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It’s Homeschool Days this month at the Maryland Science Center.  We signed up for two days of classes!  We had a first day of classes this week! If you are local and want to know about upcoming homeschool days, register at their website.  They open up for registration ahead of time, and it’s call in only.  Many times you have to leave a message and they call you back….it’s hard to get through.  You also must pay via credit card on the phone.  It’s worth all the trouble, but I wish they had an easier way to register!!!

My 1st and 4th graders each had 2 classes, and my PreK had one.

They had a blast, but wished they could have spent more time at the exhibits.  Next time we don’t have as many classes, and can spend more time looking around!  They really like it there.  I hope to go next time around and just enjoy the discounted admission, instead of classes (but they offer such fun ones, and at a good rate!).

C took a hydraulics class and an energy class
Z took a cornstarch concoctions class and a seed class
c took a healthy eating class

Review: Super Teacher Worksheets (TOS Review)

For this review we were able to try out the website Super Teacher Worksheets’ Individual Membership. This website contains a large number of printable worksheets in a wide range of subjects and grades (PreK-5).  It also includes a worksheet generator, to make your own worksheets!

We used this website as a supplement to what we were already studying.  For example, our history program suggested we introduce or review Roman Numerals.  I was able to print off a few different worksheets regarding Roman Numerals of varying levels for both my 1st and 4th grader.  

Because we are studying the Middle Ages this year, I found a fun color by number addition castle worksheet for my 1st grader, a multiplication one for my 4th grader and a shapes castle worksheet for my preschooler.  I also used a reading comprehension activity about a castle for my 4th grader.

We have also used several of the health related topic sheets, discussing food groups, healthy and unhealthy foods.  Some of these health themed sheets were also math related, such as color by number addition of fruit/vegetables pictures, tally the number of fruits, etc… It’s been a great resource for getting portfolio items for the health section!

For my 4th grader I picked some math worksheets to practice concepts he has already learned, but needed to review.  There was a color by numbers multiplication, money worksheets, and many other math concepts.

If you are looking for worksheets via a specific topic, you can use the search feature. For instance, I typed in Roman Numerals, Castles, Food and was able to find ALL worksheets related to those topics (in various subjects).  You can also search by subject.  I wasn’t able to find a way to search by grade (which would be a nice feature).  The Reading Comprehension and Spelling sections are listed by grade. 

The subjects to choose from include:

Math, Reading & Writing, Phonics, Handwriting, Grammar, Spelling, Science, Social Studies, Holidays, Puzzles & More, Teacher’s Helpers, Pre-K & Kindergarten, Custom Worksheets.

I was surprised that I couldn’t find any worksheets that were on the topic of The Five Senses,even though there is a Human Body section under Science.  So obviously the site does not have EVERY topic, but there is still a pretty good variety.

Each worksheet you print also has an answer sheet for quick and easy grading!

Some other thing you will find on the sight that we haven’t used yet, but plan too are handwriting sheets (by letter, in cursive and print), beginning reader books, sight words and phonics beginning reader books and so much more! There are over 10,000 printable worksheets, games, and activities!

I did find lots of great worksheets to use in upcoming units too, like Matter, Simple Machines and Electricity.  There is a wide variety of choices and levels to choose from!  All for only $19.95/yr.   There is more than just traditional worksheets, as well.  You can find printable games, certificates, templates and more!  Perfect for teachers or homeschoolers of children in PreK-5th grades.  Older grades are coming soon!

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Week in Review–Week of 9/7

Okay, I have to say the checklists have been GREAT!  They have really helped C focus and get things done, I’m loving them!  (see last week’s post)

We had a very busy holiday weekend, you can read about it at Field Trip Friday!

Tuesday and Wednesday were normal school days this week, well for the most part.  Tuesday we had some electricians at the house doing some work, our electricity had to be turned off, for what was was suppose to be 2 hours.  6 hours later it was turned back on.  We got most of our school work done that day, but we were suppose to start our new spelling program (for review).  Couldn’t do it without electricity, and when it came back on at 7pm…well, we had to just put it off until Wednesday.  Some time during the day the chicken coop door was closed, so when I went to lock the chickens up that night, they weren’t in their coop…they were in a tree…where they remained for the night and luckily all survived.

Wednesday started with the discovery that our garage door opener was broken.  When the electricity was turned back on the guy had a wire crossed, it caused a power surge, and fried the garage door.  Luckily there is an emergency release.  I contacted the guy and he is going to fix it, along with several other issues we are having from the surge also.  We went to start the new spelling program and discovered that our new CD player does not have a head phone jack (this is not a fancy CD player, it’s old school….who would have thought??!!)  Anyways, so I had to upload the audios to my iPad, then we went to plug the head phones in and discovered that the pin you plug in had broke off!  So C got the headset he uses with the computer, but it has a USB plug.  We finally settled for using ear buds until we can get a headset.  That night we had soccer.  After soccer practice, we had to run to the store for a few grocery items for co-op on Thursday.  When we returned, we went to lock up the chickens….they decided that outside the coop was better than in the coop, and they had all roosted on the deck banister.  I had to move them one by one back to the coop, they flapped and squawked and were not too happy about it.  I grounded them!  Didn’t let them back out until Saturday morning, so we will see what they do tonight!  I should have taken pictures of the dumb chickens, but didn’t.

The best part of Wednesday is STITCH FIX!  I got a fun fix! (don’t mind the spots on my mirror!  yuck!)  The white shirt at the end is one I bought on a Macy’s sale…but the rest was in my fix.  I had a credit, so the total cost came to $160 for 5 items.  1 dress, 2 shirts and 2 pants.  I asked for more colors next fix, this one was a bit dark, but I had asked for fall staples.  I almost didn’t keep the skinnies in the last picture, because I have some like the already, but, the discount for keeping all was more than the cost of the pants.

The kids brought in a bunch of goodies from the garden and have had fun catching toads at night when they take the dog out.

Thursday was co-op.  Always a fun, but exhausting day!  The electrician came back to assess the damage and has to order parts to come back next week and fix it.

Friday we were all tired, it started out a rough day. It turned around, and all went well.  But the morning was rough, I ended up locking my toddler out of the schoolroom (she was in the toy room next door with two of her brothers).  My oldest was crying over the new spelling program because he had two wrong on Wednesday and now had 3 wrong, so he was getting ‘worse’.  My 6yo made some mistakes when doing an addition color by number page, and was upset about it.  I mean it was just a bad day.  I was about to throw in the towel, but things finally started looking up and we got everything on the agenda done without further drama, and ahead of schedule.  We were suppose to go to a field trip, but time got away from us and well, we were all tired.  I didn’t feel like running around.  So we stayed home and relaxed for the after noon.  We had a movie night, watching Where the Red Fern Grows.

Saturday we had a Cub Scout car wash in the pouring rain.  c had his first soccer practice cancelled because of rain and now we are waiting to see what the weather will do bc the older two are suppose to do a kid’s triathlon this evening. 

I didn’t take a lot of pictures this week, I’ll do better next week!

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