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7 Easy Hands on Homeschooling Ideas When You’re Not the Bomb Mom

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I was a Nazi homeschooling momma prior to adding hands-on activities to our homeschool day. I will say it: I didn’t like hands-on activities. All I could think of was how time consuming they would be. And what could you possibly learn from doing them that you can’t just pick up and read in a book and understand faster or watch a video.

Hands On Learning For Hands Off Mom

My hallucination dream at the time the kids were small was to have a clean house, that is ALL at one time. You know what I mean. One day I had a clean commode, oh wow. Never mind the kitchen was a mess on the same day, but I was sure proud of that commode. Okay, you get the idea why a great big huge mess hand on ideas didn’t appeal to me.  I was too busy being clean organized. My mantra then: Get up, get started on your school work and I don’t want to hear about being behind.

My kids were afraid of me. I was afraid of myself.  Feeding my crazed notion was the fact that Mr. Senior 2013, like me, was a visual learner so he was fine with “reading” picture books as our great hands-on activity” for the day. There were many times he wanted to do more hands-on, but I failed to see the signals. Okay, no, I didn’t want to see the tell-tale signs because it meant straying off my well-laid out lesson plans and the Nazi momma in me couldn’t do that.

I added in Mr. Awesome to our school and right away, I had huge problems. Besides being overwhelmed because I was teaching more than one child now, he learned best — yep—by hands on.  Horrible mom that I was, I first blamed his “resistance” on him. He can’t sit still, he doesn’t want to learn, he has a bad attitude (oh uhmm let me see he is only 4 years old) and he is behind were all things that I uttered.

I came to the point where I even considered putting them both in public school. Yes, I went there. I was not the bomb mom.

At that lowest point in my homeschooling, I had to decide if I wanted to succeed and to start taking responsibility for it instead of doing what was comfortable for me. I realized that there was going to be no quick fix, but I could start small. Yes, I set out to be a risk taker.

Here are 3 simple tips to help you be a risk taker by bringing in more hands-on learning to your day.

  • The ideas do not have to be complicated. The emphasis is on “doing” and being together or fostering sibling bonds.  Children are content with a lot less than we realize.
  • Try to keep a supply of materials that you keep separate and already organized so that when you decide to do an activity, especially for science then you have a small stash. I use clear shoe boxes for my supplies. For example, I know that food coloring, baking soda and funnels are not going to be in my box because that is in the kitchen. I collect as I go and I do put pieces of sandpaper, magnets, corks, string, beads, beakers, droppers, magnifying glasses, tape, goggles, and baby food jars in there to name a few. It cuts down on the stress of rounding it up and allows us to be spontaneous if we want to.
  • Try to do one hands-on activity a week with all of your kids, NOT per child. When they get older, then they can start helping by rounding up the supplies like my sons did.

Controlled Creativity

Look at this easy list of things to do to bring in hands-on learning to your school. You can use these with a mix and match of ages. I listed hands-on activities that keeps the mess to less at your home when you don’t have the time and energy to keep your house clean.

Hands On Homeschooling Using Puzzles

(putting together a puzzle about the Amazon)

Puzzles girl! Yep, keep it easy. Old or young, not one of my sons complained when they put together a puzzle. Look here at GeoPuzzles too. When purchasing them just think about learning and keep age appropriate puzzles in your home when you need a break for hands-on. Love the mess on this one. (ha ha)

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Do a lapbook/notebook TOGETHER as ONE family project. I know I have said it before, but lapbooks are an easy fun way to bring in hands on EVEN for older kids.  You know we do ours for enrichment and to break up our routine so we go slower on them.

Several times throughout  the year, we have created one family project.  The first time we studied the  American Civil War unit was an example of this. We did a combination of lapbooking and notebooking. Each of the boys contributed to it.

So instead of having 3 projects going on and being insane because I tripled the amount of work I had to help them finish, I managed just one and this kept it where we could enjoy it.

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Cook a meal together. One year when studying about Africa, we cooked a meal together AND a side benefit to this was supper was already done.

Sometimes the practical side of me wants to take over and I let it.  I think of the benefits of something hands-on to the family if we prepare food.

Think of home made bread, home made pizza when studying about Italy and baking pastries when studying about France.

Look at here Switzerland Homeschool Geography Unit Study (and Lapbook) where my son made bread.

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Egyptian Game

Play Educational Games together. This year when I couldn’t really find a game they liked or didn’t have one on studying Ancient Egypt, I created an Ancient Egyptian Game. Grab it if you want it too.

Again, I can create in my own time and use the game at the time that I need it or when they need a break for something hands on.

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Instead of growing plants, use them to experiment with. Growing up my mother loved to work in the yard almost to a fault. I think it is therapeutic in a way for her. She constantly had us out there digging in dirt when I would have preferred to do something else.

Call me insane, but now I have no desire to grow a plant much less dig in dirt. My siblings all love it. I am the only one that cringes with agony when I think of digging in the dirt. So I use plants already grown, thank you, to do my science activities. Oh I planted a garden one year too and it was pure agony for me. But, I did it when the kids were little so they could learn about plants.

About the picture above, one year we were investigating if a bromeliad (pineapple) could actually hold water and then the boys did play in the dirt to see if they could grow another pineapple.  Another year too, I purchased a (one) tomato plant in a container when the boys were little. When it sprouted and we had tomatoes, they were enamored. I learned that I didn’t have to grow a garden for them to understand plants. A simple bean in a jar and a plant purchased works too.

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Coffee Filter Book

Leather & Beadwork/Coffee Filter Book. Neither one of these projects are messy either. My sister is almost an expert at leather crafts so we did these pouches for our Native American unit.

But, you can buy leather craft kits already and have the kids put them together. Hobby Lobby has craft kits already put together. I love that place! So many hands on history things to choose from too.

Another easy thing is a coffee filter book. Yep those are coffee filters and we used some pastel chalk (get in some art) to create pictures on each page and then used shoe string with bead work to bind it. That’s it! Easy peasy but they loved it.

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Let them “draw” those worksheets. When studying animal and plant cells, I think we probably could have yawned ourselves to sleep if we read about one more cell. Because I wanted my sons to take something away from our study, I allowed them to draw about the topic we were covering. Look ahead in your nice neat well laid out plans and see if there is something better understood by a simple, but fun drawing.

Sometimes I hear homeschoolers say that their kid learns better by just reading.  That has never been my experience. What I have seen though is apprehension or fear of hands-on activities from the parent.

They fear

  • the unknown;
  • the mess;
  • not knowing how to grade hands-on projects or not knowing how to measure progress and
  • it being a flop.

True, all those things may happen and they did to me. I had a rude awakening when some things I planned did not work. However, out of that failure came self-determination to try other things because I saw a tiny spark of the passion for learning in my boys.

There is something about doing hands-on that strengthens the skills of a child and stirs him to be intellectual.

Remember, hands-on activities can have humble beginnings and stay that way until you feel like homeschooling on the wild side. They do not have to be complicated or messy.  I still don’t feel like the bomb mom, but it won’t be because I wasn’t willing to take the risk.

Do you have any activities that you do that are simple, but pack a punch?

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Humboldt Who? Hands On to Understand Ocean Currents & Their Effect On The Galapagos Islands

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Unless you’re an over the top marine biologist or oceanographer, it may not be very exciting to study about ocean currents, wind direction and their affect on the Galapagos Islands.

I knew I had to think of something a bit more engaging to introduce Alexander von Humboldt, the German naturalist and explorer after whom the Humboldt Current off the west coast of South America was named.

So I found this easy hands on activity to do to better understand how wind moving over water drags surface water along the path. It also  simulates the flow of the Humboldt Current in the Pacific Ocean helping Tiny to grasp some of the concepts.

Easy Ocean Currents Activity

There is a lot of complicated factors that can determine currents in the ocean, but I like simple always. Hopefully, he walks away with understanding some of this.  From our past readings like Carry on Mr. Bowditch he did understand some about prevailing winds or trade winds.

In this activity I wanted him to understand that the movement of surface water away from the coast, bringing cold water from the subsurface which is nutrient rich supports an abundance of life on the Galapagos Islands.

Hands On Activity to Understand Humboldt Ocean Current

Look at these things I used for this first experiment

  • a rectangle cake pan. I had a disposable one, you could easily use a glass one you already have.
  • a map of the eastern Pacific. Our Junior Atlas was nice and big and easy to see the coast of North and South America.
  • a permanent marker if you are using a disposable pan or a non-permanent marker if you use your kitchen glass pan.
  • modeling clay
  • food coloring though its easier to see the current (food coloring) if you keep the water clear. I have no little bitty ones anymore so I allowed Tiny to color his water blue because he understood what to look for when we added the second color of food coloring
  • bendable flexible straw/s for how many however kids you have


Draw with your marker on the right side of your pan the outline of the west coast of North and South America. I just did this freehand.

Ocean Currents Activity

Then have them follow the pattern with the modeling clay to make a wall or ridge of land.

Make sure your ridge of land is water tight so that no water comes over it and Tiny even built a wall.

Then add some “land” to the west of South America which is the Galapagos. We kind of eyeballed where it was by looking at the  “coast” and put it close to what would be the “equator” too. Eyeballing is good enough.

Then fill your pan with the “ocean”. Like I said, if you have real young kids, just keep the water clear because the food coloring to  show the current makes a much more wow statement. But, having the ocean blue makes it cool too.

Be sure the water gets still before the “wind” comes……

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Bend your straw and point the short end, before the bend of the straw, toward the water. Mr. Awesome had the second food coloring drop ready in place.

Then gently blow the “wind” across the surface to see how the current is affected by the wind. There it is! The response I wanted.  Such an easy hands on activity to understand something a little more complicated.

The darker color shows the pattern of ocean currents that the wind produces. You can also do this activity another way but this time blow along the coast of Central America toward South America or (from North to South) because it represents the Panama Current that brings warmer water to the northern Galapagos Islands.

Easy, fun and I had all the makings for this hands on activity in my house already.

South America Printable Minibooks

Also, look at these minibooks which come in the free South America lapbook 27 page download.

  • Animals of the Galapagos fan book which includes the Giant Tortoise, Lava Lizard, Marine Iguana, Green Turtle, Galapagos Penguins, Magnificent Frigate Bird, Blue-Footed Booby, and Blue-Banded Goby.
  • Comparing Mountain Climate Zones
  • Simon Bolivar Copywork
  • Map of South America to label and one labeled
  • Machu Picchu – Lost City of the Inca
  • Negrinho – A dessert from Brazil
  • How to Memorize the Countries of South America and Dependent
  • Map Flags to put on your salt dough map
  • 2 – The Galapagos Island layered book. One prefilled with facts and one blank to add your own information.
  • Vocabulary Pocket and Vocabulary Words

More South America Unit Study Resources

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Hands On History Kit–South America Unit Study

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Art In History Kit

When I was planning our hands on activities for our South America unit study, I realized that not so many were fun and age appropriate.  So I was tickled when we got a chance to play with review a fun hands on history kit from Art in History. We chose the Incan empire food vessel kit.

So you know how Tiny got his mom’s lack of art creativity, but it has never hindered us from schooling on the wild side when we set out for an art adventure. The Incan Empire Food Storage Vessel kit helps all novice and expert art adventurers alike because it contains everything you need in one sweet box for each child.

Here is what came in our kit:

  • A replica of a jar from the Incan Empire.
  • Paintbrush, sponge, paint pallet, acrylic paint pods AND
  • FREE lesson plan with background information on the Incan Empire.
World History Ancient Egypt - King Tutankhamun Tomb Frieze (1333- 1324 BC) Middle Eastern Studies - Omani Majmar (100-Present) French Revolution - Limoges Style Tabatiere (1769-1324)
American History Mission of San Antonio De Valero - Alamo Fresco Tiles (1718-1793) American Revolution - Colonial Teapot (1763-1788) English Colonial - Slipware Plate (1650-1800)

 

With so many choices of art projects for world history and American history plus the fact that we can have another excuse to study history longer made us excited about this craft.

We spent several days poring over the lesson plan and tying it in to what we learned so far on our South America unit study.  It is hard to focus on the background information with all the art and craft supplies waiting for Tiny’s itching little hands.

Even though the lesson plan didn’t come with questions and answers or vocabulary words, I am glad because the teacher in me would have been tempted to have him complete all of that before we started.  If you tend to be relaxed on the days you do hands on projects like I am, then you will like the background information provided in the lesson plan and can use it as a read through.

We did an oral narration after we read through it because I wanted our focus to stay on the delight of doing something hands on. After we read it together, I made sure too that Tiny had some kind of idea of how to plan his design which is geometrical for the Incans. Hands on History Kit - Incan Empire South America

The 12 page free lesson plan (wow) has an ample amount of information in it including a color map and color samples (thank you) of how to paint the jar.  Next time when I get a kit, I will hold back the art part of the kit and use the free lesson plan to build our unit study so Tiny doesn’t know about about the art. We stalked our mail man on this one, but I will keep it a secret next time because I didn’t know the free information would be so very helpful in building my unit study.

Discovery Through Creativity

If you wanted to build a more in depth unit study from the free lesson plan received with your kit, you could use the information in several ways:

  • locate the Incan Empire on the map for geography;
  • prepare a vocabulary word puzzle with some of the terms for language arts;
  • create more hands on activities like a quipu (a special knotted string) for art history;
  • focus on understanding the areas like Cuzco and Machu Picchu for history;
  • include some science on understanding the spread of disease like small pox which was introduced to the Incans from the Europeans; and
  • I could see some nature sketches because the Incan people liked to use natural landscapes and simple forms on their pottery.

Regarding the art part of this kit, I loved the fact that the kit comes with the acrylic paint colors that would be used in that time period. Each pod is just the right amount to complete the project and believe me Tiny had to paint it several times or just so until his standard was met.

Warm tones of brown and sepia make up this kit and if you look  at the website, for Art in History you can see that other appropriate colors for that time in history are matched up to to each product.

Of course, you can never go wrong with step by step painting directions too. We need them at our house, but you are probably more artsy than we are.

Hands on History Kit for Unit Study History Kit

I do like the fact that I was not scrambling to locate all of our art products or pulling buckets tubes of paint that have either gone bad or having to buy new ones because I didn’t have the “right” color in the house at the moment. Just a dab will do you on paint as we have learned over the years so the paint pods are just the right amount and size.

Incan Food Storage Incan Food Storage

The tips such as using a rubber band around your jar and sketching your design first on paper, I found very helpful.

Tiny made his own pattern on paper first too, which consisted of diamonds, circles and lines. Then instead of line drawing on the jar, he painted free hand onto his jar. He didn’t want to use the rubber band or pencil lightly on the jar because it “it might mess it up” according to him.

Our children have different standards for their work at different ages.  And, I have found that the delight is in the process of learning, creating and doing it his way.

But isn’t that what counts? When they are delighted with the end project. (Don’t tell anybody, but Tiny actually put some food in there to see if he could get it out.)

Interdisciplinary Learning – What?

I have to let you know one more thing which has the unit study loving teacher in me excited and that is Art in History has expansive teacher’s guides for unit studies. You know unit study providers which has content laid out can be limited at times. It can be daunting to plan and why reinvent the wheel when we can spend our time doing something else we enjoy. So that is why I am tickled about this new company because their unit studies are laid out in a 4 – 5 day lesson format.

Check out the teacher’s guides at Art in History that are for an in-depth unit study.

This project is a big hands on hit in our home.  Here are some of our other hands on projects too.

Negrinho a Dessert From Brazil

Salt Dough Map

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Negrinho From Brazil–South America Unit Study

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Today, I am sharing a dessert recipe called Negrinho from Brazil. Also, look at my page South America Unit Study Resources and Free Lapbook.

Tiny made this as we continue on in our study of South America.

You know how we often sneak in some baking or cooking and call it history or is that social studies? We found a recipe where we had just about had all the ingredients on hand, so we whipped this up.

The book we used said that Brazilian children often make Negrinho to share with their friends at parties.

Recipe For Negrinho from Brazil - South America Unit Study
negrinho from Brazil

It was such an easy recipe with just a few key ingredients. Of course , it didn’t call for chocolate chips, but a little extra chocolate didn’t hurt. Well,  it did call for sweetened cocoa. So we added both.

Negrinho From Brazil–South America Unit Study
ingredient from negrinho

I have to admit that I have not given Tiny as much time behind the stove as  I have with the other boys. Maybe its something with him being the last kid so this was a perfect chance to increase his cooking skills.

Negrinho From Brazil–South America Unit Study

He actually is similar to Mr. Senior 2013. They both like to be cooking or at least interested in eating it. A little chocolate dessert helps to spur on those skills.

One mistake we made in making it that we won’t make next time is not letting it cook long enough. The minute the chocolate chips were finished, we were ready to eat the stuff.  So instead of balls at the end, we had one long river of ewwwwy gooey chocolate goodness.

He tried to form balls but we had to put it in the refrigerator to help out. Then we ate REAL fast.south ameria unit study negrinho from Brazil

He wasn’t so sure he would liked his own cooking……………

but one bite and he was sold. It was super sweet, but sooooo good.

We love walnuts and not so much a fan of coconut, so we rolled ours in some chopped walnuts.

Absolutely delicious!! Let me know if you try it.

South America Printable Minibooks

Also, look at these minibooks which come in the free South America lapbook 27 page download.

  • Animals of the Galapagos fan book which includes the Giant Tortoise, Lava Lizard, Marine Iguana, Green Turtle, Galapagos Penguins, Magnificent Frigate Bird, Blue-Footed Booby, and Blue-Banded Goby.
  • Comparing Mountain Climate Zones
  • Simon Bolivar Copywork
  • Map of South America to label and one labeled
  • Machu Picchu – Lost City of the Inca
  • Negrinho – A dessert from Brazil
  • How to Memorize the Countries of South America and Dependent
  • Map Flags to put on your salt dough map
  • 2 – The Galapagos Island layered book. One prefilled with facts and one blank to add your own information.
  • Vocabulary Pocket and Vocabulary Words

More South America Unit Study Resources

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Free Fall Unit Study Ideas– For Older Kids Too

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I have free fall unit study ideas for older kids today. Also, I have this page Fall Unit Study {Pumpkins, Leaves, Corn, & More} for more fall ideas.

If I close my eyes and wish real hard, cool air may blow into my back yard here in Texas.

Though today is officially the start of fall, the truth of it is that I am sitting here typing this in my shorts and sandals.

However, I’ve rounded up some free fall unit study ideas and some of older kids too.

Whenever cool weather gets here, we always take time to do something special. It could be simple poetry reading or a craft or two.

Last year, heaven forbid, we don’t cover an apple unit before we complete homeschooling, we finally did one.

Free Fall Unit Study Ideas

This year, since we are focused on South America some poetry and delish sounding fall recipes are looking good.

So I decided to round up some free resources and construct a unit study for you.

Too, because there seems to be a gazillion things for preschoolers, (you know I love them) but not many free resources to include the older kids, I have included some ideas for them too.

Even if you aren’t a unit study lover, I know everybody likes to get off the beaten path and this gives some variety and pizzazz to the day when you need it and well, it’s FREE. Have to love that.

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Free Fall Homeschool Unit Study Ideas

I am using one of my planning pages from my Unit Study Planner to show you how ideas can be taken from an idea to a study topic.

You can see above at how I fleshed out my thoughts and I still did not have enough boxes to cover a few facts under history too.

More Fall Ideas for Teens

The life of Johnny Appleseed could make for a mini geography report on the states he traveled through without making it babyish.

First, there are many subtopics that can fit under fall and some of them are:

  • leaves,
  • trees,
  • pumpkins,
  • autumn-flowering plants,
  • migration, affect of weather on animals,
  • apples,
  • early time keeping,
  • sundials,
  • fall fruits,
  • even wine making or picking grapes,
  • getting sap from a sugar maple tree; and
  • making syrup.

Sometimes just a fact or two about the subtopics can spur the creative juices in both you and your children. Everybody will want to study something different each year to keep it lively.

Next, look at a few of these quick facts or ideas for each subtopic.

Awesome Autumn Vocabulary

Vocabulary ideas for learning about studying about fall for both younger and older children.

  • equinox
  • conifer/deciduous
  • seasonal growth
  • camouflage
  • sugar maple tree
  • Fall or Autumn?
  • supply/demand regarding farming commodities like corn
  • enzymes
 

Autumn Animal Study/Quick Facts

Some oral narration or a mini report focused on one of these animals would work for your animal lover.

Arctic Fox –  It’s fur is brown in the summer to match its surroundings, but in the fall, it sheds it fur and grows a new white fur for camouflage in the upcoming months.

Frogs – In the spring, they are part of the pond food web. In fall, they move onto land and become part of the meadow food web.

Dormouse – It feeds eagerly in fall to store up body fat for the winter

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Autumn Tree Study

Coniferous Forests – Pines and firs make up coniferous forests. These trees are evergreen providing shelter for animals all year long.

Deciduous trees – Their leaves fall off, but their berries, fruit and nuts provide food for the animals in the coming winter.

Maple Sugar – How to tap a maple sugar tree for sap.

Fall Flowering Plants

How does a scientist study in the fall? Preserving plants now to study later.

Do a hands on project and some nature art by sketching the plants, then putting them between two white sheets of construction paper and put a heavy weight on it and wait.

Retrieve them in the dead of winter when there are fewer plants to study and observe.

A chrysanthemum is normally a fall flowering plant and the topic could make a plant study.

Look at my Unit Study Historic Trees to put a history slant on studying about trees.

Fungi Great Decomposers

Field mushrooms – During the fall, field mushrooms spring up overnight in damp pastures and meadows.  Great topic for older students.

History in Autumn

The Ford Motor Company introduced the Model T in October, 1908. Check out the free printable and information.

The Panama Canal was turned back over to Panama in the fall. This would make an excellent topic for older students concerning the engineering feat of this project.

Links: Fall Printables & Lesson Ideas

Fall Apple GrowingFall Apple Printing
  • This site, Yakima Valley Museum has a 32 page download A is for Apple with the ideas and information pictured above for an easy craft for the younger kiddos and some for older kids.

One of the links is not working, but the others are on this scavenger hunt around the net about autumn things. The YouTube video is a math rap song by a teacher teaching perimeter. I ‘m impressed. But I am easily impressed because BELIEVE me you don’t want me singing, much less doing a math rap.

Decomposing

The decomposition column looks like a great idea for a fun and easy hands on project too.

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Handprint Autumn Tree Craft
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Football Snack Mix
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Autumn Music

We love classical music in our home and so we listened to The Four Seasons by Vivaldi on YouTube and that would make a great music focus.

Listen to Autumn at 20:59 or close to that number.

And then finally don’t forget that I have two full page here of free printables.

I have poetry, lapbooks, apples and art.

What do you think? Either you are hungry, ready to be inspired, or exhausted from reading all these ideas.

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Do you have some fall activities you are doing or lined up?

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Free Fall Unit Study Ideas - For Older Kids Too.

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