Printables for Your Homeschool - Super Teacher Worksheets Review

As a homeschool mom, I have found that it helps to add a variety of learning tools to our school day.  Our regular curriculum is wonderful but the kids love it when I change things up a bit and add something new and different.  Rachel especially likes hands-on activities and worksheets.  

As a member of the Home School Review Crew, we were given a one year individual membership to their online subscription to review Super Teacher Worksheets in our homeschool.  The printable worksheets cover a wide variety of subjects including math, reading, writing, phonics, literature, handwriting, grammar, spelling, science, history, geography and MORE!  They also have many worksheets available in Spanish.

Rachel is working on the Insect badge for her American Heritage Girls troop.  For the requirements, she needed to learn details about one particular insect.  She chose to learn about the monarch butterfly.  I was excited to see that Super Teacher Worksheets had several nature science items to help her out.  In their science section, I found an article that was all about monarch butterflies and it had some wonderful colored pictures as well. 

Rachel read aloud the article to me and then completed the corresponding worksheets.  Just having the article to print out for her to read was great because I didn't have to go searching all over the internet or make a trip to the library.  The worksheets helped to get her thinking about what she had read and served as a good review for her.

I also printed off the Butterfly Life Cycle booklet.  Rachel loved this!  She colored the pictures, cut out the pages, and stapled the booklet together.  She wanted me to make a video of her reading aloud her booklet so here she is...


As you can see, Super Teacher Worksheets is more than just fill in the blank kind of worksheets.  They have several cute booklets that kids can make.  They also have worksheets that have pieces that the child can cut out and use in matching games.  We also found this really fun QR code reader worksheet.  Rachel had never seen QR codes before so I explained that she would use the QR code reader on my ipad to scan the code on the worksheet.

The QR code took her to a specific list of three words to choose from to answer the problem on the worksheet.  In this case, the worksheet asked her to write the word that is a synonym for the word "fast".  When she scanned the QR code, the following list popped up.

Rachel absolutely loved this.  She now loves QR codes and she wants all of her work to use them in some way!

Over the summer, we studied US states and capitals.  There are a lot of games and printables on Super Teacher Worksheets that I used as a review for her.  Her favorite one was the "Cootie Catcher".  Do you remember playing with these as a child?

She would pick a color then move the paper puzzle back and forth for the number of letters in the name of the color.  When she stopped, she could pick a state and she had to name the capital.  She picked Idaho and then opened up the pocket to see "Boise".  How fun is that for reviewing states and capitals!

We will be going to see the play Mr. Popper's Penguins next week so we are reading the book now.  I just realized that the Chapter Book section of Super Teacher Worksheets has lots of great printables for this book.  They include bookmarks, vocabulary words, word search, and more all related specifically to Mr. Popper's Penguins.  Resources like this make my job as teacher so much easier!

Finally, there are also some fun things to find at Super Teacher Worksheets.  We played this Halloween Bingo game over and over the other day.  I think the addition of candy for game pieces may have made it even more fun.

I have really enjoyed having Super Teacher Worksheets to turn to for supplements in our school day.  An individual membership costs only $19.95 for a full year.  This gives you complete access to all of their great printables.

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Oh Hail!

A little before midnight, Stuart and I were just settling into bed for the night.  We knew some bad weather was coming but didn't think much of it.  Then the weather radio alerted us that we were under a Severe Thunderstorm warning with high winds and potential for hail.  We pulled up the weather  radar on our phones.  We could see the bad weather and it was tracking right for us with an extra bright pink area forming directly in our path.  Note: bright pink = extra bad. There was nothing we could do but pray.

A short time later, the wind and light hail came but it quickly turned to big hail.  We were on the second floor and it sounded like the roof and west side of the house were being pelted with baseballs.  It was the loudest hail storm I've ever been through.  Nicholas woke up rather quickly but amazingly Rachel slept through the whole thing!

Stuart ventured out and picked up a piece of the hail to show me.

Suddenly it seemed to shift and was now hitting the house from the north.  It was pelting the windows on the back of the house.  I recorded this video because I just knew one of the windows was about to break (fortunately they didn't).


Once the hail stopped, we looked out the front door.  It looks like it had snowed out there!

Stuart scooped up this handful from the hail patch in front of the potted plant.  The pile of hail on the ground was at least an inch or two thick there.

Amazingly, we don't have any major damage.  Both vehicles have some light dents on them and no windows were broken on the vehicles or the house.  We recently had our roof checked and it was in good condition before the storm.  We don't see any obvious damage but we will have it checked out and see if we need to look into getting it replaced.  We'll probably wait until the storm season passes though.  This is always a rough time of year for houses and vehicles in this area.