Free Christmas Unit Study

Here's a free online Christmas Unit Study that will keep your homeschoolers busy all month long.

• Christmas Math Activities
  
• Christmas Language Arts Activities
  
• Christmas History and Geography Activities
  
• Christmas Science Activities
  
• Christmas Bible Activities and Ministry
  
• Christmas Art Activities
  
• Christmas Music Activities
  
• Christmas P.E. Activities
  

Birthday Unit Study

Language Arts:

• Write and address Birthday invitations
• Write Thank you notes for Birthday presents
• Writing Prompts: Your favorite birthday, Your favorite birthday present, What did you do on your Birthday?
• Write a Birthday Haiku or Acrostic Poem
• Write a fictional story about a kid celebrating his/her Birthday.
  
• Spelling worksheets at Enchanted Learning
• Interview a relative about his/her memorable Birthday
• Sing Happy Birthday in Spanish
  
• Sing Happy Birthday in German
  
• Sing Happy Birthday in French
• Sing Happy Birthday in Italian

Library Read Alouds:

• The Secret Birthday Message by Eric Carle
• Happy Birthday Dear Duck by Eve Bunting
• Angelina's Birthday Surprise by Katharine Holabird
• Jenny's Birthday Book by Esther Averill
• Happy Birthday, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by MacDonald, Canham, and Boiger
• A Birthday for Frances by Russell Hoban and Lillian Hoban
• Curious George and the Birthday Surprise by H.A. and Margret Rey and Martha Weston
• A Little House Birthday by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Doris Ettlinger
• Happy Birthday, Samantha (American Girls) by Tripp, Grace, Niles, and Andreasen
• Cam Jansen and the Birthday Mystery by David A. Adler and Susanna Natti
• Angelina Birthday by Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig
• More Birthday Related Books

Math:

• Give your child a Math Board Game as an early Birthday present.
• Find your age in days, hours, and minutes with the Birthday calculator.
  
• Make a bar graph showing the Birthday months of your family and relatives.
• Math worksheet - Guess my Birthday
• Do sorting, adding, subtracting, or multiplying activities using Birthday candles.
• Talk about fractions when baking the cake and angles when cutting the cake.
  

History and Geography:

• Watch a short video about a historical event that happened on your child's Birthday.
• Read a library book about a famous person who was born on your child's Birthday.
• Learn about Birthday traditions around the world
• Start your own Birthday tradition for your child
• Create a "Birthday Hall of Fame" poster to celebrate famous people born during the month of your child's Birthday

Science:

• Take on a fun science related outing for his/her Birthday - children's science museum, the zoo, aquarium, tidal pools, nature preserve, or farm.
  
• Have a Science Themed Birthday Party with experiments
  
• Help your child bake his/her own Birthday cake or cook his/her own Birthday dinner.
• Look up information on the Internet about your Birthday month Birthstone and Flower
  

Art:

• Let your child decorate his/her own Birthday cake using Cake Decorating Ideas at Family Fun.
• Take your child to a craft store and let him/her pick out a new art project like a - model car, latch hook rug, paint by number, or art kit.
• Make a Birthday pinata.
• Entertain party guests by making crafts.
  

PE:

• Do a fun physical activity for his/her Birthday - bowling, ice skating. swimming, hiking, skiing
• Play party games

Bible:

• Devotional - The Birthday Gift

Garden Unit Study

Lori at Heart of the Matter has put together a wonderful Unit Study on Gardens. I can't wait for our snow to melt, so we can get started on a garden.

Here are some fun ideas I have to include in a garden unit study:

Agricultural Field Trips

• Visit a pick your own vegetable field.
• Look around a garden center (in a store) and talk about the different products, plants, and seeds available.
• Tour a greenhouse that grows vegetables or flowers.
• Visit an apiary - a bee farm.
• Go to your County Fair - look at the 4-H and FFA displays of fruits, vegetables, the farming industry, and antique tractors.
• Grow your own beans or tomatoes and deliver them to a soup kitchen.
• Tour a cannery.
• Go to a botanical garden.
• Look around an agricultural museum.
  
• Go through a corn maze and ask for an educational tour, also.
• Visit a pumpkin patch.
• Go to a worm farm and learn how worms are helpful for the soil.
• Look around a home and garden show.
  
• Tour the 4-H Virtual Farm - growing wheat.
• Learn about growing cocoa beans when you view the Making Chocolate Video at the Hershey site.

Make Your Own Container Garden

• Make an Herb Garden (6 min. video)
• Container Sizes and Seed Spacing
  
• Make your growing containers out of recycled items: an old tire, coffee can, plastic ice cream container, basket, trash can, plastic crate lined with cardboard, bucket, bathtub, or washing machine tub.
  

The Garden Game Players plant gardens with their "garden cards", trying to save the most seeds as they feed the soil, nurture plants and help neighbors through difficult weather cycles. The Garden Game is filled with information about every aspect of garden life, from slugs to flowers to weather, and it includes an additional booklet with a glossary and an introduction to gardening. 2-6 Players. $24.99

Easter Unit Study

Writing:

• Write a story about Easter
• Write an Easter play.
• Write a letter to the Easter Bunny.
• Write an interview with the Easter Bunny.
  
• Write a poem or song about Easter or Spring.
• What Easter means to me.
• Write about the religious meaning of Easter.
  
• Describe an activity that you are doing for Easter.
• Write about your favorite Easter.
• Describe the Easter Bunny.
• What is Easter like at your home?
• What would you ask the Easter Bunny?
• Make up an Easter recipe. Write down the ingredients and directions.
• Describe what you eat for Easter dinner.
• Do you think Easter is too commercialized?
• Write about your family's Easter traditions.
• Easter alliterations print out
  

Reading:

• Borrow Easter related books from the library.
• Read the Resurrection story in the Bible.
• 5 worksheets to use with Clifford's Easter by Bridwell
• 5 worksheets to use with Happy Easter, Biscuit by Capucilli
• 5 worksheets to use with The Easter Bunny That Overslept by Friedrich
  
• A Rebus Story Print Out
• Easter Hat comprehension (easy)
  
• Princess Easter comprehension
• Charlie's Easter comprehension
• Easter Eggs comprehension
  
• Bunny Ears comprehension
  

Spelling:

• Easter Word Scramble
• Easter Word Search
  
• Spelling Word List

Math:

• Compare prices and figure out the sale price of Easter candy.
• Make up a math game using Easter advertisement inserts.
• Circle items in a grocery store advertisement and then add the prices together.
  
• Calculate how much is needed when making Easter decorations.
• Measure and double recipes while baking for Easter.
• Sort types of Easter candy and make a graph.
• Sort candy into groups and multiply.
  
• How many hours, minutes, or seconds until Easter?
• Easter Themed Math Worksheets
• Easter Egg Picture Graph 1
  
• Easter Egg Bar Graph 2
  
• Easter Bonnet Bar Graph

History and Geography:

• Activities, Books, and Recipes about The Resurrection
  
• Learn about Easter Traditions around the world.
• Learn about Easter Symbols.
• Take the Easter Quiz.
• Read about the history of Easter at Annie's Easter History Page.
• The history of Easter Candy.
• The history of the White House Easter Egg Roll.
• Learn about Easter Island located in the South Pacific.
  

Science:

• Rabbits and Chickens
  
• Learn about Rabbit Anatomy.
• Learn about the different Breeds of Chickens.
• Chicken Egg and Embryo label me worksheets
  

• Chocolate
• View the Making Chocolate Video at the Hershey site.
• Learn all about chocolate at Chocolate: The Exhibition.
• Learn interesting facts about Chocolate when you take the online Chocolate Quiz.
• Make a chocolate desert.

• Easter Lilies
• Grow and propagate Easter lilies
• Easter Lily bulb production
  

Arts and Crafts:

• Family Fun
• DLTK
• Danielle's Place
• Twin Grove Middle School
• Decorate Cakes and Cupcakes
  

P.E.

• Classic Egg Relay
• Egg and Wooden Spoon Race
• Lame Hen Game
• Carrot Scavenger Hunt
• Easter Egg Treasure Hunt
• Egg Rolling
• Egg Bowling
• Egg Toss
• Knock 'ems
• Cream Countryside

Easter & St. Patrick's Day, Thematic Unit This book is literature based, cross-curricular, and ready to use. It provides activities, many of them hands-on, for all areas of the curriculum, including math, science, language arts, social studies, physical education, art, and music. It includes lesson plans, activities, worksheets, management ideas, and a bibliography. Books used with this unit are: "Leprechauns Never Lie" by Lorna Balian "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter. $8.49

Pioneers Unit Study

Lori, at Heart of the Matter, has put together a great
Unit Study on Pioneers



These are the things our family did when we learned about pioneers:

• Read Bound for Oregon
  
• Read West to a Land of Plenty
  
• Read Caddie Woodlawn
  
• Read The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
• Watched Little House on the Prairie (seasons 1-6)
  
• Watched Into the West - Mini Series (warning - It is realistic and violent, but very educational)
• Played the Oregon Trail CD on the computer
• Made a braided rug pot holder.
• Made butter, custard pie, and molasses cookies.
  
• Learned how to make homemade bread with yeast.
• Raised hens and gathered eggs.
• Dyed white fabric with natural food dyes.
• Learned how to knit.
• Played Little House on the Prairie.
• Went to the Historical Society display at the County Fair (quilts, spinning wool, old tools)
  

Pioneer Days: Discover the Past With Fun Projects, Games, Activities and Recipes Discover the hard work, fun, and adventure of daily pioneer life - learn how to play games, make toys, crafts and recipes, and perform everyday activities.

Little House on the Prairie: Season 1, DVD The Complete First Season (1974-1975) The Ingalls family moves to Minnesota and fights to build their new home in the 1870's on the American Frontier.

The Lewis & Clark Adventure Game Introducing American history, geography, and culture, this educational board game offers two levels of difficulty for two to four players, allowing young and old to join in together. Ages 6 and up.

Christmas Unit Study

This Christmas Unit Study is so long that I put it on it's own site. I didn't want it taking up so much space on my blog.

It is divided into the following categories:

• Math Activities
• Language Arts Activities
• History and Geography Activities
• Science Activities
• Art Activities
• Bible Activities and Ministry
• Music Activities
• PE Activities
  

Christmas Unit Study This unit is literature based, cross-curricular, and ready to use. It provides activities, many of them hands-on, for math, science, language arts, social studies, physical education, art, and music. The books used in "Christmas" are: "Night Tree" by Eve Bunting "The Wild Christmas Reindeer" by Jan Brett "The Polar Express" by Chris Van Allsburg