We’ve often said that your local library has nearly every resource a homeschooler needs for learning. If your library is currently closed, you can still use online libraries, either through your local library or through online websites.
For free books, here’s links to great sites for easily reading books or picture books online, or downloading free classics, fiction, or nonfiction on a variety of educational topics.
So even if you can’t visit your favorite library right now, you can still have fun and continue learning every day!
Also, continue to share your homeschooling knowledge and experience with all those who are suddenly learning at home, too!
Happy homeschooling from EverythingHomeschooling.com!
Showing posts with label learning fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learning fun. Show all posts
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Heart-Health Activities + Valentines
1. Print a Heart diagram and/or a “Heart House” diagram to learn more about the workings of the heart.
2. Print a Healthy Heart Coloring Page featuring healthy foods.
3. Print a Heart Healthy Calorie Calculation Math Sheet, helping to solve math problems while counting calories.
4. Print a Move-It Minutes Tracking Chart, to track time spent on active play or daily exercises.
5. Print a Count Your Steps Tracking Chart, to track the number of steps achieved on walks or runs.
6. Have your child draw an illustration of a working heart. Then see how many parts of the heart he or she can label correctly.
7. Encourage children to design and create their own Valentine's Day cards. Then compare their creations to the illustrations of working hearts. In what ways do their creations resemble working hearts? Have fun and be creative!
Keep these activity sheets, illustrations, and creations in your child's portfolio or learning logs.
See EverythingHomeschooling.com for these and hundreds more learning activities.
Weekly lessons are also available for 9 months of learning fun in all subject areas!
Happy homeschooling!
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Free Homeschool Activities and Lessons
Experience Free Learning Activities this week, such as:
1. Creating and Designing Roller Coasters
2. "I Wonder" Science on Molds, Absorption, and Mixtures
3. Tessellation Art and Math
4. Interactive Explorer Discoveries
5. Measuring the Speed of Light
6. Cooking with Math
7. Science Experiments on Solids and Liquids
8. Geography Games for Learning Fun
9. Exploring Ecosystems, Habitats, and Biomes
10. Creating Superheroes from Historical Figures
11. Diagramming Sentences the Easy Way while Reading a Book a Day
12. Creating Collages, Sculptures, and Fiber Arts with Fun Art Projects
And Much More!
For Free Homeschool Activities see our Home page at EverythingHomeschooling.com and have fun learning!
Happy Homeschooling!
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
How Children Learn – Love lies at the heart of all true learning
"Love lies at the heart of all true learning."
I recently reread How Children Learn by John Holt, an early advocate of education reform and learning at home.
The last paragraph, in the last chapter, continues to echo through my mind. It states:
“Gears, twigs, leaves, little children love the world. That is why they are so good at learning about it. For it is love, not tricks and techniques of thought, that lies at the heart of all true learning.”
That bears repeating and digesting: “It is love that lies at the heart of all true learning.” Not tricks, as John Holt pointed out. Not techniques. But love.
"Curiosity grows by what it feeds on."
Earlier in this book, Mr. Holt states:
“People have often said to me, nervously or angrily, that if we let children learn what they want to know, they will become narrow specialists, nutty experts in baseball batting averages and such trivia. Not so.”
He goes on to explain that healthy children, still curious and unafraid, are not boxed in by their learning.
Rather, their learning:
“… leads them out into life in many directions. Each new thing they learn makes them aware of other new things to be learned. Their curiosity grows by what it feeds on. Our task is to keep their curiosity well supplied with food.”
"Keep their curiosity well supplied with good food."
I believe that all of us who have homeschooled our children know exactly what John Holt means. We have seen it with our own eyes, in our own children, in our own homes.
“Keeping their curiosity well supplied with food doesn’t mean feeding them, or telling them what they have to feed themselves. It means putting within their reach the widest possible variety and quantity of good food,” explains Mr. Holt.
When we provide encouragement and guidance, plus an interesting environment filled with a wide variety of topics and ideas to explore – along with the time and flexibility to follow those interests – there’s no stopping a child or the learning that will result. Because “their curiosity grows by what it feeds on. Our task is to keep their curiosity well supplied with good food.”
Happy homeschooling from EverythingHomeschooling.com!
I recently reread How Children Learn by John Holt, an early advocate of education reform and learning at home.
The last paragraph, in the last chapter, continues to echo through my mind. It states:
“Gears, twigs, leaves, little children love the world. That is why they are so good at learning about it. For it is love, not tricks and techniques of thought, that lies at the heart of all true learning.”
That bears repeating and digesting: “It is love that lies at the heart of all true learning.” Not tricks, as John Holt pointed out. Not techniques. But love.
"Curiosity grows by what it feeds on."
Earlier in this book, Mr. Holt states:
“People have often said to me, nervously or angrily, that if we let children learn what they want to know, they will become narrow specialists, nutty experts in baseball batting averages and such trivia. Not so.”
He goes on to explain that healthy children, still curious and unafraid, are not boxed in by their learning.
Rather, their learning:
“… leads them out into life in many directions. Each new thing they learn makes them aware of other new things to be learned. Their curiosity grows by what it feeds on. Our task is to keep their curiosity well supplied with food.”
"Keep their curiosity well supplied with good food."
I believe that all of us who have homeschooled our children know exactly what John Holt means. We have seen it with our own eyes, in our own children, in our own homes.
“Keeping their curiosity well supplied with food doesn’t mean feeding them, or telling them what they have to feed themselves. It means putting within their reach the widest possible variety and quantity of good food,” explains Mr. Holt.
When we provide encouragement and guidance, plus an interesting environment filled with a wide variety of topics and ideas to explore – along with the time and flexibility to follow those interests – there’s no stopping a child or the learning that will result. Because “their curiosity grows by what it feeds on. Our task is to keep their curiosity well supplied with good food.”
Happy homeschooling from EverythingHomeschooling.com!
Saturday, May 29, 2010
End of Homeschool Year
Assess and Evaluate
The end of the homeschool year is a good time to evaluate the past year and plan for the year ahead. You might be like us -- we often start each year with more plans than we can work into nine months!
We have high expectations for each year and might feel let-down if we don't accomplish everything we've planned. But don't fret about those things not accomplished! Just make note of them and work them into next year's plans, or try slipping some of them in during the summer.
Summer Catch-up
If you didn't get around to the study of the solar system in science this past year, don't fret. During the summer, visit the library and choose some nicely illustrated and informative books on the solar system. Read them together on lazy summer afternoons.
If possible, visit a planetarium. Or rent a video from your library on the sun and solar system. Pop some popcorn and sit down with your children to watch and discuss the video.
Get the family involved in making a mobile of the sun and the planets. Your children can invite their friends over to take part in the fun, too. Let them work on the project on the back porch or on a table where they'll have plenty of room to spread out their materials.
Do the same with a variety of topics and learning activities over the summer. But keep the activities fun and interesting, so that it doesn't seem like homeschooling!
Learning Ideas
For more ideas, see our Free Activities, Summer Activities, Articles, Daily Calendar Fun, and more on our Everything Homeschooling site at EverythingHomeschooling.com!
Happy summer!
The end of the homeschool year is a good time to evaluate the past year and plan for the year ahead. You might be like us -- we often start each year with more plans than we can work into nine months!
We have high expectations for each year and might feel let-down if we don't accomplish everything we've planned. But don't fret about those things not accomplished! Just make note of them and work them into next year's plans, or try slipping some of them in during the summer.
Summer Catch-up
If you didn't get around to the study of the solar system in science this past year, don't fret. During the summer, visit the library and choose some nicely illustrated and informative books on the solar system. Read them together on lazy summer afternoons.
If possible, visit a planetarium. Or rent a video from your library on the sun and solar system. Pop some popcorn and sit down with your children to watch and discuss the video.
Get the family involved in making a mobile of the sun and the planets. Your children can invite their friends over to take part in the fun, too. Let them work on the project on the back porch or on a table where they'll have plenty of room to spread out their materials.
Do the same with a variety of topics and learning activities over the summer. But keep the activities fun and interesting, so that it doesn't seem like homeschooling!
Learning Ideas
For more ideas, see our Free Activities, Summer Activities, Articles, Daily Calendar Fun, and more on our Everything Homeschooling site at EverythingHomeschooling.com!
Happy summer!
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