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HOLIDAY RESOURCES
The Holiday Zone- "The Holiday Zone offers free educational resources for use in early childhood and elementary educational settings. Holiday and seasonal materials include learning games, whole language activities, writing prompts, songs, action rhymes, printable worksheets, printable and interactive puzzles, coloring pages, and children's literature recommendations. This site is child-friendly and does contain some content geared specifically toward children, but is targeted primarily toward educators, child care providers, and parents. The intended audience includes preschool teachers, kindergarten teachers, elementary classroom teachers, homeschoolers, parents, grandparents, and others who work with children.
The Holiday Zone also offers resources created especially for use in the ESL/EFL classroom. ESL teachers and EFL teachers alike will find information and reproducible materials to help their ELL students gain a better understanding of traditional western holidays. ESL/EFL resources include reading comprehension activities, holiday vocabulary guides, printable illustrated word wall cards, puzzles, worksheets, and discussion topics geared specifically toward English language learners (ELLs). Interactive reading comprehension tasks, interactive quizzes, and interactive puzzles are also being added for the benefit of English language learners who visit this site. "
AMERICAN HISTORY
LIST OF U.S. PRESIDENTS-We have learned this in 1st, 2nd, and 4th grade depending on the course work for our kids that year. We had a cassette that had the list put to song. That helps a lot!
Printable Declaration of Independence- We memorize the full text in 7th grade and the first major paragraph in 3rd.
Kids.gov is the "portal the the US Government"
SCIENCE
2010 Night Sky Watch- Whether you are studying Earth and Sky this year or not, this is a great resource. Check out this site to see when big things are happening in the night sky and then grab a blanket, your kids and maybe even a telescope if necessary and enjoy God's awesome handy work!
The Old Farmer's Alamanac for Kids Online Activities
BIBLE RESOURCES
Ebibleteacher- Free bible lessons, worksheets, games and more for free!
MULTI-SUBJECT
Garden of Praise
This is a wealth of free info and resources from tests to worksheets, literature ideas, games and much more. Includes Art Appreciation, Math, Bible, Literature, and more. Lots for kids and teachers.
FREE DVD(S)
Izzit.Org allows teachers to sign up for FREE and receive one DVD a year for their students. This includes homeschooling families!!
The National Endowment of the Arts allows schools to sign up to receive FREE dvd's and lessons for different subjects. Visit the above link to sign your school up. You have to sign up under your cover school or the private school that you affiliate with as a homeschooler to qualify.
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