Homeschool Share
Homeschool Share (HSS) is a on-line cooperative effort of several homeschooling moms to provide free but quality literature-based unit studies and resources. Check Homeschool Share out on their website...
View ArticleFree Cowboy Learning Unit
Homeschool Creations just released a Cowboy Unit. The Cowboy Early Learning Printables include fun activities to tie in with various western and cowboy themed books ~ vocabulary words, word tracer...
View ArticleHomeschooling resources (free)
These are currently free, but double check they are still free before downloading. Kindle Books: Cover via Amazon Fun Facts Silly Monsters ABC Book Random Multiplication Vocabi Twister Adam’s Amazing...
View ArticleHomeschool Tools Needed
I recently was reading up on tools needed for homeschooling and found these lists. Personally we don’t home school but we supplement. Education does not end with the afternoon school bus. Some...
View ArticleGeodes
Our most recent activity to try was to break geodes… My youngest and I found a kit and decided to give it a try. Our kit came with two geode rocks and a hammer. For safety we found a pair of goggles...
View ArticleGrow a Prehistoric Creature! (Kit)
Grow your own prehistoric creature was a kit I found recently. I remember these kits from when I was a kid also. The kit contains a type of shrimp eggs and some food for as they get a little bigger....
View ArticleCozmo the robot!
The robot Cozmo showed up for Christmas at our house! Cozmo is set up to learn as you play with him. I did find that I have to hook my phone to the Cozmo wireless network each time we want to play...
View ArticleMaps – Bringing Geography to Life!
We don’t leave home often, but we have traveled a few places. I also really enjoy exploring my family history. To tie everything to our life we decided to add maps to our house. Our Family In the...
View ArticleHomeschooling: Choosing a Curriculum for our 2e
We’ve enriched in the past, but this is our first year completely homeschooling. Choosing a curriculum resulted in us changing our mind several times. At first we bought a set of textbooks for each...
View ArticleStarting Home School
Yep, we decided to completely swap to homeschool, we got our curriculum (we got extra!) and we are ready. What we learned quickly was the same as the old adage about too many cooks in the kitchen...
View ArticleTynker Coding (adding coding to homeschool)
Debating what to study for homeschooling, one of our thoughts was ‘We need a language!’. We discussed every option of language we had some experience with and looked at what colleges are accepting....
View ArticleCodaKid (More Coding) or you can learn and have fun too!
There are so many ways to make learning fun. One of the things we’ve tied in is CodaKid (besides Tynker). On a side note though, last night we were watching the new Netflix documentary on the Social...
View ArticleMath: Life of Fred?
One of our choices for math this year was Life of Fred. Really we are using a few things, but we all love math! We have the Art of Problem solving (Prealgebra), the Go Math 6th grade book that the...
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