We’ve been a homeschooling family since they were in 1st and 2nd grade (now we have a 7th and 8th grader). Through our journey it has gotten better and better each year. We do not use any specific curriculum due to the battle between secular and reli...
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Supplements to Education
For Parenting
Middle School Readers
Supplements to Education
It was easy to use and we used it to supplement other areas but also keep us focused in our first years in creating our own curriculum.
Brain Quest Workbook: 3rd Grade
Similar to third grade. We teach the truth through education so some of the civics and history portion we had to correct in regards to how Turtle Island was “discovered” but overall it was a good supplement.
Brain Quest Workbook: Grade 4
Same as 3 and 4th grade. With more increase towards civics and history.
Brain Quest Workbook: Grade 5
This was our last year using the books as supplements to the rest of what we were teaching them. You can definitely notice how the books shift in requirements and expectations along the grade levels.
Brain Quest Workbook: 6th Grade Revised Edition
A LIFESAVER. We created a Premium Membership (~$120 USD annual) and were able to print worksheets, use preplanned lesson plans, give the kids tests and games to help support their learning process. This was such a major asset to use with our students...
Education.com
With middle school, we wanted to make sure our students got some teaching from others and were able to be more social with other peers. We incorporated Outschool to do that and teach classes they were interested in but also met what we wanted them to...
Outschool
This has been another major asset to our homeschooling. This website you can print free and paid created curriculum for your students from teachers that have already created it and put it online. You can choose common core or not, grade levels, but i...
Log In | Teachers Pay Teachers
IXL is still somewhat new for us but I switched to it once we kind of outgrew Education.com. We have the membership for 2 students (~$25/month) and there is everything!!! When I say everything, I mean everything. You can select what state you are in ...
IXL
For Parenting
Homeschooling really will challenge you as an adult to see the ways you’ve been conditioned to believe learning must happen and the ways you learn, communicate or receive information. Here are several books and movies we used to help us decide to bec...
I love this book down!!! Very easy to read and use in determining what parenting can look like raising Black children.
Parenting for Liberation: Raising Black Children
A must read! So many books about parenting or what deemed as good parenting is done through the lens of the white bodied lived experience, this book challenges the ways we think children and motherhood should be.
Motherhood So White: A Conversation With Nefertiti Austin
This book is a compilation of shares to challenge young people autonomy and agency. It does NOT mean children or young people should run wild.
