June’s resource list
All our best and most-used resources in one handy post
This isn’t intended to be an exhaustive list of everything we’ve used or read this month. It’s a ‘best of’ list so you can see at a glance what we come back to time and again. For books, I link to Amazon because it’s easy, but I generally buy secondhand wherever possible. Bookfinder, World of Books, and eBay are all good sources for bargains.
Maths
Tiny Polka Dot and Multiplication by Heart, both from Math For Love. Also check out their free lesson library.
Khan Academy (free)
Usborne Adding and Subtracting Activity Books, Lift the Flap Times Tables, Maths, and Multipication and Division books.
The Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching has a free year-by-year curriculum. There are detailed lesson plans but also brief overviews which is much more my style.
Reading and Writing
Jolly Phonics writing books (available in both print and cursive)
History
Ladybird Audio Adventures Vikings
Usborne Encyclopedia of World History
Science
Yellowstone BBC documentary and Bringing Back the Wolves
Small and Tall Tales of Extinct Animals
Element infographics (free)
Tiny: The Invisible World of Microbes
French
One Third Stories (also available in German, Spanish, and Italian)
Ancient Greek
Resources at Classics for All (Free. You have to sign up which takes seconds. You have to give the name of your school—I just wrote ‘homeschooled’ and it worked fine)
Other
Resources for parents
I have been reading Siblings Without Rivalry. This series (How to Talk so Kids Will Listen) is a classic and you probably don’t need me to recommend it. I especially love that the children in the books are truly horrible and easily match your own child at their very worst, so you are instantly reassured that your child perhaps isn’t the only one. I also like that the advice is turned into cartoon strips, which is much easier to retain at the end of the day when your brain is functioning at less than full capacity. And, the advice and examples of what to say is just so good. It works instantly. If I could remember to dip into these books once a month I would be a much better parent.
Homeschooling the Real Child is a lecture by Susan Wise-Bauer (of The Well-Trained Mind) about homeschooling the child who isn’t a perfect scholar, arriving at the kitchen table early each morning, keen to squeeze in an extra page of algebra. That is, it’s about how to homeschool almost every child. I haven’t got to the end yet but it’s a reassuring listen and has lots of good ideas.
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