While video read-alouds are not meant to replace the experience of reading to your children, they do offer another convenient way to bring books and learning activities into your homeschool. Video read-alouds are recordings of someone reading a book aloud, often with the pages displayed on screen so children can see the illustrations and follow
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Fun and Free Halloween-Themed Resources to Drop Into Your Homeschool Week Start with the Crash Course Halloween Playlist to get the story behind the holiday. For a deeper dive, World History’s Halloween article gives you the full historical background. Math Elementary (3rd-6th grade): Jack-o’-Lantern Glyph Activity – Practice following directions and data representation. Halloween Word
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⚛️ Everyone makes oobleck with their kids at some point. It’s easy to mix up, kinda fun to play with, and strange enough to make you wonder what’s going on. Is it a solid or a liquid? Why does it flow through your fingers but become firm when you squeeze it? Questions like these give
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🧠 There are all kinds of free, high-quality visual resources, like videos and interactives, for studying the human body. Whenever possible, we also loved exploring interactive human body exhibits and, of course, doing fun activities. In this guide, you’ll find free books and recommended reads, free activities, and simple ways to connect what kids are
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🌿 Ecosystems are all around us: from forests and ponds to backyards and gardens. As children learn how plants, animals, fungi, and other living things depend on one another, they begin to see nature as a connected system rather than a collection of separate facts. In this guide, you’ll find free books and recommended reads,
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🌿 Some of our best science lessons didn’t happen sitting around the kitchen table or in the living room. They happened at zoos, aquariums, nature centers, botanical gardens, parks, and even in our own backyard. Exploring the natural world together has led to some of our favorite homeschool memories. When experiences are paired with engaging
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Spring has arrived, and what better time to shift the learning outdoors and take advantage of the living lab that is your own backyard. There’s a lot to explore, but this post’s focus is on birds, and how to turn kids’ observations into exercises in critical thinking. The activities below are designed to help kids
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Cause and effect is all about reading to understand why something happens and what resulted. It helps connect actions to outcomes, explaining relationships between events or ideas. Readers focus on causes, effects, and how one leads to another, sometimes in a simple chain, sometimes in more complex ways. Free Resources for Cause & Effect Text
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Problem & Solution is a text structure where an author presents an issue (the problem) and then explains one or more ways it can be fixed (the solution). This structure shows up in fiction and nonfiction writing. So much of what we read and write, including stories, articles, history and science text, and opinion pieces,
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Geography was something I tried folding into whatever history we were studying – which worked to an extent. We’d read about the 13 colonies, label a map, answer some questions. Or we’d read about different ancient empires, label a map, answer some questions. Not only was this kinda boring, but when we were studying a particular
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