As a homeschooling parent, it can be helpful to find out how your child is progressing with reading skills. On this post you will find links to free assessments to give you more information on your child’s skills.
I highly recommend this app as a hands-on way to either reinforce or introduce handwriting skills for preschoolers or Kindergarteners.
I love finding great resources, especially free ones.
We like science around here. Aside from the normal outside science discovery play in Kindergarten, we had a few scheduled activities that we did. The major part of our science time was spent with Real Science 4 Kids. The Real Science 4 Kids: Pre-Level Chemistry has been a great fit…
We all want our children to be successful in school. How do we help our young children learn what they need to learn so when school starts they will be all set? I work full-time as a Speech-Language Pathologist with young children and their families. I go into the…
I’ve used Explode the Code with all of my children. Although reading tended to come easy to my kids, I wanted them to have a strong phonics foundation. The Explode the Code workbooks contain simple black and white drawings and require quite a bit of writing. These elements made me search out…
Do you have a child who looks at a piece of trash and sees a treasure that can be shaped or made into something else? Or perhaps you have a child who is constantly creating something out of whatever can be found. When my son was younger, he enjoyed watching…
Back when my boys were in 2nd grade and Kindergarten, I did a health study with them. I had originally purchased a curriculum, but didn’t like it so I made up my own study with a book that I owned and added in online resources. This year I am revisiting…
Back when my boys were 6 and 4, we embarked on our study of the world with a unit study on the Arctic. Since that time we have studied North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Soon we will begin studies of Central and South America. Our Arctic…
Learning the books of the Bible doesn’t have to be boring. When my boys were 6 and 4, I discovered a fun song on Youtube that teaches the books of the Bible. The Bigsby Show put together this video that goes through all the books of the Bible in an…
