Pack to download.  This elementary printable can be used for supplementing a garden unit.

Character and ELA Printables

Free character traits, main idea and text feature resources to print from Teaching Made Practical for upper elementary grades for your homeschool ELA lessons. 

Free Printables for National Poetry Month

Start your summer off right with an outdoor themed Poetry Campfire Freebie  from DeeDee Willis on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Simply Vicki celebrates National Poetry Month with an Acrostic Poetry printable.

The Teacher's Corner has Poetry Planner Pages for several poetry forms.

Free Poetry Printables for National Poetry Month from Shel Silverstein.

Learn more about poetry with these free Poetry Worksheets from K12 Reader.

Free Printables for Elementary Science

Free My STEM Notebook from Home Grown Hearts Acadamy with reference sheets, glossary and design process printables.

Preschool Powol Packets has a free DIY Science Kit with printable science project cards.

STEM Engineering Starter Kit for Teachers is free from Ivy Taul on Teachers Pay Teachers.

STEM Mom has lessons, labs and activities to print covering Biology, Earth Science, Physical Science and Engineering.

Free Geology Montessori cards from The Pinay Homeschooler.

Homeschool share has a Botany lapbook with topics such as Types of Leaves, Parts of a Plant Cell and more.

5 Free Resources for Middle School Math for Homeschool

Math Snacks has great free videos and games for Coordinate Graphing, Unit Rates, Scale and more!

Check out StudyJams from Scholastic. They have short educational videos on Algebra, Data Analysis, Probability as well as other math subjects.

PBS Math Club is a great resource for math videos on Integers, Distributive Property and Ratios.

Tons of free math interactives are available at Interactive Sites for Education.

Illuminations from the National Council of Math Teachers has a variety of math learning interactives.

Free Household and Homeschool Planning Pages

The Homeschool Mom has homeschool and household printable planning pages with unit study planner, reading log, weekly assignment pages and more.  Check it out!

Elementary Book Units Free Printables

Free printable elementary book units from Book Unit Teacher to use for literature studies. Over 40 available such as Tuck Everlasting, The Whipping Boy and James and the Giant Peach.

Free Author Mini Project Pack

Visit Homeschool in the Woods for a FREE  classics Author Mini Project Pack for Middle School.  88 pages of author study printables for free!

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