Hi guys, welcome back to my channel today I'm gonna share with you our top 10
homeschooling resources as promised in a previous video I said I was gonna share
what resources websites apps we're using for homeschooling during this pandemic
and today I'm gonna tell you all about these apps I'm also gonna leave a longer
list in the description box below so there's more resources that we don't use
it often but it they might be helpful to you as well and today's video is
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straight into my top ten homeschooling resources so number one for us has to be
twinkl. twinkl is an online resource that's used by teachers all over the
country all over the world in classrooms my children used to come home from
school with printables from twinkl and I have teachers in the family who use
twinkl in their classrooms any kind of resources I need for phonics or maths I
go on twinkl and I look for the specific year that I'm looking for so my
son is doing year two phonics so I go on their search for year two phonics and
there's loads absolutely loads of printables
there's also principals in different languages so when I'm trying to teach my
son a bit of Portuguese which is my native language I go on there in a
search for Portuguese resources and there's quite a lot on there definitely
twinkl has been the most useful resource for us and I'm hoping I can
still find a code that works for you to leave linked below the second resource
that we've used a lot is teacher monster to read that's an educational game that
helps teach your child to read and you can get it a hundred percent free on the
computer version the app version for phones and for tablets is paid I was
fortunate enough to find a code at the time and to get it for free but if money
is tight and you don't have much like spare money for apps and things like
that just use the computer version that's completely free it's one of the
best educational games out there and is recommended by
teachers as well it's used in schools both my three-year-old and five-year-old
use it there's different levels for different abilities of reading so
definitely one to bookmark on your computer or download on your phone
don't worry I'll leave all the links in the description box below so if you want
to know more about any of these apps or resources just look for the links in the
description box below moving on number three is Khan Academy kids so Khan
Academy kids is my son's favorite app game thing to use and it's a hundred
percent free as well everything I'm listing here is free all
has a code that you can get it for free this one doesn't have any ads any
subscriptions you don't need any codes for it and it's an amazing app it has a
really wide variety of everything phonics math shapes life skills social
skills it's it's one of the apps that I'm happy to give to my children when I
need to get some work done it's available on iTunes for iPhones Google
Play and the Amazon App Store as well the next resource that we use is the BBC
bite-size website I think a lot of people like using it and it's brilliant
so BBC have daily lessons on the BBC bite-sized website for all different
levels so going from nursery all the way to Key Stage one Key Stage two it's also
tailored to different curriculum so if you're in England Wales Island Scotland
there's video lessons homework revision materials and they release lessons every
day so there's a schedule of lessons to follow every single day the next
resource we use a lot is the Oxford owl free ebook library it's a huge
collection of free ebooks I think for children aged 3 to 11 years old so if
your child's school follows the read write ink scheme you'll be familiar with
these books and you'll be able to download them and read them for free
online which is amazing because to buy all these books can be quite expensive
there's quite a lot of books there that your children will recognize from school
as well and it's just an amazing resource to be able to have these for
free another really useful one is audible stories
audible has launched a website with free audio books for children and it has all
your books in six different languages we haven't used this one as much yet but
it's definitely something that's useful so I thought I would mention in case
your children like listening to audiobooks or even if you like listening
to audiobooks so you can get it on the audible stories website I'm not sure if
you can download them for your for your phone or iPad but definitely you can get
it for free on the website and again the links at all down below the next one is
hungry little minds which is a new website developed by the Department of
Education and it has lots of ideas for how you can chat play and read with your
children from age zero to five and it's a place that I go to a lot for ideas of
how to just do you know like fun things with the children whilst incorporating
learning and activities ideas it also has a list of apps and resources that
are recommended by the Department for Education so if you're looking for a
trustworthy source then definitely go to hungry little minds the next resource
that we've really absolutely truly loved is the sea Vivi's website especially the
puzzles and quizzes area that's a really fun thing to do with your kids if they
like CBeebies so it has things like alpha blocks number blocks something to
keep them occupied and learn at the same time it's very simple easy to use and
you can use it on an iPad or phone or a computer as well
scratch is another interesting website and it teaches children coding and
programming skills my kids are a little bit too young for that website but I
think I can just about get my son James into it and they can develop games they
can learn basic coding skills I've got a go at it myself and even I found it
really interesting so if you have kids that are older than mine then definitely
look at scratch and let them have a go at playing on there because it's really
a amazing resource for teaching coding
skills and number 10 is a website called primary homework help and this is more
of a website for parents to give you ideas of topics and things to talk about
with your kids it has lots of useful information on literacy numeracy science
history geography art religion so if you're getting all these tough questions
from your kids that you don't know how to answer then have a look at that
website because there's loads of information you can kind of try and
learn about the topic or just read to your children the information on that
website all the materials on the website are free to use for homework and
classroom only so if you're just using it for helping with homework then you
can use the materials in here to help your children so that is it this is my
list of ten resources that we have found helpful for homeschooling hope you found
some of these helpful too and don't forget to check out Skillshare using the
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and I will see you in my next one bye