Crush Home School Resources
While homeschooling your children can often feel like a solo endeavor, you don’t have to do it on your own. There are resources available—both to help your children learn and to help you manage your daily routine.
Our home school resources are here to help simply the process of homeschooling while also invigorating and enlivening your children’s home school experience. Whether you are looking for home school activities, projects, educational activities you can do outside of the home, or resources that you can use yourself, we’ve got something for you.
What To Look for When Choosing Resources for Home School
When choosing resources to help you home school, you want to make sure you know what you are getting. While this is true for all parent-educators and other caregivers, it is especially true when you are on a budget.
At Crush Home School, we work hard to make it easy for you to feel confident when you add our resources to your cart. All of our resources fall into one of three categories—and we tell you exactly what you can expect in each of our resource descriptions:
Grade-Specific Resources
Some of our resources are intended for specific grade levels—or, more commonly, for specific grade ranges. If you’re familiar with the Montessori method, we often use the Montessori levels instead of specific grade levels, because even our grade-focused resources can often be used with children in multiple grades.
Grade-Adaptable Resources
Many of our resources are grade-adaptable, meaning that they can be used with children at various stages of their learning journeys. With these resources, we include recommendations for how to adapt them for children at different levels. These resources are a great option for budget-minded parent-educators and other caregivers, as they can be used with multiple children simultaneously and re-used in subsequent years.
Resources for Parent-Educators
We also create resources for parent-educators. Homeschooling presents a variety of challenges, and many parent-educators struggle with constantly wondering whether they are doing enough. Many struggle with planning, scheduling, and other aspects of homeschooling as well. Our resources for parent-educators are designed to help you home school with confidence.
Why Choose Our Resources for Homeschooling?
With so many home school resources available, why should you choose our resources for homeschooling? Here are just some of the reasons to choose Crush Home School:
1. They’re Created By a PhD and Experienced Parent-Educator
Our founder is an experienced parent-educator who holds a PhD in psychology. As a result, she has an intimate understanding of what it’s like to homeschool your children—both on a daily basis and as your children grow, learn, and mature over time.
2. They’re Designed with You and Your Children in Mind
Our home school resources are designed with you and your children in mind. We don’t just create things to try to sell. We truly want to help parent-educators and other caregivers with homeschooling, and we work hard to create resources that we believe are well worth the purchase price.
3. We Explain Why, When, and How to Use Them
All of our resources come with an explanation of why, when, and how to use them. It’s great to buy a lot of things to put in your home school classroom or on your home school shelf; but, if you don’t know what they’re for or how to get the most out of them, you will be wasting your investment. We do our part to make sure this doesn’t happen.
4. We Make Them Easy to Print and Use At Home
We make all of our home school resources easy to print and use at home. While we include some color on our shorter resources, many of our resources are simple text in black-and-white so that you can print them without exhausting your printer’s ink supply.
5. They’re Tailored to Specific Educational Objectives
All of our resources are tailored to specific educational objectives—whether those objectives pertain to your children’s experience as
students or your role as a parent-educator. Again, a lot of time and effort goes into every resource we produce, and we sincerely want to help parents and other caregivers provide their children the best home school experience possible.
Spotlight: Our Home School Resources for Parent-Educators
While lots of websites offer home school resources for students (and we work hard to make ours unique), far fewer offer resources specifically for homeschooling parents and other caregivers. But, this is a focus at Crush Home School.
We know that homeschooling can be hard, but we also know that it can be incredibly rewarding if you do it well. We want to help you do it well.
This is the focus of our home school subscription, and we strongly encourage you to consider becoming a Crush Home School member. The following resources are also designed specifically to help homeschooling parents and other caregivers provide a robust and fulfilling home school experience:
Defining Your Approach to Home School
There are lots of different ways to approach homeschooling your children. To make informed decisions about the curriculum you use, the lessons you provide, the materials you buy, and how you structure your home school days, you need to have a well-defined approach in mind.
This resource guides you step-by-step through the process of defining your approach to home school. Once you complete it, you will be ready to take the next steps toward homeschooling your children or enhancing your family’s home school experience: Defining Your Approach to Home School
Creating a Space for Home School
Once you have a clear understanding of how you want to approach homeschooling your children, you can create a space for homeschooling.
Depending on the space you have available, this could be a room in your home, a cozy nook, or a closet where you keep your materials when they’re not in use.
The key is to create a space that is easy to use and easy to keep organized. Style and design are important too, but they are secondary to functionality. This resource guides you step-by-step through the process of selecting, filling, and organizing your home school space: Creating a Space for Home School
Daily Log Templates
Having your child keep a daily log is an important aspect of homeschooling at any grade level. Not only does it help your children understand what they’re learning and see their progress on paper, but it also creates a record of what they have learned (which is important in some states).
We have created daily log templates for pre-school/kindergarten, lower elementary (1st-3rd grade), upper elementary (4th-6th grade), middle school (7th-8th grade), and high school (9th-12th grade)—and we’ve combined them all into a single resource. This way, you have the daily log templates you need for all of your children throughout their home school experience: Daily Log Templates
Monthly Seasonal Planning Guides
Our monthly seasonal planning guides are designed to help parent-educators and other caregivers add seasonal lessons, activities, and events into their home school calendar. Not only does this add excitement and variation into your home school schedule, but it also provides opportunities for your children to gain a more in-depth understanding of how their education and day-to-day life fit within the world around them.
You can add this resource to your home school planner (if you have one) or use them independently; and, like all of our other resources, you can use them with all of your children year after year. You can complete all 12 months at once if you have time, or you can spread them out as part of your regular planning: Monthly Seasonal Planning Guides
Summer Learning Planning Guide
Even if you don’t homeschool year-round (and many parent-educators and other caregivers don’t), it can still be helpful to incorporate learning experiences into the summer break. These experiences don’t have to “feel like school,” and they don’t even have to be particularly structured or centered around specific lessons or learning objectives.
But, even with this being the case, as a parent or caregiver who homeschools, it is important for you to have a plan. This resource is designed to help you curate a summer break experience that is relaxing and that feels like a break from school while still giving due consideration to your children’s educational needs: Summer Learning Planning Guide
Connecting Subjects to Encourage Learning
Connecting subjects in home school helps your children identify connections in the world around them. It also allows you to introduce
new subjects without them seeming completely new and overwhelming, and it can help your children enjoy learning about subjects that might not be their favorites.
This resource walks you through the process of connecting subjects in home school, and it provides a guide and template you can use for creating connected activities (i.e., activities that connect art with math or that connect writing with history). Once you start connecting subjects, both you and your children will want to keep connecting subjects throughout home school: Connecting Subjects to Encourage Learning
Download, Print, and Use Our Home School Resources Today
All of our home school resources are instant downloads. Once you purchase a resource through our website, you will have access to it immediately. As a result, while you can use our resources to help plan for the days, weeks, and months ahead, you can also start using them today. You can use them as many times as you like, including year after year.
Crush Home School Members Get a 10% Discount
Along with our downloadable resources, we also offer the Crush Home School membership. As a Crush Home School member, you will receive exclusive tips, insights, and resources in your inbox on a monthly basis, and you will also receive a code that you can use to get a 10% discount on all of the other resources on our website.