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Read Aloud: Smoke Jumpers One to Ten

Smoke Jumpers One to Ten by Chris L. Demarest is a counting book about smoke jumping. Bear selected it recently
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Planning our school year

Originally posted on PassportAcademy.com Summer is usually a time for planning. It is a time to reflect on what worked
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Giveaway from Sneaker Teacher

The Sneaker Teacher is offering a giveaway on her blog for 52 great art projects for kids by Lynn Gordon.
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Create easy booklets online

Did you know that you can upload your PDF documents online and then print them out (reordered) so that they
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Florida’s Native Plants: Native and Exotic plants

Lesson PlanRead page 85 (Some of Florida’s native plants) to page87 Read pages 131-133 (stop before the section on birds).
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Everglades

Surrounded on three sides by the warm tropical seas of the Atlantic Ocean, Florida Bay, and the Gulf of Mexico,
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Save the honey bees!

The latest buzz is that honeybees are dying at an alarming rate. Over the last three years, honeybees have been
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Honeybee study Part 1

This week we are focusing on the life cycle of a bee. Since honey bees have been disappearing at an
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Read Aloud: Sylvester & The Magic Pebble

Tonight we read, Sylvester & The Magic Pebble by William Steig. It is a Caldecott Medal book and a beloved
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Planning our upcoming school year.

Summer is usually a time for planning. It is a time to reflect on what worked and what didn’t work
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Creating thank-you notes for children

I think teaching children how to write thank-you notes and show appreciation for the gifts they receive is an important
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Fish

by G-man By Pumpkin by Bear

Building block center ideas

Big Bolt Construction set from Lakeshore Learning Block centers aren’t just filled with blocks anymoreStandard wooden blocks, also called unit
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File Folder Fun

Have you discovered the joys of File Folder Learning Activities with your children? This year we started using File Folder
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How we use dry erase boards in our homeschool

At the FPEA convention this year I bought a couple dry erase lapboard sets from Miller Pads and Paper. They
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