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We have organized our pages to help you find what you are looking for. And don't hesitate to contact us through the "Contact Us" button at the top and bottom of this page.- Kaleidos Language Arts Curriculum - the skill building curriculum built on creative writing and a love for classic literature
- Kaleidos 3 for Third grade
- Kaleidos 4 for Fourth grade
- Kaleidos 5 for Fifth grade
- Kaleidos 6 for Sixth grade
- Kaleidos 7 for Seventh grade
- Kaleidos 8 for Eighth grade
- List of Books in Kaleidos
Language Arts Curriculum
Writing
- MORE INFORMATION on Write On
- Three Tricks to Write On's Success
- Reviews & Testimonies about Write On
- WRITING GUIDELINES for Different Ages
- More information on the WRITING PROCESS
- More ideas for WRITING PROMPTS
- Ideas on creating a final WRITTEN PRESENTATION.
- Information on the SIX TRAITS OF WRITING
- Writing for highschool and college
- Check out our writing contest.
- List of our elementary writing rubrics
- Essay rubrics for middle school and high school
- Creating a writing rubric
- Print all of our writing rubrics from one page.
- Expository Writing: the 5 W's
- Persuasive Writing: Organizing Advantages
- Character Sketch
- Writing Historical Dialogues
- Introductions and Conclusions
Grammar
- ORDER page for the Big Bad Grammar Slammer
- An English grammar tutorial listing all 37 lessons.
- Review the 8 parts of speech - the writers tools.
- Diagramming sentences
Spelling
- FREE DOWNLOAD of the Instructor's Guide
or to ORDER Syllable Savvy Spelling e-books - Information on the THREE COLUMN METHOD
- Directions on HOW TO TEACH Syllable Savvy Spelling
- Lists the THEMES grade by grade
- Samples of 3rd Grade Spelling Lists
- Samples of 4th Grade Spelling Lists
- Samples of 5th Grade Spelling Lists
- Samples of 6th Grade Spelling Lists
- Samples of 7th Grade Spelling Lists
- Samples of 8th Grade Spelling Lists
Literature Unit Studies
- Jungle Book
- Calico Bush
- Little Women
- Twenty and Ten
- Aesop's Scripts
- Wizard of Oz
- Benjamin West & His Cat Grimalkin Unit Study Guide
- Golden Goblet Unit Study
- Joan of Arc Unit Study
- Roll Of Thunder Unit Study
- Blue Willow Unit Study
- Call of the Wild Unit Study
- Trumpeter of Krakow Unit Study
- Paul Revere Unit Study
- Rifles For Watie Unit Study
- Oliver Twist Unit Study
- In Freedom's Cause Unit Study
- Christmas Carol Our 84 page unit study of Dicken's classic
- Chapter by chapter summary and lesson plans
- < href="christmas-carol-quotes.html">Best Christmas Carol Quotes
- History, facts, and interesting information about A Christmas Carol
- Christmas Carol vocabulary lists
Literature Suggestions: Finding the Best Books For Your Students
- Historical Fiction Books by Era
- Ancient Literature
- Medieval Literature
- Jamestown Settlement Literature
- Thanksgiving History
- The American Revolution
- 18th Century Literature
- 19th Century Literature
- Civil War Era Literature
- Early 20th Century Literature
- Depression Era Literature
- World War II Literature
- Ancient Literature
- Classic Book Club
- Stories of Other Cultures and People
- Easy Reading Books for Beginning Readers
- Themes in Children's Literature
- Stories for your preteens
- Classic Authors & Their Books
- Charles Dickens - Read one a year from middle school up
- Shakespeare for Kids - try one unit study each summer
- Jane Austen - romance and social satire
- Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
- Favorite Series - When you love a series there is always one more book you want to get.
Our Literature Books
- In the Shadow of the Pines
- Historical Fiction-In the Shadow of the Pines
- Bobbitt Cemetery Setting of "In The Shadow of the Pines"
- Alfred F. Bobbitt Memorial - Main Character of "In The Shadow of the Pines"
- All The Cities of Gold - From Massachusets to Kansas, A Teens Search for Her Family
Literature Helps
- LITERATURE Main Page
- LITERATURE UNIT STUDIES will make the great tales come alive.
- CHOOSING LITERATURE for your student
- Shakespeare Unit Study
- HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL literature.
- ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE for different ages.
- Ideas on writing BOOK REPORTS
- Depression era literature about sharecroppers in Texas
- All The Cities of Gold: a true story from the 1940's
- Creation literature from the time after the flood
- Objectives for teaching the Elements of Literature at each grade
- Action Plot Organizer - Download our free graphic organizer to track action plots of the books you are reading.
Early Reading
- EARLY READING Main Page
- Reading Confidence Cards: They will do what they say.
- Kindergarten Sight Words & Phonic Families
- First Grade Sight Words and Phonic Families
- Second Grade Sight Words and Phonic Families
- Phonics vs Sight Words: The Debate
- Balanced Literacy: A Balanced Critique
- Fun Reading Activities for Early Readers
- Activities and Games to Reinforce Phonics
- More ideas for games to teach reading
- Erudition: The Sight Word Game
- Preschool Handwriting Practice
Penmanship Pages
- Overview of The Better Letter Primer HANDWRITING Program.
- All Four Steps of the BETTER LETTER PRIMER
- All of the handwriting downloads on one page.
- Writing Direction and blank handwriting practice sheets.
- Handwriting Worksheets for the 8 Letter groups
- Number Formation Handwriting Worksheets
- Handwriting Practice Pages to Review All Letters/Numbers
- Handwriting Practice Coaching
- Kindergarten Handwriting
- Preschool Handwriting
- Compare Pencil Grips
MatchCard Science Unit Studies
- MATCHCARD SCIENCE Main Page
- Light & Energy Unit Study
- Weather Unit Study
- Force and Motion Unit Study
- Geology Unit Study
- Oceanography Unit Study
- Human Anatomy Unit Study
- Chemistry Unit Study
- Astronomy Unit Study
- Botany Unit Study
- Zoology Unit Study
- Nutrition, Health, and Safety Unit Study
- Technology
Science Projects & Experiments
- Cool SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS: Individual experiments from MatchCard Science
Light and Energy Experiments & Projects:
- Translucent, transparent, and obaque objects
- Refraction, Reflection, and Absorption of Light Waves
- Magnetic Poles
- Compare frequency and amplitude of sound waves
- Celsius to Fahrenheit
- Freezing, Melting, Evaporation and Condensation
- Convection, Conduction, Radiation: Transfer of Heat
- Diagram and build an electrical circuit
- Test materials to see if they are conductors or insulators
- Explore static electricity
- Compare amps, volts, and watts
- Compare the two forms of nuclear energy: fusion and fission.
- Arrange the colors on the light spectrum.
- Experiment with a triangular prism
- Contrast the different electromagnetic waves
- Compare actual and potential kinetic energy.
- Conservation of energy
Weather Experiments & Projects:
- Different weather in the 2 Hemispheres
- 5 types of precipitation<
- Precipitation Experiments
- Explore the Water Cycle
- Identify wind strength with the Beaufort Scale
- Use weather instruments to measure weather conditions
- Compare a hurricane and tornado
- How to use a pet tornado
- Identify cloud types
- Atmospheric Pressure and Temperature
Force & Motion Experiments & Projects:
- Six Simple Machines
- Compare mass and weight
- Demonstrate effects of friction and inertia
- Analyze the effects of gravity
- Compare speed, velocity, momentum, and acceleration
- Explore Newton's Three Laws of Motion
- Compare Newtons, Joules, and Watts
Geology Experiments & Projects:
- Compare Rocks and Minerals
- Learn the Layers of the Earth
- Investigate the 4 types of Weathering.
- Learn the 3 types of rocks and the rock cycle.
- Use the Mohs Hardness Test to identify rocks and minerals.
- Mineral identification lab to test the physical properties of minerals.
- Identify the five types of mountains.
- Erupt a volcano and learn its parts.
- Demonstrate the three types of waves in an earthquake.
Ocean Experiments & Projects:
- Find the six major oceans.
- Investigate the three major types of ocean creatures.
- Explore the ocean floor.
- Trace the route water takes from mountain springs to the oean.
- Learn the parts of seaweed.
- Learn the three ocean zones.
- Compare different types of algae with plants.
Human Anatomy Experiments & Projects:
- From Cells to Systems - Identify how the body parts work together.
- Trace the route of food through the digestive system.
- Build a tooth model and observe tooth decay.
- Listen different parts of the respiratory system.
- Trace the route of blood through your heart, lungs, and body.
- Identify the major bones of the human skeleton.
- Identify four types of joints and two muscles of the human anatomy.
- Find what human organs are part of the renal system.
- Learn about the nervous system.
- Learn the parts of the human eye.
- Identify and use the parts of the human ear.
- You're covered in it! Get a feel for what skin can do for you.
- Match the hormones to their endocrine glands.
Chemistry Experiments & Projects:
- Build a model of an atom.
- Make a hydrogen and helium model
- Play a game with carbon, nitrogen, oxygen models
- Learn electron configuration with paper plates
- Construct molecules with the molecule worksheets
- Build water molecules (and eat them)
- Hunt for molecules and compounds and make a mixture
- Make a fried egg sandwhich and compare chemical and physical changes
- Compare properties of solids, liquids, and gas
- Use the density formula to compare different objects
- A sizzlin' way to learn the conservation of mass.
- Make your litmus paper for acids and bases.
- Find metals and non-metals on a periodic chart.
Astronomy Projects:
- Demonstrate the rotation and revolution of the Earth.
- Demonstrate the size and distance of planets in the solar system.
- What is a planet? AND should Pluto be allowed back in?
- Chart the moon cycle and demonstrate the cause of the moon's changing shape.
- Demonstrate two types of lunar eclipses
- Demonstrate two types of solar eclipses
- Find the sun's composition and what it emits
- Find the North Star and its two constellations
- Identify five northern constellations visible all year round.
- Distinguish meteors, asteroids, and comets (and eat them).
- Explore galaxies, clusters, and superclusters - at the speed of light!
- Make your own sky chart and sextant
Botaony Experiments & Projects:
- Build a mini-ecosystem in your own home.
- Ecology lesson - five factors that change the environment.
- Tear apart flowers to learn their parts.
- Who or what causes the flowers to be pollinated?
- What part of the plant cell makes your veggies so crunch?
- Watch plants bubble and see how fast you can solve the photosynthesis formula.
- Plant nutrition and transport
- Sexual reproduction in plants
- 5 types of asexual reproduction in plants
- Carbon cycle in plants and animals
- Nitrogen cycle in nature
Zoology Experiments & Projects:
- Identify the parts of an insect.
- Watch a butterfly emerge from a cocoon.
- Compare the size and shape of five different types of fish fins.
- Compare the skin of reptiles and amphibians.
- List six unique characteristics of mammals.
- Distinguish primary and secondary consumers in the food chain.
- Compare the teeth of herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.
- Trace the scientific classification of dogs from kingdom to species.
- Describe five kingdoms on the biology tree of life.
- Compare nine different animal phyla.
- Check out the skeletons of 7 classes of vertebrates.
- Identify the major functions of an animal cell and match them to the cell diagram.
- Use the cell worksheet to find three methods of cellular movement - and what's living under your fingernails.
- Make a flipbook of the stages of mitosis.
Nutrition, Health, and Safety Experiments and Projects
- Learn the foods in the food groups.
- Crunch up some carbohydrates.
- Compare protein, fats, and carbs.
- Check for Vitamin C in foods. Find out what Vitamin E does. Learn about 6 important vitamins.
- Learn about the minerals calcium, iron, potassium.
- Compare benefits of exercise and relaxation.
- Quick: how safe is your home? See if you and your kids can pass the home safety quiz.
- Practice using a fire extinguisher and learn the 3 classes of fires.
- Identify the risks of smoking, alcohol, and drugs and how they impact lives.
- Evaluate risks of sexual behavior outside of a monogamous relationship.
- List strategies to avoid being in an abusive relationship.
Technology Experiments & Projects:
- Build models of four different types of bridges.
- Kids can use Bernoulli's Principle to discover how aerodynamics keeps a plane up in the air.
- Find the input, output and signal processing unit of electronic equipment.
- Build a circuit board and learn the function of the major devices on it.
- Play games converting from binary to decimal numbers.
- Investigate what browsers do. Compare input and outputs of different devices. Contrast ROM & RAM.
- Discover what a laser really is. Compare laser light with flash lights.
- Make a robotic hand. Discover the principles of robotics. List the 3 laws of the ethics of robotics.
- Learn the four strokes of an internal combustion engine in this lesson. Watch the combustion of flour.
Science Lapbooks
- Chemistry Lapbook - They can show off their sizzling chemistry study
- Ocean Lapbook - Keep 'em hooked on learning about the sea
- Technology Lapbook - For the techie AND non-technie students
Science Worksheets
- Weather Worksheets
- Human Body Worksheets
- Botany Worksheets
- Geology Worksheets
- Oceanography Worksheets
- Force and Motion Worksheets
- Chemistry Worksheets
- Energy Worksheets
- Zoology Worksheets
- Astronomy Worksheets
- Nutrition Worksheets
- Technology Worksheets
Bible
Art
- Drawing Textbook by McIntyre makes experts from beginners
- Ideas on how to use art appreciation cards.
- Spot the Differences in the Art Masterpiece Mysteries Series
- Daily art time with your toddlers.
- Decorating Your Christmas Tree With Kids
- Homemade Christmas Ornaments
- Zentangle Christmas Ornaments
Geography
Homeschooling Helps
- Getting started with homeschooling
- Consider legal issues and homeschool laws for your state
- Homeschooled Child's Bill of Rights explains the legal and academic value of an individualized homeschool program.
- How to choose curriculum for your family
- Homeschool Curriculum Suppliers
- Compare unit studies and textbook based curriculums
- Compare the models of different homeschool unit studies.
- The LEARNING TREE - A model for developing your own UNIT STUDIES
- How to write EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES and goals
- Tips on getting organized and staying organized
- Tips for Planning Together with the kids
- How to set up a homeschool schedule
- Ideas to schedule your daily homeschool activities
- 9 reasons to homeschool all year round
- Homeschool materials for enrichment subjects
- Enjoy your local homeschool convention with these tips
- Cooking and kitchen tips from the Homeschool Chef
- TOT SPOT - Activities for the youngest
- Activities to celebrate St. Patrick's Day
- Celebrate National Pi Day on March 14.
- What is bullying? Compare rejection, ostracization, and bullying.
- Why Is MY child shunned? Reasons some children are singled out.
- Teach your child how to deal with a bully.
- Teach your child how to deal with ostracization and emotional bullies.
- When and how to report bullying to authorities.
- Should you homeschool if your child has been bullied.
- Healing After Bullying: Helping Your Child Rebuild Confidence
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