Welcome to the THIRD edition of the Homeschool Review Crew
Homeschool Collection! Time to grab a cup of your favorite beverage
and fill up on encouragement from our homeschool bloggers!
Amanda @ Hopkins
Homeschool
Affordable Homeschooling : Homeschooling
doesn’t have to cost a lot. There are plenty of resources to help you
homeschool on a budget.
Books in our Homeschool : We love books,
and we love using books as part of our homeschool!
Chareen @ Every
Bed of Roses
Books on the Charlotte Mason Method of Education:
Are you wondering where to start? Here are five books to help you begin
your Charlotte Mason Home Education Journey.
Geography Curriculum: One of the most neglected
subjects in home schooling circles. Here is a list of resources to get
you started on teaching geography at home.
Fire Safety Resources: Here is a list of ideas
and resources to teach your children about fire, it’s dangers and how to keep
safe.
Artist Study – Claude Monet: A full unit
study on the art master Claude Monet with links to free resources, YouTube
clips and more.
Yvie @ Homeschool
On the Range
Six Basic Freezer Cooking Recipes to Ease Your Homeschool
Week!: One day of prep will provide a month’s worth of dinners with
these six easy freezer cooking recipes! .
We Were There on the Oregon Trail – an Upper Grades Novel
Studies: We’re journeying through history with these living books
and units for middle & high school students. On this adventure, we travel
the Oregon Trail!
Schooling with Videos – Choosing Quality Online Classes:
If you’ve got a child who wants to learn a skill that you are not prepared to teach,
there are several great online options out there…
Homestead Learning – Planning the Family Garden :
Get the kids involved in this helpful, hands-on, nature project!
Dusty @ Beat
Of Our Drum
We Don’t Need A Homeschool Room: Don’t get set
off by no having the space for a homeschool room. I know looking at all the
wonderful pictures of peoples spaces online can make you feel like you need a
designated room for homeschooling. I am here to tell you that we do just fine
without one and we still learn a lot and have a ton of fun!
Fun Inside When It’s Too Cold To Be Outside:
In the middle of winter it can get a little hard to find activities to keep the
little ones busy and still warm in the house. Here are some great indoor ideas.
Awesome Elementary Chapter Books!: Are you
looking for some great adventure books to add to your elementary students book
list.
Do A Lesson With Us – The History Of Writing:
Have you ever wondered what it would look like to have a hands on lesson? Come
along as we do a lesson in the history of writing and see the types of
activities we do to add some fun to our lessons!
Crystal @ Castle
View Academy
How to Homeschool Without Heat : How we
managed to homeschool without heat, as well as some additional ideas I’m
keeping in mind should it happen again.
5 Ways To Add Culture To Your Homeschool :
While we cannot travel the world, I find other ways to expose our children to
world cultures. These are 5 ways we add culture to our homeschool.
Spring Cleaning & Organising For Homeschool
Moms : Spring is in the air and it’s time to once again begin
the ritual of spring cleaning, but it’s always a little more difficult to work
on spring cleaning for homeschooling moms because there are always children at
home. “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like
shovelling the walk before it stops snowing,” to quote Phyllis Diller, and more
so when homeschooling, in my opinion! But don’t despair, I have a few tips for
you to get things under control!
Kristen @ A
Mom’s Quest to Teach
Crafts: Paper Plate Pig : With the
arrival spring, why not create your own farmyard full of cute animals crafted
by your children? Painting a paper plate pig is very simple but makes for a
cute spring decoration.
Crafts: Cardboard Paper Roll Chicks :
Playing with feathers can easily be turned into a craft when making some cute
spring chicks for your home.
Crafts: Paper Plate Lamb Craft : Using
paper plates to create lamb masks will help you celebrate March leaving like a
lamb.
Lori @ At
Home: where life happens
Chicken with Onions and Tomatoes recipe :
A quick stove-top recipe with rich flavor that is a hit with the whole family.
Story Cubes Story Time : Using a set of
story cubes dice to create a piece of a creative writing.
Blaze Books : This is a fun series of
books for young readers about a boy and his favorite horse, Blaze. .
Unit Study on India : India is a
fascinating country that is full of uniqueness. This unit study includes
activities and ideas for studying India, including a great book for kicking off
the study and a link to a post filled with videos to enrich your study.
Abby @ Making
Room 4 One More
Time Management for Homeschool Moms (Homeschool with
Moxie Podcast #18) : Learn how to do a time makeover and
discover practical time management tips for busy homeschool moms.
What the Outside World Needs to Understand About
Homeschool Families: Sometimes the outside world looks at homeschool
families too highly and with excessive expectation. Or the outside world can
look at us with undeserved suspicion and alarm. We can be stereotyped
negatively or positively. Either way, they need to know that we are normal
parents who love their kids. In fact, we’re just like them. Here’s what the
outside world needs to understand about homeschool families.
Narration for Non-Charlotte Mason Homeschoolers :
If you’re intimidated to try narration because you haven’t adopted the whole
Charlotte Mason philosophy and methodology into your homeschooling, then this
post is for you. Here’s narration for the rest of us. {Download a narration
cheat sheet!} .
How to Make an Easter Tree (with printables!) :
Learn how to make an Easter tree to be more intentional with your kids in the
weeks leading up to Resurrection Day. You can download free Easter tree
ornaments and a Bible study plan.
Annette @ A
Net in Time
Taking Time to Rest as a Writer : Writing
getting you down? Forgotten the importance of taking a break? Mindless tasks
help us think.
Learning Household Management : By the
time your teens leave home, they need to know how to manage a household. How
are you going to teach them?
Add Board Games to your Homeschool Routine :
Adding board games to our homeschool routine has been an amazing change for our
house. For the kids, board games have kept learning fun and engaging. As
parents, gameschooling has taken a lot of the stress out of homeschool
planning, because we know board games are there to help us teach or reinforce
our homeschooling efforts.
Battles of the Eastern Front, WW1 : List
of resources and a completed project from WW1, battles of the Eastern Front.
Susan @ My
Happy Homeschool
Dealing with Difficulties : “You have
started homeschooling your children, but things are not going as you planned.
Take heart! I can assure you that all home educators have bad days; but try not
to get discouraged on these days, there are ways to deal with difficulties.”
Kym @ Homeschool
Coffee Break
How Do You Do Phys.Ed.? : Getting kids
involved in sports and earning high school credit for Phys.Ed. while
homeschooling .
How Important are Labs in Science? : Are
dissections and other labs necessary when teaching Science at home? What about
other hands-on Science activities?
Six Ideas for Your Next Field Trip : Here
are some ideas for homeschool field trips that you might want to consider –
offering a little variation on some standard field trip themes.
A Collection of Museum Visits : Museums
come in many varieties, and they are not all silent or austere, nor are they
all indoors. Chances are, whatever your interest or collection, there’s a
museum somewhere devoted to it.
Wendy @ Life
on Chickadee Lane
A is for Audubon : Sharing some
information about John James Audubon.
B is for Birding : Sharing information
about and resources for birding/bird watching.
C is for Cardinals and Chickadees :
Sharing information about cardinals and chickadees, and how to attract them to
your feeders.
D is for Ducks : Sharing information
about various ducks, both wild and domestic.
Karen @ Tots
and Me…Growing Up Together
Littles Learning Link Up: Hibernating Animals Round
Up : A Littles Learning Link Up Round Up post focused on
hibernating animals. You will find over twenty fun ideas for preschoolers and
early elementary aged children. There are activities, crafts, and even snack
ideas.
Hibernating Animal Fun: Brown Bear Lesson :
The first post in my Hibernating Animal Fun unit. Each week there will be books
I recommend to go with each topic, a craft or two, songs, and motion rhymes/finger
plays, and activities. This week we learned about bears hibernating in caves
and made two crafts .
Hibernating Animal Fun: Dormouse Lesson :
The second post in my Hibernating Animal Fun unit. Each week there will be
books I recommend to go with each topic, a craft or two, songs, motion
rhymes/finger plays, and an activity. This week we learned about the dormouse
and added in some science.
Hibernating Animal Fun: Chipmunk Lesson :
The final post in my Hibernating Animal Fun unit. Each week there will be books
I recommend to go with each topic, a craft or two, songs, motion rhymes/finger
plays, and an activity. This week we learned about the chipmunk
Tawnee @ Adventures
in Homeschooling
Why Homeschooling Boys Helps Them Thrive :
Homeschooling boys may be the best way to nurture learning, encourage a love
for learning, and improve your boys’ self-esteem. Embrace the creative ways
your boys learn and have fun learning together.
Can Your Child Be Too Active : In today’s
fast-paced, planning-for-college-from-birth, let’s-make-our-kids-well-rounded
world, is it even possible to be TOO active? Yes it is. .
Why You Should Attend a Homeschool Convention :
Attending a homeschool convention, if you have never been, can be overwhelming.
But just go with a plan, a budget and some time to stroll and think and listen
to lectures. You will come away inspired and rejuvenated!
Alicia @ Sweeping
Up Joy
Family Connections: Excitement : Being
with the kids all day every day gives me lots of opportunities to be excited
about the things my kids are excited about in order to encourage them to love
learning and life.
Kelly @ KGB
That’s Me!
Homeschooling on a Dime? FREE Resources :
Links to all kinds of FREE downloadable resources for homeschooling…mostly for
core subjects.
Weekly Wrap-Up–June 1st-7th : I explain
how to make a lapbook into an 8.5×11 size with an extension that has holes
punched so you can store multiple lapbooks in a binder. Each closes with a
velcro tab. I also talk about supplementing our study of the Eastern Hemisphere
with FREE lapbooks from Homeschool Share and provide links there.
Dawn @ Schoolin’
Swag
Easy Nature Study: Birds : Simple,
inexpensive ways to incorporate birds into your nature study. Spring is a great
time to enjoy bird study.
Getting Our Mornings Going: Quick and Easy, Protein
Packed Breakfasts : A good breakfast can make a big difference
in getting a good start to the day, but spending a long time in the kitchen can
also derail your routine. These breakfasts are full of protein but quick and
easy to make.
Counting, it’s in the Cards: Math Lessons From Card
Games : Children can learn so much through games and life
without ever picking up a textbook. Card games can be a great way to teach
number recognition and other math concepts.
Felicia @ Homeschool
4 Life
Spring Books : There are over 10 Spring
books that are on read to your children on video!
6 Fun and Easy Bible Games : Looking for
some games for your children to play so that they can learn more about the
Bible? We’ve got you covered! There are videos and free printables included! .
Spring & Easter Bookmarks, Journals, and Reading
Logs : Printable bookmarks, journals, and reading logs for your
family!
12 Month Basic Bible Printable Curriculum :
Here is a complete year’s worth of Bible curriculum for your family. It’s easy
and it’s printable!
Monique @ Early
Learning Mom
Raising Bookworms: What We Read in January 2019 :
January has come and gone. What a crazy month. Like I promised last month, I’m
back to share what we read in January. The first month of 2019 was a hard one
for our family… .
Back off Marie Kondo! Book Haul: What We found in
January : “Why Book Hauling Matters! Creating a wonderful home
library for my kids to have access in our home has been a major goal of mine
since my first born was little. At first I would buy Wesley brand new books.
But this was very expensive. Especially as a single mom. ”
How Glenn Doman Changed How I Parent : “I
was there to answer phones, book appointments and take payments if any patients
came in. But besides that I was not trained to do much more. So I spent my time
googling things I could do to help Wesley learn. Little did I know this google
search was going to change my perspective of children, and change my journey as
a mother.”
My First Guest Post: 5 Tips for Avoiding Burnout :
Doman International helps empower parents to transform their kids lives. They
gives parents knowledge and tools to help their children with special needs grow
and develop. Most importantly they give parents hope.
Ta’Neisha @ Marriage,
Motherhood, Makeup, & Homeschool
Make Weekly Worship a Priority : After
missing three services I was elated to be back at my home church. While away I
was reminded of the importance of weekly worship and why we should make it a
priority. We should do our earnest to be present, be on time, and be available
to serve.
Importance of Cultural History (February Homeschool
Wrap-up) : Enjoy a few key moments from our busy month filled
with field trips, celebrations, dissections, and history. Then, learn how I
make time to ensure each culture’s contributions to our history are included
throughout the school year.
God will provide : A recent Facebook
Memory post reminded me of how God is able to comfort, strengthen, and prepare
us for the journey ahead. Never doubt his presence, power, or promises!
Happy Homeschooling!
