This page gives you a list of some key places within our website where you can find tips for how to choose subjects/ topics when you plan for a homeschool year and also where you could find some great resources to use to have fun with learning the topics you might choose! 🙂
- What Resources Do You Use for “This Subject”? – Looking for recommendations for what our [Canadian] family has really liked for a specific subject/skill/topic – JK-12? These organized-by-subject lists can help! ?
- Check the (new) “LISTS” menu item (on the top of the page) for our recommended books and videos for children, for juniors and tweens, and for teens and adults!
- Free Homeschool Planning Guides – several types to choose from to download and print! (They’re in pdf format.)
- Choosing Curriculum: A Free Planning Guide (a post about one of the planning guides that used to be put into convention goody bags – very useful for almost any homeschooling style!)
- Examples of Minimalistic Homeschooling (a post about some things our family personally chooses, including prioritizing some subjects and topics while minimizing others)
- Types of Readers (Books) – explains the differences between phonics readers, story readers, and integrated/levelled readers for literacy purposes.
- Tips for Teaching Older Readers How to Read and Placement Tips (a downloadable pdf explaining reading methods and tips to help with literacy)
- Things to Do with Math Manipulatives (a downloadable pdf chart with organized ideas for using a variety of hands-on math experiences – useful for any math program in the early years and compliments our Math Sticks series too)
- Balance is Needed! (avoiding extremes in choices of what to learn)
- What About Microscopes? (a blog)
Links for….. Subject by Subject posts of links to more specific blog posts on that subject plus links to any curriculum that Peppermint Stick Learning Company Inc. has published to-date. This is a project which is ongoing. So far we have:
- Links for Writing (Creative Writing & Composition)
- Links for Printing and Penmanship
- Links for Math
- Links for Art
- Links for Canadian Geography
- Links for Science
- Teaching the Bible to Toddlers and Preschoolers (an outline/plan for teaching Bible stories to young children)
- Compilation of Bible-based Resources (a list of posts on our website focusing on Bible teaching towards the bottom of that page)
- Church at Home weblinks page leads to various websites/resources our family has found for learning Bible-related topics
