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Books About Canada for Your Homeschool

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Books, books, books! That’s what we love here, and it is no wonder with all that books can do for you. Learn about a country near or far. Learn about animals, science, or anything you’re interested in, there is a book out there for you. Want to loose yourself in another time or place? Pick up a novel and off you go. With all there is to learn from books it is no wonder we have a great collection of books about Canada in our homeschool.

Books About Canada for Your Homeschool

Books About Canada for Your Homeschool

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I actually had to do two things to find out which great books about Canada that we have: sit in front of our bookshelf, and go downstairs to where I have stashed books for the coming year. These are made for kids, touching on history in bits that they can understand with pictures.

Educational Books about Canada

These are all great books to have in your collection for the coming school years. You can use these alone to create your own Canadian history and social studies curriculum materials.

Now You Know Canada

Canada Year By Year

The Kids book of Canadian Exploration

The Kids book of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

Hey Canada! – This one is great to use along with The Canadian Bundle

A Canadian Year

The kids Book of Canada

The Kids Book of Canada’s Railway and How the CPR was Built

The Kids Book of Canadian History

The Kids Book of Black Canadian History

The Kids Book of Canadian Immigration

The Kids book of Canadian Geography

The Kids Book of Great Canadian Women

6 Secular Books for Homeschoolers

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Finding books for homeschoolers that do not have a religious view or take, or something can be hard. I mean, ridiculously hard, I have been looking for five years and still have hadn’t the best luck. But there are some, and they are great. There are some other really great books for homeschoolers that are fully secular.

Secular Books for Homeschoolers

Homeschool Books for Secular Homeschoolers

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Zenschooling: Living a Fabulous & Fulfilling Life Without School – Homeschooling is an extraordinary experience, but it can also be stressful and overwhelming. Bring a little Zen into your education at home, and use the power of experience, mindfulness, and acceptance to create an amazing homeschooling life.

Homeschooling and Loving It – Learn the art of stress-free homeschooling so you can homeschool your children without losing your mind or your pocketbook.

Positive Discipline Ninja Tactics – Are you struggling to live peacefully with your young child? Do you sometimes feel like, between temper tantrums and resistance to simple requests – such as coming to the dinner table or getting dressed – you want to melt down right alongside your kids?

The Art of Self Directed Learning – This book will inspire you to craft your own unconventional education, no matter whether you’re a young adult, recent graduate, parent, or simply someone who never wants to stop learning.

Secrets of a Successful Homeschool Mom – Most of us have at least a few insecurities hidden inside about whether or not we can actually do this homeschooling thing. Often we are our own biggest obstacle. It makes sense that we would feel this way–after all, we’ve been taught that education is complicated. But what if some of what we’ve been taught is not true?

Homeschool Teacher: a practical guide to inspiring academic excellence – Homeschool Teacher is a guide for families new to homeschooling, old hands looking for ideas, and parents wanting to help their children after school. Based on twelve years of homeschooling experience and academic research, Homeschool Teacher covers how we learn, teaching tactics, specific recommendations for subject areas, how to choose the best curriculum for your family.

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10 Books for Young Entrepreneurs: Kidpreneurs

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My oldest daughter has an entrepreneurs’ spirit, or as kids can be called “Kidpreneurs”. I haven’t had a clue what to do about it teaching a young entrepreneur, but I am stepping out of my comfort zone and we are going to start working on a plan, a plan for her to start her own little business. My go to as always is books. I am getting books to make sure we do this right and I support her as best as I can. The young entrepreneur that she is already planning a lemonade stand for the summer.

The world has changed and a lot of adults are looking to become entrepreneurs and create their own work and lifestyle. Why shouldn’t kids and teens do the same.

10 Books for young Entrepreneurs
10 Books for Kid and Teen Entrepreneurs

10 Books for Young Entrepreneurs: Kidpreneurs

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This list might be a little overwhelming but the majority are available on Kindle which is a big help, not so many books laying around. Pick one and start there. The two books for teens are at the end.

Jasmine Launches a Startup – Want to spark curiosity and arouse your little one’s leadership skills? Inspire your future entrepreneur to follow its passion and introduce him or her to the world of entrepreneurship with the story of Jasmine. The first perfect business book to share with your child to ignite interest in starting a business or launching a start-up.

Kidpreneurs: Young Entrepreneurs With Big Ideas! – Even children can be introduced to basic business principles and the rewards of entrepreneurship. Our goal with Kidpreneurs is to outline some basic tools and strategies kids can use to gain some valuable experience in starting, managing, and growing a successful business venture.

Kid Start-Up: How YOU Can Become an Entrepreneur – You can try one of our ten kid-friendly businesses, including timeless ventures like starting a lemonade stand to more modern-day endeavors like launching an Etsy art store, or create your own.

Kid Millionaire: Over 50 Exciting Business Ideas – Learn the skills you need to do what you love and profit from your passions! Follow dozens of kid entrepreneurs and learn from business pros with Kid Millionaire! In this fun and inspiring guide.

Better Than a Lemonade Stand!: Small Business Ideas for Kids – Filled with delightfully simple business ideas, Better than a Lemonade Stand! is a fun guide packed with creative ideas that show how to start a business with little or no start-up costs, attract and retain customers, develop negotiating skills, and more.

Project Profit: An Income and Expense Ledger for Aspiring Entrepreneurs – Perfect workbook for lemonade stands, bake sales, and any other roadside business! Project Profit: Lemonade Stand Workbook! This ledger is the perfect introduction to profit and loss, income and expenses, and bookkeeping.

The Amazing Kid Entrepreneur –  A story: As a leader, Zohra teaches by example and inspires individuals to “believe and they shall achieve,” and helps people turn obstacles into energy and focus. Zohra is committed to teaching the formula of success, one person at a time.

This one is more for entrepreneur parents raising entrepreneurs:

Entrepreneur School For Kids: Parent Guide For Grooming Your Child To Be A Future Entrepreneur – This book contains proven steps and strategies on how parents who are entrepreneurs can set their children on the path to becoming entrepreneurs themselves someday.

For Teens:

Be a Young Entrepreneur: Be Inspired to Be a Business Whiz – Calling all business-minded kids: this book is for you! If you’ve ever dreamed of starting your own business but have absolutely no idea where to begin, we’ve got good news for you. It’s easy to succeed–as long as you’ve got a game plan.

Become A Teen Boss: 20+ Ways To Make Money Using Your Electronic Device! – To say that a child doesn’t have what it takes to be successful in this world would be lunacy. Child prodigies and child entrepreneurs from all over the world have proved that you don’t need to be an adult to be respected for your ideas.

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Managing Your Library Books and Fines

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We are big fans of the public library system. We are avid readers and books can be pricey unless you go to the library. All the books you could ever want to read are available for you to read and enjoy. For free, unless, you aren’t managing your library books and fines properly.

Managing Your Library Books and Fines

Managing Your Library Books and Fines

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Homeschoolers tend to have quite the impressive home library but you can’t buy, and store all the books, which makes homeschoolers faithful library patrons as well. No matter the curriculum you choose, you are always going to be looking for more books, more information on any given topic.

According to my check out receipt from our latest trip to the library so far this year I have saved $2,164.17 by using the library. It’s only the middle of February.

Keep Fines at Bay with A Designated Book Spot

Prevent lost books by keeping them stored in one spot. I started this a couple years ago and it has saved us. One bookshelf is only for library books. We have cut back on the lost books this way too. I’m not stuck spending hours turning the house upside down looking for a book.

For awhile we used a cube organizer to do the job, each child had their own cube for their books, but with rearranging and listing our home, we have switched things up a bit.


Using a library bag to bring your books home in as your way to keep all your books together in one spot might work well too, as long as you only use that bag for trips to the library. This bag is super cute, and obviously a library bag:

Managing your library books and fines

Sign Up for Alerts

Our library gives you the option of email notifications or text messages. I signed up for text messages. I am not great at checking my personal email often, so those reminders to my phone save us on fines.

It also alerts us to when our requests have arrived. These days make us very happy!

One Library Card

My two girls both have library cards, but I don’t let them use them. Why? Because it makes it a lot harder to keep track of the books and the books that are due back. That then results in library fines. Now we only use one card for the whole family.

We have a check out limit of 100 items, we have reached it a few times. This helps keep us from getting too many books and losing them as well.

Managing Your Library Books and Fines

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Curriculum Reading – Do Your Kids Love or Hate It?

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We have found the perfect language arts program, it has spelling components, writing styles, and curriculum reading. But not all books are meant for everyone, different tastes and likes for different people. I know I can’t read just anything, I need to be interested in the topic and story line. Why do we expect children to read every book we tell them to read?

Curriculum reading - Do Your Kids Love or Hate it?

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Curriculum Reading – Do Your Kids Love or Hate It?

When you think back to your own school days, did you love every book you had to read for class? Are there a few books that still stand out to you that you loved? In grade four, my teacher read aloud to us, while I don’t recall all the books read that year I remember loving both Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little. Charlotte’s Web is included in Reading with History Level 1, and I was so excited to read it to my children and to see them enjoying it as well.

Curriculum Books Reading Options

There are a number of different ways you can make sure that you are reading the books in your curriculum. One option is for you to read the book out loud to your child instead of them reading it themselves. Another option is to see if you can find the audio version of the book. There are many different options for finding audiobooks now, whether it’s a book on CD, from Amazon’s Audible or from your Hoopla, which you may have access to through your library.

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When to Move On from Curriculum Books

There are books that just aren’t for everyone. I handed Austin, my nine year old, a book before and had a feeling it wasn’t going to be a book she would be interested in, but I kept all opinions on that to myself. After each chapter, I ask her to tell me what happened, to summarize what she read, and ask a question from our language arts instructor’s guide. She couldn’t. A quarter of the way through the book, she had little to no idea what the book was about. I called that book quits.

Why do I let her stop reading without finishing a book? If she isn’t understand what is happening then we’ll go through it together, whether I read it out loud or we find an audiobooks version. I feel like having a lack of interest in a book is going to block her learning from it. With so many great books available I know there is another one that she’ll enjoy more, and learn from just the same.

I have a lack of interest in learning anything about hunting, knowing that the food in my freezer is delicious is enough information for me. When my husband or kids put on a television show or pull out a book on the topic, I feel myself drifting off into another world. Why should it be different for our kids?

For every books that isn’t a fit, there are many more on our curriculum reading list that are big hits. We’ve found amazing new to authors to explore past our curriculum reading list.

Finding Other Book Options

Hit your local library for books similar in topic that might keep your child’s interest more. Ask your library for suggestions or search Google for book suggests. Another great resource for books on a topic is other homeschool parents. Facebook groups are a great way to ask for book recommendations on a specific topic.

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