Winter Learning Fun
Free Printable Weather Tree for February
Free Printable January Weather Tree!
Free Printable Bird Guide
Review: A Year of Forest School
Facts, activity pages and more to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.
50 Fabulously fun ways for kids to practice their handwriting
Cold weather science: Make a cloud on the ground!
Sing physics and chemistry carols with the kids! (Updated with more songs)
Better homeschool resolutions
Weather trees to maple syrup candy: Science and nature fun for January
Print out a FREE weather station for the kids!
Free bird sighting log sheets!
The science of frozen bubbles and how to make them in cold climates or warm
Math Fun
Starting out
Easy homeschooling on the road
Sensory Integration tricks to help kids focus — from pre-K through high school
Better homeschool resolutions
Lesson number one of homeschooling
Should you homeschool through the summer?
What is lapbooking and why is it so great for homeschooling?
50 fun household materials to use for poetry, spelling and more
Homeschool 101: What is The Iowa Test of Basic Skills?
Homeschool 101: What is the California Achievement Test?
100 Ways homeschooled kids get socialization
What homeschoolers can learn from Swedish preschools
Fun ways for homeschoolers to celebrate the first day of school
What homeschoolers can learn from Finland’s math success
Homeschool 101: What about socialization?
Designing your own lapbooks
50 Ways homeschoolers can get physical education
Homeschooling as a working parent
Homeschooling your active child
Ten incredibly fun ways to teach history in your homeschool
20 Ways to put more joy in your homeschooling day
50 Fabulous electives for homeschooled high schoolers
WatchKnowLearn offers thousands of free educational videos for kids
How to help your child love to write
Five lessons to take from Charlotte Mason for your homeschool
10 Reasons nature study should be a priority in your homeschool
Five lessons to take from unschooling for your homeschool
Homeschool 101: What is deschooling?
Five lessons to take from Montessori for your homeschool
New to homeschooling? What you need to buy right now
Nature Studies
Free Printable Weather Tree for February
Weather trees are great ways to incorporate art, nature studies, science and even math into a fun daily project. Here’s a free printable weather tree for February to help your kids track the month’s weather. Kids can assign a different color to each weather type, then color one leaf each day to show that day’s […]
FREE Printable Botany Plant Quiz Cards!
Here’s a great freebie for nature studies and botany lessons. Go Botany, a fantastic web site that has all kinds of plant identification tools, offers these printable cards. They say: Practice your identification skills with these handy plant quiz cards! Even when you cannot get outside or sample live plant specimens, you and your […]
The Purple Cabbage pH Experiment
Purple cabbage, like elderberry juice, is a natural pH indicator. That means that it changes colors depending when you add substances to it of varying pH levels. More acidic substances, like vinegar and lemon juice, turn it more pink. More basic substances, like dish detergent, turn it more blue. We came up with this experiment […]
Print out a FREE weather station for the kids!
Here’s a wonderful way to teach your little ones about weather. Mr. Printables has created a delightful printable weather station that is available for download absolutely free! Mr. Printables says: What’s the weather like where you are? Create your very own neat printable weather station to hang on your wall and report today’s weather like […]
Nature 365 offers wonderful one-minute nature videos daily
World renowned photographer Jim Brandenburg has created a video project that gives kids the opportunity to watch breathtaking one-minute glimpses of nature every day this year. The web-based documentary series, Nature 365, features a new, a one-minute clip of seasonal nature footage for every day of the year. The footage is compiled from videos that […]
Wonderful Charlotte Mason style geography books available free online
Here’s a wonderful way to explore geography with elementary aged children and work in a bit of history, too. Charlotte Mason’s Elementary Geography and Long’s Home Geography for Primary Grades are both available for free through public domain. Not only that, but they’re available in a variety of formats, including online, as Kindle books and […]
Boredom Busters: 10 fun challenges in writing, math and more
Looking for a creative way to jump start homeschooling or to just combat cabin fever? Here are ten challenges to offer the kids. Writing: Write a short story about a superhero whose superpowers lead to accidental, funny consequences. Write one page about the best or worst day you ever had. Do free writing for 3 […]
Peony science! Delay blooms, make color-changing jelly and more
When the peonies bloom in early summer, it’s a great opportunity to do some summer science with the kids. Here are some fantastic ways to do nature studies and learn all sorts of science concepts with these beautiful flowers. Keep them from blooming in the refrigerator for over a month! There are lots of sites […]
Free wildflower ID cards for games, nature studies and more
Hobby Farms Magazine offers wonderful wildflower ID cards that can be used in all sorts of ways for nature study fun in your homeschool. The full-color cards offer photos and descriptions of fourteen wildflowers that can be found throughout the United States. These can be used in a myriad of ways for games, nature studies […]
Science and nature fun for July
July is full of all sorts of great science and nature opportunities. Here are five fun ones to work into your homeschooling this month. MythBusting: You hear all sorts of folk wisdom that can be great fun for kids to test out. When we heard that you should draw chalk lines outside your house because […]
Great science stations for young kids
Science stations are wonderful for young kids. They introduce toddlers and preschoolers to the love of science and are also great for keeping them busy while homeschooling older kids. They’re fun, educational and easy to set up! What is a science station? It’s a space you stock with fun materials for a child to experiment […]
