Monday, September 24, 2012

Learning through Play + Free Learning Activities

The Importance of Play

Children learn naturally through play, curiosity, and exploring and pursuing the many topics that interest them on a daily basis. Through their play and explorations, children automatically acquire new knowledge, learn hands-on skills, and retain the information they acquire.

Children's play and interests are self-inspired. When learning is self-inspired, it takes on special meaning and is remembered for longer periods.

When children are curious about something, or they have a pressing need to learn a new skill, they become fully engrossed in the experience. Often, they challenge themselves to go further, research more, acquire new information, try new skills, make connections, and apply that new knowledge to their lives.

It's a natural learning process that makes sense to the child. Additionally, through play and explorations, children can "branch off" from their initial areas of interest and learn even more than they had anticipated!

Ask your children what skills or topics they would like to learn through playing this week! Then have fun learning together!

Free Learning Activities This Week

1. Animation Fun

2. Autumnal Equinox

3. Roman Numerals

4. Scientists & Inventions

5. Story Writing

6. Spelling Fun

* More Learning Activities & Homeschooling Lessons at:

EverythingHomeschooling.com

Happy Homeschooling!


Sunday, August 19, 2012

New Homeschool Year and Free Activities at Everything Homeschooling

A new homeschool year is beginning for many families. We at EverythingHomeschooling.com are also looking forward to the upcoming homeschool year.

We hope you enjoyed the Summer Activities on our site these past 3 months. Summer continues until September 22, so feel free to visit our "Summer Activities" page over the coming weeks. (See the "Summer Activities" button in the menu on the left of our website.)

This week we provide Free Activities for Monday through Friday, as noted on our Home page at EverythingHomeschooling.com. The "Monday through Friday" Free Activities offer fun learning in:

1. Reading/Literature (Read a Book a Day)
2. History (Levi Strauss & Gold Rush)
3. Social Studies (Famous Explorers)
4. Science (Magnetic Experiments)
5. Math (Cooking + Baking)

Print the blank Weekly Planner Log Sheets from our "Homeschool Forms" page. (See the "Homeschool Forms" button in the menu on the left of our website.) Then jot down everything learned from the 5 "Monday through Friday" activities, in each of the subject areas.

Children will most likely take the 5 Activity Areas and run with them! Encourage and guide children in the activities at EverythingHomeschooling.com, and have a great start with the beginning of your homeschool year!

Happy homeschooling!


Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Homeschoolers, Read a Book a Day!

Try our ONE-BOOK-a-DAY READING CHALLENGE!

Kids, take the challenge! Read one book a day for 1 month and win a Free Book.

Print our Book-a-Day Log, read a book-per-day, fill out the log and the date each book was read, have your parents review your log and send your log to us.

The first 5 children to return their completed Book-a-Day Log to us will receive a free book!

To get started and to print your log sheet, visit this link:

EverythingHomeschooling.com.

Happy reading!


Thursday, July 5, 2012

Free Summer Homeschool Activities


Free Summer Activities are added and updated throughout the summer on our EverythingHomeschooling.com website.

Here are a few Summer Activities featured on our site:

1. Identify summer constellations, or use the link on our site to help identify them.

2. Identify insects, plants, trees, and animals with the Field Guides link.

3. Make a time capsule detailing summer adventures.

4. Make homemade ice cream with the yummy homemade ice cream recipes!

For more ideas on keeping kids learning and having fun all summer, just click the “Summer Activities” button in the menu on the left of our Everything Homeschooling site. Or go directly to our Summer Activities page at this link:


Happy homeschooling and enjoy the summer!



Thursday, May 31, 2012

Summer Homeschool Planning



Evaluating the Past Year and Planning Ahead

We have high expectations for each homeschool year, and we might feel let-down if we don't accomplish everything we had planned. But don't fret about 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, for instance, don't worry. During the summer, visit the library and choose illustrated, 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 on a rainy afternoon.

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!

Planning for Next Year
By reviewing our past homeschool year and accomplishments in May (as our homeschool year drew to a close), I could begin planning for future topics of study. And we have the entire summer to do our planning! As a result, I'm under no last-minute pressure as August and September creeps upon us.

EverythingHomeschooling.com

Happy homeschooling!







Monday, April 23, 2012

More Free Homeschool Activities

 5  New Things to Learn This Week!

Imagine if you learned 5 new things
every week. How many new things would you learn in one year? And in two years? (Have children do the math! 5 new things x 52 weeks = 260 new things a year; times 2 years = 520 new things learned!)

Here's 5 new things you can learn through our Free Activities page:

1. How to filter water (in the Earth Day Activities)
2. Which birds build camouflaged nests (Bird Nest Building)
3. Why and how shapes are found in nature (Finding Shapes in Nature)
4. How much weight paper can support (Paper Structures)
5. How to create a Civil War Timeline (Civil War Activities)

In addition to our Free Activities, we provide approximately 4,000 Learning Activities through our Weekly Lessons! Our Weekly Lessons provide Daily Learning Activities in each subject area: Language Arts and Literature, Social Studies, Math, Science, Life Skills, Health and Safety, Arts, Music, Crafts, and more.

See our Home page, to learn New Things this week, at:

EverythingHomeschooling.com

Happy homeschooling!



Sunday, March 25, 2012

Free Homeschool Activities This Week

Check out the Free Activities for Monday through Friday, this week.

Learn about -- and do -- the activities on:

* Kites, Kite Making, and Kite Flying
* Colors and Light
* Water and Water Cycle
* Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas
* Paper Structures
* Geography Fun
* Origami
* The Human Skeleton
* Sleep & Dreams
* Tornadoes & Weather
* And much more!

To get started now, click:

EverythingHomeschooling.com

Remember to visit our Weekly Homeschool Lessons, too, for Grades K-12, at:

EverythingHomeschooling.com.

Happy homeschooling!