This week’s language arts unit combines various aspects of art with language arts. We combined some really creative lessons designed by others with some of our own ideas to create five days of study on these two topics. If your homeschoolers enjoy poetry, drawing, stories and writing, they will enjoy this art-inspired language arts unit. [...]
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Free Language Arts Lesson: Adventures in Newspapers
Posted by ginac on September 7th, 2008
This five-day lesson plan takes the student through interviewing, reporting and writing a news article with plenty of references for learning about newspapers and articles. There is a short lesson on using a Word Processor and a bit of a math divergence on DAY 5. The DAY 5 lesson, adapted from Philip McCormack’s lesson ‘statistics [...]
Free Language Arts Lesson: Parts of Speech
Posted by ginac on August 30th, 2008
You might want to have a basic English grammar text around for additional review and explanation for this lesson, but the basics are covered and suggested activities provided. Enjoy Get the Parts of Speech Lesson View All of our Free Language Arts Lessons
Free Language Arts Lesson: Word Fun
Posted by ginac on August 23rd, 2008
Metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, oh my! Word fun is a 5 day lesson covering synonyms, antonyms, metaphors, similes and onomatopoeia using favorite toys as inspiration. Check out Word Fun and let us know what we can add or change to make it even better! View All of our Free Language Arts Lessons
New Feature: Free Weekly Language Arts Lessons
Posted by ginac on August 17th, 2008
We are adding a new feature to spottybanana.com. Starting today, we will be offering a free, weekly language arts lesson (roughly 4th – 5th grade level) that we put together for our own use. We are sharing our hard work with everyone and ask only that you link back to us if you republish on [...]
Jazz Kids
Posted by ginac on January 25th, 2008
PBS.org has some good Jazz lessons for kids of all ages. Although intended for classrooms, it can be adapted for homeschooling. I found that some portions of this website are no longer maintained, so some of the music clips are no longer available. However, with a bit of planning, you could borrow the necessary resources [...]
