Archive for the 'Everything Else' Category

Personalized Chore Chart

Get your very own personalized chore chart for your child. It’s free! I am making a new printable pack – a fun apple dumpling kids theme and I am offering a free personalized chore chart to all who post their child’s name below and shares something you do to help your kids do chores.
So share [...]

Back to School Fun

Back to School FUN!!
I kind of took a break this summer from the computer. My laptop crashed and I knocked my external harddrive off of my desk (can you say backup?) all with the same month. I totally lost a good bit of things including several of the printable packs I made. I have slowly [...]

Sidewalk Chalk – My Favorite Learning Tool

When the weather is nice, the kids (and Mom) are itching to get outside and play.  I personally like the playing to learn approach. Did you know there’s an outdoor world of math and reading fun that awaits you and all you need is sidewalk chalk, dice, and your imagination?  Anything we can do inside [...]

Encouraging Pretend Play

Children explore the world around them and learn through pretend play. With so many passive activities like watching TV and playing video games, we sometimes need to encourage our children to pretend play. Here are a few suggestions on how to get those creative juices flowing for both you and your child.

Buy 1 Get 1 Free – St Patrick’s Day Fun Pack

This week’s special is a Buy 1 get 1 free special. Purchase the Paddy Bear St Patrick’s Day Resource Pack and get your choice of another resource pack for FREE.
These resource packs are WONDERFUL additions to your homeschool. They are downloadable, affordable and you can print off what you need.
This PDF file contains

To Do Lists
Reading [...]

St Patricks Day Printables for Kids – Great Homeschool Resource

St Patrick’s Day Kids Resource Pack

Are you ready for St Patick’s Day? You will be in no time with this fun
St Patrick’s Kids resource pack. The graphics used for these are licensed from
ThistleGirlDesigns. and are
adorable! Be sure and check out all the .fun downloadable goodies
You can see a sample page below.
This PDF file contains

To [...]

Online Classes for Homeschoolers – More Class Fun!!

The animal classification class is rolling right along and we are having FUN!! I have added 3 more fun online classes for homeschoolers. They are:
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Mesopotamia
Vikings
Ancient Egypt both have 20 lessons and you can work at your own pace. One enrollment fee covers your whole “class”. Vikings is a bit shorter but so much [...]

Today’s Free Giveaway – Post Your Favorite Animal & Why

Hi everyone,
I thought it would be fun to do another free giveaway. I had so much fun the last time. So here’s the deal for the giveaway. To qualify first you need to subscribe to my newsletter – just send a blank email to:
learningtreasures-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
This is where I will announce the winners:)
Then you come back to [...]

Time to consider the benefits of home schooling (again)

It’s that time of year again. Sure, it’s summer here in the northern hemisphere, and you and your kids should have been enjoying the season for some time already. But it’s about time to start thinking about the next school ‘year’, at least if you’re following the traditional school year schedule.
Think we’re kidding? Well, the retailers [...]

America’s Deadly Schools

Has it really been over 2 months since we made a post? No excuses, other than we’ve been so busy DOING homeschool we haven’t had much time to WRITE about homeschooling. But we did run across this provocative article, part of which we wanted to share with you. It was written by Don Stott as part of [...]