Homeschool (page 5)
Schedules, checklists, planners and records for teaching at home.
- Spiral mathGuide
What spiral math is: Saxon's incremental development and continual review, Everyday Mathematics, the strong trial on mixed practice, and the warning about spirals that never finish a topic.
Checked 2026-11-06
- The Creative CurriculumGuide
What The Creative Curriculum for Preschool is: interest areas, multi-week studies, the 38 objectives and GOLD, a day in the room, and what the What Works Clearinghouse and NIEER found.
Checked 2026-11-06
- Unit studiesGuide
Unit studies explained: how one theme carries several subjects, a sample week on oceans, why math and phonics stay separate, the thin evidence, and how to plan your first unit.
Checked 2026-11-06
- Certificate makerMaker
Make printable award certificates: 30 award wordings, six borders, a certificate for every name on your class list. Free, no watermark.
- Export and import my officeTool
Every preschool and daycare log, plan and setting kept on this device, saved as one file you own; open it on a new device and it all comes back.
Checked 2026-10-31
- Rubric makerMaker
Build a printable rubric with levels and points, or a single-point rubric, from writing, presentation and project templates. Free, no sign-in.
- Coins and billsMath
Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and bills to put on the table, count on from the biggest, trade for smaller pieces, and build to an amount.
- Lesson plan templatesPage
Eight lesson plan formats to fill in on screen: daily, weekly, 5E, gradual release, Madeline Hunter, backward design, unit and centers. Print or copy to Docs.
- Typing for your class: a free course, tests and printable sheetsGuide
Run Peabody's free typing course with a class: 18 lessons with no student accounts, typing tests of 1, 3 and 5 minutes, a printable sheet for each lesson, and a link that shows each seat's words a minute.
Checked 2026-11-10
- Science fair rubrics by grade: a K–2 poster, a 3–5 project and a 6–8 experimentGuide
Free science fair rubrics matched to grade: a K–2 poster, a 3–5 project and a 6–8 experiment, what each row scores, how to print them for judges or change a cell.
- The order to teach phonics patterns, with a sheet for eachGuide
A common phonics teaching order in twelve patterns, from CVC short vowels to r-controlled vowels: why it goes in that order, what each step adds, pacing, and a free sheet set for each.
- How to take and score a running recordGuide
How to take and score a running record: the marks to use, what counts as an error, the formulas for accuracy, error rate and self-correction ratio, a worked example, and a free kit.
- How to run small-group rotationsGuide
Small-group rotations step by step: forming flexible groups, planning the teacher table, centers that run without you, a printable rotation chart and a projector timer, and fixes.
- Reading level finderTool
Enter words read, errors and seconds from a read-aloud and get words per minute and an accuracy band, with what to do next.
- Making change gameMath
A price and a payment, and the child counts the change back with coins and bills. Three levels, a count-up hint like a cashier, and nothing is stored.
Checked 2026-11-07
- Savings goal and piggy bankMath
Pick a picture for what you are saving for, tap in the money you save and watch a jar fill, with the weeks left. Kept on the device, nothing typed.
Checked 2026-11-07
- School calendar makerMaker
Print a month or the whole school year, August to June, with US federal holidays filled in and your own events added. Free, events stay on your computer.
- Attendance and lunch count boardTool
Children tap their own name and pick hot, cold or home lunch, then print the day's sheet. Names stay in your browser. Free, no sign-in.
- Morning meeting calendar boardTool
Today's date, a weather picker, days of school, a counting-on strip and class jobs on one screen for morning meeting. Free, no sign-in.
- Reading a sub plan fastGuide
How a substitute reads a sub plan in ten minutes: the parts every plan has, the order to read them, where teachers hide the important line, and what to do when parts are missing.
- Keeping a sub logGuide
How a substitute keeps a one-page sub log: schools, grades, what worked and what to bring next time, written with no student names, printed and read before you go back.
- Food and cooking theme for preschool: the week, plannedPage
A food and cooking theme week for twos to fours: circle time, 4 open books, a craft, “Old Mother Hubbard” with its words, a snack and the letter C. Free to print.
Checked 2026-10-30
- 12 things subs wish teachers leftIdea
Twelve things substitutes wish classroom teachers left, from the schedule and quiet signal to a seating chart and a page for notes, with why each one matters and how to leave it.
- Chore and routine charts for kidsPrintable
Printable helper charts, bedtime routines, First / Then boards and picture schedules with pictures, from our parent site. Free, nothing sent.
Checked 2026-11-07