Skip to main content

Canada Day – Welcome, Great Canadian Blog Bash!!!

image Uh-oh… just realized I’m supposed to have a welcome post here and add my linky… whoops!

WELCOME!!!  I will be trying to do a few things of Canadian interest this week to welcome visitors from the Blog Bash Linky.

When you’re finished here, don’t forget to visit other Canadian blogs participating in the Blog Bash over here!


Let’s start by teaching the consummate song about Canada to a new generation!!

I thought I’d start this welcome post NOT by kvetching again about Canada Post, but with some links to stuff you can print so you can learn more about Canada with your kids – kind of a “mini unit study.” 

To help you out, I am using BOLD FACE type for all Canadiana references!!!

But first of all – if you use PayPal, and live in the Toronto area, and are planning to go to Canada’s Wonderland this summer, you have a few hours left to jump over to this post and read about a very special offer from PayPal.  I don’t usually push special prices, but this was one I couldn’t pass up.

So - on with the show!

First things first – I’ve created a FREE printable PDF MiniBook with the official lyrics to “O Canada.”  Very simple.  Print, cut the pages along the dashed lines and staple down the left.  Enjoy!

image

Okay… now this book, Dover’s Around the World Coloring Book, isn’t Canadian (as you can tell from the spelling of “coloring” in the name), but I just bought it over the weekend and I love it.  I photocopied the Canada page out of it because there’s colouring plus some good information. 

And because of the postal strike (yay, Canada!) I was forced to buy it locally at Scholar’s Choice, who were unexpectedly helpful imageand friendly when I called to ask if they had it.  I felt a little embarrassed because the author’s name is Winky Adam.  It’s not MY name, but I felt embarrassed saying it.  You can peek at a preview of the book here.

While I was out, I also bought a gigantic Canada flag and Canada jigsaw puzzle at Dollarama, a Canadian chain that sells mostly Chinese junk.  Not the traditional kind of Chinese junk – the junky $1 kind.

I didn’t look at the packaging for the flag, but the puzzle says it was published by Leap Year Publishing in Andover, MA… and then there’s the ubiquitous Dollarama China at the bottom.  So there you go.  But who in Canada can possibly make puzzles for under $2???

I also bought a package of air-dry clay with the intention of making a relief map of Canada sometime this week.  We’ll see how that pans out.

Now for some more PDFs and printables!

From EnchantedLearning.com – you must be a member for most of these, I think:

image More free resources:

Speaking of flags… I kind of wish we had a more interesting flag. 

I remember as a kid being SO bored colouring Canadian flags (I guess Japanese kids have it pretty rough, too).  So I think that instead of colouring, we will cut it out of red construction paper, with a quick lesson in symmetry of the maple leaf.

imageHere’s a half-leaf template you can use if you want to cut out a maple leaf rather than sit for hours colouring one.  I’ve already mentioned how much Naomi loves colouring, right?  (not!)  And we ALL love symmetry!

This pattern actually comes from a plan for a Maple-Leaf Kite, which might be a great project to work on this week for a family in the right mood.

What are you doing with your kids (homeschooled or otherwise) to teach them about Canada???

 

Comments

  1. Well, I wasn't really doing anything, but now you've shamed me into it...

    ReplyDelete
  2. I realized last night that I only started caring about Canada Day - beyond the basic fireworks - once we'd decided to make aliyah. "You don't know what you've got till it's gone."

    ReplyDelete
  3. Oh my you are a busy lady! Thanks so much for joining TGCBB! Happy Canada Day (I know a little early. lol). Happy hopping!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Nothing! Because we are Americans! Don't you know that Canada is merely the 51st state of the Union???

    Haha, we won't be doing anything for July 4th, either. So much for patriotism.

    I know what you mean about only appreciating something once faced with losing that thing. I really love Australia-- now that we no longer live there.

    ReplyDelete
  5. funny video Winky, oops, right, not your name! lol
    thanks for joining us in the blog bash!

    ReplyDelete
  6. i love love love love love love love the Arrogant Worms.
    love.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Thank-you for linking up to TGCBB! I've had a busy week too! Anyway, happy hopping!

    Nancy

    ReplyDelete
  8. Rock and trees and trees and rocks, and Water!!! Lol Love that song, thanks for sharing and joining #TGCBB. I'm a new follower!!

    ReplyDelete
  9. Great post! I'm from #TGCBB also and now GFC

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

I love your comments!

Popular posts from this blog

לימודי קודש/Limudei Kodesh Copywork & Activity Printables

Welcome to my Limudei Kodesh / Jewish Studies copywork and activity printables page.  As of June 2013, I am slowly but surely moving all my printables over to 4shared because Google Docs / Drive is just too flaky for me. What you’ll find here: Weekly Parsha Copywork More Parsha Activities More Chumash / Tanach Activities Yom Tov Copywork & Activities Tefillah Copywork Pirkei Avos / Pirkei Avot Jewish Preschool Resources Other printables! For General Studies printables and activities, including Hebrew-English science resources and more, click here . For Miscellaneous homeschool helps and printables, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi!  If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you just want to say Thank You, here’s a

Hebrew/ עברית & English General Studies Printables

For Jewish Studies, including weekly parsha resources and copywork, click here . If you use any of my worksheets, activities or printables, please leave a comment or email me at Jay3fer “at” gmail “dot” com, to link to your blog, to tell me what you’re doing with it, or just to say hi!  If you want to use them in a school, camp or co-op setting, please email me (remove the X’s) for rates. If you enjoy these resources, please consider buying my weekly parsha book, The Family Torah :  the story of the Torah, written to be read aloud – or any of my other wonderful Jewish books for kids and families . English Worksheets & Printables: (For Hebrew, click here ) Science :  Plants, Animals, Human Body Math   Ambleside :  Composers, Artists History Geography Language & Literature     Science General Poems for Elemental Science .  Original Poems written by ME, because the ones that came with Elemental Science were so awful.  Three pages are included:  one page with two po

It's Heart Month: 3 days left to save lives!

Dear Friends & Family: Hi, everybody! Sorry I can’t stop by in person... you're a bit out of my area.  :-) We’re out walking up and down on our street on this beautiful afternoon to raise money for Heart & Stroke.  This cause is important to me (I won't say it's close to my heart , because that would be tacky!).  I hope you'll join me by donating online. Growing up, I watched as every single one of my grandparents' lives were shortened by heart disease and strokes, and my father had a defibrillator that saved his life on more than one occasion.  Heart disease and stroke kill 1 in 3 Canadians and are the #1 killer of women. Please click this link to be redirected to my main page at the Heart & Stroke website: http://tinyurl.com/AtlasHeart Thus ends my personal appeal.  Official information follows.  :-))) ----- Heart disease and stroke is the #1 killer of women - taking more women's lives than all forms of cancer combined. But no one is immune. Th