Canadians Ordering Books Out of Country

This just in:

"Perhaps this is information that other homeschoolers will want to know.

I just contacted Canada Customs Agency and they informed me that if books for education are ordered outside of Canada, ask the publisher to specify that the contents of the shipment are books for children's education. They will therefore not charge and custom fees and they will give you a reduced tax rate.

Tks.

Diane"

Thank you, Diane! Great to know. :)

Crafts and Life Skills

Are you like me and can't remember what different kinds of crafts you could be teaching your kids? What about life skills? This link has a handy reference list and some things to watch out for when doing them.

Timeline Book

Here is a free printable pdf timeline called Book of Centuries (I printed off 3 for my kids. We plan to use it until graduation and just keep adding to it every year.) at the Simply Charlotte Mason web site. Lots of other great stuff here as well.

More Charts

The Chart Jungle has loads of charts that you can print off for free.

Books

Here are two of a bunch of great books I can heartily recommend for reading. These are written by Christians for the science fiction, fantasy, and speculative genres. Check here for reviews and more books and how to buy them.

Music Theory Worksheets

Here are some free worksheets on music theory:

*http://www.enchantedlearning.com/music/ (great for the beginner)

*http://www.lessontutor.com/musicgenhome.html (whole workbooks in pdf file free for grade 1 and 2!)

Back Online

I'm back online and searching the web for some more great freebies. :)

Crashed!

My computer has died, so it may be a while before I can get back to my blogging. Merry Christmas and happy new year to all of you!

Viking Food

The kids and I made these oatcakes as part of our unit study on the Vikings. This simple recipe can be found at Ragnhild's Recipes. (*Note: Bacon/meat drippings can be quite smoky in the house. :) Make sure your frying pan or griddle is really hot. Works better.

Vikings

Viking Tunic Pattern-more in depth, but can be simplified

About Viking Clothing

Viking History-everything about vikings aimed at elementary age

Viking Vocabulary:

rune
Denmark
stone
clothes
food
Viking
ship
raid
jewelry
bread
honey
axe
sword
dagger
knitting
woman
man
women
men
child
children
write

Interesting Viking info:

L'Anse aux Meadows (from the French L'Anse-aux-Méduses or "Jellyfish Cove
located in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, where the remains of a Viking village were discovered in 1960 by the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad and his archaeologist wife, Anne Stine Ingstad.
A group of Norse colonists lived here around the year AD 1000.

The settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows consisted of at least eight buildings, including a forge and smelter, and a lumber yard that supported a shipyard. The largest house measured 28.8 by 15.6 m and consisted of several rooms. Sewing and knitting tools found at the site indicate women were present at L'Anse aux Meadows.
The settlement, dating more than five hundred years before Christopher Columbus, contains the earliest European structures in North America.

Viking, also called Norseman or Northman, refers to a member of the Scandinavian seafaring traders, warriors and pirates who raided and colonized.

In the 8th century was the arrival of missionaries in Denmark. Actual Christianization of the people was very slow and took at least 150-200 years.-taken from Wikipedia

Ancient Recipes, Clothes Pattern

Want to cook what different people groups did in ages past? Check out this link for recipes.

Want to make period clothing? This site was good source of a variety of patterns.

Charts, Pages, Records, Calendars

hi5 Graphics

Free printable Mini charts (a bit of everything here-check out the science charts!)

Notebooking pages (devotional journal pages, math-u-see records, calculadder progress chart, etc)

Jan Brett (printable calendars, bulletin board borders and anything else for it, posters certificates, and all done with great animal pics)

Library spot (calendars...though this is primarily an online library)

Gone for the holidays-be back in the fall!

Used Books for Sale-Canada

Here are some great links for Canadians to buy used Homeschool books:

*We Love Books-found some great deals here.

*CanBook Exchange-have to join (free) to this yahoo group

I'll be adding any more I find as I come across it :)

Under the Sea

Here are some great FREE links to sea creatures and under water life:


*Sea Creatures-tons of stuff here: sea animal chart, octopus video-Baltimore National Aquarium, Drawing sharks and turtles, Interactive Activities, Lesson Plans, and much more.

*Photographs of Sea Creatures-very beautiful (great for art class and for viewing)

*Sea Life-lots of everything here: research, lesson plans, online and offline activities (ocean writing activities, arts and crafts, jellyfish video, other short video clips of sea creatures)

*Sea Creatures Lately Discovered-some previously thought to be extinct and some never before seen (pictures and descriptions)

*Creatures of the Deep-layers of the ocean,deep sea creatures, hydrothermal vents and life around them, giant squid, activities and games (looks like a really great site!)

*Nova online-Deep Sea Bestiary

*10 Horrible Deep Sea Creatures (pictures may be a little scary for young ones)

*Sea coloring pages

*Moses and the Parting of the Red Sea coloring page(two pages:click on Oude Testament, then on Het volk door de zee 1 and 2)

*Ocean Animal Printouts

*National Geographic-sea life

*Discovery of Sounds in the Sea-large audio gallery (hear different sea creature's sounds)

*Sounds Underwater quiz-How do we hear underwater