Free Homeschool Planning Sheets

Free, editable homeschool planning sheets from Educational Snaphots:

I am so excited about this planner. These are the forms that I use to plan my homeschool year, and I am sharing them with you.All you have to do to get your free homeschool planner with eleven different planning forms is subscribe to Everyday Snapshots by entering your email address below. You can print and write on the forms or edit, print, and even save your edits in Adobe Reader.

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Free Three Week Samples of Tapestry of Grace

Summertime is planning time for many mothers as they look ahead to a new school year. Over the next few weeks I hope to link to some helps along those lines. To begin, here is a free sample of a popular curriculum to assist you in your decision making :-):

"Welcome to your personal tour of TAPESTRY OF GRACE: the award-winning classical, integrated unit study turning the heads of reviewers and homeschool moms across the world. Covering History, Writing, Literature, Geography, Philosophy, Art, Hands-On Learning, Government, and more, Tapestry is more engaging, more extensive, and more flexible than ever. " Click the links below to order your free sampler CDS:

"Go to Egypt"

"Sail to the New World"

Holling C. Holling Homeschooling Helps: Book of Indians

Here is a link to lesson plans and notebooking pages to go along with Holling C. Holling's Book of Indians

Holling C. Holling Homeschooling Helps: Paddle to the Sea

If you are looking for a good study on the Great Lakes, Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling is a treasure. Paddle-to-the-Sea is a little wooden Indian in a canoe, carved by a young boy up north in Canada. Paddle is sent on a journey to the ocean and the story follows him as he travels through each of the Great Lakes (and has many adventures along the way!). Full of wonderful details, drawings and information on the areas surrounding each lake, this book was much enjoyed in our home. Though it's been a year since we read it, the children have still retained quite a bit of what they learned.

Here are a few free online resources to go along with the book:

Paddle-to-the-Sea with Google Earth: "An exciting new program that uses the travels of Paddle to link real-time Great Lakes data to Google Earth’s mapping application. Tracing the path of Paddle's journey to the sea, it includes themes, key words, and Web sites for each chapter of the book." Click here for more information and to download

Paddle-to-the-Sea Film on YouTube: I saved this old film until we finished the book. While it did leave out many details it was still enjoyable, and it was neat for the children to see little Paddle on the big lakes.

Geography and Paddle-to-the-Sea: This is a helpful post from a homeschooling mother on how she used Paddle with her children.

Holling C. Holling Homeschooling Helps: Seabird Lesson Ideas and Notebooking Pages

Here is a link to lesson plans and notebooking pages to go along with Holling C. Holling's book Seabird.

Holling C. Holling Homeschooling Helps: Pagoo Lesson Ideas and Notebooking Pages

Here is a link to lesson plans and noteboooking pages to go along with the story of Pagoo, the little hermit crab (And a wonderful study of life in tidal pools).