Sallie Schaaf Borrink
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If you are looking for some pretty printable calendars, I have just the thing! I created two new sets of calendars that feature classic gingham patterns in a variety of colors.
One set is vertical.
The other set is horizontal.
These sets begin in September 2023 and go until December 2024 so you don’t have to wait to use them.
Click on either one above or below to see more details and download a preview PDF.
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Copywork is a fantastic way for children to practice a number of writing skills. I’ve taken the concept of copywork in a bit of a different direction by offering a collection of fun facts about a wide variety of interesting subjects children enjoy.
Each worksheet present the child with a fascinating fact coupled with a memorable graphic. All of the copywork topics below are also available in Fun Fact Cards in my learning shop.
I’ve grouped them together below as:
I invite you to see all of the topics below. Click on any cover to see more details and sample pages in my shop.
Enjoy practicing handwriting with themes such as Apples, Squirrels, Pumpkins, and the classic Robert Louis Stevenson poem “Autumn Fires.”
Have fun with Thanksgiving, Christmas Around the World, and Christmas holiday themes.
Your child will enjoy learning about these fascinating creatures each day while practicing handwriting. These sets include Butterfly, Birds, and Insects & Bugs.
Learn about fascinating creatures from around the world while doing handwriting practice each day. These include Penguins, Reptiles, Amphibians, and the unique Animals of Africa.
The popular topics of Trees, Farm, and Flowers & Plants will help your children learn about things that grow while doing handwriting.
If you asked children to name some of their favorite science topics, these would be sure to be on the list. Don’t miss out on Weather, Rocks & Minerals, and Solar System!
Learn about the unique countries of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Mexico while doing copywork.
Explore some of the most interesting places on Earth including the Oceans, the Arctic, and Antarctica.
More history topics that will be fun for your children. These include U.S. Presidents, Women’s History Month, and Chinese New Year.
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Brain breaks are a great tool, but oftentimes they are created for a teacher to use with a larger group of children in a classroom setting. I decided to update and rewrite mine so they are geared toward homeschooling families since homeschooling families are truly my focus.
Brain Breaks for Homeschoolers can be a helpful part of your homeschooling day. They provide your children with the opportunity to move around, use their body, and improve their brain/body connection with just a few minutes of time. While it might be easy to view them as one more thing to fit into an already full day, the reality is they can help your children be more productive and increase their ability work effectively. Most of them only take a few minutes to complete so it is not a significant time commitment.
The brain breaks in this pack vary from simple with nothing needed to a bit more involved with a small item and/or music. You can choose how to use them each day based on how much your children need to move around.
I suggest printing them out on cardstock, laminating the cards, and putting them on a ring. It makes them durable and easy-to-use.
They are available for purchase in my shop: Brain Breaks for Homeschoolers.
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Pocket charts and sentence strips can be fun addition to your early years of homeschooling. They are interactive and work well with children who benefit from a more hands-on approach to learning. You can use them for:
When Caroline was little, we made a pocket chart stand of PVC pipe for our homeschool room. You can see a picture of it here in our learning room from that time.
David put together the plans so other parents could make their own. (Details on this sample are blurred out.)
If you are interested in making your own frame, you can find it in my shop: Pocket Chart Stand – PVC Pipe DIY Plans.
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I’ve created this collection of 50 Printable U.S. State Maps plus Washington, D.C. to be a handy tool for homeschooling families. These maps can be used over and over again with all kinds of geography, history, and literature units. Each map includes a title line for accurately labeling the content displayed.
All of the states are available individually, but the savings is significant when you purchase the entire set. If you have The Lifetime Shopping Pass, you can download the easy-to-use maps with your personal coupon code.
I’ve included a sampling of the maps below. You can see all 51 of them in my shop under Maps.
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This week I added a bunch of counting picture puzzle printables to the shop. These are a fun and colorful way for your child to practice counting 1-10 and 11-20.
There is a nice variety of themes to start with for now. I hope to add more so they can be used throughout the year whenever a child is ready to practice this skill. We know children learn at their own pace so what is just the right time for one child isn’t for the next.
Click on any image to see it in the shop.
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As I alluded to in The Final Pivot and explained in Life In Our Home This Week and Catching Up, I’ve been formulating behind the scenes how to effectively use everything I’ve written and created over the past eighteen years to help people both now and in the years to come. At the same time, whatever I decided to do had to simplify things around here.
Part of that process was deciding to create The Lifetime Shopping Pass for my shop.
One could argue this isn’t the smartest business decision. It would make more sense to offer monthly, quarterly, and yearly options so it creates an ongoing revenue stream for me. There is truth to that. But as I said, I crave simplicity here. I don’t want WordPress membership plugins and such that complicate what I’m trying to do. I’ve tried various things over the years. I’ve observed many bloggers in all sorts of niches struggle with these choices. It ends up being copious amounts of work in most cases. I’m deliberately pivoting away from all that.
In the end, I decided I want three things.
Offering The Lifetime Shopping Pass is the best solution that meets all those needs.
One important note! If you purchased A Full Year Shopping Pass in the past, you qualify for a reduced price upgrade. Even if your pass has expired, I still want to offer you the upgrade at a reduced price. I explained the details in the FAQs.
I hope many people will find this pass helpful. Please feel free to spread the word!
