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St. Patrick Day is approaching, what fun activities do you have planned?   CurrClick has some great freebies up right now.

Notebooking is a big part of our lessons.  It really brings facts alive for children.  Little ones just love putting together a journal of what they’ve learned.  Check out these free notebooking pages! St. Patrick’s Day Notebooking Pages

Shamrocks and Shillelaghs is a free ebook by Teachers Book Bag.  It gives the history of many Irish and St. Patrick’s day symbols.   Also included are some poems, calendar cards and activities.

St. Patrick: The World’s Greatest Missionary is a great little book.  It’s full of stories about St. Patrick, picture studies, map and copywork.  And a recipe for Irish Soda bread to!

If these aren’t quite what your looking for  CurrClick also has these books on sale at a great price.

St. Patrick’s Day Lapbook with Study Guide

Celebrating St Patrick & St Patrick’s Day [BUNDLE]

Connect The Thoughts – Saint Patrick’s Day Creative Writing/History Unit

Recorded Class! – St. Patrick’s Day

March Book Bag, 2009

• The meaning of changing history theories.
• Pre and Post flood history.
• The Difference between evolutionary history books and the Bible.
• Worrying about gaps.
• How to make a simple time line.

I love that time of year when new school books start coming in. Our children are just as excited to look through new books to. They all gather around when a box is delivered anxiously waiting to look. Last Friday our first package arrived! I’ve decided to make world geography our focus for next year. After a lot of research I decided to use Galloping the Globe as our spine. It is a multi level book geared to grades K to 4 but could easily be adapted to older students. Since I had planned to use this next year my oldest 3 children will be grades 2, K and K4 this sounds perfect for us. It introduces you to each continent and major countries by unit study. For each country their are maps to color/label, and some fun worksheets. But what I like the best is the book suggestion lists. For each country there are lists of reference books as well as fiction. Science topics include animals natural to the country, trees, volcanoes etc.

I’ve also picked out some of the suggested books to go along with with this book and I’m impressed with them also. Considering God’s Creation is a grade 1 to 8 science program. This would make a great supplement to any science program! I like the hands on materials and experiments.

Children Just Like Me is a beautiful book. It fetchers a child from each country around the world as they tell about their life and county. My children love this book already!

Geography from A to Z is a picture book of geography terms. It clearly and easily explains the different features of the land.

Around the World in A Hundred Years, tells the history of explorers in story format.

I had planned to start using this program in the late summer.  But we just might have to start sooner!  It looks like so much fun!