Homeschooling Activities
Thanksgiving will be here before we know it, so I wanted to create a huge list of Thanksgiving fun activities you can have in your homeschool. These activities can of course also be used by school kids who are on holiday that week. All of these activities and lesson plans are aimed at kids from…
We don’t normally do read alouds in our homeschool, mainly because Freddie has always enjoyed reading. However, I have recently discovered that we should be reading to our children until AT LEAST the age of 13! Oops! Hey, I never said I was perfect! As we are fairly new to America, I thought finding the…
Despite my lack of interest in Halloween, my son LOVES it, and apart from Christmas, it is his favorite holiday. So this year I thought I would try and embrace it too, and try and get together as many homeschool Halloween activities as I could find. This is one of my favorite things about homeschool,…
Ahoy there me maties, Talk Like A Pirate Day is coming up, on September 19th so I thought I would put together some fun activities for you to have fun with. As this year it is on a Sunday you can get the whole family involved! I have included over 37 activities for you to…
As Christmas will be with us any minute (I have no idea where this year has gone already!) I wanted to put together a list of educational Christmas activities that we will be doing this December. In December we tend to put away the core curriculum we have been working on, and instead focus on…
Christmas is soon to be upon us, and I don’t know about you, but in December most of our homeschool days revolve around Christmas!! As such I have created these free Christmas writing prompts for you to have fun with. I have created 30 printable pages with the prompts as below, but I have also…
September 13th is just around the corner and I can’t wait to share with you some splendiferous Roald Dahl Day activities for you to enjoy in your homeschool. Roald Dahl got his own “Day” in 2006 and it is celebrated every year on his birthday, September 13th. 16 Interesting Facts About Roald Dahl He was…
We are always looking for fun Halloween activities, and these FREE HALLOWEEN COLORING PAGES are just perfect. There are 10 spooky coloring pages for you to download for FREE. Including Zombies, Vampires, Pumpkins, and other spooky images. These will keep the kids busy for hours. We draw a lot in our homeschool as it definitely…
As we are now finally reading Harry Potter, I wanted to create a book vs movies report template to use in our homeschool. I couldn’t find what I was looking for online, so I thought I would share with you what we use. Freddie always writes a book report after every single book he reads….
Freddie has been playing the piano now for just under a year. He has in-person lessons for 30 minutes weekly, but to supplement this I wanted him to have online piano lessons too. Here I have listed all of the best online piano lessons for kids I could find. Some of these are completely FREE,…
Thanksgiving is a new holiday for us, that we have only been celebrating for the last 2 years. It always falls near my husband’s birthday, so we get to have DOUBLE celebrations. Any excuse for a party!! After playing the waiting game last year while the turkey was cooking, I decided this year to make…
Learning about the 50 States is super important to us, especially as we are from England. We of course knew a lot of them, but certainly didn’t know any of the capitals. We love to have FUN in our homeschool, and learning about America is a perfect time to bring out the games, activity books,…
Ok, so the last couple of weeks have been hard. We have been homeschooling through the summer months, and wow what a challenge. So I thought for the next couple of weeks we would try something different. Teaching with Star Wars! I know, genius right! Well of course this will only work if your little…
Science is one of those subjects or at least for us where it doesn’t come naturally. Up until now, we have kind of winged it! For elementary we used a very ad-hoc homeschool science curriculum, but as Freddie is now going into middle grade I need to up my game! I have created this huge…
Scattergories is one of our favorite family games, we just love it. So we thought we would create our own Christmas scattergories lists and some Christmas scattergories printables to have fun. **Disclosure there may be affiliate links included in this post.** If you don’t already own the game by Hasbro, I highly recommend you getting…