Thursday, 3 June 2021

Instagramers to follow who are Home Educating

 

 Welcome to week ten of Blogging through the Alphabet 2021. This week we are looking at the letter I and my co-host Desiree will be blogging about I is for Iron Man in her alphabet lego series.

Today I would like to share a list of homeschool bloggers to follow on Instagram.  (The original list that I've expanded upon is shared with permission from Erin at Seven Little Australians

Instagram is one of my favourite platforms for it's ease of use and the sense of community is really really encouraging. 

Instagram first launched 6 October 2010 and is a phone only app which is available on both Android and Apple products.

You can find me there under the user name @chareenr and @macro_passion. When I first started using instagram I recorded our daily life as a way of tracking what and where we went.  Over the years it's been a multitude of things.  These days I record special moments and the books we are enjoying for high school.

If you are looking for photo's of wildlife or the occasional story from a zoo keeper then pop on over to my husbands instagram @servalpaul.  He loves hand feeding some beautiful little birds and you can see some slow motion feedings under the hashtag #paulswrens


Hashtags are a fabulous way of sifting through the content or discovering content to save or new people to follow.

For homeschoolers try: #charlottemason #homeschoolhighschool  #readaloudrevival #sonlight #homeschool #homeschoolLife #homeschoolingfun #homeschoolmom #homeschoolcommunity #homeschoolblogger #homeschoolingfamily #homeschoolfriends

A great way to discover new accounts is to join a follow loop.  You can also look through the list of whom I'm following here.

American Homeschoolers on Instagram

Canadian Homeschoolers on Instagram

Australian Homeschoolers on Instagram

Australia Somewhere

ACT

Distance Ed

Northern Territory

Queensland

  Who are your favourite Homeschoolers on Instagram?

Blessings 

Chareen

Find the other ABC posts in this series here:

  1. A is for Art Lessons at Home
  2. B is for Books Where do You Purchase Yours? 
  3. Charlotte Mason a Round Up of Posts 
  4. Delight Directed Education
  5. Encouragement for Weary Homeschooling Mothers
  6. For the Children's Sake  
  7. G is for Geography
  8. Homeschool Bloggers 

Featured from Week 4 all things 'H'

 This Week over at Our Homeschool Notebook the topic is I is for Iron Man



 


Thursday, 27 May 2021

Homeschool Bloggers

  Welcome to week nine of Blogging through the Alphabet 2021. This week we are looking at the letter H and my co-host Desiree will be blogging about H is for Harry Potter in her alphabet lego series.

Ove the years I have found a few wonderful friends and bloggers to follow and shared them here on the blog.  

A few weeks back I was browsing Seven Little Australian's and Counting and catching up on veteran homeschooling Mum Erin and her amazing family here in Australia I discovered that Erin had a wonderful collection of homeschooling blogs to follow.  I asked her if I could share and she said yes.  The list below has been collated by her and I've added a couple of my own too. 

Erin and PC are blessed with eleven children and have been homeschooling and blogging for many years. 

IF you love books then following Erin's blog is a must.  She has the most amazing BOOK BLOG

 


ABC Bloggers to Follow

Australian Homeschool Blogs

Autism

Book Deliciousness

Catholic

Charlotte Mason Inspired

Christian

Gifted Children

Home Education

Home Education Curriculum

Home Education Resources

Home Education – Beyond

Home Ed – Grad

Montessori Inspired

Natural Learning



When I'm looking for Notebooking inspiration I visit The Notebooking Fairy

Parenting

Freya Dawson

Moments A Day

Podcast

Mum Heart

Homeschool Product Reviews

For a list of 100 Review Bloggers go to Homeschool Review Crew here.

Travel Schooling

The Unplugged Traveller

 

Who are your favourite bloggers?

Blessings

Chareen

Find the other ABC posts in this series here:

  1. A is for Art Lessons at Home
  2. B is for Books Where do You Purchase Yours? 
  3. Charlotte Mason a Round Up of Posts 
  4. Delight Directed Education
  5. Encouragement for Weary Homeschooling Mothers
  6. For the Children's Sake  
  7. G is for Geography
  8. Homeschool Bloggers 

Featured from Week 4 all things 'G'

 This week  over at Our Homeschool Notebook the topic is H is for Harry Potter.  

Please link up your posts starting with the letter F for this weeks ABC Blogging.

Thursday, 20 May 2021

G is for Geography

 Welcome back to Blogging through the Alphabet. Today we are looking at the letter G. I must confess this letter stumped me for a few days until I resigned myself to writing about Geography in your homeschool.  My co-host Desiree is sharing G is for Green in her Lego ABC series.

Geography tends to be one of those neglected subjects within homeschooling circles and some curriculum providors.  It does not need to be however as there are some really amazing resources available to us now.  Below I've listed a few resources to get you started.

 


 Unit Studies on this blog
As we travel the globe on our discovery of Geography I will be adding more geography unit studies to this blog.

Mapping 
Books we love
(Libraries are an excellent resource to teach for FREE)

Homeschool giveaways has an excellent resource list of printables too

 

 On Pinterest 

Curriculum

Expedition Earth

Sir N and I are currently working through Expedition Earth: A Journey through God's World. This curriculum was written by Erica from over at Confessions of a Homeschooler. We have been working our way slowly through this download watching YouTube clips, cooking and extra Notebooking pages. Sir N is enjoying it so much that he calls it our Travel School.


Trail Guide to World Geography


Trail Guide to World Geography  This particular package is my all time favourite.  You can purchase this as a book or an eBook download.  This little big book is chock full.
If you do this book with your children they will have covered geography from A-Z in three years.  You do each section once.  Once in primary school, once in middle school and once in high school. Each time your student does a year they go deeper learn more and practise more.
Each level is a complete 36 week school year course.  The teachers manual comes with everything you need to successfully and comprehensively teach geography without any prior knowledge of the subject.  There are also student work books available for each grade level.

Other Resources

Did you know that the total area of land surface on earth is: 143,804,549 square km? 

What are YOUR favourite Geography Resources ?

Blessings

Chareen

Find the other ABC posts in this series here:

  1. A is for Art Lessons at Home
  2. B is for Books Where do You Purchase Yours? 
  3. Charlotte Mason a Round Up of Posts 
  4. Delight Directed Education
  5. Encouragement for Weary Homeschooling Mothers
  6. For the Children's Sake  
  7. G is for Geography

Featured from Week 4 all things 'F'

 This week  over at Our Homeschool Notebook the topic is G is for Green .  

Please link up your posts starting with the letter F for this weeks ABC Blogging.