Check out my all time favourite homeschool resources:

Top of the list has to be our well thumbed classics...Charlotte's Web; The Railway Children;The Secret Garden; The Tales ofNarnia; Little House on the Prairie;Farmer Boy; The Hobbit;The Lord of the Rings. These fabulous books have given many hours of pleasure and intrigue all snuggled up on the sofa together. I highly recommend the reading lists of 'Sonlight' homeschool company, and The Great books academy.

Our current reads are Treasure Island (10yr old), Prince Caspian (8yr old) and Wind in the Willows read aloud to our 4 yr old. She is reading at a basic level now thanks to The Oxford Reading tree books. All my three learnt to read using these, they're fabulous.

Progeny Press do great comprehension resources based on these classics and may more.

'Greek'n'stuff' Greek curriculum is great fun and introduces children to the intricacies of language at a wider level. They also do Latin'n'stuff.

'Skoldo' French curriculum is the best one on the market!

Bravewriter.com was recently recommended as a great hands-on English resource. Check it out!

CGP Maths. This series follows the National Curriculum and is available at UK bookstores. We also use the CGP science workbooks. We also use www.sciencemadesimple.com and www.howstuffworks.com

'Draw Write Now' An art/writing course for 5-6 yr olds. My daughter loves this!

'Enchanted learning' has 20,000 printable resources available for just £12 a year. Fabulous resource for unit studies. Just type 'enchanted learning' into google.

Blue Peter TV Programme on BBC. My children have learnt so much from this and have entered many competitions. My eldest was awarded a much coveted 'Blue Peter' badge for his article on extreme weather. This badge gives him free entry to hundreds of educational/fun places.

For the classics, we choose an author/composer and then follow through with a study of their life and times. Recently we have studied Hokusai, a Japanese painter.

Check out the TOS UK site (homeschoolblogger.com/UK), it's bursting at the seams with great resources!

Hope these recommendations may be helpful to you :)

Jane

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Posted by deedeeuk

Thanks for the endorsment!! That is a great list, with the Blue Peter/BBC one you mentioned, can I just add to it? If you go on line, there is a schools schedule you can order from the BBC which tells you when everything schools is on TV/radio/or website. There are some terrific resources available on there - including Blue Peter!

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