Thursday, October 17, 2013

Review of Easy Peasy Homeschool Blog

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This year we have been using Easy Peasy All in One Homeschool for 2 of my children. Easy Peasy has many things available for kids Pr-K through High-school. Before I started my kids on Easy Peasy, I played around and looked at everything. I checked out several things. The one thing you will need to have with this program is a computer for every child. Now I'm kinda picky at times when it come to schooling because I know where my kids are at and what they need to improve on. Easy Peasy has most of everything I liked or wanted.

So here they are. My Likes
  • They have grades getting ready 1 "Pre-K level 1 and getting ready 2 "Pre-K level 2. I love this because your child can go through not just one year of Pre-K but 2 years. It's great also because there is only a few things your child has to do every day.
  • Towards the end of Getting ready 2 your child gets to use an online McGuffey Reader. Check out my review of the McGuffey reader HERE.
  • She offers the basics in the grade level you pick on the sidebar - Math, Reading Comprehension, Writing and with each grade she adds on NEW things.
  • If you want to add to your child's curriculum with more things than what is in the grade level. You will have to go over to the sidebar on the right and look for individual courses. 1st grade - 12th Grade is available for most of them.
  • I love that Phonics plays a huge roll in the curriculum. My eldest child is 5 and has started to read. We are using Level 1 of her homeschool program.
  • I love the directions that are on here. They are well written for a child to understand and follow through.
  • The program she has on here is made to be really easy for a child to sit down once they can read and "Just Do School". Making it easier for you to help the younger ones.
  • Oh did I forget to mention? It is ALL FREE
My Dislikes Even though I can be picky I really don't have that many dislikes. So here are the ones I do have.
  • If you are unfamiliar with the site you will probably think that, all there is to do for your child is what is available under the grade level your child is now in. It would be easier to do things if Bible History, Art and the other topics were linked into the grade level as extra curricular activities.
  • I like most of what she has for videos to watch or books to read. But I add to it. I don't like the handwriting pages she has on there. I usually print them off from another website. Click HERE for those.
  • There isn't anything for Character building - And well I need those. If you want to add Character building skills to your curriculum Click here.
I hope you go and check out her Blog! It really is fantastic and it has many other awesome things about it. Including Science, Foreign language "Spanish" Art, Bible, history, music, thinking skills "Logic" and even more. My kids are loving it and it was a God send. It was just what I was looking for on a very tight budget. Even if you have already bought your curriculum for the year. I would recommend giving Easy Peasy a try. If you do use her homeschool material and would like to thank her for putting it all together you can "donate money by clicking here". 

  Leave a comment below and tell me what you think? Do you use her site for homeschooling? What were things you liked or disliked?

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Free Printable Upper Case and Lower Case Color Sheets

Since we homeschool, I'm all about finding things to do with my kids that are simple and easy; and don't have a lot of things to look at, or sidetrack them from what they need to focus on. In our household we have a little saying "less is more." So today I'm going to offer 2 of the printables that I created for my preschool aged child. They are simple and you can do so many different things with them. Such as have your child color them as they are, decorate them, paint them with finger paint, create animals or objects out of them and so much more.
Here is The first FREE lowercase letter printable - Feel free to copy and share with as many people as you would like. I also included extra versions of letters "a, q, t & y depending on what version of the letter you want to teach your child.


Letter a


Here is the FREE Uppercase letter printable


Uppercase Letter A


I hope you find these useful in your classroom.
Leave any questions or comments below. Enjoy the FREE printables for ABC's