There are so many homeschool tools our there that it can become intimidating. Here I’ve tried to put together an easy to navigate list of free tools to get you started on your homeschool journey.
Homeschool Planning Pack from Only Passionate Curiosity on Teachers Pay Teachers
These forms are ones I use in my own Homeschool to help me plan, budget for curriculum, and pace our year.
I blogged about my process and how to use these forms in a Homeschooling 101 and Scheduling 101 Series on Only Passionate Curiosity.
Included is:
1. a form to create a general year long pacing guide for all your curriculum, a budgeting form
2. a curriculum shopping list to help you stay on budget
3. a form to help you buy/sell your curriculum used
4. a daily schedule planner
5. a yearly overview planner to help you see the big picture
6. a yearly calender
Guided Reading Lesson Plan Template {EDITABLE} from Teaching With Heart by Gina Peluso on Teachers Pay Teachers
Simplify your guided reading planning and save time with this EDITABLE lesson planning template!
Add your own text boxes and fill out the lesson plan for each of your guided reading emergent readers. Store your lesson plans in a binder. When you are ready to plan your guided reading lessons, pull out the lesson plan that corresponds with your emergent reader, and you’re ready to go. No more handwriting the same lesson plan over and over!
File Folder Games from File Folder Fun
One of my all time favourite homeschool tools. File folder games are an easy go to activity that pack away nice and tidy in little small spaces. Teach a new skill or practice an old one.
Free Lapbooks from Lapbook Lessons
Lapbooks is another one of my favourite goto homeschool tools.
A lapbook is simply a file folder that contains a variety of “mini books,” foldables, and other material that cover detailed information about the lapbook’s central topic. … Lapbooks can focus on a specific topic, such as the rainforest, or serve as a reference tool for various skills, like basic grammar facts. [Source]
Creating Unit Studies {+Printable} from The Canadian Homeschooler
Making your own unit studies can be a lot of fun, and mean that you can tailor fit them to your child’s favourite subjects and interests.
The first step is to pick the subject and then develop a plan around it – using whatever resources you have available to help. If you have a look for books, videos, websites, field trips you can take, resources in the community, people you can have as guests or visitors to teach, crafts and/or hands-on projects to do, etc. etc. The goal is to saturate your child’s learning experience with a fun, creative, and educational focus on the topic of choice.
Free Unit Study Planner – 30 Pages! from Free Homeschool Deals
The new Free Unit Study Planner includes:
30-Page 10-day Unit Study Pages
Unit Study Planning Page
Field Trip Pages
Needed materials pages
Hands-on activity planning pages
Unit Study assignment pages
Extra credit tracking
Unit Study record of completion
Free Homeschool Punch Cards + Free Assignment Reward Chart from Free Homeschool Deals
This is a fun idea to help students track the work that they get done each day. The Free Homeschool Assignment Punch Card set also includes a free reward chart. This might be the perfect idea to implement in your homeschool!
Homeschool Report Cards from 123 Homeschool 4 Me
6 Report Card Backs (so you can choose the one that works best for your particular child/family). There is a specific one for Kindergarten, several options using subjects as the criteria and grading either (Outstanding, Satisfactory, Needs Improvement, Incomplete) OR standard grades (A,B,C,D,F,I), and options for using one based on checking off areas completed.
