Free from Made For Homeschool
28 short lessons for the kitchen table.
Pre-K to high school. Each one fits in a single sitting, uses what you already have in the house, and is built to bend around the kid in front of you. One PDF, 89 pages, yours to print.
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What is inside
The little ones
Pre-K and kindergarten
- 4 things for pre-K homeschool
- 4 ways to practice blending spoken sounds
- 4 ways to practice a taught letter–sound pattern
- 4 ways to build and extend a pattern
Elementary
Numbers, words, and real things
- 4 arrays that explain multiplication
- 5 questions to investigate about a leaf
- 4 ways to show three-fourths
- An estimate you can check
- A recipe for twice as much
- Small word parts change meaning
- The price tag isn’t the whole problem
- A fair test for a rain cover
Elementary into middle grades
Reading, maps, and writing
- 4 ways to read clues in a comic
- 4 skills to practice with a map
- 4 steps from a comic scene to a written paragraph
Middle and high school
Science, history, and algebra
- 4 comparisons that explain atoms, molecules and ions
- 4 ways to represent motion
- The missing detail in a claim
- Inside an animal cell
- A timeline that keeps its scale
- Where did the energy go?
- More than one answer can fit
For you, the parent
When it gets hard, and the tools
- 4 things to check when math gets frustrating
- 4 distinctions that help explain Common Core math
- AI can draft. You choose.
- Honest work with an AI helper
- A graphic novel that fits this reader
- A new tool, one small trial
Who made it
I taught middle schoolers at a small rural school in Alaska, and my wife and I have homeschooled our kids for about fifteen years. The thing I am surest of: no curriculum fits a kid out of the box. You fit it to the kid. These lessons are starting points, short on purpose, so you can do exactly that.
Have a question about one? Bring it to How Do We Homeschool?, our Facebook group for parents figuring it out one kid at a time.
Scott Somers