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Printable Alphabet Bingo Cards
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Blends, Digraphs and Diphthongs Printables RoundupEducation.com is a wonderful site with tons of worksheets organized by subject and grade level. They have plenty... -
Printable Schoolroom QuotesI know many like to have pictures of some of our great presidents and founding fathers on their schoolroom walls.... -
Common Nouns vs. Proper Nouns WorksheetsNeeding a little extra practice on common nouns vs. proper nouns? Here are a couple of worksheets in which the...
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Making Homeschooling Easier and More Fun With Electronics
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Virtual DissectionUnless you have a budding biologist in your home, you may be wondering how important it is for your children to... -
Curriculum Review: God’s Design for ScienceI have been using God’s Design for Science for over a year now and it has been the perfect science curriculum... -
Learning Spelling on the CheapBeing a “minimalist” when it comes to curriculum, I was not really interested in buying some big spelling...
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How Homeschooling Compares with Public Schooling
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A Day in the Life of a Homeschooler: JoAnnaAges of children: kindergarten, 2nd grade, 6th grade Number of Years Homeschooling: 4 years Curriculum: For... -
A Day in the Life of a Homeschooler: CandiAges of children: 2 boys, ages 5 and 3 Number of Years Homeschooling: 2 years Curriculum: Just this year I’ve...
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A Day in the Life of a Homeschooler: JenniferAges of children: 5 kids, ranging in age from 3 to 12 Number of years homeschooling: 5 years I like to tell...
Recent Articles
Use Graph Paper to Make Multiplication and Long Division Easier
If your child struggles with lining up numbers and keeping them the same size, multiple digit multiplication problems and long division can be a real struggle. Using graph paper to do problems on can be a life-saver. You can buy pads of graph paper, but it can be difficult to find graph paper with larger [...]
Printable Alphabet Bingo Cards
If you have little ones learning letters, this printable alphabet bingo game will be a fun addition to your school time. There are 3 bingo sheets to print, and then parents can call out letters, while little ones mark the ones they find on their sheets with Cherrios, pennies or something similar. Just like regular [...]
Making Homeschooling Easier and More Fun With Electronics
There is so much available through the computer, apps and electronic devices to help us with schoolwork. We are heavy technology users, with an iPad, iPod Touch, Kindle Fire and smart phone and we put them all to good educational use. Here are some ideas and sites that are great additions to your homeschool routines: [...]
Encouraging Creativity in Education
As a rather “academic” person in my approach to education, this TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson is something I need to watch regularly. A few things we do (with varying degrees of success) to encourage creativity: Limit screen time- there is nothing that will suck creativity from a child than being endlessly entertained. Avoid [...]
Homeschool Support Groups and Co-ops
As homeschooling continues to grow, so do the number of support groups, associations and co-ops. These provide excellent resources for enrichment opportunities, classes, field trips, park days and support for parents. There is a huge variety in the types of groups available, particularly the closer you live to a metropolitan area. So, what’s the difference [...]
Staying Focused and Keeping the Sillies Away
If you have more than one child doing school in the same room, it can be so easy for the kids to lose their focus. Someone makes a rude noise, and suddenly everyone is giggling and it takes 5 minutes to get back on task. Then someone talks to his brother about the Lego ship [...]
Blends, Digraphs and Diphthongs Printables Roundup
Education.com is a wonderful site with tons of worksheets organized by subject and grade level. They have plenty of consonant blend and diphthong worksheets to help the kids learn. (You do have to join, but it’s a free membership.) Kids Learning Station has a nice set of consonant blend worksheets, including standard fill-in-the-blank, word searches [...]
Virtual Dissection
Unless you have a budding biologist in your home, you may be wondering how important it is for your children to do an actual dissection on an actual formaldehyde-smelling animal, such as a worm, frog, fetal pig, rat, etc. Or, particularly for those more squeamish students, can they gain a similar understanding of anatomy by [...]
10 Educational Apps We Love
When I first got the iPad, I knew we’d probably use it for some school related things, but I had no idea how much we’d find that would make learning fun and interesting for all ages of kids. Here are 10 of our favorite apps: MathBoard this is a simply awesome app for math practice [...]
Printable Schoolroom Quotes
I know many like to have pictures of some of our great presidents and founding fathers on their schoolroom walls. Here are 3 printable portraits with quotes – just click on the image to open the large version (about 8×10 inches) or you can right-click and download the PDF to your computer: Tell me and [...]
My name is Randa, and I'm the mother of two wonderful boys who are the inspiration for this site. We love homeschooling and on Homeschool Roundup we want to share all we're discovering in the process.
