They call it the horse bug and she’s got it bad. My 8 year old daughter simply can not get enough! She owns dozens of horse books and checks out new ones from the library each week. To say that she loves horses is really a major understatement. Naturally, I wanted to capitalize on this interest in our homeschool.
Knowing how many little ones have the horse bug, I figured we might share our resources. So, check out what we love and be sure and tell us what you love!
Horse Lapbooks:
All About Horses Lapbook great for young elementary students
Black Beauty Lapbook from Confessions of a Homeschooler, great for 2-4 grade
Horses Lapbook ideas {free}
Leonardo’s Horse lapbook {free}
Fritz and the Beautiful Horses {free} unit study ideas
Horse Lapbook Project Pack by Hands of a child
Horse Notebooking pages:
Horse sense a math sheet that calculates the real cost of owning a horse
Horse Breed Notebooking page {pictured below} I created this one for my daughter who loves to study the breeds.
Horse Copywork:
A Horse book {free} cursive copywork
Horse Copybook manuscript
Horse Sayings by Happy Scribe, simple manuscript.
Horse Unit Studies:
History of the Horse Pack: by Beautiful Feet, complete study for intermediate students
Handsome Horses: 1 week unit study by Amanda Bennett
Horses: 4 week unit study by Amanda Bennett
The Science of Horses 200+ page workbook/text with activities and printables {for high school}
Horses in curriculum:
Millenium girls book and writing curriculum
Math Rider a computer program that drills math facts in a fictional horseland
Horse poetry a search with 100′s of poems
Circle C beginning readers for the younger horse lovers
The Trojan Horse {free} history lesson with drawing
Beautiful Horses of God’s creation this pack is full of fun stuff from teaching about how horses could not have evolved to riding tips and types of saddles. Lots to color, too. Simple enough for 1st graders, yet rich enough for 4th.
Horse printables for fun:
Horse fun printables tons of word searches, mazes, coloring sheets
Horse Crazy girls website with printables, online games and more
My Horse app for iphone
Huge list of iphone horse apps
Also, be sure to visit my Horse Lover’s Homeschool pinterest board for crafts, books, and tons of great horse ideas.
Kim Sorgius
Kim is just a girl, crazy in love with Jesus. She's a single mother of 4, a passionate homeschooler and life-long student. After teaching 8 years in public school, she traded her M.A. in Early Childhood for sippy cups and homeschool co-ops. Kim is the owner and editor of The Homeschool Village and Not Consumed where she encourages others to rest victoriously in the hands of God, rather than allowing life's difficult circumstances to consume.
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We loved doing History of the Horse as a project! Then we got to go see the Lipizzaner horses perform while we were in Oregon. It was a great way to end our notebook project. Thanks for including my copybook in your collection!
Circle C is awesome! The website has free handbooks to print out that go along with each book. They teach a variety of things and my daughter and her friends will read them without being asked.
We went through a horse phase, too! A Journey Through Learning has a lap book that is a general mammal study, so you can pick which animal you want to lap book. Then, when your kids find another animal they want to study, you can use it again!
We also learned about the Chincoteague horses of Maryland and Virginia. There is a book called Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry that is on our book list for next year. She has written several other books about horses, too.
What a great compilation! I can’t wait to start surprising my daughter with some of these!
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Love this post. My 7kids yr old is obsessed with horses (she just had a horse themed party). We volunteer at a horse rescue every week and she starts lessons next month. Thanks for these great resources.
Here is my horse post with a link to a notebooking page I made http://www.creationconversations.com/m/blogpost?id=4344648%3ABlogPost%3A136641
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Sorry that was mobile link http://www.creationconversations.com/profiles/blogs/wildlife-wednesday-horses-god-s-magnificent-handy-work. Also Kim I’d love for you to link up on freebee fri and wildlife wed both can be found at the top nav bar on my blog.
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Thanks for the great resource! My girls (like most) are in love with horses! I will have to find some things for them to do!
Thank you so much for this! What a great, great list!!!
Wonderful list!! My youngest daughter is just now getting interested in horses! This will be GREAT!
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I love my horse!!!