With Thanksgiving right around the corner many of us have already started thinking about Christmas (whether we want to or not). For us Christmas decorations and music don't being until the day after Thanksgiving, which was a tradition in my household growing up and one that I've continued with my own children. I feel that it's important not to rush each holiday, but...

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Hero-Themed Alphabet Handwriting Worksheets  Who it's for: Pre-K to Kinder Why it's great: Have you met the Educents Heroes? Print these pages out and ask your child practice their alphabet with 53 pages of FREE handwriting alphabet worksheets featuring Super Doggie!! The Educents Heroes are prepared for this activity and have included both lowercase and uppercase letters.     5 More Freebies You...

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Here are some FREE kindle books listed today. 15 Smart Animals From Around The World - Extraordinary Animal Photos & Facinating Fun Facts For Kids: Book 1 (Weird & Wonderful Animals) The Working Chicken: Learn everything you need to know to become a backyard egg and meat producer in 30 minutes or less! Biochemistry Free & Easy The History of England, Volume I...

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If you've been to the stores recently, you'll know that the Christmas and Holiday items are starting to creep their way out onto shelves. Some folks like to start their shopping early as they don't like to deal with the crowds and rushing around at the last minute. The holidays are meant to be a time of peace and time spent with family....

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Life of Fred is a fictional narrative that introduces students to essential concepts in a fun and easy way. Kids really love reading the Fred books. The Language Arts Series covers concepts on spelling, grammar, punctuation and more. This series is best suited for middle school and high school students. The books can be re-read once every year to ensure total comprehension of...

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Check out these science experiments, science freebies, and science books that will make back-to-school fun for everyone. Magic School Bus Polymer Group Pack Seat belts everyone! Get ready to grow amazing polymers! Young Scientists grow super balls, snow, rainbow beads, crystal gels, and polymer flowers while learning about the importance and science of super-absorbent polymers. This kit provides enough materials for 30 students...

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World Maps are so exciting to explore. The best way to engage a student learning about the world, is to ask them to label it. The Mini Peel & Play World Map Set on Educents provides students all the materials they need to explore and label a world map. Better yet, the map is small enough to stick onto the car window while...

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Do your Minecraft kids need some encouragement to practice math? How about a quick addition refresher before going back to school? Download Multi Taskin' Mom's FREE Minecraft Themed Addition Worksheets. These fun math worksheets include single digit to double digit addition, making this freebie useful for Minecraft kids ages 5 to 12. Here's more ways to use your child's interest in Minecraft for...

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Animalearn provides a whole host of resources for educators and students at no cost. Their programs are suitable for a variety of educational levels, including K-12, college/university, and veterinary/medical. They offer humane education curricula and educational kits that cover issues ranging from dissection to product testing. Educators and students can also choose from a large variety of books, brochures, videos, and more, many...

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Age Range: All (All grades, children with parental supervision). This website is companion to the Peabody Award Winning PBS series, Liberty! The American Revolution. But even if you don’t have access to the program, there is still a lot of learning opportunities available here. With this website visitors are encouraged to travel the road through the history of the American Revolution with simple but...

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Age Range: 5-18 (Grades: K-12, with parental supervision). Mr. and Mrs. Farino created The Teachers' Café in 2004. It was originally started as a simple way to store worksheets online instead of using a filing cabinet. http://www.theteacherscafe.com/Grammar/Grammar_Games.php As they began to understand the need for teacher resources their website morphed and changed to meet the growing need and today the website contains literally...

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Age Range: 10-18 (Grades 4-12 with parental supervision). This website is sponsored by the non-profit foundation called SEED (Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development), to support teachers, parents and other mentors with resources to help students learn about technology and science with regard to global issues, such as water, energy, climate change, and much more. SEED offers free science resources including informative articles, lab...

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Here is a really great resource from The Happy Housewife, a free state notebooking pages e-book. The ebook contains notebooking pages for each state within the United States that can be used with any geography or American History curriculum or as a stand alone unit studying details about each of our 50 states.The first page of the eBook includes a generic form that can...

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As technology becomes more prevalent in our daily lives with the creation of kindles and tablets e-books have become quite popular. Libraries are still very important and we shouldn't neglect them, but for those days when you or the kids are sick, snowed in, or rained out turning to online library sources can be extremely helpful and necessary. I came across Open Library...

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Playdough Ingredients Two cups of plain flour One cup of salt Two cups of water Two teaspoons of cream of tartar Two tablespoons of cooking oil  Method Add all the ingredients into a pan. Cook mixture over a medium heat, stirring continuously to prevent sticking to the pan. When the mixture comes away from the sides of the pan remove from heat. Take...

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