Educational ideas and homeschooling/unschooling resources

Whether you are planning to homeschool/unschool your kids or not, below you can find tons of excellent resources of educational things you can do with your kids at home

Web Resources

  • There is a wonderful collection of resources in The Classical Mommy blogs.
  • Waldorf At Home Educators
  • Churriki
    (thanks to Barb from TeachYourBabyToRead yahoo group):
    This is a brand new (in the past yr) site set up to provide educational resources to anyone and everyone who wants it for free. I am AMAZED! Why didn't someone think of this sooner - its a great homeschool resource!
    Here is more info from their site:
    More About Curriki
    Curriki is where all of us -- our community of educators, parents and students can work together to develop interesting, creative and effective educational materials that the global educational community can use for free.
  • (thanks to Shannon Rizo for a wonderful insight into the program):

    What I do like about Waldorf-inspired homeschooling is that the emphasis in early years is on sensory experiences, movement, and becoming settled in the household rhythm. They believe a good home rhythm is a critical foundation for later academics; it instills a sense of stability and regularity in the children. They believe that young children learn by example, so the caregiver's actions must be worthy of imitation. They really stress inner development of and intentional action from the parent, which you don't really find in many homeschool methods. I'm not a Waldorf expert and am sure I'm leaving out important aspects of this, and there are some good sites for more information. They also advocate a lot of good nature experiences in the early years, academics begin for them in grade one (kindergarten does begin
    introducing letters), however the play that is done beforehand has been preparing them. I like that holistic aspect of it especially for young children. I really believe this good solid earthy beginning is more important than creating early geniuses, and healthier for their intellect.

  • Home Schooling Legal Defence Association
  • Radical Unschooling by Sandra Dodd
    Terrific collection of resources for allkinds of subjects -arts, dad's role, answering annoying questions, books, chores, checklists... Thanks to Shila from TeachYourBabyTORead for sharing this link with us!

 

Books

Please see our Book Recomendations for Child Development

 

If you know other resources, please share them below.

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