How to Make Learning Fun: EASY! - A Better Way to Homeschool

She lays awake at night tossing and turning. She tries to rest, but when she closes her eyes she sees the slumped over image of her son burned into her memory.

“I failed again.”

She is confused. She read all the latest and greatest articles on how to teach her child, but when she tries to follow the advice, her son closes down and she becomes frustrated, discouraged and depressed.

“I’m messing up my kid!”

Today was no different. A new lesson, neatly sharpened pencils, a good breakfast and the day began as usual. Son was happy; until the books came out… then the sparkle in his eyes dimmed and his shoulders slouched forward.

“HELP! I need to make learning more engaging, passionate and FUN for my son. THIS isn’t working.”

How to make learning fun — How about an EASY Button?

What if there was a way to simplify learning, magnify time away from worksheets, and increase connections with your kids?

Would you sleep better at night?

Quick Win!

Hands-on Learning like a professional.

Step 1: Choose a focus: The US, ballparks of the Us, National Parks (that’s the one i NEED), Canadian Provinces, The Caribbean, or…

Step 2: Begin traveling to places close to where you are.

make memories
take photos

Step 2.1: Toss in a few relevant Geography lessons (Splurge on the color copy. It’s still really affordable!)

CELEBRATE!! It doesn’t get much better than this!

Do you know what we all NEED?

An Easy Button.

Imagine actually having time to connect and play with your kids before handing them a pencil.

Imagine activities and lessons that not only teach them a thing or two, but actually capture their imagination.

Let me introduce you to EVAN MOOR.

Evan isn’t a person.

He’s not gonna show up at 8:00 am each day and take your dog for a walk. Evan Moor is one of my favorite publishers.

In 2011, my youngest son began BEGGING me for a Civil War Activity packet. He had peeked over his brother’s shoulder as he read, colored, cut and pasted together a beautiful project highlighting all the major facts and events surrounding the Civil War. And that little squirt wanted in on the fun.

The Challenge: Make learning FUN.

Many homeschoolers are completely and totally committed to educating their kids with excellence, but they have no idea how to make it fun.

Worse, their kids walk away from a lesson they are destined to forget… because they don’t invest their imagination into it at all.

Learning should be engaging and fun. Kids across the planet are suddenly turning their heads.

“PLEASE make it fun! PLEASE make me curious! PLEASE let me stand up, lay on the floor and move around!”

How to Make Learning Fun

EXPERIENCE. Before handing a child a pencil, give them an experience, take them on a journey, capture their imagination and ignite their curiosity. Field trips, vacations, movies and trips to the library whet their whistle and give you the opportunity to witness what catches their attention.
HANDS-ON. Find ways to touch, mold, eat, smell, and manipulate a subject BEFORE the pencil is handed to the child. It’s magic.
SIMPLIFY. Remember, kids do not need to practice a skill 14 times to “prove” they’ve learned it well. Doing fewer problems, writing fewer words is usually the shortest path to success.

Give yourself an EASY button for inspiring your child’s love for learning.

Evan Moor products are designed with the goal of nurturing a love of learning in our kids. Their products are EASY to use, low cost, and packed with FUN assignments that will not require your kids to skip meal time, rest time, or playdates. They’ll even have time left over to do a few chores! Yay!

Since there are over 500 products, let’s approach this EASY button by focusing on the top three NEEDS our kid’s learning activities need to solve.

HANDS-on learning. We need to sprinkle just enough hands-on activity into our kids day to keep them on their toes and fully engaged.
CONQUER Math head on. Many homeschoolers begin to break into a cold sweat when they think about teaching math, so give us a way to simplify teaching math in less time than we think it should require!
INSPIRE. Our kids need to be problem solvers, critical thinkers, and overcomes who learn to embrace learning with an “I CAN!” attitude and then be able to trouble shoot their thinking strategies when things do not go as planned.

EASY BUTTON: HANDS-ON Projects Made Easy with Geography Skill Sharpeners.

Geography Skill builders are filled activities to invite your child to be creative while using higher-order thinking skills while focusing on a particular geographical topic.

The reading selections and activities take students beyond basic geographic understandings and into unique ecosystems, biomes, places and regions, histories, cultures, and social movements within our world. Students make personal connections to their learning by completing expository and creative writing activities as well as hands-on geography projects.

Shop Skill Builders: Browse by grade level, Daily tasks, Continents

Science Comes ALIVE with Skill Sharpeners for Science.

Build your child’s understanding of physical, life, and earth science with these stunning full-color activity books! Engaging reading selections, activities, and hands-on projects will motivate your child to learn science concepts such as:

Physical Science

Forces and Motion
Magnets
Gravity

Life Science

Life Cycles
Growth and Change
Animal Groups
Offspring
Fossils
Dinosaurs
Adaptations
Ecosystems

Earth Science

Weather
Climate
Hurricanes
Tornadoes
Floods

Shop by grade, high interest topics, or all science.

The simple experiments and hands-on activities, using materials that can easily be found at home, help your child understand and retain science concepts in a memorable way.

Each lesson includes reading selections and activities that focus on one science concept.

EASY BUTTON: Simplify Math

Math Fluency! Introduce your students to an exciting world of opportunities when you help them learn skills and develop aptitudes that will benefit them throughout their lives! Math is more than just about numbers — it is about how our world and surrounding universe works.

You’ll love the ease and convenience of presenting each strategy—transparencies, teacher overview pages, student practice pages, reproducible number facts tests, flashcards, and assessment record charts give you all the tools you need.

I love these math lessons because they have success built right in.

Clear, simple instruction
Easy to follow examples
Just the right amount of practice

Math Fluency cover grades 1-6.

Easy Button: STEM Challenges!

Don’t worry! You’ll have everything you need right at home to complete each of these challenges (usually)

The 15 grade-appropriate STEM challenges target life, earth, and physical science concepts.
Every unit is focused on a hands-on challenge in which students apply the STEM process of plan, create, test, and redesign.
No-prep lessons and easy-to-find materials help you fit STEM learning into the busy school day.
Each unit provides everything you need to guide your students in completing the hands-on challenge

All the homeschool moms said, “THANK YOU!!!”

Everything is right there to help get your kids moving, building, thinking, testing and retesting.

A STEM challenge overview—Introduces the specific task and goal of each STEM challenge and provides space for students to brainstorm.

Design process worksheets—Activities guide students to plan, create, test, and evaluate their creation.

A redesign page to evaluate their design—The worksheet guides students through each step of the design process and provides space to document plans, materials, results, evaluations, and revisions.

Can I make this even easier for you?

“Yes Please!!“

If you want your kids to do some hands-on learning about the world, improve their math skills AND solve some STEM focused challenges…

Kindergarten BUNDLE

First Grade Bundle

Second Grade Bundle

Third Grade Bundle

Fourth Grade Bundle

Fifth Grade Bundle

Sixth Grade Bundle

EASIER Button: Turning that EASY Button into the BEST SAVINGS Button too!

The Teacher File Box! (Not included in the sale)

If wish I could go back to the beginning of my journey and grab this one! Oh my stars!!

So there you have it: A EASY Button + an Easier Button Recipe = Success!

Carefully crafted activities to inspire a love for learning in your children. Just add a few outings to visit and explore, plan a journey to the local library to fill your read-aloud time with adventure, and add some EASY to follow hands-on projects to ignite your child’s imagination.

After that?

Simply lay your head down at night and rest. You won’t need to toss and turn and wonder if they’re learning and growing.

You’ll see it all over their face and in that sparkle in their eyes!