If you are new to homeschooling and looking for curriculum ideas and homeschool resources, here are recommendations of things we have personally used and liked.
If you are brand new to homeschooling, I recommend beginning with my post How to start homeschooling for the beginner.
We currently have a first grader, kindergartener, and toddler so I will continue to add and update this homeschool resource page as the kids grow!
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Organization
How to set up a homeschool binder for each child for weekly work
How to organize your nature study printables for Exploring Nature With Children
Reverse Homeschool Planning: How to record activities you actually do for your records
Preschool Basics
Playing Preschool by Busy Toddler: 190 days Of At Home Learning (complete curriculum with daily activities, book lists, poems, and letter of the week activities created by a former kindergarten teacher)
Phone number practice printable
Handwriting
The Good And The Beautiful (Pre-K & Level K)
Lots and Lots of Letter Tracing Pages
Math
The Good And The Beautiful Level K
Math Lessons For A Living Education by Masterbooks
Learning to read
Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons
Nature Study
Exploring Nature With Children by Raising Little Shoots (1 full year of nature study. Can be used every year with all ages)
Nature Journal (blank): 3 pack with 50 pages each, unlined
Wild and Free Nature Co-ops nationwide
Art
Art For Kids Hub (YouTube)
Art projects for kids (step by step printables)
John Muir Law’s how to draw videos (great for beginner nature journaling)
Bible
Egermeier’s bible story book for kids
Educational TV Shows
Wild Kratts (Amazon Prime)
Octonauts (Amazon Prime
Magic School Bus (Netflix)
Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood (Amazon Prime)
Bill Nye The Science Guy (library)
The Backyard Scientist (YouTube)
Mark Rober Science & Engineering (YouTube)
Preschool Blog Posts
How to homeschool preschool: Getting started
How much time should preschool take each day
Busy Toddler’s Playing Preschool Review: 190 Days of At Home Learning
How we have taught our preschoolers to read with Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons
How to teach preschoolers to write letters of the alphabet
Preschool Treasure Hunt for Teaching Prepositions
Kindergarten Blog Posts
Pros and cons of homeschooling
How much does it cost to homeschool kindergarten
Our homeschool supplies for kindergarten, elementary, and nature study
Our relaxed homeschool kindergarten schedule and curriculum 2019-2020
Kindergarten and 1st grade curriculum picks 2020-2021
The Good And The Beautiful Level K Math Review
Big list of helpful homeschool Facebook groups I’m in for kindergarten and older
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