All out of clever lesson ideas?
Have no fear Everything Homeschooling is here!!
I stumbled upon this site a few years back after reading the book
Everything Homeschooling Book by Sherri Linsenbach. Which is also a great resource to have on hand for your homeschool.
Everything Homeschooling is truly a unique and versatile site. They provide a few
free resources-the
blog, a
newsletter, many
free lesson ideas, and an
activity idea calendar.
The best part is for a mere $15.95 you too can have access to an entire homeschool curriculum for your whole family. No Joke! The site membership gives you access to the real gem of this site. The lessons!
The lessons are listed under grade level grouping- Grades K-2 Lessons, Grades 3-6 Lessons, Grades 6-9 Lessons, or Grades 9-12 Lessons. You will need to modify the lessons for your child's ability in each grade grouping. This grouping makes it easy to teach multiple kids as your Kindergartner and 2nd grader can be learning the same topics but at their ability levels.
The lessons are further grouped by week. There are 30 weeks of lessons for each grade level grouping. The lessons consist of list of ideas and web resources under subject headings for the entire week. The subjects are listed as Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Life Skills, Health, Safety, Arts and Music. The lessons are not planned out on a day to day bases. You will need to decide what to do on what day of the week. Depending on your teaching style you can use the lessons as is or modify them by planning ahead and adding in your own resources and books.
You could feasibly use Everything Homeschooling as a stand alone curriculum and be quite happy. The lessons are extremely well rounded and cover a large variety of topics.
We use Everything Homeschooling in our home as a supplement. It has been extremely handy during holidays and summer vacation times when we do light homeschooling. Or just on those days when I have nothing planned for school. I'm a huge fan of the Christmas and Thanksgiving Units offered. They have saved me so much work!! I can just log on and teach the kids with minimal to no prep time. More than anything when I feel my homeschool ideas running low, just looking at the lesson ideas sparks my creativity and gets us excited about learning again.
There are a few negative things I can think of when using Everything Homeschooling. If you are using it as a stand alone curriculum you are possible going to need to plan ahead a bit and pick and choose what ideas you will use for the week and when. Lesson text and resources are largely web based so you may need to print or be teaching near your computer. You may also want to be comfortable with your children accessing the internet.
Overall it is an extremely handy site- simple and easy to use. No fuss!
It is definitely worth the $15.95 a year for membership.
Oh! Did I mention the
100% money back guarantee? I'm serious! They have one.
