How cute is this?? The kids get involved in this creative Father’s Day gift, from Currclick (for only a dollar.) There’s also a free matching card that goes along with it.

The Father’s Day “tool kit” is a printable tool box and tools that has a place on each to write favorite memories and special things from each child to make the gift truly unique for him and him alone. Complete with instructions for the 3-D paper tools, check out the site for a full size preview.

This month’s Christian Audio free download of the month couldn’t have come at a better time. This month’s freebie is “Forgotten God,” by Francis Chan.

Earlier this week, Big Daddy downloaded the prequel, the audio version of “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God“* from Amazon.com and he’s been listening to it on his computer out in the office. And I’m so happy that I get the newsletter for Christian Audio, telling me that I get to download the sequel for him for free. (HAPPY FATHER’S DAY, right??) ;0)

To get your free copy, visit christianaudio.com and enter the code “JUN2010″ — good for the month of June only, obviously. =)

*The link to Crazy Love is an affiliate link – which means that if you buy something after clicking through from my site, I get a (very) small commission for sending you there.

This week’s CurrClick Freebie is Math Mammoth: Clock. This is one in a series of Math Mammoth e-books with resources ranging from early addition to division and to geometry. This week only, the Clock resource is available for free download.

From their website:

Math Mammoth Clock is a worktext that covers telling time and reading the clock, telling time intervals, and understanding the calendar.

The book contains both textbook explanations and exercises, and is designed to be very easy to teach from, requiring very little teacher preparation.

Math Mammoth Clock covers reading the clock, figuring out simple time intervals, and using the calendar, all in one book. The topics progress starting from the first grade level to the third grade level. Therefore, you also can let your child work the pages of this book in different time periods, and not go through it all at once, depending on your child’s current level. Read the rest of the description….

I’ve downloaded this ebook for my own children and I really look forward to using it with them. Digging through it, it’s broken down into step by step processes and will not only be helpful teaching my 5 yr old how to tell time, but will be useful for reviewing and strengthening telling time with my 8 yr old.

In addition to learning time, the children will learn to calculate elapsed time, the calendar, and changing time units.

Get your free copy of Mammoth Math: Clock now!

I found this homeschool resource site today: DonnaYoung.org. This lady has been assembling resources and printables for your download and use, from forms to math to language arts and more, since 1998. Check out this snippet from Donna’s Copywork page:

A few ideas for copy-work and dictation….

Grades K-2

As soon as your child can write letters and words, he should begin copy work. The early form of copy work consists of your child looking at a letter or a word that you wrote on the whiteboard or a piece of paper and he copies it on his paper. This is a skill that your child should learn! It will take a while to master it, so do copy work several times a week. Start slowly, one or two letters or numbers at a time.

By the time he is in the first grade, he may be able to begin copying words. Sometime during the first grade you should introduce your child to a sentence. Choose simple two-word sentences such as [We ate.] [Boy runs.] [Girl plays.] Point out to your child that the beginning of a sentence is capitalized and the sentence has an ending mark. [a period] Over several lessons, you may wish to introduce your child to all of the ending marks. [period, question mark, exclamation mark]

Other punctuation: Should you wish to introduce your child to commas, you could approach it in this fashion: You could instruct your child to get 3 of his favorite items. He could write a sentence and include his items such as: I like balls, legos, and cars. If this is too distracting, then you could write a sentence on the white board for your child to copy. Sentences like:
[I see trees, grass, and birds.] [I race with Tom, Mary, and Bob.] This sentence could include capitalization instruction.

Head over and check out Donna’s site for more suggestions and plenty of downloadable resources.

This weeks CurrClick Free e-book is Sheila Carroll’s Narration Notebook-Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare.

She describes it as:

especially for Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by Edith Nesbit. Each play retelling from Nesbit’s book is represented with the original illustrations and lined pages.

Your child will enjoy the ability to produce a written narration of each of the Bard’s plays and have his own book to treasure when completed.

Suggestions for narration are provided. Can be printed in color or black and white.

This is available for free download throughout the rest of the week!

UPDATE: It seems this item is no longer available at CurrClick.com – You can search for other Shakespeare related items here.

School Express offers over 500 Unit Studies & e-Workbooks, available for downloading and printing. Organized by subject, a brief description and appropriate age level is indicated on the download page.

Even though we already have curriculum, the kids always get excited about new worksheets or workbooks. They’re relieved by the influx of new material and the break from the same ol’ same ol’. I downloaded several workbooks for Little Prince to work on when he wasts to “do school” too: mazes, the alphabet & numbers. I picked out some workbooks to help Drama Queen practice addition and phonics. I also downloaded several unit studies to round out Princesses’ studies– including a unit study on bats!

Amber