Education Resources for At Home Learning

I know that you might be feeling overwhelmed, especially with the prospect of homeschooling your children. However, I don’t think that’s the correct perspective we need to have right now. Homeschooling is a lot of work, and it requires a certain level of organization and prep work. Kids are dealing with suddenly not being in school, in the middle of the year, and not going back! They are hanging in a weird limbo and this isn’t something our modern society has ever faced. So much of school today is crowd control and meeting a lot of criteria that homeschooling kids just don’t have to deal with. As someone who was homeschooled, I can attest to this. There isn’t a whole classroom of kids to deal with, behavior issues, pulling children for evaluations or to give individual assistance to and all the different factors that make up a regular school day.

I believe that we should be looking at this like an “Avoid the Summer Slide” type of situation. As someone who has homeschooled a child for a year, been homeschooled and someone who works in the schools, I stand by this. Even if you were to homeschool your children you wouldn’t be doing it for the same amount of time as a regular public or private school day. So, please, take a deep breath, figure out what works out for your children and do your best to help them avoid a slide before September, and take it one day at a time.

I am sharing below some great resources and things that I am using personally. If your children are playing an instrument keep that up. We have incorporated that into our schedules, along with drawing and art YouTube series or just free-crafting time. Plenty of outside time, playing games to encourage critical thinking and fun and asking the kids what they want to learn. There are so many fun science experiments online and you can cook and bake with the kids as well.

In short, or long apparently, I’m thinking of you guys out there!

Math Resources

IXL.com – available for all grades

Dreambox.com

Prodigy – Download the app (Premium is available, but we love the free version)

Math Drills

K5Learning

Reading Resources

RazKids from AtoZlearning.com – app and online

Multi-subject Resources

Mr. Nussbaum – grades 1-6 multi-subject resources. Subjects from Colonial America to Birds of Prey. Mr. Nussbaum is offering full access at 80% off through March with the code “keepeducating”.

Teachers Pay Teachers – small fees

ABC Mouse – we no longer use it, but for pre-k – first grade ABC Mouse is wonderful. We used it for all three of our children

Adventure Academy – made by ABC Mouse for ages 8-13 (first month free!!)

Language Arts

Writing anything is really what kids need right now! I own cursive booklets that I have the kids do every once in a while, just to mix it up. These are summer activities that I do, that I pulled out for now. For Phillip, because he loves worksheets, I pulled out his Grade 2 Language Arts Summer workbook for him to do as well. It works through grade-appropriate tasks, working on sentence structure and adding more sight words to his vocabulary.

Writing Prompts (elementary through high school) – JournalBuddies.com

Science

Breakout EDU – Science mini online escape rooms with a science twist. You just have to hunt for free ones!

available all grade levels

YouTube

art classes – art hub for kids, cartooning for kids, draw so cute and babble dabble do

math help – Bro and Sis Math Club, Math Antics, Khan Academy

Character Building

CBS Evening Series “On the Road” has developed a Kindness 101 series and it is the most amazing thing right now. We sit down as a family and watch. It airs live on Facebook at 2pm Eastern Time but can be viewed later on YouTube and online. There is even homework provided for the kids. I highly recommend this as a family experience and an uplifting one at that.

Games (Amazon Affiliate)

Trekking the National Parks

Yahtzee

Scrabble

Sequence

Sequence for Kids

FlipIt

Our Favorite Workbooks

Summer Bridge books

Cursive Workbook

Highlights Workbooks – PreK – 2nd

BrainQuest workbooks – older kids

 

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#TeachersChangeLives – with Office Depot and Adopt-A-Classroom

Many years ago a girl went to college to be a teacher….time passed, majors changed and that girl chose a different path. But the importance of teaching never left her. So that girl was me, and yes I moved on, but the value of teachers has never escaped me. Now that my son is school, I have a new perspective on teaching. It is very interesting to transition from being taught, wanting to be, teaching yourself and then watching your child be taught. Several of my friends are also teachers and it just amazed me how much time and devotion they put into their classrooms while not even in them. How much money they spend every year, out of pocket, to make sure their children and classrooms have what they need.

OfficeDepot and Adopt A Classroom have partnered in an effort to show the world what teachers do, and can accomplish!  Adopt A Classroom connects donors with classrooms and teachers to help them make the classroom experience better.  I wanted to share this with you because I think it’s important to be active in your child’s education, and that includes helping their classrooms function at as high of level as possible.  Whether it be donating your time or money (by randomly sending your child to school with extra supplies), it’s important.  Making sure I’m involved, and letting the teacher know that they are appreciated every day of the year is so important.  Teacher Appreciation Week is also coming up, and whether or not your school does something formal, it is so nice to take that extra time to honor them.

There are so many stories of how teachers are impacting and changing lives of kids across the United States!  I’ve chosen just a few for your to check out – 

You can register a classroom and donate by visiting the Teachers Change Lives website!  You can also visit the website and locate a teacher to help.  Teacher’s who have registered their classrooms can order supplies on line from Office Depot in an easy process.  As a donor you will receive updates on how the classroom you are impacting is doing.  The process is easy and rewarding.  I’m sure if we all thought about it, we could all remember a teacher that was special to us, whether by doing something extraordinary that impacted our educational path, or one that simply was there as a positive influence in our lives.

Has a teacher changed your life?  Do you have an amazing teacher in your life right now?  I want to hear about it!


I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.

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#TeachersChangeLives – with Office Depot and Adopt-A-Classroom

Many years ago a girl went to college to be a teacher….time passed, majors changed and that girl chose a different path. But the importance of teaching never left her. So that girl was me, and yes I moved on, but the value of teachers has never escaped me. Now that my son is school, I have a new perspective on teaching. It is very interesting to transition from being taught, wanting to be, teaching yourself and then watching your child be taught. Several of my friends are also teachers and it just amazed me how much time and devotion they put into their classrooms while not even in them. How much money they spend every year, out of pocket, to make sure their children and classrooms have what they need.

OfficeDepot and Adopt A Classroom have partnered in an effort to show the world what teachers do, and can accomplish!  Adopt A Classroom connects donors with classrooms and teachers to help them make the classroom experience better.  I wanted to share this with you because I think it’s important to be active in your child’s education, and that includes helping their classrooms function at as high of level as possible.  Whether it be donating your time or money (by randomly sending your child to school with extra supplies), it’s important.  Making sure I’m involved, and letting the teacher know that they are appreciated every day of the year is so important.  Teacher Appreciation Week is also coming up, and whether or not your school does something formal, it is so nice to take that extra time to honor them.

There are so many stories of how teachers are impacting and changing lives of kids across the United States!  I’ve chosen just a few for your to check out – 

You can register a classroom and donate by visiting the Teachers Change Lives website!  You can also visit the website and locate a teacher to help.  Teacher’s who have registered their classrooms can order supplies on line from Office Depot in an easy process.  As a donor you will receive updates on how the classroom you are impacting is doing.  The process is easy and rewarding.  I’m sure if we all thought about it, we could all remember a teacher that was special to us, whether by doing something extraordinary that impacted our educational path, or one that simply was there as a positive influence in our lives.

Has a teacher changed your life?  Do you have an amazing teacher in your life right now?  I want to hear about it!


I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.

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