Resources
Groups
- Auckland Home Educators – regional homeschool group that runs events and provides information
- NCHENZ – National Council of Home Educators NZ
- Facebook groups and useful pages (there are many more local Facebook groups):
Exemptions & Homeschooling Info
- A 2 Z Homeschooling – lots of helpful info on here including heaps of online homeschooling networks
- Cynthia Hancox – for help with writing an exemption in NZ
- Where to start for new homeschoolers
Tips and advice on planning, schedules, routines etc
- Routines
- Planning & Schedules
- Managing homeschool work
- Chores
- Typical homeschool day
- Homeschooling difficulties & messiness
Resources for Subjects
Art & Craft
- Artventure – great online art lessons taught by an Australian teacher (paid)
- Playdough recipe
Bible
Christmas
Easter
Devotionals and general Bible resources
- Marty Machowski books
- Window on the World – edited by Molly Wall & Jason Mandryk. Helps you to learn about different countries around the world and how to pray for them (affiliate link).
English
- Brave Writer – Julie Bogart. Writing classes, ideas, coaching & inspiration
- Cottage Chronicles Blog – free handwriting practice + other printables
- Excel / Pascal Press workbooks – my husband sells a wide range of these on trademe (or you can contact me) including:
- Basic Reading Skills – reading comprehension
- Phonics First – we used this alongside another program for teaching our kids to read
- English & Mathematics
- Five in a Row – literature-based curriculum for younger kids
- Institute for Excellence in Writing – writing program we are using (paid)
- Key Comprehension series – practise of reading comprehension skills
- Read Aloud Revival – book lists and podcasts
- Reading booklists
- Sequential Spelling – a different method for teaching spelling that ties in well with phonics
- Start Right workbooks – we sell some of these but also available online or at bookstores
- Story Starters – fun website with interesting combinations!
- Teaching kids to read – a summary of my own process
- Walking by the Way – free copywork downloads
Geography
- Window on the World – edited by Molly Wall & Jason Mandryk. Helps you to learn about different countries around the world and how to pray for them (affiliate link).
History
- Story of the World – books by Susan Wise Bauer. Can also be bought from Fishpond (affiliate links).
Maths
- Excel workbooks – my husband sells a wide range of these on trademe (or you can contact me) including:
- English & Mathematics – a unit of Maths & English per page spread
- Start Up Maths – great for covering a wide range of maths with plenty of practise
- Free Maths worksheets websites:
- Math U See – Maths curriculum that we currently use (paid)
- Sumdog – free online maths basic facts practise using games
- Start Right workbooks – we sell some of these but also available online or at bookstores
Science
- Apologia Educational Ministries – Young Explorers Series and others
- Aurora Lipper’s Supercharged Science – science experiments – many free. Also weekly emails with experiments.
- Kmart sells ‘Factivity’ books that are fun workbooks on Science topics
- Mystery Science – simple science lessons that are free to sign up to
Free Homeschool Resource pages
There are SO many websites with free homeschooling resources. Just Google ‘homeschooling freebies’! Here are a few of them:
- Oxford Owl
- Homeschool Freebies
- Homeschool Giveaways
- kidzone.ws/ – free worksheets across different subjects
- nz.education.com – Free worksheets across a range of subjects. Not all are free however.
Paid Resource Pages
Twinkl – best to subscribe when there’s a special. Lots of different resources for various topics