This thread at the 4Real Learning boards got me thinking. I can never resist a good list (or four), so here are some of my homeschooling favourites.
Top 10 Homeschooling Resources
(not including books or specific curricula)
- Library
- Internet access
- Printer / scanner / copier
- World map and globe
- Handheld microscope
- Plenty of crayons, feltpens and colouring pencils
- Gluesticks and scissors (lots of both. They walk.)
- Storage (it is all very well having lots of stuff, but you need to be able to find it!)
- CD player
- Educational games
Now for books and other specific resources, for different age groups ...
Top 10 Early Years Resources (Age 3 to 6)
- Ladybird Key Words books (both old and new series)
- The Lion First Bible
- Catholic Mosaic by Cay Gibson (I'm looking forward to using this with Little Cherub)
- How Children Lived: a First Book of History by Chris and Melanie Rice
- Oxford First Book of Animals by Barbara Taylor
- Usborne Book of the Seasons
- I is for India and other "alphabet" geography books published by Frances Lincoln
- The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole and other books in the same series (I originally put these in the age 6 to 9 list, but ran out of space!)
- I Spy an Alphabet in Art by Lucy Micklethwait, and other books in the same series. Her Child's Book of Art also looks good.)
- Usborne Big Book of Playtime Activities
- Singapore My Pals Are Here maths
- Saint Patrick's Summer: a Children's Adventure Catechism by Marigold Hunt
- The Children's Book of Saints by Hugh Ross Williamson
- Artists Workshop series by Penny King
- Children Just Like Me by Barnabas and Annabel Kindersley
- Usborne Time Traveller
- Our Island Story by H.E.Marshall
- Usborne Science Activities (published in 3 volumes, each including 3 separate books)
- Home Science Adventures
- Skoldo French (good for beginners, but not enough grammar in the later books)
- So You Really Want to Learn English from Galore Park
- Latin Prep, also from Galore Park
- So You Really Want to Learn French. Yes, Galore Park again. Can you tell I like Galore Park's texts?
- Conquer Maths
- Young Oxford History of Britain and Ireland
- St.Therese and the Roses by Helen Walker Homan, and other biographies of saints in the Vision book series
- Artistic Pursuits
- The Mystery of the Periodic Table by Benjamin Wiker
- Blood and Guts by Linda Allison
- Inventing the Future by John and Mary Gribbins (History of science. I never got to use this one either - maybe with Little Cherub?)
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Thank you for the gold mine!
It is so good to see English home education ideas, because so much I see usually is american. The laminator would be great - My mum has one that I have borrowed. It is so useful - I use contact paper a lot, though (I think it is contact paper, the sticky clear stuff, kwim) and that does the job just not so neatly.
Yes, I've always known it as contact paper, or sticky-back plastic! I've used it, but I always seem to end up with creases. Laminators seem to have got a lot cheaper - Argos do them from £10 up. I don't know how well the cheapest ones would work, but there has to be something that is affordable and will do the job.
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