All of the kids books we love
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored each year on the third Monday of January. This is a great time to look into his amazing accomplishments and see how much he has changed the lives of so many. I have put together over 30 different resources that we will use in our homeschool to study…
Christmas is our absolute favorite time of the year. Mainly as we put away our core curriculum and just spend time together learning about the holiday, and just doing Christmas-themed activities. Every day we also have Christmas read alouds. I stopped doing a read aloud when Freddie was about 9 (that is apart from Christmas…
Black Friday is nearly here!! I am so excited, I tend to buy all of our homeschool curriculum and supplies either in June or in November, Mainly as I love the sales! I have scoured the internet to find the BEST Homeschool Black Friday Deals for kids I can so I can share them with…
With subscription box companies coming and going as regularly as I have hot dinners I wanted to share with you the BEST SUBSCRIPTION BOX FOR TWEENS in 2022. Although these are of course unisex and suitable for both boys and girls I haven’t included the “girly ” subscription boxes in this list. There are so…
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…
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…
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…
I have absolutely no idea why financial literacy for kids is not taught in public schools. However, as we homeschool, this is something we have been doing for a number of years. This post is aimed at older elementary kids and middle school-aged children. But kids financial literacy is something that should be taught as…
We have been on the lookout recently for a good free book report template, but we couldn’t find one we liked. So guess what, we have made one! If you subscribe further down the page you will get the password for ALL of the FREE templates we have designed, including this one. Homeschool Book Report…
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…
Homeschool programming is just as important in my opinion as math and languages. We live in a very different age now, with everything working remotely and all on the computer. Programming and coding should be a core lesson and we treat them as such in our homeschool. Keep reading for the top 15 homeschool programming…
We are really lucky as Freddie has always enjoyed reading, so much so that we have books everywhere. Now, this is where my problem starts, as we homeschool we have loads of curriculum books and loads of workbooks and even more reading books. So I thought rather than buying a new house to keep all…