Welcome to another edition of homeschooling resource of the day. As always, if you see something you want changed, you have something you would like added, or know of something that should be featured please feel free to leave me a comment.
Today’s website is Read-Think-Write. This is a great website. It has some good lessons, but the thing I love about this website is the student materials. They are amazing! They have a tool to make character trading cards. You create your own character, make the story about them and print them up. They even have a sheet to fill out before hand so that they can plan the character before hand and give ideas of what should be on the card. For the lapbookers out there, they have fill in the blank flip books with nine different layouts! This is just a couple of great tools they have available on their site for free!
Word of the day: plethora \PLETH-uh-ruh\, noun:
1. An abnormal bodily condition characterized by an excessive amount of blood in the system.
2. Excess; superabundance.
“Today’s homeschooling book of the day” will be changed to book of the week. I will add it only to Monday’s post. I am doing this for a couple of reasons. First so that I don’t run out of books that I’ve already read too quickly. Second, so that when I do run out of those books, I have time to read the new books to recommend.
This Day in History: Sept. 25th
1492 : Crewman on the Pinta sights “land”-a few weeks early
1493 : Columbus sails on 2nd voyage to America
1639 : 1st printing press in America
1690 : Publick Occurrences, 1st US (Boston) newspaper, publish 1st & last ed
1775 : American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured
1789 : Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)
1804 : 12th amendment to the US constitution, regulating judicial power
1861 : Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1894 : Grover Cleveland pardons bigamists, adulterers, polygamists and unlawful cohabitants
1919 : Pres Wilson becomes seriously ill & collapses after a speech
1926 : Henry Ford announces the 8 hour, 5-day work week
1939 : Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I
2005 : IRA officially disarms
Journal Prompt:
If a school of fish had to be schooled, what do you think they would be taught? Name the subjects/classes and what they would learn (example: how to get supper without becoming supper: a course on getting the bait off the hook without being caught.
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