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Second Breakfast for Homeschoolers

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

Second breakfast anyone? I think if you have homeschooled for a day, knows that your kids want to eat every second of the day. It’s breakfast time, then it’s time for second breakfast and then a snack, then lunch, and then more food throughout the day.

Second Breakfast for Homeschoolers

Second Breakfast for Homeschoolers

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One thing I try to not buy too often is cereal. I find this increases the amount of food that my kids want or feel they need to eat through the morning. Sugary cereals are definitely off the shopping list.

Snack Recipes for Second Breakfast

Snacks are life! Baked goods are the best. So you put them together and you get second breakfast for your growing homeschoolers. I swear these kids have multiple stomachs.

Oatmeal is a great, stick to your ribs ingredient. Maybe fill them up on the second go instead of coming back for thirds or fourths. Which is why we have a number of recipes here that have oatmeal in them.

  • Cinnamon Bread Recipe
  • Chocolate Chip Muffins
  • Chocolate Chip Peanut butter Oatmeal Cups
  • cherry vanilla muffins recipe
  • Mini Pancake Cups

Cinnamon Bread | Chocolate Chip Muffins | Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cups | Cherry Muffins | Pancake Cups

  • Homemade Granola Bars
  • Blueberry Vanilla Muffin
  • Healthy Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Muffins
  • Peanut Butter and Jam Muffins - Not Your typical PB&J!
  • Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins

Homemade Granola Bars | Blueberry Vanilla Muffins | Banana Chocolate Oatmeal Muffins | PB & J Muffins | Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins

  • Blueberry Muffins
  • Coffee Cake Muffins
  • cornmeal muffins
  • Pizza Muffins - Kids Lunch Time Favorite
  • No Bake Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bars

Blueberry Muffins |Coffee Cake Muffins | Cornmeal Muffins | Pizza Muffins | No Bake Peanut Butter Oatmeal Bars

  • Cinnamon Roll Bake Oatmeal
  • Egg Free Dairy Free Oatmeal CookiesEgg Free Dairy Free Oatmeal Cookies
  • Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins
  • hot sauce rolls
  • Apple Peanut Butter Wrap

Cinnamon Roll Baked Oatmeal | Oatmeal Cookies | Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins | Hot Sauce Rolls | Apple, Peanut Butter Wraps

Kids in the Kitchen Baking

The best thing about every snack, or second breakfast idea that I listed above is that your kids could make them themselves. Making their own snack is a great way to get your kids in the kitchen baking where they are having home economics calls, practicing reading, math, and science skills.

For younger bakers it’s really helpful to have baking supplies in their size. It makes it easier for them, and also makes for less flour and dough flying out of the bowl.

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Facebook Groups for Homeschool Support

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

Where do you find your homeschooling support? We live in a very small area, a small religious area, and we’re secular homeschoolers, not an easy thing. Thanks to the wonderful world of technology though we can all find a homeschool support group through Facebook groups.

Facebook Groups for Homeschool Support

Facebook Groups for Homeschool Support

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I have put together this list of great Facebook groups for you to find your support where ever works for you. I try to find secular or open to all groups. These are those, the odd one sneaks through on me and if one sneaked in on this list, let me know.

I’ll be adding to this list.

All Ages Facebook Support Groups

Homeschool Curriculum 101

Weird, UnSocialized Homeschool Community

Keep Calm and Homeschool On

Rock Your Homeschool!

Homeschooling 101 Community

National Alliance of Secular Homeschoolers Resource Group

Homeschool Swap & Chat: Canada

Secular Homeschooling with Netflix & Other Media

Chat: for Secular Eclectic Academic Homeschoolers members

Secular, Eclectic, Academic (SEA) Homeschoolers

Homeschool Resource Room

ROSE Homeschoolers: Relaxed, Older kids, Secular Eclectic Homeschoolers

Frugal Homeschooling Moms

Affording the Homeschool Life

The Homeschool Help Desk

Techin’ Your Homeschool

Homeschooling an Only Child (Secular)

High School Facebook Groups

It’s Not That Hard to Homeschool High School

True North Homeschool Tribe

HomeSchool High Support

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Love Math Again with Discovering Learning

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

Sometimes math can get to be a little much to do in our house, not just for my kids but for myself as well as I’m not really a math person, I’m more the language arts teacher. Just changing things up now and again is a great way to get everyone’s interest again, which is what Discovering Learning has helped us with.

Love Math Again with Discovering Learning

Love Math Again with Discovering Learning

*This post is a sponsored post in which I have received product and will be receiving compensation. All opinions are 100% honest.*

We were lucky enough to receive Discovering Learning Level 1, for my beautiful Brookland. She is grade one, and six years old, she really needs colorful, and fun to keep her interested and that’s what we got. The booklets have a lot of pictures, the pages are fun not boring like a lot of math books are. She actually likes to do it and not fight against doing school work.

Level one is intended for children aged 4-6. I would honestly put it at perfectly at a kindergarten level, Brookland flew through Unit 1 quickly, making it a good refresher.

Love Math Again with Discovering Learning

Level 1 Discovering Learning Math is:

  • Gain confidence in Math early on
  • Learn how to count without fingers
  • Add and subtract 1’s and 10’s
  • Learn pasterns and shapes
  • Solve logic problems and probability
  • Tell time and count change

The great thing with these booklets is you can continue forward through the books as your child understands the math and take it slower when they need some extra help as it’s better not to rush. In each level there are 10 booklets, every month your child receives a new Discovering Learning math subscription package. What kid doesn’t love getting mail?! It’s just one more way to get your child interested in doing math.

What You Get

Level 1, Unit 1 came in the mail, in a nice little box. Inside, there are two booklets, the workbook for your child to do and an answer booklet. Included as well was a pen. They encourage you to use a red or green pen for correcting to show the importance of self-learning and finding and correcting mistakes. There is also a test to make sure that your child has learned all the skills for continueing on.

Make sure you check out Discovery Learning on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

Love Math Again with Discovering Learning

Filed Under: Curriculum, Homeschool, Sponsored Post Tagged With: curriculum, homeschoolers, Math, secular curriculum, Sponsored

Little Passports – Science Expeditions

by Ashley Mullen Leave a Comment

I have often heard homeschoolers often say that they find science intimidating when you are planning, and when it comes to following through. I happen to like science, love having hands on things to do with my kids which is why we are loving the science expeditions from Little Passports. They are making science fun for parents as well as kids now.

Little Passports – Science Expeditions

Little Passports – Science Expeditions

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Science Expeditions

Our first delivery blew my mind and I cou;dn’t wait to get my kids on it. The bag alone is amazing, it is going to last a good long while, even with inpatient fingers grabbing at it, and it is not a cloth bag. Can you imagine how dirty that would get having it near experiments? The bag is easy to wipe which I just love!

Our first set of experiment is Forensic, which included A Very Berry DNA Extraction, Hints From Prints (my kids love finger printing!), and Splatter Studies (which we did yesterday).

Not everything you need is included, for example the (straw)berry and they are not in season here so we haven’t gotten to do that one yet but we will! But out of the three experiments that’s the only thing we don’t already have in our house. Included are the things that you may don’t have in your house such as test tubes and a test tube holder, you can see the rest in the picture below.

Little Passports Science Expeditions

Also included in a “comic” book, we have fun reading this before we get into the science, it’ a great introduction, something I love about the Little Passports subscriptions in general. The book also introduces new words and the meanings of them.

The Lab Notebook is perfect for making notes before, during, and after each experiment. There are also a couple pages for you to stick your badge from each fit.

science expeditions

We already can’t wait to get our next month box in the mail.

Oh, and when doing the Spatter Studies I recommend grabbing a big box to lay your paper in, it will save you a clean up. When you are holding the dropper 3 feet in the air there is gonna be a mess. You can see the red up the side of the box, and somehow we still ended up with some on the floor, oh well we tried. We fun which is the main thing.

Little Passports Science Expeditions

Disclosure: I received this subscription in exchange for a review. All opinions are 100% our own and we really can’t wait to get our next Little Passports Science Expedition box!

Filed Under: Curriculum, Experiments, Homeschool, Kids Activities Tagged With: homeschoolers, Little Passports, monthly subscription box, science, Science Expeditions, Science Experiments, subscription box

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