Free Printable Homeschool Report Card!

Free Printable Homeschool Report Card

Keeping track of your child’s progress throughout the homeschooling year can sometimes feel overwhelming. Between lesson plans, activities, and everyday learning adventures, finding a simple and effective way to record achievements and growth can be a challenge. That’s why this free printable homeschool report card from Highland Heritage Homeschool is such a fantastic resource. It offers a straightforward way to document your child’s academic progress, and best of all, it’s completely free!

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FREE Homeschool Student & Teacher ID Cards! {Printable}

If you’re looking for a FREE Homeschool Student ID card (and teacher too!) I found one where you can easily fill out your information, print, and even laminate if you have a home laminator. As the school year starts and you’re settling back into your routine, you may be thinking about getting an ID card as they can come in handy for student discounts, field trips, and proof of student status. Some places offer savings on supplies, tickets, and even software with a student ID, which is always a nice bonus!

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Homeschool Buyers Club has a wonderful, customizable ID card you can easily create and download as a PDF, PNG, or JPG. (after you create the card click on “Download” at the top right of the page and you will see the options)

Head over to Homeschool Buyers Club HERE and follow the instructions to quickly and easily print your ID cards!

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OVER TWENTY of the TOP FREE Math Apps For All Ages for Apple iOS and Android!

The Top FREE Math Apps for Apple and Android

Math Apps are a great way to supplement your regular math curriculum whether you want to give your kids a more productive way to spend screen time or if you’re on trips, vacations, or long car rides. To help you find the best apps for your kids here are over twenty of the top free math apps out there for all grades!

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Looking for more FREE math educational materials for your kids? Check out our full list of FREE math curriculum online AND our master list of FULL FREE online homeschooling curriculums!

Microsoft Math Solver uses AI to solve math problems by scanning handwritten or typed problems. It provides detailed solutions with explanations, covering topics from elementary arithmetic to advanced calculus. The app also includes interactive graphs and step-by-step instructions for better understanding. Available on iOS and Android.

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AMF Bowling – FREE Bowling for Kids This Summer!

Need another fun summer activity for the kids? This summer, your kids can bowl for free every day at AMF Bowling Centers! Each child 15 and under can get 2 free games of bowling per day throughout the entire summer. Shoe rentals are not included.

Just head over here to register your kids: AMF Bowling FREE Summer Bowling for Kids

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These 100+ FREE Zoom Backgrounds Make Zoom Calls Super Fun!

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If you’re anything like me, you didn’t know what Zoom was before 3 weeks ago. I was familiar with virtual meetings and conference call/ video-chat platforms, sure. But zoom, to me, was the term we used when the dogs got hyper and ran around the living room at top speed for no discernable reason. And NOW, Zoom is my window to civilization; my portal to the great wide world of real live humans, besides the ones I’m responsible to feed.  What a glorious gift!

As it turns out, I’m not the only one who thinks so and some major companies have released trademark backgrounds, available to download for FREE, all to enhance your video conferencing experience! We’ve compiled a list of our favorites for you below.

If you are new to this, changing your background might seem a bit complicated. Don’t worry, we’ve got you!

How to change your Zoom background

1. First, make sure you “Enable” Virtual Backgrounds by going to “Settings” at zoom.us in a web browser
2. Once enabled, open Zoom on your desktop or browser
3. Join or create a new meeting
4. Once in the meeting, look to the bottom left corner and see an option to “Stop Video.” Just don’t click it now 🙂  To the right is an upward arrow, “^,” click the arrow
5. When clicking the arrow, you will see an option to “Choose virtual background,” click that option
6. That will take you to a new window in “Settings” where you can choose from a default background or upload your own
7. To upload your own, click the “+” on the right of the video screen in the “Settings” window. This will give you the option to upload your own background into Zoom
8. Select your image and click Open

Pro Tips: To get the best virtual background, Zoom Support recommends upgrading high-quality pictures, locating a place in your house with uniform light and color, and don’t wear clothing that is the same color as your background.

You Can Even Apply a Touch-Up FIlter!

Surprised by a  Zoom meeting time change and have no time to clean up first? Well, they made a filter, just for you! The “Touch Up My Appearance” option applies a soft focus to your video, smoothing tones and giving you a more polished look.

1. Open Zoom on your desktop or browser
2. On the homepage, click the gear icon to find the “Settings”
3. If you’re already in a meeting, find the “^” next to “Stop Video” and click “Video Settings”
4. Find “Touch Up My Appearance,” and check the box to turn on the filter

Now, for those virtual backgrounds!

Unsplash.com

Featuring an extensive library of generic backgrounds, Unsplash.com is a great place to start. Unsplash is a library of free, high-quality stock images. You just need to create an account to get started, or log in with FaceBook.

Unsplash has images for everything from a sprawling library

to famous landmarks like the Eiffel tower

Pro tip: select pictures that are horizontal because they fit a little better.

 

Marvel movies

Even heavy hitters like Marvel are getting in on the background craze! Marvel tweeted out free backgrounds from some of their iconic movies. All you have to do is right click and save the image to your computer. Some of our faves are

Dr. Strange

And Avengers Tower

Fox Network

A lot of television networks are offering free backgrounds, too! A recent tweet from Fox included iconic backgrounds from some of their hit shows, including this classic!

As with the Marvel images, just right click and save to enjoy these fun backgrounds.

Video Game Backgrounds

Video game creators are throwing in some great images as well. Your kids will love these fun backgrounds as they attend all their zoom classes this semester.

Images have been made available by Mario Odessy

The Final Fantasy franchise

And Street Fighter, both the original and modern versions!

       

Steven Madow Photography

This renowned photographer is offering some of his breathtaking work for free! Click here to browse his work and choose your favorite background!

Zoommeetingbackgrounds.com

Zoommeetingbackgrounds.com offers more than 30 free virtual backgrounds to use on Zoom. They are categorized into memes, funny, movie caps, landscapes, and videos.

Most relatable image ever!

Canva – Free Zoom Virtual Background Maker

This incredible tool lets you create your own background! Choose from their extensive library of free images and videos, and then customize them to your liking!

How cool are these!

     

Guidelines to Running Online

This group has collected over 50 images and put them in a convenient google docs folder! My favorites are the Central Perk from the Friends set and this conference room from The Office!!!

     

 

Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon has released backgrounds of a few of their most-loved shows, including Paw Patrol, Spongebob and even a throwback of Hey, Arnold!

       

Hogwartz Houses

This one is for the Harry Potter nerds! (me, this one is for ME!) Show off your house pride and click to download one of these fun backgrounds!

50 points to Ravenclaw!

The Office

Need more Office backgrounds? Find them right here!

I just love these!

   

Pixar

Family favorites in our house! Find iconic scenes from Coco, The Good Dinosaur and Monster’s Inc here! 

     

 

Greek Tales for Kids – Free Animated Videos that Teach Kids Greek Mythology!

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This is a super fun series that’s FREE for Amazon Prime members! Each of the six seasons has five episodes of famous Greek myths, like Pandora’s Box, as well as some of the lesser known stories, like the Augean Stables. These fantastic tales have been told for thousands of years, and now your family can enjoy them in this easy to follow series, full of monsters, magic, and adventure.

Head over to Amazon here to watch the series!

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FREE Gratitude Bundle! {Games, Recipes, Maps, Printables, and MORE!}

I just saw this awesome FREE resource from Kristen Welch at Mercy House Global! This Gratitude Bundle is full of games, recipes, maps, kid-friendly stories, and interesting facts about how people live all over the world!

It includes 24 family nights of activities, straight from Kristen’s book, Raising Grateful Kids In An Entitled World.

Click here to download the free bundle!

Thanks to Jessica in our How To Homeschool For Free Support Group for sharing!

KID Shows Now FREE To Stream on Amazon!! {PBS Kids, Preschool, Elementary, + Family Movies!}

Anyone else going a little bit crazy with kids at home ALL day EVERY day?

Even those of us who homeschool all year are going crazy because home school does NOT equal being at home all the time. In fact, we joke all the time about how how “home”school is hardly ever actually at home.

Lots of companies are jumping on board with things to help kids pass the time AND continue learning.

Amazon just announced that they will be releasing several FREE titles for kids and all their PBS Kids shows to watch for FREE! You don’t even need an Amazon Prime membership to watch!

Here’s a list of some of the shows that are now available here. Please keep in mind that we always recommend reading reviews on Amazon or Plugged In if you have a concern about a show or a movie.

Preschool:

  • If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
  • Pete The Cat

Elementary:

  • Lost In Oz
  • The Snowy Day

PBS Kids:

CyberChase

  • Design Squad
  • Odd Squad
  • Wild Krats
  • Reading Rainbow

Family Movies:

  • Megamind
  • Max
  • Opposite Day

Just click here to access all the movies!

FREE Stories For Kids From Audible! {Pre-K, Elementary, Tween, Teen, Classics, French, Spanish, + More!}


Amazon’s Audible (more info on Audible here) is offering LOTS of books for kids, tweens, and teens to listen to for FREE during our nation’s self-quarantine!

The website is called Audible Stories and the FULL books and stories can be streamed from your laptop, phone, tablet, or desktop computer.

Here’s a list of some of the book categories and the books that Audible Stories has available:

Littlest Listeners

  • Timeless Tales of Beatrix Potter
  • The House At Pooh Corner
  • The Lion and the Mouse

Elementary

  • Anne of Green Gables
  • Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
  • 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
  • The Children’s Homer

Tween

  • White Fang
  • The Jungle Book
  • A Little History of the World

Teen

  • The Screwtape Letters
  • In Praise of Difficult Women
  • Ties That Bind Ties That Break

Literary Classics

  • Brave New World
  • Atlas Shrugged
  • Jane Eyre
  • The Call of the Wild

Folk and Fairy Tales For All

  • Grimm’s Fairy Stories
  • Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
  • The Too Cleaver Fox

Click on Audible Stories here to listen!

We also have several great audiobook options on How To Homeschool For Free on our Free Online Audiobooks Page!

Educational PODCASTS For Kids! History, English, Science, and More!

Free Educational Podcasts for Kids!

There are LOTS of great podcasts out there that are perfect to add to your school day! Each link below goes directly to that educational podcast for kids on the Apple Podcast app, so you might want to click on the links from your phone so that the podcast app will open immediately.

Please be sure to share this page with anyone that you think might be interested. Also, if you’re new to homeschooling make sure to also check out this list of 450+ FREE Online Educational Resources!

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Story Time – Bible, Fairy Tales, and More

Superbook Video Podcast – Superbook teaches children in every language and culture timeless moral truths and life lessons through the captivating, Bible-based adventures of two time-traveling children and their robot friend.

Story Pirates – Story Pirates is a group of world-class actors, comedians, improvisers, and musicians who adapt stories written by kids into sketch comedy and musical theater.

1-Year Daily Audio Bible for Kids – One year through the New Testament with Daily Audio Bible host Brian Hardin and his daughter China, son Maxwell and wife Jill. Through the Bible for kids by kids.

Smash Boom Best – A debate show for kids and families. Every episode takes two cool things, smashes them together, and let’s you decide which is best. Cats versus dogs. Pizza versus tacos. Super speed versus super strength.

Circle Round – Created and produced by parents of young children, WBUR’s Circle Round is a podcast that adapts carefully-selected folktales from around the world into sound- and music-rich radio plays for kids ages 4 to 10. Each 10- to 20-minute episode explores important issues like kindness, persistence and generosity.

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Kids Corner Terrene Episodes – This half-hour adventure for kids (ages 6-12) follows Lizarardo “Liz” Lacerta and his reptilian friends in the little town of Terrene. In the quest for fun, Liz and his pals often get themselves into trouble! With the help of their parents and other grown-up lizards like Grandpa Anole and Granny Gecko, they wrestle with the challenges and drama of childhood, finding real answers in the Bible.

Andersen’s Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen – The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen, The Real Princess and a host of other wonderful tales which form so much a part of childhood are part of Andersen’s Fairy Tales, by Hans Christian Andersen.

By Kids, For Kids Bible Stories – Bible stories for children, brought to life with a rich tapestry of sound, performed by kids, for kids.

Kathy’s Kids Storytime Podcast – A weekly podcast for kids ages 3-12 where Mrs. Kathy tells stories that share life lessons and Christian values.

Stories Podcast – A Bedtime Show for Kids of All Ages – They perform a new children’s story every week. The stories range from retellings of fairy tales like Snow White to classics like Peter Rabbit and even completely original works.

Science

Creation Science for Kids Show – Explores the Bible, history, and the world around us to see how much Jesus loves science

Brains On: Science Podcasts for Kids –  Brains On is a weekly science podcast for kids co-hosted by kid scientists! Previous shows include the topics of dust, pianos, and how the internet works!

Reasons to Believe – RTB’s mission is to spread the Christian gospel by demonstrating that sound reason and scientific research—including the very latest discoveries—consistently support, rather than erode, confidence in the truth of the Bible and faith in the personal, transcendent God revealed in both Scripture and nature.

Wow in the World – Hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz guide curious kids and their grown-ups on a journey into the wonders of the world around them. We’ll go inside our brains, out into space, and deep into the coolest new stories in science and technology.

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English/Language

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing – Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing and feed your love of the English language.

Six Minute Grammar – BBC Radio invites you to build your grammar skills in their six-minute podcast every Tuesday

Six Minute Vocabulary – BBC Radio invites you to build your vocabulary in six minutes every Monday

Spanish Grammar Review – Provides interactive grammar exercises for the intermediate to advanced Spanish student.

Grammar and Writing Advice – English writing and Grammar advice brought to you guy Scribendi.

History

The American History Podcast – A weekly podcast dedicated to detailing the history of America from right before the time of discovery up through the present.

The British History Podcast – Chronological retelling of British history with a focus on the lives of the people.

The History of Rome – A Weekly podcast about the history of the Roman Empire, beginning with Aenea’s arrival in Italy and ending with the exile of Romulus Augustulus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

Tides of History – World history about events across from all over the world in a high-quality, well-produced history podcast.

Wallbuilders Live! – Daily Journey into the past to to capture the ideas of the Founding Fathers of America and then apply them to the major issues of today.

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