History Of The Dairy Industry, and Where Does Milk Come From

Click the images to make them bigger, and printable. These came from our Social Studies workbook. They are for two different days, but we do them in one day. You will need to use the internet, for research. We are also still doing Pilgrims, and colonial days, and we got this weeks lesson from Instructor Web. It is 30 dollars for a year subscription, with total access, to all their lessons. This is my first time using them, and I like it very much. If you homeschool, you know how extremely expensive curriculums, and books can be. You do not need to spend a fortune, though. Down at the bottom of this blog, are links I have accumulated through two, and a half years of homeschooling. Most are free, or very inexpensive, plus other resources homeschoolers will love. I will be adding more, as I continue to clean out my favorites, and add them here to this blog. I can not believe how much info I have accumulated over the years. Be sure to check them out, none of them are affiliate links, just me sharing info I have found, through many hours of searching. I have used most of them myself, or intend to use them in the future, that is why I saved them. By the way if you go back in my archives, to last year at this time, there is a cool set of videos on The First People, we will be using it again this year.


Lesson Plans For 10/29/09:

DJ:
Health: The fat group
Math: Multiply by 10's, division, add 4 digit numbers
Language Arts: Sentence structure, prefixes, verbs
Spelling/Vocab: Write each word two times each
Cursive Writing
Reading Comprehension: History of candy corn, with ws. I will post this tomorrow.

Caitlin:
Health: Body part identification, sense of hearing
Math: Food count, animal count
Letter sound recognition worksheet
Printing practice
Reading: HOP Ann's Hat
Site words
Sequencing: Worksheet

Both my kids have decided they no longer want to learn Spanish, but would love to learn sign language. So I will be changing that part of the curriculum, and if anyone knows of free sites that teach sign language, drop me a note.

Melting Ice Science Experiment

Since I couldn't find a cool video on the milk industry, I am posting this cool, and easy science experiment on melting ice. If you click the images, you can make them larger, and easier to read. Tomorrow I have a couple more fun things to share with you, on the milk industry, and pilgrim craft.






Lesson Plans For 10/28/09:

DJ:
Social Studies: History of the milk industry, coming to America a Pilgrim story
Math: Subtraction, multiplication, multiplication facts
Language Arts: Nouns, subject of a sentence, prefixes
Spelling/Vocab: Use each vocabulary word in a sentence
Cursive Writing
Reading Comprehension with worksheet

Caitlin:
Social Studies: History of the milk industry, Pilgrim craft
Math: Food count, Pioneer counting at pioneer village
Letter sound recognition: Worksheet
Printing Practice
Reading: HOP Ann's Hat
Site words
Alphabet book: Letter Z

Chinese New Year, Place Value

Tomorrow for history class we are doing Betsy Ross, and Chinese New Year. Watch the cute story below explaining Chinese New Year. I found the Betsy Ross lesson plan, at Instructor Web, which I just signed up for yesterday. Next week, we will be making American Flags, to complete the Betsy Ross lesson. Do your kids understand place value? If not I have added a useful video that helps explain it.


Lesson Plans For 10/14/09:

Caitlin:
Alphabet Book: Letter T
Social Studies: Betsy Ross, Chinese New Year
Math: Adding food
Putting things in order worksheet
Reading: HOP Tag
Site words
Printing Practice

DJ:
Social Studies: Chinese New Year, Betsy Ross
Language Arts: Prefixes, homographs, quotation marks
Spelling/Vocab: Use each vocabulary word in a sentence
Math: Multiplication, rounding numbers, subtraction
Cursive Writing
Reading Comprehension: Worksheet

Colonial Life, Christopher Columbus

Tomorrow is Social Studies, here at Melissas Homeschool, and because Monday is Columbus Day, we are including an extra worksheet for that. It is a short reading comprehension, with questions, and you can find it here. We are also starting a whole series on Pilgrims, and colonial life, and how it differed from today. Below is a short video from the Sandy Spring Museum, where kids can learn about colonial life. DJ will be doing a writing assignment soon, on the differences between then, and now. You could also have your kids do drawings comparing clothes, food, transportation, and housing.

Lesson Plans For 10/07/09:

Caitlin:
Math: Numbers
Matching: Worksheet
Alphabet Book: Letter Q
Reading: HOP Pig Wig Can Hit, Caitlin will be completing it this week, she was stuck on one word
Site Words
Printing Practice
Social Studies: Colonial life, New Years

DJ:
Handwriting Practice
Social Studies: Colonial life, New Years, Columbus
Spelling/Vocab: Use each word in a sentence
Math: Division, place value, rounding numbers, adding
Language Arts: Prefixes, homophones, commas
Reading Comprehension: Worksheet

No More Entrecard, The Great Lakes Lighthouses

First I must start with my frustration with Entrecard. I do not know what they are doing over there anymore, but they certainly do not enforce their own rules for standards of blogs. This is the second week I have gotten a virus from an Entrecard blog. There are blogs full of redirects, automatic downloads, freeze frames, pop ups, etc, and quite frankly I am not going to use them anymore until they fix it, or clean up their membership. If you are a member of my blogging for fun group, I will obviously continue to visit, and comment on those blogs. If you would like to join our Blogging For Fun group, and get visitors, and comments, click on the green join box, on the side of this blog. I will have to go back to traffic exchanges, and other methods, for traffic, at least for now.

Tomorrow for Social Studies, we are doing how lakes form. I could not find a cool video, for the subject, but I did find a cool video showing lighthouses of the Great Lakes. I love lighthouses, and I love the Great Lakes. Be sure to check it out. By the way my lesson plan for how lakes form, came from Lesson Snips.

Lesson Plans For 09/23/09:

Caitlin:
Printing practice
Reading: HOP Pig Wig
Alphabet Book: Letter I
Adding and subtracting acorns
Writing numbers 1-5
Site words
Same and different: worksheet


DJ:
Social Studies: How lakes form, Geography
Spelling/Vocab: Use each word in a sentence
Language Arts: Capitalization, no prefixes, homonyms
Reading Comprehension: Worksheet
Math: Subtracting checking your work, compare and order greater numbers, division
Cursive handwriting