This week’s freebie at Currclick: A root and compound word unit, 14 pages, based on the Dick and Jane reader, Friends Old and New. It doesn’t say what age or grade but I’d say it’s good for 1st and 2nd graders, depending on your child’s reading level. Click on the image below to get it free!

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This week’s Curr-Click freebie is a ebook called “Organize Your Homeschool” by LeBedz Publishing. Their summary:

“Does it take you half an hour to find the grammar book each morning? Do the kids take five minutes to find and sharpen a pencil? Many people ask, “Why bother to organize? It is too much work!” That has an easy answer: organization equals peace and consistency! In addition, I think that it is much less work to teach in an organized space than to try to find space and tools to teach every day. You reap what you sow: sow peace and efficiency into your homeschool to reap peace and effectiveness. This e-book shows you how to set up an organized homeschool space, even if it’s your kitchen table. You’ll discover the top ten tools and how to use them. You’ll finally be able to tackle the mountain of art projects and math papers. You’ll learn how planning ahead can save you time and energy without being restrictive, and more.”

I’m getting more and more organized with our homeschool anyway, but the title certainly caught my eye so I downloaded it. (I have a weakness for freebies!) There are pages and pages of tips and suggestions in this ebook – from organizing your thoughts, to organizing your supplies to organizing your paperwork for the state (if you need to do that.) I’ve scanned it over and I’m already sure that I’m going to find at least a tip or two that I can implement right away.

Ordinarily $5.95, this ebook is free for the rest of this week — Check it out here.

Dan’s Doodles III is this week’s Currclick freebie. It contains 30 new designs to keep little, and big hands busy for hours.

An added bonus this week is a Father’s Day freebie: “Father’s Day Notebooking Pages.” You can download it free right now by clicking HERE.

I downloaded this for the kids and the thing I like best about it is that it provides a variety of options for a variety of age levels. There are blank (ruled and decorated) pages for older children who can write there own letters. There are writing prompts for younger children , “Dad, you are great because________,” that you could also use with very young children, asking their answers verbally and writing it down for them.

Included are several cover sheets to choose from, places to draw pictures and a special certificate for Dad. Depending on the age levels of your children, each child could create their own individual books, or your children can work together to make one big book for Dad on his special day.

To get your own copy free, check out Father’s Day Notebooking Pages at Currclick, free this week only.

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This week’s Currclick freebie is “The Baroque Era – Art, Architecture and Music.” Usually $19.00, it’s available this week for FREE download.

From their site:

In this comprehensive and multisensory 248 page unit study, your children will explore much more than baroque art, architecture and music! This unit study takes your child on a journey through time, from 1600-1750, to learn about the history, culture, arts, and global influences in Western Europe during the baroque period. Children will engage in interactive and multi-sensory activities while studying and comparing the art, architecture and music of the baroque masters. Children will meet Annibale Carracci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Bernini, Wren, Vivaldi, Bach and Handel while exploring their unique contributions to the arts. While on their journey, children will also examine cultural movements within an historical context, daily life in Baroque England, baroque fashion and meals, baroque entertainment, exploration and establishment of North American settlements in Jamestown and Plymouth, Galileo, Sir Isaac Newton, The Thirty Years’ War, Château Versailles, sonnets, musical counterpoint, art patrons, the War of Spanish Succession, and so much more!

All 113 activities in this unit study are laid out in an easy to follow format with an active and updated web link. Click on the link and the best resources on the World Wide Web appear for your children. But this unit study is not just a collection of web sites to read! It is much more than that! The links bring the world to your children by providing streaming videos, interactive web sites, educational games, audio files, hands-on activities, experiments, crafts, and more. At Intellego Unit Studies, we believe in the varied learning styles and multiple intelligences of every child. That’s why all of our unit studies include reading and writing activities, videos, art, music, comparisons, drawing and painting, discussions, hands-on activities, experiments, art projects, full-color high resolution graphics, printable activity pages, and more!

To get your Currclick Freebie, CLICK HERE.

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This week’s Currclick Freebie is the Happy Scribe Copybooks:Pet Friends. A good way to get in some extra handwriting practice over the summer or perhaps appeal to a reluctant writer who loves animals.

From their site:

If you want your children to have beautiful handwriting, then they need to practice! However, so many handwriting copybooks offer boring, worn-out sayings that do not interest most children today! How about combining your children’s interests and studies into their handwriting drills to make them fun and exciting? Happy Scribe Copybooks are just the answer!

Each copybook has twenty sayings, presented in three different common handwriting fonts: Classic Block Printing, D’Nealian Italic and Cursive. We have based these exercises on twenty day blocks, representing four weeks of five days, for one month of exercises. There are basic alphabets and number pages for extra drill pages as well as a blank page to print for your own exercises, if you so please.

Each saying is printed once in a dark solid typeface for reference. The second example is using a dashed font to be traced over. Then there is a blank line for the student scribe to try reproducing the saying. After that, there is a light grayed saying to make sure they are on track. It’s a proven fact, that when presented with several blank lines to practice on, student’s work tends to degrade quickly. However, when there is another faint reminder quote line, they will see much more consistent results in the quality of their handwriting.

Click here to get this Currclick freebie, only good for the rest of this week!