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My family had the privilege of once again having the opportunity to have a subscription to the
Ultimate PreK-12 Annual Membership from
SchoolhouseTeachers.com for this review to use in conjunction with our own curriculum at home. This is a Homeschool Review Crew Review. All opinions expressed are my own or those of my family.
SchoolhouseTeachers.com is a wonderful homeschooling website for wholesome Christian worldview based courses which saves time, resources, and money. They are self-paced and flexible for you and your children and once you start the membership you have all their Christian homeschool curriculum right at your fingertips. They have courses in many subject, including: Bible, Language Arts, Math, History, Geography, Social Studies, Science, Art, Computer, Drama/Speech, Languages, Music, Health/Fitness, Electives, Unit Studies, Literacy Center, Preschool, Learning Center. The curriculum is very flexible. You can build your own curriculum or use the information found in the Scope & Sequence to put a subject or grade together. Parents can easily build a customized curriculum that matches the specific needs of their children. This is an online membership with downloadable, printable elements as well as online classes and video components. Interactive courses are also being added as well so that the parent or guardian doesn't have to directly teach the student. All updates and enhancements to courses are included in the membership, so as more interactive courses become available, they are automatically added to your membership. Once you have your membership you can browse by grade: learning together, elementary, middle school, and high school or by subject.
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Subjects Included in Membership |
Also, ALL of Molly Green’s digital content has been added to the SchoolhouseTeachers.com membership. I love Molly Green! With your subscription you will have access to back issues of her magazine, canning and gardening planners, eBooks on homesteading, and tons more!
There
is also a Literacy Center that helps teach your child how to read in
101 simple steps. The Literacy Center covers pre-reading and reading
from a preschool-2nd grade level and reading comprehension through a
3rd-4th grade level. In this center they have downloadable books for
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades. There are also other series
and classics as well to read.
The
Focused Learning Centers are also included in the membership. These are
resources available when your student needs help in a particular area.
They have resources for math, reading, special needs, foreign language, high school, college planning, or science.
A SchoolhouseTeachers.com membership is one price for the entire family with courses for all ages. From preschool through the last high school year, SchoolhouseTeachers.com has it covered, and the price is locked-in for as long as you keep your membership!
How We Used This and Our Thoughts:
We checked out the 3rd grade art because my daughter, Zari, loves art and this would be age appropriate for her. We looked at all the curriculum and settled on the "Let's Do Art Outside" lessons. It has a lesson plan and 20 lessons that you can download and print if you like in PDF format. The Lesson Plan is a PDF and has the class length, schedule, resources needed, instructions, lessons completed (you check the box by each lesson as soon as they are finished), and a table with date, lesson, materials required, and notes that you can fill in yourself. Each activity has an introduction, materials list, discussion questions, instructions, ways to support, ways to extend the lesson, and curriculum connections. We love being outdoors in nature and doing lessons outside is a big plus because it gets the wiggles out and lets minds explore. I thought that overall the lessons all looked like fun and so we picked one to do that my daughter was interested in trying. She picked the one called "Painted Pebbles". We went searching for a good specimen rock to paint on and she decided to paint a ladybug on it. This particular lesson was inspired by the Twinkl original story, ‘Treasures in the Garden’. This is an ebook located on a separate site that in order to access we had to create a separate account. I didn't really care to do this, but since it was free I did so we could experience the whole lesson. Then when I did it really wasn't free at all and I couldn't access the ebook unless I paid for a premium subscription which I didn't want to do. I basically only did the free parts of the lesson because of this. I really wish that the membership covered all the parts of the lesson. She still had a lot of fun with what we could do and definitely will want to do more of the lessons when it isn't as wet outside.
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Zari with her Ladybug rock she painted for the lesson, "Painted Pebbles". |
Lessons of Let's Do Art Outside...
- Acorn Art
- Build a Bird’s Nest
- Eco Printing
- Flour Handprint Art
- How to Make a Leaf Owl
- How to Make a Leaf Squirrel
- Journey Sticks
- Little Acorns Story
- Little Acorns Nature Stamping
- Little Acorns Sorting and Comparing
- Little Acorns Woodland Watcher Art
- Painted Pebbles
- Playdough Leaf Prints
- Rainbow Wind Chines
- Teaching Ideas
- Teaching Ideas-DIY Natural Paintbrushes
- Teaching Ideas-DIY Natural Paintbrushes-Painting Leaves
- Teaching Ideas-Land Art Challenge Cards
- Teaching Ideas-Stick Frames
- Yarn Bombing Activity
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Let's Do Art Outside overview page |
There is also a great video library that you get access to with the membership of SchoolhouseTeachers.com. This has 450+ videos across several academic areas, as well as kids’
entertainment, marriage and parenting, apologetics, Bible study, and holidays. There are some videos in this library that are hosted on RightNow Media. You will need to have an account with RightNow Media in order to view these videos. These videos are noted by the orange banner in the upper right hand corner of the image. The videos that are strictly North American are noted by the red banner in the upper right hand corner of the image. There are videos that are only included in the Ultimate membership and these are noted by the blue banner in the upper right hand corner of the image. Some of the videos in the library are parts of the many classes on the SchoolhouseTeachers.com site. The video page is a library with all the videos rounded up in one place so that you can find them easily and all together. If you click on the images then it goes directly to the lessons they go with or the streaming video on their site. We absolutely love the Drive Thru History videos and Violin and Guitar lesson videos.
I love that with this membership you have the flexibility and ability to build a customized complete curriculum. You can
create a schedule for each of your children using their Schedule Builder. You can choose a weekly schedule or a 9 week schedule. The scope and sequence will help you build you schedule and know what needs to be taught depending upon the grade or subject. You can build a whole curriculum for your child or pick and choose courses to use as a supplement to your child's education.
There are so many pockets on the SchoolhouseTeachers.com that I have not
even gotten a chance to see yet and they keep on adding more things. I definitely haven't mentioned everything. I am going to love
exploring more and expanding both mine and my children's learning. I
know I can count on SchoolhouseTeachers.com to have wholesome Christian
based lessons which save me time, resources, and money.
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