Knights

I challenged my daughter to pick a history topic, any topic related to history and she shouted without hesitation, "Knights, medieval knights." Today's topic to explore is therefore, knights, medieval knights.

Cybersleuth kids has eight links to different aspects of being a knight.

For a more in depth look at medieval times presentations for kids, Mr. Donn's World History offers information, lessons, games and more.

Happy homeschooling!

New Start-Mushrooms

Spring is a time of starting anew. It is also a time to explore our world and to seek out hidden treasures. Sorry for the Star Trek like introduction-sometimes we are influenced by what we read and see and recently I did watch a version of Star Trek I had never seen before. Regardless, the point is that spring brings out a sense of exploration and discovery unlike any other season. The outdoors beckons and is revealing treasures that have been hidden over the winter. While the flowers and trees take the lead with their obvious bursts of colors and leaves another species takes a subtler approach. They are the mushrooms. Let's explore mushrooms today.

The American Mushroom Institute has a wonderful and informative lesson plan to start our investigation of mushrooms.

Another lesson plan from the North American Mycological Association takes more of a hands on approach.

Fish and Fish Science Projects

"Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will spend it's whole life believing that it is stupid." -Albert Einstein

I love that quote. It is certainly something to consider.

One of my favorite spring activities growing up was going smelting. Now I didn't care much for cleaning and eating them but catching them-that was fun. Smelt are fish and fish is today's science/nature topic.

To learn more about smelting and smelt

Fish of the Great Lakes: Smelt

Amazing pictures and information about fish from National Geographic online

Science Fair Projects and Experiments with fish

Flowers

Taking a walk around the farm, I see flowers and trees blooming. Spring has arrived. This is a great time to explore natural science with hands on activities outside. Before getting outside and observing nature it might help to review some basic concepts.

How Plants and Flowers Grow

Science Lesson Plans

National Gardening Month

April is National Gardening Month and in honor of that today's links will be related to gardening.

Gardening for Kids This site has links to several gardening resources

Physical Education

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. With the beautiful weather but unpredictable weather it is a great time to try to get outside and stretch and walk and learn as you go. In other words it is a great time to get outside and exercise if the weather permits. Today we will look at sites dedicated to Physical Education.

Teacher's Net Physical Education Lesson Plans

PE Central for K-2

Happy Easter Links

Just a reminder I won't be posting over the weekend but I want to note the celebration of Easter with some links for the little ones-coloring pages and activities.

Have Fun Teaching-Easter worksheets

Kiddyhouse Easter worksheets and coloring

Happy Easter!