Weekend links

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Look what’s coming your way beginning on Monday–it’s our 5th annual homeschool day in the life series! Don’t miss it!!

Enjoy this week’s homeschool inspiration:

• Origami math :: From contributor Amida of Journey into Unschooling 
• My favorite Jane Austen film adaptations :: Modern Mrs. Darcy
• Humanity for iPad :: An interactive travel app
• 100 children’s books to read in a lifetime :: Amazon (Fun to build your 2015 reading list around!)
• 50 reasons homeschool parents love homeschooling :: Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers

My recommendations this week:

If you haven’t discovered Annedroids yet, it is a wonderful STEM show for your kiddos age 8 and up, available FREE via Amazon Prime. 11-year-old Anne lives in a junkyard with her father and the androids they create.

I recently discovered these US history comic books and they are brilliant. Topics range from Revolutionary War to slavery, native americans, and the World Wars. Fascinating fun to get your 8-12 ages deeper into history.

Featured sponsor this week:

ReadingEggs.com is offering a FREE 4-week trial to all Simple Homeschool readers! We used this last year for Elijah–he enjoyed it and it kept his skills progressing.

There’s a placement test to help you decide where your child should begin. I don’t recommend much computer time for under 7’s, but if you do this together a little each day it can be a fun tool.

“We spend the first year of a child’s life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There’s something wrong there.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson