I was given the opportunity, as a member of the Homeschool Review Crew, to review an awesome site for homeschoolers! Have you heard of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine? Well, they have their own Christian, computer-based homeschool curriculum and resource site called, SchoolhouseTeachers.com! Think of this as your one stop site for all your homeschooling needs!
SchoolhouseTeachers.com Yearly Membership has a plethora of classes as well as resources for homeschoolers~teaching students from preschool thru high school. Subjects covered with in the site go from Art all the way to Social Studies, including a section for the whole family! What would work for the whole family, you might ask? They have classes there like Clean Eating with Sue Gregg and Homesteading. The Clean Eating class is a cooking class that engages the whole family, if you choose or you could even rotate the recipes with your children and have some fun one on one time with them! That is something that we have done at our house. Each one of the kids has a different week of the month and they get to help plan and prepare the meals! I will be checking out this class! Homesteading is another thing that I hear a lot of people talking about and am happy to check out. This class targets anyone who wants to live more independently, preparing your daily needs by hand.
What have we checked out so far?
One of the requirements for graduation in our state schools is Personal Finance. I found this out when our oldest entered the technical school. So, the first thing I did was scroll down the classes and see what my options were. They have Money101! An audio class that has downloadable worksheets and 23 lessons covering topics like budgeting, paying for college and investing. The perfect class for my high school student, and any young adult (in my opinion). Another class that we have checked out is history with the middle school students. They have the Drive Thru History DVD’s that make history fun and interesting. Along with the video there are discussion questions that you can download and have the students work on as a quiz, worksheet or even as discussion questions for those kiddos who don’t like to write. We also checked out the guitar classes, however my guitar player is already beyond the content of those classes. I hope they add more in the future!
So how does this site work?
It is a membership site, that you can pay either a monthly payment of $12.95 or annually of $139. I would totally do the year because I would save a few dollars and I don’t like to have to make payments
. What else do you get for your money?
Here are only a FEW of the things that come included with your membership...
*access for the whole family on one membership
* Full year and semester courses, as well as unit studies
* Help with struggling students
* Schedule creators as well as credit and transcript support
* Over 300 classes
* Access to streaming videos
The site features a quick links for easy navigation of the site for all your classes. Listing them alphabetically makes them super simple to find! They do not offer live classes, however, I think that is better. With the prerecorded classes you can start and stop then as you need to (or as your schedule requires) or listen to them any time anywhere (as long as you have an internet connection).
Doesn’t this sound like something you should be checking out? I think it would be a mistake if you don’t! Right now, you can try out the site for only $1 for your first month, by clicking SchoolhouseTeachers.com
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My fellow Crew members have tried different courses. Visit the Homeschool Review Crew to find out what they have to say!
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