Free Printable Download - One Year Vocabulary Book for Homeschool Middle School!

I am most please to have just completed and uploaded a complete one-year (school year!) grab-n-go Vocabulary Book 1 for middle school homeschoolers.  You can download your free copy now at:
http://www.kidlearnonline.org/gram_index.php.

Your student will learn a new vocabulary word each day, that they can research online or with a dictionary, and complete a worksheet about that word, including synonyms, part of speech, root, etc... After 4 days, a cumulative review is given for the week. After every 20 lessons, a larger cumulative review is offered, and a final 5 page review can be studied for and completed at the end of the year.

This is a great and effective vocabulary course to add into your English plans! This is the new one for this year, but if I have enough interest, I'll put up last year's course as well. My son enjoyed his "Word of the Day" each morning, and had an amazing retention by the end of the year for the final review! It took only about 10-15 minutes each morning, but the results beat another course we did previously by miles, and in fact, he specifically asked to do the same style this year, hence the new Vocabulary Book 1 available on my kidlearnonline.org website!  So feel free to download, and if you would like to share, please link back to http://www.kidlearnonline.org/gram_index.php.

Here are some samples pics from Vocabulary Book 1, including a sample of the word of the day and the corresponding printable worksheet:

 Hope you enjoy!
- Professor Bananas

Multiplication Tables Game inspired by Minecraft

My son is a Minecraft devotee, so I came up with a game we can play to help learn and practice his multiplication tables.  And being as it was inspired by Minecraft, there is no gritting of teeth during practice, but instead an enthusiastic  "yay!" when it comes time to play.  So, if you have a Mincrafter in your house, you might find the game I call "The Math Table" a useful game to practice those tables!

Download The Math Table

Third Grade Chemistry Lesson Plan

 Plan is for: 63 lessons, 4 reviews, 4 tests, 1 field trip.

Includes:

• written lesson instructions, including links to experiments.
• experiments materials sheet
• 4 tests.
• lab sheets for each Lesson lab (about 1/2 the lessons)

Books that we used:

Richard Spilsbury's
Atoms & Molecules
Mixtures & Solutions
Elements & Compounds
Chemical Reactions

Basher's
The Periodic Table

Usborne Science encyclopedia

Feel free to download and use for personal homeschool use. Can adjust for different grade levels, or books, possibly could even use with just the links. Please link back to this site if you want to add to your blog .. thanks!

Download 3rd Grade Chemistry Lesson Plan