The 5 MUST HAVE Books for EVERY Homeschool! | Our Family's Favorite Books for Homeschool

[@emmatucker2]

Hi Rachel, Doug and Dorry Eldon here. We're the ones who wrote and produced Lyrical Life Science and Lyrical Earth Science. I'm so glad to see you smile and laugh when you mention it cause that's what we did as we wrote them! Bobby Horton, was the master musician (PBS musician, historical music, etc.) who made it so fun--and good-- that it won awards. He laughed all the way too. We'd write a song, send it to him, then he'd call and we'd laugh about his production ideas. Yep, make them silly and get rid of all that fear towards learning scientific vocabulary. It still tickles us and we continue to be amazed at the joy we experienced in making these. Thank you for enjoying them too! You get the essence of what they are all about! Thank you joyfully, Dorry Eldon

[@TheHawkinsNest]

Thanks for the informative video! Always a joy seeing your happy attitude 😊

[@SevenInAll]

Thank you for watching!

[@SimplyLivingIt]

The Book of Virtues! I have never seen that one before! Thank you for sharing it, Rachel!

[@SevenInAll]

Really? I have many happy memories reading those stories to myself over my breakfast cereal as a kid, haha!

[@UpWeGrow]

I love all these suggestions. I still cherish the anthology of poetry books I grew up with and can't wait to pass them on to my little ones in time ❤️

[@SevenInAll]

That will be a beautiful experience!

[@mylittlehomeschoolinthewoods]

The Book of Virtues looks great! Thanks for sharing your favorites!

[@SevenInAll]

So many good stories and conversation-starters in that book!

[@FLACKFAM]

Thanks for these recommendations! We have the second book but we don’t have any of the other ones! We have found that singing to remember things is definitely helpful!

[@SevenInAll]

Songs just get stuck in the brain pretty easily! :)

[@sarahmora5207]

That children's virtue book has been on my list for a while. I need to just buy it haha thanks for sharing these books!!

[@MindFulFamily6]

The Children's Book of Virtues was the number one book recommended to me when we first started homeschool. I didn't realize there was a bigger version. Thanks for the recommendations!

[@SevenInAll]

Yes! The thick book is a really good one. Many happy memories of reading all those stories!

[@RootedHomeLife]

Loved this! The lyrical life science books look awesome!!

[@SevenInAll]

They are so cool! You can find the music on KZbin these days, and it's definitely campy, but I learned so much scientific vocabulary from those songs!

[@sklanguage589]

Good pics! We have had a few of those.

[@SevenInAll]

They are some good ones!

[@creatingcommunity7022]

The "How to Behave and Why" Gotta love it! I need to get the Book of Virtues. Crazy that I don't have that one. Those are great history books. We have a book of poetry, but don't read it enough. Love Robert Louis Stevenson. His cottage is near where I live.

[@SevenInAll]

I have many good memories of reading through the Book of Virtues on my own or of my parents reading that one. It's an OLD copy, haha! That's so neat about Robert Louis Stevenson's cottage!

[@lifewithginab]

Loved your picks Rachel!

[@SevenInAll]

Thank you, Gina!

[@ItCameFromAVlog]

Really good recommendations. I looovveee my poetry book collections too.

[@SevenInAll]

It's such an easy way to add in a gentle introduction to poetry!

[@alenate1123]

Great list! I'm definitely adding it to my homeschool library whenever I get started 😄

[@SevenInAll]

haha--many years ahead of collecting great books! We're still in the picture book stage with Cyrus and Glenn, but I do look forward to bigger books in the future. :)

[@alenate1123]

@@SevenInAll yes for sure!

[@OneBlessedMess]

Ooh I LOVE all of these! You always have such unique ideas, and I love how some of them have been a resource for your family for generations. How to Behave and Why looks SO good! I am going to grab that one. Thank you so much for this fun collab! 🥰

[@SevenInAll]

"How to Behave and Why" is so good--it's one that my mom often gifts to other families because she finds it to be such a perfect combo of humor and truth that kids can understand about living well with others.

[@holoholokids]

I’ve never read the book of virtues. I’ll have to check that book out.

[@SevenInAll]

It's full of so many good stories!

[@LivingWithEve]

I love these shares. I’ve never heard of a lot of these.

[@SevenInAll]

Thanks for listening! :)

[@AmongStouts]

Love these, thanks for sharing. Need to pick up that book of virtues 😍

[@SevenInAll]

That's a really good one!

[@lillyannlutchman7103]

I also have the Book of Virtues, it is such an excellent book to have as well as all the other books from William J. Bennett.

[@SevenInAll]

It is excellent! So many of those stories have become familiar friends over the years!

[@PenniesAndSalt]

"Because my mom had a sense of humor" LOL!!! I need to get that book for one of my kids LOL

[@SevenInAll]

It's a good one! If you asked the sibling who my mom originally gave it to, it actually makes her list of all-time favorite books. :)

[@MommaonMission]

I love that Anthology of Poetry!

[@SevenInAll]

It's so good! I'm not even that much into poetry but I feel like I'm appreciating it more and more as I get older.

[@agirlandhercows501]

thanks for those great ideas

[@couchschoolers8583]

I've not heard of some of these! Thank you soooo much. I'm really into discovering old-ish and enriching books for our family library right now. P. S. I'm a 2nd gen homeschooler too :).

[@SevenInAll]

Awesome! I think it definitely says something about your experience with homeschool when you decide to go for round 2! ;)

[@faithfullyinfertile]

I am totally going to get How to Behave and Why for my daughter’s upcoming birthday b/c I have the same sense of humor as your mother, apparently!

[@SevenInAll]

haha! That's awesome! If you were to ask that sibling (who just had her 21st birthday) for a list of her own personal favorite books, How to Behave and Why actually makes her own list! :)

[@jimeriesalazar2892]

Thank you for sharing

[@SevenInAll]

Thank you!

[@StaceyYoder]

So fun to see this 🙂 How to Beehabe and Why looks so good. 🙂

[@SevenInAll]

That's a great one! Simple and a bit funny, but also very practical about the reasons why behavior and the choices you make impact your life and relationships.

[@MichelleGayScienceTeacher]

I have so many favorite that relate to history that would read if I homeschool. Thanks for sharing your list!!!

[@SevenInAll]

I love diving into books that help me learn more about history!

[@HerDailyJourney]

I've been thinking about the children of virtue book. Loved learning about new books from you. I gotta check out how to behave and why lol. I want to get more poetry into our homeschool though I'm not sure how to approach it.

[@SevenInAll]

I think starting out by just reading poetry and taking a few moment to chat about...hmmm, what does that mean? What was that about? Is a great start with poetry with young kids. I actually love Shel Silverstein poems for young kids. :)

[@HomeschoolwithJen]

Great list! I love that you included How to Behave and Why. :)

[@SevenInAll]

A lot of homeschool is about character development and learning about how to live well in the world and with others, so those sorts of books are a great resource to start conversations! :)

[@RussellsLovingLife]

I am always looking for great books. 😊

[@SevenInAll]

I love the opportunity that homeschool gives us to read so many good books!

[@madrespoderosas-powerfulmo2138]

Those are great recommendations! I love how they are very unheard books, but definitely interesting. You got me with the science songs. My boys and I have a thing for singing 😉 definitely checking those out. Thank you for sharing!

[@SevenInAll]

Those science songs have stuck with me for a lifetime. The great thing is that the actual songs are available on KZbin now!

[@davyrantucci]

Got a few of the ones you suggested, thanks!

[@SevenInAll]

Awesome! Thanks for watching! :)

[@SimplyAlethia]

I'll have to look into Lyrical Life Science! LOL. When you said protozoa I just thought of Zenon Girl of the 21st Century. These are really great recommendations. I think every home should have a Treasury of Classic Children's Stories, whether fairy tales or Aesop's fables or both combined. Thanks for sharing.

[@SevenInAll]

Those treasuries packed full of the classic tales are a great resource, too! Lyrical Life Science--the great thing is that the songs are available on KZbin now. They are very camp-y, on purpose, but they make me smile, and I legitimately learned a lot of scientific vocabulary from those songs, haha!

[@ourthriftyhomeschool]

I've never heard of lyrical life science.....so funny! I might need to get that!

[@SevenInAll]

The songs are very campy, but I love them and still retain so much scientific vocabulary because of them.

[@MommaonMission]

Everyone needs The Chronicles of Narnia! 😜

[@SevenInAll]

That is the truth.

[@colorswordsandlearning]

Maps...? Beautiful , beautiful Maps... Usborne lift the flap books...

[@SevenInAll]

Maps are definitely really handy, but I prefer maps on the wall--you're right, though, sometimes books of maps could come in handy. I'm a little weird in that I'm not a big fan of the "lift the flap" books, but I know lots of families swear by them! :)

[@ItsAWanderfulLife]

How to Behave and Why looks great! :-)

[@SevenInAll]

It's a good one! Humor with practical, real-world advice on why the choices we make matter, and how they affect our relationships.

[@PenniesAndSalt]

Looking up Lyrical Life Science!

[@SevenInAll]

A lot or all of their songs are on KZbin now! Very camp-y, but astonishingly memorable, they make me laugh...and I definitely know scientific vocabulary words that I'm sure I would never have remembered to this day if not for the lyrics of those songs.

[@mylittlehomeschoolinthewoods]

💛

[@SevenInAll]

Thank you!

[@MommaonMission]

You can peek the Book of Virtues behind me in some of my videos! Lol

[@SevenInAll]

ha! I was surprised by how many people commented that they hadn't heard of it, I've been reading it as long as I can remember, I think I have the stories pretty much memorized.

[@RockSimmer-gal4God]

We have books of Christian vertues!!! Sorry I can’t spell. We love horrible history books. We don’t use a history curriculum and our umbrella school says that’s ok. History is awesome to teach y not to do or accept stuff. We teach history in other subjects. My daughter is watching this wiv me and she wants to learn poetry so I’ve told her we will get a book of Poems. We teach songwriting as we feel they learn enough in language arts and we don’t want to bore them and we want them to learn songwriting as well. My daughter says every homeschool wiv preteens need horrible history books.

[@SevenInAll]

Book collections of poems are a fantastic way to get started with poetry! I really like the books that include poems by a variety of authors so that if you find one you like, you can research and see if that author has more poetry that you can read and learn about! :)