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Acorns for the Squirrels
Crafty Squirrels are Counting Acorns
Thanksgiving is coming and the squirrels are counting their acorns. Read tales of squirrels who are preparing for Thanksgiving. Make place mats, toilet paper tube squirrels and other Thanksgiving decorations. What will the squirrels be thankful for and will they remember their manners at the Thanksgiving table? The squirrels are making nut bread and counting acorns to prepare for the feast. Scurry on over and learn about squirrels and acorns... Photo Credit: Squirrel in the Grass by Domini...

Whitefoot the Wood Mouse Unit Study
The Wood Mouse Nest is a Great Place to Learn...
Whitefoot welcomes homeschoolers, teachers, parents and children to turn into mice, scurry through the tunnels and sniff out learning opportunities at every corner. This unit study has dozens of mouse related activities to teach young children across the curriculum. As we learn more and more about Whitefoot and other wood mice, your little mice will write and share their stories, sing, play, experiment and create works of art. From bulletin boards to a reading nest you will find ideas for c...

Bees and Wasps Thematic Unit Study
Busy, busy bees and their families~!!
Wasps and bees build houses to protect their young. Some wasp and bee mothers work all alone to build separate nurseries for each of their eggs. A mud-dauber wasp builds small round rooms of the mud she collects from puddles, and lays an egg in each one. She fills each room full of spiders which she has stung to sleep with her stinger. The spiders are still alive but they can't feel or move. That is how a wasp keeps its food fresh until it is ready to be eaten. When the egg hatches into a g...

Building Bridges Unit Study
Let's Built Bridges!
Bridge Construction will help children not only learn history but also the physics of how and why bridges can carry weight. Let's build some bridges... Garner Rix and his family moved from Connecticut to Vermont in 1780 by oxcart. During his captivity he walked to Montreal and back. What was it like to travel in the 18th Century? There were few roads and even fewer bridges. The bridges over streams were usually built of wood. Rivers were forded at wide shallow spots. The trip from Connecticu...

Apples in the Tree Tops
Apple Unit Study
As Autumn arrives, the nights turn colder and the Apples are turning red. They are the inspiration for our next unit study, Apples in the Tree Tops. In this apple unit study you will learn apple poems and apple recipes. We will be using all five senses to discover words to describe apples. We will look for the star at the center of each apple and make some heirloom apple butter from the apple trees like the ones that Garner Rix planted for his wife Betsy long ago in the late 1700's. Come j...

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Unit Studies: Fun, Active, and Creative Learning
Unit Studies are lessons grouped around a central theme. This directory of unit studies contains hundreds and thousands of delightful, hands-on learning ideas to help you teach your children while focusing on one theme at a time. You will find ideas for teaching beginning readers, emergent readers and reluctant readers as well as avid readers that are hooked on reading. Unit studies are filled with wonderful reading suggestions. Each lesson can be used as a jumping off point to learn math c...

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Unit Studies | Unit Study Resources
A unit study is a fun and educational way to learn. A unit study binds several school subjects together under one theme. There are many ways to get a unit study, you can buy one that is already put together, find a free unit study on the internet or put together your own unit study. Intro picture from WP ClipArt.

The Little Red Hen Unit Study
H is for The Little Red Hen
Once upon a time there was a little red hen and her baby chicks. The mother hen found some grains of wheat and decided to plant them in order to make a loaf of bread to feed her hungry brood. This is the beginning of the familiar tale of the Little Red Hen, one of my children's favorite tales. In this unit study we will be learning about the story of The Little Red Hen as well as about chickens and how to grow wheat. We will look at the Little Red Hen's work ethic and compare that to the att...

Exploding Turkey Poem
The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven - Exploring Poetry and Grammar
I first heard Jack Prelutsky's hilarious poem, The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven, when I attended a book signing in Brookline, Mass. while homeschooling my older children. We had fallen in love with his poetry books, It's Halloween and It's Thanksgiving and were eager to meet him in person. Jack Prelutsky, amazingly enough, was even more entertaining than his poetry. His eyes sparkled and his body danced, jumped and exuded excitement as he began reciting his poetry. For us, the most exciting p...

Butterfly Unit Study
Butterflies in Language, History, Science, and Social Studies
That is how a unit study works, taking a topic of interest and looking at it through the lens of many different academic disciplines. So one that centers on the second largest order in the insect class is bound to be interesting and fun... with new avenues of discovery to take while making learning enjoyable. It is important to remember that not every part of a study has to be rigorously followed, allow it to pique your child's interest and finish as many of the projects in as wide a range of...