If you’ve found yourself teaching your kids at home, or something like that, don’t feel like it’s all worksheets and websites. Something most non-homeschoolers don’t realize is that we have hundreds more options for curriculum and resources than any public school. Why? Because our materials don’t have to be approved by the state.
The curriculum companies themselves number in the hundreds, offering something for everyone on the spectrum, from traditional textbooks to hands-on science kits, art lessons, dozens of methods for teaching history and language arts, and something for every parenting style.
Besides formal curriculum, the internet is awash in parent- and teacher-created lessons. A quick Google or Pinterest search for just about any topic/lesson will help you find what you’re looking for.
So let me just give you an inkling of what’s out there, broken down by age.
Toddlers and Preschoolers
- Access to a full year of Preschool or Kindergarten curriculum
- Letter of the Week Preschool Curriculum
- Books About Pets for Preschool
- Beat and Rhythm Lesson with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
- Read a Book – Do a Craft
- All About Me mini-book
- Free number-writing practice sheets
- Interactive alphabet notebook
- Fall People Sentences
- Create your own paintbrushes
- Summer Counting Cards and Puzzles
- Octopus Math
- 30+ FANTASTIC ACTIVITIES FOR A PRESCHOOL OCEAN THEME
- 50 Preschool Farm Theme activities
- A Color of His Own Literature Unit
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Elementary School
- 34+ Math Games for Kids
- Free Language Arts Printables
- I Have – Who Has World Flags Game
- Sound of the Week Curriculum for Kindergarten
- Free Lego Writing Printables
- Kindergarten Consonant Activity Pages
- Piggy Race! A Money Game
- States and Capitals Worksheets
- Nature Scavenger Hunt
- Clocks and Telling Time
- Calendar Journals
- Times Tables with Your Hands
- An entire year of spelling activities
- Free cursive handwriting sheets
- 16 Fall math and literacy centers
- Butterfly Skip Counting Games
- Ultimate list of printable math manipulatives and games
- Rounding numbers worksheet
- Easy play doh circuits
- Exploring light with prisms
- Free sentence building worksheets
- Grammar Bingo
- Dictionary Detective worksheets
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Middle School
- Election activities
- Color By Number Greek Roots
- Teaching Fractions with Snacks
- WWII movies to watch with your kids
- 7 Sun Science Experiments to Make Your Day
- Math Cheat Sheet Grades 4-8
- Brave movie study
- Free printable World Country geography cards
- 15 Geography board games
- Free India unit study
- Typing-Keyboarding resources
- Around the USA study
- American Presidents unit study
- Gifted homeschool math
- Decimals card game (like UNO!)
- Printable geology rock cycle game
- Easy robot projects
- Circuit lessons for elementary and middle school
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High School
- Health class for high school
- Homeschooling with Dr. Who
- Earn College Credit While Homeschooling High School
- DIY Jeopardy Game Board
- Teaching film making as an elective
- British Literature – one year study
- ECON 101 in 22 minutes from Hillsdale College
- Force and Motion interactive notebook pages
- Diagramming sentences resources
- Greek and Latin roots bingo
- Writing a research paper
- Taking the fear out of teaching literature
- How to teach your kids about money
- Studying Pilgrim’s Progress
- Teaching Shakespeare is not that hard!
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Extras
- BEST YouTube Channels for Homeschooling
- An Object Lesson for kids on honesty
- How to Plan Your Own Unit Studies
- Websites for Frugal Homeschoolers
Like I said, these are just a small sample of what’s available. Printables, guides, online games, streaming classes — you name it, you can find it. Don’t let the standard idea of classroom learning limit what you can do at home. The options are unlimited!
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