June 20, 2012

Let’s Explore Bugs Bundle

The Let’s Explore Bugs Bundle is for sale in my Teacher’s Notebook Shop!  The basic Calendar Connections cards will stay FREE, the premium design will bundled with the eBook for sale, for just $1.50! 

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The premium calendar cards print front to back and have a more unique design featuring a title on the front of the card.

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The bundle also includes a page with the direct link to the Let’s Explore Bugs eBook…so it will open separate from the calendar cards. Let's Explore Bugs eBook

 

The pages of the eBook look like this…Entomology

Learn how to put eBooks onto your iPad or other device here!

I am grateful to Shannon for partnering with me on this project!  We both thank you for your support through any purchases you make of these bundles we are putting together!  I am planning to slowly convert all past sets and any new sets to the bundle format.

Purchase your Let’s Explore Bugs Bundle here!

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May 31, 2012

Let’s Explore Bugs eBook

I have a new Subscriber Freebie for you! 

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Our new Let’s Explore Bugs eBook will be available to blog subscribers for FREE through June 15, 2012!

Our Let’s Explore ebooks take the awesome Calendar Connections themes that Shannon has developed, and turns them into full size files to be used as eBooks.  You can read them on your computer, your iPad, or any device that supports PDF files.  Yes, you can even print them full size!  Remember, I have a tutorial for using these on your iPad here {the format is the same as the Easy Readers}. We both have iPads so that what we will be using them on.  Each eBook page has a number, which correlates with the order in the Bugs Calendar Connections cards.

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BUT, you don’t have to use this eBook with the CC cards, it can stand alone as a simple way to learn about a particular topic.  The series is created with 3rd-6th graders in mind, but it isn’t limited to those grades.  It is a great way to explore a topic across grade levels within your homeschool!

The Let’s Explore Bugs eBook will only be offered for free with a special link at the bottom of the daily 1+1+1=1 email or RSS feed every day through June 15, 2012.  It won’t be anywhere else right now!  Eventually the set will be for sale, so get it for free now while you can!

If you don’t subscribe yet, just click here for email and then be sure to confirm your email address once you get the initial email from Feedburner {be sure to check your spam folders if you can’t find the email}.  If you’d rather read in an RSS reader like Google Reader, just click here!  If you have any questions, just leave me a comment!  I am grateful for all of you who follow here regularly and hope this freebie blesses you!

If you have any trouble downloading your subscriber freebie, I recommend first trying to right click and save to your computer and then open.  I also recommend trying to use a different internet browser, sometimes that’s the problem.  You can also see the troubleshooting tips in this post {these tips are also for any other PDF files you may have issues with!}.

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May 24, 2012

Calendar Connections ~ Bugs

My wonderful friend Shannon is still working with me to create the Calendar Connections cards. She is a fellow inner city missionary with me and also a homeschooler {and former school teacher}.

We chose the theme of Bugs for June!Calendar Connections Bugs

The facts are written at a 3-6th grade level but you will be able to water them down for younger kids. It’s a great way to involve your entire family in exploring a particular theme.

The cards fit my particular pocket chart calendar, I ordered mine from Oriental Trading but they now have the same one on Amazon!

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but you could use a poster foam board and velcro to easily create your own set up. You could also use a standard pocket chart. They seem like they would fit in this calendar on Amazon but I am not certain.

I am now creating smaller sets to go along with the small pocket charts found recently in the Target $1 section. Be sure to visit this post for a tutorial of how to sew your $1 pocket chart into a calendar!Calendar Connections Small Bugs

There is also a new sheet included to be used in a Calendar Notebook if you are using those too!

I printed my numbers on cardstock and laminated them before cutting them apart.

You can download these for FREE here!

You can use most of our Calendar Connections cards for any month! We now have 12 sets to choose from, and we will still be adding more too!Calendar Connections Set 1

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January 16, 2012

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Printables ~ Updated

Very Hungry Caterpillar Printables

I am so excited to share a brand new updated Very Hungry Caterpillar Printable Pack with you! I left the original file untouched and just made an add on set that includes a few new activities and uses all real photographs! image

I added several new printables to the set…

  • 3 Part Cards
  • 1-10 Puzzle
  • Read & Write the Room Cards
  • Graphing
  • Tracing
  • Matching Activities

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You can download the updated FREE Very Hungry Caterpillar Printables here on my website!

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July 31, 2011

Tot School ~ Letter Nn…part 2

~Ladybug is currently 26.5 months old~

We have had a very low key school week, without any sort of schedule.  Ladybug insists on school daily though so we did do some things!

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Letter: Nn

Object: Net

Vocabulary Development Theme: Bugs

You can find the printables for this unit here on the Tot School Printables webpage.

 

Coloring numbers, using her dry erase activity center…IMG_0019

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Gluing her colored nets…IMG_0081

 

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She insisted on using her Boca Beth puppet to color her bugs and put her markers away,  She loves this thing!

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We have a mission team here serving and they brought their kids.  They are all old friends of ours from our hometown and enjoyed having them over one day,  Ladybug loved the school time attention from these 2 ladies…

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Letter Nn printables here!

Fun Books & Toys for this unit here!

 

 

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The set-up for her shelves this week is the same as last week, I just left the info in case you missed it…

  • top shelf: ladybug Easter basket {filled with some small bugs}, bug hats {Target}, bug flashcards {Target}
  • top left shelf: bug library books
  • top middle shelf: bug board books
  • top right shelf: mini containers with bug flashcards and bug printables from Montessori Print Shop
  • bottom left: sorting colored bugs into cups
  • bottom middle: plastic chopsticks and mini ladybug & Butterfly erasers {Oriental Trading I think}
  • bottom right: Bee Hive game
  • far right: buggy fleece {to use with sensory bin and for play-she LOVES blankees!}

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This week I set up both sides with the bug theme, I won’t always do this-especially for smaller themes.  Bugs was the theme for Krash and PacMan too, so it took over homeschool {and still is!}

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She found our Do U Know? cards and we played for a really long time together.  We named the Bible characters and then she matched them all up…IMG_9996

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We had fun counting them too…

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I fed her love of magazines, getting out a few of Pac Man’s old Big Backyard magazines, she loved it!!!

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We have a mission team here serving with us this week and it is made up of some really awesome friends from our hometown.  They brought their kids to serve also and it is wonderful.  We went out on Friday night to tour our city and while out a big rainstorm hit!  It was  such fun to watch the kids enjoy the cool rain on such a hot summer evening! Ladybug was loving it, eyeing the big kids… IMG_0194

Then finally heading out herself and dancing until it stopped, entertaining us all!

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Sometimes I just want to put her cuteness in a bottle and drink it all up. I will miss this adorable stage of her life when it is done.  I am soaking up every cute 2 year old moment now!!!IMG_0162

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More Tot School Links…

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Please put your tot’s age (in months) after it, like this: 1+1+1=1 (41 mos)

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