Homeschooling Activities
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 compare and contrast books and 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…
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,…
If you are looking for fun activities this holiday check out our FREE Thanksgiving scattergories printables. There are 4 boards to print, Fall, Corn, Give, and Leaf. A great game for all the family to enjoy. Thanksgiving is a new holiday for us, that we have only been celebrating for the last 2 years. It…
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…
The Elf on the Shelf is an important part of our festivities, even though Freddie is now 11. He might not believe they are real, but he certainly believes in the magic of Christmas. Our Elf on the Shelf, Twinkletoes, even makes an appearance at Halloween, as the Halloween Elf! What better way to have…
We absolutely love treasure hunts in this house, so after the popularity of our scavenger hunt for Christmas, I thought I would create a Halloween treasure hunt for this year. We have also created a treasure hunt for the Elf on the Shelf! Easter should certainly not be the only holiday that gets to have…
Are you wanting to do something fun, but educational this holiday? If so check out our free printable mad libs for Halloween. What I love about mad libs is, not only are they educational, they can be absolutely hilarious. Especially in our house, we always end up with bathroom humor! Yes I know, very childish,…
With what has happened over the last year, it has been more and more important for us to find GOOD live online classes. Luckily for us, we already homeschooled, so apart from a few tutors and basketball practice our lives didn’t change too much. We didn’t (couldn’t) want to invite people into our home to…