Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Homeschool Math Challenge Sept. 30


You are making bracelets with safety pins. Each bracelet is made with 32 safety pins. If you have 389 safety pins, how many bracelets can you make?
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Good Luck!
Kelly

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Apple Lesson Plan


Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterSeptember 29, 2008


History
September is apple month! Learn more about apples here: http://www.waga.org/history.html

Language Arts
Practice your editing skills here: http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/edit/pdfs/edit0912.pdf

Reading

Learn more about Johnny Appleseed here: http://www.appleseed.net/About_Johnny.htm
1. How much did Johnny charge for his trees?
2. Did Johnny Appleseed have any children?
3. What was his real name?
Vocabulary
Find these apple words: http://www.abcteach.com/free/w/wordsearch_apples.pdf

Don't Forget the Math Challenge!
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Homeschool Math Challenge Sept. 29


Each bag of apples contains 8 apples. If an apple cart can fit 90 apples, what is the greatest number of full bags that can be out into the cart?
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Kelly

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Fall Lesson Plan


Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterSeptember 22, 2008


History

Today is the first day of fall.

Language Arts

How many fall adjectives can you think of : http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/misc/fall/adj/index.html

Reading

Read these poems about the fall: http://www.mothergoosecaboose.com/fallpoems.pdf

Write one of your own!
Vocabulary

See if you can find these fall related words: http://www.printactivities.com/Word_Search_Puzzles/Fall_Word_Search.html


Math

Today’s math challenge involves multiplying decimals. Learn more about that here: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/math/decimals/multiplyingdecimals/

And here: http://www.nextvista.org/2006/09/09/multiplying-decimals/

Practice here: http://www.tlsbooks.com/multiplydecimals1.pdf


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Homeschool Math Challenge Sept 22


Last year the carnival made $4,637. This year it made 2.3 times as much. How much money did it make this year?
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Kelly

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Mexico Lesson Plan


Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterSeptember 16, 2008


History

September 16th is Independence Day in Mexico. Read more about it here: http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/kids/history/html/independ/antecind.html


Language Arts

Compare and contrast the climate in Mexico to the climate where you live here: http://www.abcteach.com/mexico/mexicoclimate.htm

Cooking

Make Mexican doughnuts here: http://homeschoolingk.blogspot.com/2008/09/mexican-doughnuts.html

Spanish

Learn to count to ten in Spanish here: http://www.abcteach.com/mexico/counting.htm

Don’t Forget the Math Challenge!


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Homeschool Math Challenge Sept 16


In 1995, the population of Mexico (in thousands) was 93,674. In 2000 it was 102,410. By what percent did the population increase?
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Good Luck!
Kelly

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Hats Lesson Plan

Homeschool Teacher - Lesson Plan & NewsletterSeptember 15, 2008


History

Today is National make a hat Day!

Writing Prompt

Write an acrostic poem about hats here: http://www.abcteach.com/free/a/acrostic_hats.pdf

Language Arts

Dr. Seuss wrote THE CAT IN THE HAT using only 236 words! Carefully cut out the words he used and arrange some or all of them to write a story of your own. http://www.seussville.com/CITH_50th/pdfs/tr_allactivities.pdf

Learn about subjects and predicates here: http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/subjectpredicate/subject-predicate-a.pdf



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Homeschool Math Challenge September 14


The hat store has 252 hats. The hat store has nine shelves to put hats on display, and on each shelf they can put 7 hats. How many hats can they put on display? How many hats cannot be put on display?
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Good Luck!
Kelly