Ultimate Homeschool Guide
I have been homeschooling my son for over 4 years now, one year in the UK where we are from, and the remaining 3 years in Florida where we now live. I have shared all of the homeschool resources that have helped us through the years.
He originally started in the public school system in the UK, and I have nothing against that environment. It just wasn’t working well for him. He was 8 years old when we decided to homeschool. When he turned 9 years old we moved to America for my husband’s job, and continue to homeschool.
I can’t imagine doing anything else, and we will continue to homeschool through high school.
We are secular homeschoolers, and most of the resources we use are. However, there may be a few that we use that are religious. I am agnostic (a person who claims neither faith nor disbelief in God), my son and husband are atheists. But if a curriculum is awesome I actually don’t care if the owner is religious, or if the content is (as long as it is not Bible-led). For example Mr. D Math I believe is religious, do I care, no, in fact, his company offers one of the best resources we use (ASL, junior economics, math and so much more.)
We don’t follow any strict timetable for homeschooling. Since living in Florida we homeschool year-round but spend most of December doing holiday fun activities. We also play a lot of games in our homeschool, check out the best educational games that we have enjoyed through the years and continue to play.
These homeschool posts are broken down into free homeschool resources, homeschool reviews of amazing products we use and love, and then by subject. Towards the bottom of this post are resources just for my UK audience. There are also homeschool tips and advice that have helped us.
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Table of Contents
Free Homeschool
In elementary years a lot of the curriculum we did was free. Certainly for science and history, but you definitely don’t need to spend thousands on homeschooling if you don’t want to. I mean, if you want to you can, and lots do, but YOU don’t need to.
- Over 100 free homeschool curriculum
- Free Literary timeline printable of the periods in English literature
- Free career exploration including free printables
- Alexa homeschool my child
- Educational videos for kids (mostly Free)
- How to make history fun with 60 second histories
- Over 45 fun homeschool activities
- How we use Trello for homeschool
- Kidzytpe free typing games
- Free math games with Beast Academy
- Free printables for homeschool
Homeschool Curriculum Reviews
We have reviewed a lot of homeschool companies and resources. These are the companies we have reviewed, if you need any information on any of these just send me an email and I will help you where I can.
- Mel Science Review
- Generation Genius
- ASL 1 with Mr. D Math
- Moneytime
- Homeschool economics curriculum with Mr. D Math
- Real Science Odyssey
- History Odyssey
- Homeschool Typing Curriculum from Typesy
- Adventure Academy
- Night Zookeeper review
- MyTutor review
- Allschool review
- Lightsail review
- Oracy Hub review
- ABCMouse review
- Schoolio review
- Lingopie review
- Outschool review
- IXL reviews
- Curiosity Stream
- Homeschool Boss
- College Prep Science review
- Kidzytpe free typing games
- CTC Math review
- Exemplar Education
- Mr D Math
- Smartick
- Twinkl free resources
- Writeshop review
- Rounded Schoolhouse
- Heron Books
- StemWerkz
- Dr Robins School
- Codakid
- HeyKiddo a social and emotional learning curriculum.
- Great Bend Center for Music
- OysterKit stem subscription boxes for kids aged 2-9
- Coding classes from MYTEK LAB
- Government curriculum from Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum.
Homeschool Math
Math is by far our favorite subject, we all love it (I know we are weird!). These are the posts we have written for math, we have used a lot of different math curriculums over the years, but we are going to start high school math with Mr. D Math starting in June.
- Math homeschool curriculum
- Generation Genius for math
- Sudoku for kids free templates
- Free order of operations worksheets
- Middle school math fun
- Mr D Math
- CTCMath review
- 6th grade homeschool curriculum
- Secular homeschool curriculum
- Cool math games from Brainika
- Free math games with Beast Academy
English Language for Homeschoolers
Freddie is a typical boy, and despite his love of reading, he absolutely hates writing. He is actually quite good at it now with the help of the resources we use.
- Homeschool spelling curriculum
- Periods in English literature
- How to teach Shakespeare the fun way
- Homeschool reading program with Lightsail
- Word games for kids
- Secular homeschool curriculum
- 6th grade homeschool curriculum
- Writeshop review
- Writing impactful essays with Heron Books
Science
Science is by far my least favorite subject to teach, I am just not that cool mom that likes getting messy! I am not very good with crafts either! Finding an online science curriculum was important certainly when he was in elementary. There are so many science curriculums you can find, and we found a lot more free science resources than any other subject (which was great for us!)
- Homeschool science curriculum
- Why we love Generation Genius
- Mel Science review
- Real Science Odyssey
- Human biology curriculum
- The best science kits for kids
- The best anatomy books for kids
- 6th grade homeschool curriculum
- Secular homeschool curriculum
- Homeschool science labs
- Free planet coloring pages
- Free phases of the moon worksheets
- Digital stem with StemWerkz
Foreign Language
Learning a foreign language is super important, and actually really hard to teach in homeschool (if like me you can’t speak another language.) There are lots of resources out there, so check out the ones we use.
- Foreign language for homeschoolers
- Learn sign language free
- Why we loved ASL 1 with Mr. D Math
- Lingopie review
- Secular homeschool curriculum
- ASL Art decoder
Coding
Coding is one of Freddie’s favorite subjects, along with math. Which I suppose makes sense. We have used a number of different coding sites.
- Homeschool programming
- Why building challenging Legos helps with coding. Lego also has a separate section just for coding!
- Osmo coding starter kit
- Kids coding with Codakid
- Coding classes from MYTEK LAB are perfect for high school credits
- Osmo coding jam
- Secular homeschool curriculum
History
Our history curriculum has been done for free until recently. We are currently doing History Odyssey (only 1 week in, and currently loving it.) I will write a review in the coming weeks, but you can check it out for yourself for free.
- Homeschool history curriculum
- History Odyssey review of the Middle Ages
- Greek Gods Family Tree and coloring pages
- How to make history fun with 60 second histories
- Presidents Day coloring pages
- Black history month activities
- Martin Luther King Jr activities
- Secular homeschool curriculum
Geography
We don’t study geography formally as we wanted to focus on history. However, it is important for us to know about the world and the country we now live in. Learning about the states of America and their capitals is extremely important too. Our hope when we moved to America was to travel a bit more, however, that hasn’t happened yet!
- Geography curriculum
- Free Ukraine coloring pages to print out and learn more about this beautiful country.
- How to remember the States of America (with free printables)
- Free United States coloring pages
Economics
This is another “core” subject for us. I am learning with Freddie, especially when we do American government. It is very different from UK politics.
Social Studies / Government
As I have split out everything covered normally in social studies above in separate sections, these are all of the government resources we have.
- Presidents Day coloring pages
- Picture of Presidents game
- The best books about Presidents for kids
- If I were President worksheet
- Government Worksheets what is the…….?
- George Washington Worksheets
- Homeschool civics curriculum
- Bill of Rights for kids coloring pages
- Government curriculum from Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum for a high school credit.
Music
We are not a musical family, well we weren’t until about a year ago. Freddie started with online piano lessons and is now taking it more seriously with learning all about composers, having a weekly in-person lesson, and is absolutely loving it. He now practices 30 minutes a day in the school day. (He doesn’t get homework, but his school day is 9 am -4 pm Monday – Friday.)
- Music curriculum for homeschool
- Online piano lessons for kids
- Online music lessons for kids with Great Bend Center for Music
- Guitar Lessons for kids with Moosiko
- Online guitar lessons for kids with Tremolo Guitar School
Art
We don’t study art formally yet, although there are lots of awesome art curriculums that we will use in the coming years. But, we use coloring as a stress-relieving tool! It absolutely works and 30 minutes of drawing calms him right down. Check out the resources he has used and currently uses along with the homeschool art curriculums.
- Art curriculum homeschool
- ASL Art decoder
Physical Education
PE was something I was originally concerned about, but we currently take 4 short walks a day around the neighborhood (check out our neighborhood scavenger hunt). When we lived in the UK he would bounce on the trampoline, and now we live in South Florida he swims. There are lots of amazing (and mostly free) resources to keep fit as a family, but also more formal homeschool PE curriculums are listed below.
Preschool
We didn’t homeschool preschool or the kindergarten years, but as a homeschool blogger, I have been lucky to check out a few amazing resources.
UK Home Education
As I homeschooled in the UK before moving to America I wanted to share the posts I had already written for the UK homeschoolers.
- Home Education UK everything you need to know
- If you want to follow the UK National curriculum I highly recommend this book.
- Home schooling UK resources
- MyTutor review
- Online guitar lessons for kids with Tremolo Guitar School
- The cost of homeschooling in the UK is cheaper than you think.
- Public Speaking Classes for Kids
Homeschool Tips & Advice
Homeschooling is hard, please don’t think it isn’t. But WE LOVE IT. We will continue to homeschool until he goes to college, so we are currently trying to work out high school credits. I have shared some homeschool tips and resources that we use to help us homeschool as best we can.
- The best homeschool planners
- See what we are using for homeschool curriculum 7th grade
- Homeschooling styles – how to know which is the best for your family
- The best homeschool fun activities
- Free first day of school printable signs to print out and take a photo to mark the occasion.
- All about me worksheet is a perfect activity for the first day back to school.
- The best kids books
- The best online etiquette classes
- Why homeschooling an only child is awesome
- Mapping tests for homeschool testing
- The best career tests for teenagers
- How we use Trello for homeschool
- The best homeschool supplies
- Simple homeschooling tips and tricks for beginners
- The best books about homeschooling
- Advantages of homeschool
- Why homeschool?
- Advantages and disadvantages of online classes
- Pros and cons for homeschooling
- How to homeschool when mom is sick
- Why Thiel college is a great choice for homeschoolers
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Last Updated on 3 May 2022 by homeschoolof1