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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Grasshopper Land Free Ebook for Homeschool, Classroom, Nature and Insect fans

This free ebook is so cool. Especially for those of us who sometimes had hoards of grasshoppers land in our part of the country in the middle of nowhere! So I'll bet my youngest son (and his dad) would enjoy this. I know I will, and that it will bring back a mixed bag of memories (like all those young trees we lost.)
I also included some interesting grasshopper photos for your research pleasure.

kniphofia with grasshopper in PNG (Photo credit: yumievriwan)

grasshopper
(Photo credit: musical photo man)

Here's how Jim Erskine describes the book: "Another superb book by Margaret Warner Morley, this time all about grasshoppers and their fascinating lives. Lots of great illustrations in this gentle and extremely entertaining nature book too."

English: Mating Grasshoppers, Uvita, Costa Rica
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)

From the book's Foreword:

This book is not for children. It is for their grandfathers and grandmothers who were once boys and girls in the country, and who may be in danger, after all these years, of forgetting about grasshoppers. If the children persist in reading so old a book they must not grumble at the long words, but quietly hunt them up in the dictionary, or else wait until they themselves are grandfathers and grandmothers, when they will understand it all quite easily.

Hop on over and get yours! Click here:

Grasshopper Land « Homeschool Freebie of the Day:

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Free Kindle Book - Easy Science Fair Project Ideas for Kids - For Homeschool, Classroom etc.

Homeschoolers and Brick and Mortar students and teachers take note! Right now you can get the Kindle (etc.) book for free: "Easy Science Fair Project Ideas for Kids." Here's how author Theresa Davis describes it:
Here are "12 Creative Science Projects that are So Easy to Implement, Your Kids Will Have Their Experiment Ready to Go in Less than 24 Hours. Forget about complicated, time-consuming, boring science projects...it's time for cool experiments! Many experiment guides that you’ll find elsewhere require complicated materials. If you're in a hurry, this could leave you in a really stressful situation! To avoid this hassle, all of the science experiments included in my guide require materials that are available in your own house! Now you have no excuses - you already have everything that you need, all of the science projects, and all of the materials."
To get yours just click the photo of the book above to read more info and download it. As always, doublecheck the Kindle price before clicking the "buy now" button.

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Monday, July 30, 2012

Free Country Olympic Flash Cards, My Country Book, Homeschool Activities Workbook

Summer Olympic Games!

Map of Summer Olympics locations. Countries that have hosted one Summer Olympics are shaded green, while countries that have hosted two or more are shaded blue. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In honor of the 2012 Summer Olympics going on right now, I have several freebies and resources related to it today:

- Homeschool Freebie of the Day announced today that Knowledge Quest has a fun project for your kids to work on during the Olympic Games that, as Knowledge Quest describes it, "will give them an outlet for their creative energy after they have expended their physical energy trying some of the gymnastic stunts or sprinting feats across your living room floor.

Their My Country Book will help your children record their favorite Olympic moments while reinforcing their geography knowledge and providing an interesting keepsake notebook to enjoy when it is finished.
I think my favorite part of their multi-PDF downloads is their full-color flash cards of Olympic countries, but all are really nice.
To download yours click here:
My Country Book (Great Olympics project!) « Homeschool Freebie of the Day:
http://www.knowledgequestmaps.com/Olympics.html

- ABC Teach has many Summer Olympics activities for classroom or homeschool, several of which are cool and free. (I like the word search in the shape of an athlete.) Check out their blog here: They have a host of fun games and learning activities that the whole family can use.
http://blog.abcteach.com/archives/2162?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=let-the-games-begin
- To join in the festivities, abcteach has also been doing their own Olympic countdown (check their FB page)!

- - Here some cool bits of historical Olympic ephemera that I found on the web for you:

17th Summer Olympic Games, Rome, August 25 - September 11, 1960

Dorando Pietri at the Marathon finish Olympic Games 1908 London
File:Marathon Hicks1904.jpg

Tom Hicks, Marathon Olympic Champion and his supporters at the marathon.
St. Louis Olympic Games, 1904

English: Commemorative stamp of Greece, The First Olympic Games (1896), 2 lepta. Русский: Марка Греции. Первые Олимпийские игры, 1896, 2 лепты (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

- Here is a map showing what countries are hoping to host the Olympic games in 2020: