Summer Learning Fun
Free Printable Bird Guide
Review: A Year of Forest School
Easy homeschooling on the road
Should you homeschool through the summer?
Print out a FREE weather station for the kids!
Free bird sighting log sheets!
Ant Science! STEM Activities Using Ants for Educational Summer Fun
Use printable car maps to help kids learn their states on road trips
Naturally raising monarch butterflies in your homeschool
99 More things to do by the end of the summer!
Flag Day fun and facts
Ten sites for fun, free summer math practice
Summer science fun
Make a summer bucket list!
101 things to do this summer
5 Fun Ways to Enjoy Nature Studies in June
From historical to hilarious: 30 days of holidays in June
Free online learning games for every subject
Math Fun
Starting out
Five Lessons To Take From Waldorf In Your Homeschool
Homeschool 101: How Can I Convince My Husband to Homeschool?
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
Review: Ecology for Kids
Looking for some fun and educational hands-on activities to teach ecology to your kids? Here’s a book that delivers it well. The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Ecology for Kids: Science Experiments and Activities Inspired by Awesome Ecologists, Past and Present is one of a series of great books by Liz Lee Heinecke, also known as the […]
Fall Leaf ID Guide
Here’s a wonderful infographic to help you and your kiddos identify 60 different trees by their fall leaves! The poster (courtesy of MJ Sales Umbrellas, which is no longer online but had a surprisingly helpful blog) helps kids learn about simple versus compound leaves, palmate versus pinnate leaves, and lobed versus not lobed leaves (see […]
Free Printable January Weather Tree!
Here’s a fun way to track weather and do nature studies with kids in the winter time. Use a weather tree to record what each day’s weather is like. I’ve created a free printable PDF weather tree for January that kids can color in each day for a beautiful way to chart the month’s weather. […]
Review: A Year of Forest School
Forest schools and other outdoor learning environments are becoming increasingly popular, not just in the United Kingdom but in the U.S. and around the world. A Year of Forest School: Outdoor Play and Skill-building Fun for Every Season, by Jane Worrell and Peter Houghton, gives parents and teachers ideas for nearly 40 seasonal activities suitable […]
Weather trees to maple syrup candy: Science and nature fun for January
It may be snowy and cold, but there are still lots of opportunities for science and nature studies this month. Here are five great ways to do some science and nature studies with your kids in January. Start a weather tree. Kids can use weather trees to track the weather for the year, either simply […]
Shrunken heads to Wild Watching: Science and nature fun for October
It’s a brand new month, and one that’s brimming with opportunities for science and nature activities. Here’s five fabulous ways to take advantage of the season this month. Take part in the Handbook of Nature Study’s Signs of Autumn Art/Nature Journal Study. Look for signs of autumn like dry grass or weeds, birds overhead or […]
Naturally raising monarch butterflies in your homeschool
Raising monarch butterflies from caterpillar eggs has been one of the most magical ways that we’ve done nature studies in our homeschool for many summers. Some families order butterfly kits through the mail, but we’ve filled our yard with lots of plants that butterflies need at various parts of their life cycles so that they’ll […]
101 things to do this summer
Have you made your summer bucket list yet? If you need a little inspiration, here’s our list from 2010 of 101 fun, educational, sentimental and silly things to do over the summer. Catch fireflies Take part in the library reading program Dance in the rain Master the multiplication tables Read the Little House series together […]
Kids can get a free Bee a Scientist coloring book free through the mail
Here’s a great freebie that kids can get through the mail to learn about scientists. The National Inquirer, a children’s publication through the USDA Forest Service, is offering “Bee a Scientist” coloring books for free. The coloring books can be printed as a PDF file or you can request one or more copies through the […]
The science of frozen bubbles and how to make them in cold climates or warm
It gets bitterly cold here in Minnesota and in much of the United States in the winter, making it an ideal time to do winter science experiments like freezing bubbles outside. This is a fun and easy project that can teach kids a lot of science concepts. Kids in warm climates can try it, too […]
10 Reasons nature study should be a priority in your homeschool
Nature study can be an invaluable part of a child’s homeschooling. Most parents know that kids enjoy nature study, but many don’t realize the many ways it’s vital for the best possible education. Here are ten reasons that nature study should be a major component of every homeschool. It’s an easy way to teach science. […]
A Montessori education for middle school years
Recently, a reader asked me for information about using Montessori principles to homeschool her older children. She wanted to know if Montessori methods could still be used with teens and preteens. The question intrigued me, as I’ve mainly seen Montessori methods taught for children up to age 12. What I found is that yes, there […]
Find meteorites at the beach!
Last week, my husband took our kids to a local lake to look for meteorites. Yes, meteorites! Okay, they were micrometeorites to be more specific, but nonetheless, the kids were able to find and hold something that came from millions of miles away in space. Can you think of a cooler way to spend a […]
