Dear Homeschooler, Easter is just around the corner. Check out these Easter linkups full of great educational posts and products: If you are a homeschool or educational blogger, please link up your posts. Check out the other subject-specific linkups available on Bookshelf. Till Next Time, Jennifer
Dear Homeschooler, Bookshelf has some great science posts by great homeschool and educational bloggers and links to great free or cheap products linked up by subject/topic. Check them out! General Science Topics An InLinkz Link-up If you are a homeschool or educational blogger and have science-related…
Dear Homeschooler, St. Patrick’s Day is approaching! Want to add a little fun to the day without much prep time? Print off these free St. Patrick’s Day notebooking pages. There are so many things you can do with notebooking pages: Research the history of St. Patrick’s Day and record your…
Dear Homeschooler We love doing science experiments! They are engaging, hands-on visual demonstrations of our learning. I make my second-grader fill out lab reports to help him think through each step. Most science curricula include these reports, but they are — obviously — aimed at those students who can read…
Dear Homeschooler, I love taking advantage of holidays to spice up our learning, but sometimes I don’t have the time to plan holiday-specific learning or our day is already so pack that we just don’t have the time to do anything. I have found that notebooking pages are a great…
Dear Homeschooler, This summer has been a time of reflection for me. I guess every summer really is: a time to look back on the previous school year and identify what worked and what didn’t. Taking note of these, I start thinking about what changes I want to make for next…
Dear Homeschooler, I, like most homeschoolers I’ve met, believe the homeschool adage ‘the world is our classroom’ to be true. Learning doesn’t stop because we leave the classroom. In fact, different environments can actually spur learning by sparking curiosity in a new topic, expanding lessons already learned, or helping to…
Dear Homeschooler, Don’t we all have times where we have trouble focusing on that task at hand? Kids are no exception. ZooKid had a really hard time concentrating on his math lessons at the beginning of the year. The lessons were focused on mental addition (even into the hundreds), and…
