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My list of my favourite free homeschool resources
Today, I am sharing my go to list of bloggers, websites and YouTube channels that I use to compliment my son's homeschool lessons with their links. I have also included a few resources I use with Mr 7 and Miss 5 to help them with their schooling too. I have used everything on this list. These are my absolute favourites and what is even more amazing is that they are free. I love freebies!Because I know you are a busy mum and I want you to find what is useful quickly and easily. I will break the list into sections and have included a couple of quick tips that I found really helped us in our lessons too. Each section will be titled starting with homeschool planning and then by subject/s. Let's get into it shall we?
Homeschool planning
My absolute favourite site for setting up my homeschool organiser and planner is Tina Robertson's amazing website Tina's dynamic homeschool plus with her 7- step planner that you get to build it to suit your homeschool and it is all FREE!!!! She has you covered with everything you will need to get started from attendance sheets to field trips. I love her website and I know you will too.Reading and ELA lessons
The best of the best when it comes to reading, Becky Spence and her blog This reading mama is the place to go. I learnt so much from her and have used so many of her resources in my lessons because she is that good! Becky Spence has helped Mr 14 and I so much with his reading, it is crazy!Quick tip: Something we do for comprehension is that after our 20 minute read aloud time. I ask Mr 14 a few questions about the story that I want him to answer verbally and then I ask him to use it to summarise the chapter/story.
Another site that I have used, that Mr 7 and little Miss 5 really enjoy is
Studyladder and it is free for families with up to 5 children. It also includes Naplan, maths, art, science and more. I have used this site for all three of my children when needed.
We also used YouTube for my little ones (Miss 5 and Mr 7) when they were learning the alphabet letters and sounds. Our favourites are the alphabet action songs by Patty Shukla and the Sound waves chant by Firefly education.
To find out my children's reading levels I used Pinterest to find a good reading levels chart. But, if you want to save time, I found a great one here.
https://www.biblionasium.com/lexile.
Writing lessons
After, all the exercise books and my many failed attempts to encourage my reluctant Mr 14 to write. (He is a struggling reader and writer and has a hard time spelling. Although he is doing amazingly well now from where we were.) I found our go to lesson supplement for our writing lessons on YouTube from the Teaching without frills channel. Her video tutorials are broken down into steps that are really easy to follow and engaging. She is the best!Quick tip: Something that has helped us before finding Teaching without frills. Is the sage (Mr 14 tells me .... ...) and scribe (I write it down for him.) method. Mr 14 is a great verbal story teller and finds it more comfortable to speak then write. We use this exercise every now and then, even now, to assist him with getting his thoughts on paper if I see he is having a hard time
Mathematics
Khan academy has been one of my greatest online help providers this year. We use this website to compliment our math lessons and it is awesome for homeschooling! I love that once you set up your classroom in Khan academy you can assign lessons, track your child's progress when you sign in or once a week by e-mail. Oh and it is all FREE! I love using this to assess where Mr 14 is at while we are learning new math concepts and he actually enjoys there lessons. That's a BIG plus.Science and Technology
In this case coding. We find Scratch very user friendly and great for beginners but you can also use Khan academies very own hour of code and then there is Code academy for those who know a bit about code.All in one curriculum
The absolute best online homeschool curriculum online is available from Easy Peasy all in one homeschool.com. This website covers reading, writing, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, math, history, geography (social studies), science, Spanish, Bible, computer work, logic and the three I find difficult to cover.... Physical education, music and Art. This website offers a complete curriculum plan with free access to all the resources you need for the year. That means that if you choose to use this amazing website, you won't have to do all the hard work of finding resources and creating the school year lesson plan on your own, because Easy Peasy all in one homeschool.com have it right there ready for you to start from day 1.
Easy Peasy all in one homeschool.com also have a complete High school curriculum available through their sister site too. See link here if you are teaching highschool this year.
I hope this list of my favourite go to resources help you with your homeschool lessons as much as they have helped me. As I discover new and more helpful resources I will update this article.
Over to you boss mum's, What resources have you found the most helpful? Did I miss a resource that I should have added to this list? You can share your thoughts in the comments below.
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