Back to school..a great art site, letter M, and week 13 *worksheet site added*

Last week started getting back into the school routine, but this was the first week we met back with our homeschool group.  I called last week "art week" since we weren't getting into our memory work yet and I really didn't cover a lot of the fine arts material from the beginning of the year.  So we had a great time trying different art techniques.

One art site that I ran across that I really like is called Art for Kids.  They have lots of fun, easy ideas for art projects for your kids.  Very practical and doable!

I'm probably just going to hit the highlights for this week right now and may come back and add more to it as the week goes on.  I just wanted to have something prepared for tomorrow when we're ready to start school time.  Plus I did this killer circuit training workout this morning...at 6 am...and I will probably feel like I can't move in the morning.

Letter M activities:
*The blog Oopsy Daisy has a M is for Monsters packet that is very cute.  We're actually not really into monsters much, but she did have some nice tracing sheets and letter M sheets that had other things other than monsters (mouse, mitten, and moon)
*M is for:
        ~ music--musical chairs, dance to music, take turns listening to different styles of music, learn about notes/aspects of music, etc...lots you can do with this!
         ~mouse--book: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and activities that goes with that; crawl around on the floor like a mouse/eat cheese
        ~moose--book:If You Give a Moose a Muffin and activities with that
        ~moon--book: Goodnight Moon; talk about the moon phases, moon landings/astronauts
        ~monsters--Monsters, Inc. movie; Where the Wild Things Are book/movie, monster pictures/games, Monster Mash song
        ~mouth--parts of your mouth/teeth
        ~months--months of the year/different holidays during each month
Those are just a few ideas!

Week 13
History--Industrial Revolution: Watt, Cartwright, Whitney
Here are a couple of video links.  For some reason the audio on my computer is not working...so I'm not sure exactly what's being said so you may want to review these first before showing them to you kids...
*Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here (England)
*Industrial Revolution Overview (I believe there's a link to where you can get a worksheet also)
* Gutenberg Printing Press
Info links:
*A great link for teaching the Industrial Revolution
*Children in the Industrial Revolution and another link about the Life of a child during the Industrial Revolution
*James Watt
*Eli Whitney
*cotton gin diagram

Science--states of matter
*states of matter experiment--very easy and good info
*worksheets...they are from an ESL site, but I think any children could use them

Geography--Northern European Countries
*another song video

Math--liquid equivalents


I came across a site called Super Teacher Worksheets  that has free sheets for "Gallon Bot", states of matter, parts of speech, and more.  You have to be a member to print all of them, but I just stuck to the freebies and found lots of good ones!  The kids and I did the gallon bot one together and they were really getting the concept.

Hope that helps!  I really hoped to find the "This is America, Charlie Brown" video about inventors.  Love to know if any of you have a link to it!

God bless your week~