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A fellow homeschooler asked on forum about good websites for audio books. I thought they might be of use to you aswell.
Big Toe Books – This site is fantastic. You can listen to the books or download them to your computer. The files are only available for 1 week from the time they are aired so keep checking back.
Project Gutenburg – There is alot of great books on this site for both adults and children.
Storynory – Good site for younger children.
Audio Books For Free – A bit of everything for both adults and children.
Kids Audio Books – Readings from the 40’s and 50’s.
Kids Learn Out Loud – All sorts of free stuff for kids here. Audio of famous speeches aswell as stories sorted by age group and subject.
Free Classic Audio Books – Some great stories for older children.
Playtime Books – This site only has 1 free book and the rest are paid downloads.
LibriVox – Fantastic site with lots of chapter books.
Monday – ‘P’ Paper Mache Bowls – Instructions here
Tuesday -’Q’ Quilting – Get the girls to sew some squares together and make a small pillow from their creation
Wednesday -’R’ Rockets – Using film canisters and baking soda and vinegar. Some instructions here
Thursday -’S’ Sherbet – Instructions here
Friday – ‘T’ Tenpin Bowling – Instructions on how to make your own set here
Monday – ‘K’ Knitting – The girls can work on either their flat needles or the french knitting set
Tuesday – ‘L’ Lemonade – Make lemonade with the girls and have a picnic lunch (hopefully in the sun)
Wednesday – ‘M’ Mazes – Printable mazes here and here. An easy day today as we are doing a Museum visit on the 20th.
Thursday – ‘N’ Nature Walk – We will take along a Nature Box to fill while we walk
Friday – ‘O’ Organs – Trace the kids bodies onto a large piece of paper and paste organs onto them. Talk about what each organ does in our body.
Monday – ‘F’ Felted Balls – We will try out this tutorial
Tuesday – ‘G’ Golf – We are going to have a go at making our own mini putt golf course. Will use the felt balls from Monday and make a club using rolled up newspaper I think
Wednesday – ‘H’ Hamburgers – The girls can help make dinner
Thursday – ‘I’ Ice Hands – Using these instructions
Friday – ‘J’ Jewelery – We are making up a box of gifts for Operation Christmas Child and I thought it would be nice if the girls made something to go in the box themselves. I think some jewelery will be perfect.
If you join us in doing any of these activities we would love for you to leave a comment sharing your blog post or just a few words about what you did.
Quite a few weeks ago now we found ourselves with a lovely sunny day and no idea what to do with it so I took the girls outside with sidewalk chalk and this is what we got up to.
First I traced around F3’s shape on the ground using the chalk and then we dressed her and gave her hair and a face. The girls really enjoyed doing this. It didn’t take long so it held their very short attention spans and got them working together (F3 and S1). Since this pic was taken we have also done the alphabet along the footpath and drawn a zoo with cages and everything to visit on our walk around the yard. (sorry no pics of these). This would be a great activity to teach your little ones about shorter and taller if you were tracing more than 1 person and maybe even get them using a ruler to measure their height.
