The Sequoia Breeze: Recent Episodes
Rebecca LaSavio
A podcast for homeschool families brought to you by Sequoia Grove Charter Alliance. Encouragement, tips & tricks, interviews with HSTs and curriculum help.
The blessing and the curse of homeschooling: Siblings! The challenges and opportunities that sibling relationships bring require a lot of energy and creativity from parents. Kendra Fletcher, mother and experienced homeschooler of 8 shares the lessons she learned and the ways she helped foster and restore the relationships between her own children.
Show notes:
Teaching Textbooks
Kendrafletcher.com
Find Kendra on Outschool
Is homeschooling for high school a good idea? Will your student miss out? Are you up for the challenge? Linda Qian, director of high school for Sequoia Grove, shares her story with us and lays our fears to rest--high school is a great time to homeschool!
Pam Barnhill joins in to talk about how to get your year under control! No more giving up before you've begun. Her book Plan Your Year outlines how to think through what you do and how to do it. Be inspired to keep going each day with some simple preparation.
Show Notes:
PamBarnhill.com
https://simplyconvivial.com/2016/character-building/
Plan Your Year
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Unsure what the Lending Library has to offer? Have you given up trying to get logged in and reserve books? Join me as I interview the Head of Library Services, Chris Hermann. We take an audio tour of the immense store of resources available to you and your family. Don't miss this informative episode that tells what is there and how to get it!
Lending Library Information and How-to’s
Destiny Discover–the website to reserve books
Link to choose your Park Day location
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Let’s Hear it for the Average Child (mistakenly called “Let’s Hear It for the ‘C’” in the episode)
Blake Boles -
The Art of Self-Directed Learning
College without High School
Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?
Mark Rober
Adventure Academy
J/HSVA
Kiwi Co
Mel Science
Bill Nye
Lending Library
Exploratorium Science Snacks
“The Power of Reading Aloud” blog article
Books mentioned in the episode:
Kite Fighters
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade
Shadow Spinner
The Year of Ms. Agnes
Home in the Woods
Because
Red Sails to Capri
The Wheel on the School
Gooney Bird Greene
“I Had a Mother Who Read to Me” Poem by Strickland Gillilan
I Can Statements
Khan Academy
Bedtime Math
6 Unproductive Ways to Learn Math Basics—and What to Do Instead
Edutopia - Math Articles
Top 5 Math Strategies for Struggling Students
- Math Strategies: Master the Basics First
- Help Them Understand the Why. Struggling students need plenty of instruction.
- Make It a Positive Experience.
- Use Models and Learning Aids.
- Encourage Thinking Out Loud.
-Magoosh
How to Learn Math: For Students (Great for parents & teachers too!)
Learning math through games:
- NRICH
- Desmos
- Mathigon
- PhET
- Toy Theater
- Math Playground
- Math Tricks
- Would You Rather Math
- Personal Finance Lab
- Solve Me Mobiles
Free online math lessons:
- Math Antics
- Math Planet
- MyWhyU - Pre Algebra
- Math in the Workforce
- Math Worksheets
- Algebra Worksheets
- Performance Tasks
- OpenStax - High School level FREE textbooks
- YouCubed - Parent Resources
- YouCubed at Home
- Data Talks
- Data Science
- CODAP
Subscription-based math lessons that I’ve used and like:
- Mind Benders - The Critical Thinking Co.
- Balance Math - The Critical Thinking Co.
- Amplify/Desmos
- Maneuvering the Middle
- Clark Creative (Performance Tasks)
- Use code BTS22 for a 25% off discount on any Membership
- CTC Math
- Beast Academy
- Dimensions - Singapore Math
Stanford History Education Group (Learning Coach: preview lessons for subject appropriateness)
Adventure Academy
DBQ (Document based question) Puzzles:
Send an email request to: Scott Steffens
Request the time period/ topic you are looking for.
For example: Middle or high school, Declaration of Independence
Coloma
CSI investigations Lost Colony of Roanoke
Mushroom Bread
Watch the video about Seuquoia Grove that Jenell referrs to here.
California Dashboard--A school's 'report card.'
What is a unit study?
Math U See
Story of the World
Growing with Grammar
Soaring with Spelling
Saxon math
BookShark
Bright Thinker
IEW
Time for Learning
Acellus
MobyMax
Moving Beyond the Page
Oak Meadow
Lapbooks
Singapore Math US Edition
Please Understand Me II by David Keirsey
School Calendar on the Homeschool Helper
BookShark Curriculum
Easy Grammar
AR (Accelerated Reader) points
Ice Cream Multiplication Clip Chart
All About Reading Decodable Books
BookShark Decodable Books
Bob Books for Beginning Readers
The measuredmom.com
Montessori crosswords (apple)
Montessori Crosswords (android)
Explode the code
Peachie Speechie
Elkonin boxes
Clarksville Charter School
Feather River Charter School
Lake View Charter School
Homeschool Helper
Cathy Duffy Homeschool Curriculum Reviews
Rainbow Resource
A Brighter Child