We are the Erskine family (Jim & Susan), and we live on a 14 acre farm out here in the hills of Kentucky, and homeschooled all three of our kids (Randall, Russell & Jessica) all the way through high school. It was a crazy, fun, time-consuming, frustrating and wonderful period of our lives, but we’d do it all again in a heartbeat. These days we continue the homeschooling journey by running this site and finding neat resources for our homeschooling friends and families all over the globe. We love doing this too.
If you need to contact us, you can post a comment here on our site, or send us an email us at homeschoolradioshows@gmail.com.
We are also on Facebook as HomeschoolFreebieOfTheDay.
Or you can write us at:
The Erskines, PO Box 1187, Canmer, KY 42722
Hello guys! My name is Rhonda,I’m mother of 7 that I homeschool.Could you please share what books,test,and other things that you use.Or what were the big things that helped mainly with testing.Thanks
Wow! Love your updated website! So cheerful!
Thanks for your faithfulness in doing this every week. I can so relate to your comment about Jessica getting set up in her own apartment. Indeed, no one prepares parents for when children leave home. I cried the entire summer when my firstborn went off to college. It did not get easier with his four siblings to follow each year after that.
Conflicting emotions is an understatement, and being missionaries in Japan made it that much tougher.
Anyway, love the new website design, especially the color! Keep up the good work.
love the new look
Home educator of 4(one with autism)
I just love your dedication to serving the homeschool community. I am a missionary in Guatemala and we use your information to help us serve our families and in our work! The new website is perfectly beautiful! Thank you!
Carol
Someone once told me that a cookbook is worth the price you paid for it if you find just one recipe that you use and love. Well, if that statement is true (and I believe it is!) and I can carry that analogy over to websites or homeschool endeavors, then your website is an over-the-top success. Not only are the resources free or very low-cost, but every week, week after week, I find gems and nuggets of gold. There is no other way to describe what you deliver than as treasure! I can’t tell you how much I look forward to the “lineup” every Sunday evening. I can only imagine the work that goes into this, as well as the love and dedication. Thank you ever so much. I’m sure I will be referring to this for years to come as my oldest still has five years left of school and my youngest (the 5th) is just ten months old.
I don’t know what happened to this website. I only see a white background now, like I am looking at a Word document. At first I thought I must be at a wrong location. I don’t know if it is on purpose. I loved it like it was. Oh well, can’t please everyone and if it is on purpose, I trust there must be a good reason for it. I’ll hang in there to see what happens. Maybe the appearance is due to other issues.
I just love the new look! We use your resources in Guatemala for our mission and other homeschooling parents! THANK YOU!
Hi I’m using mozilla firefox and a dell computer. When I right click, there is no option, greyed or otherwise, to save–except the save the link. Do you know what I should do? Thanks!
What age range is your Shakespeare for the Ears program for? I have a soon to be 8 year old daughter. Would this be appropriate for her?
Thank you.
Hello,
My name is Cindy. I am a home school mom of two and facilitate a group within our church.
This site is such a blessing. Thank you for the resources and all the work that goes into making these available to us all.
So grateful and thankful! (:
This was really different this week, but still a lot of goodies to be found and used! I like either format – maybe even mix it up every now and again? It really doesn’t matter which way is done, because I enjoy and so appreciate the materials and resources that y’all provide us! If it wasn’t for the things y’all are willing to offer and provide, homeschooling would be somewhat more difficult because I utilize so much of the items! Keep up the terrific job and enjoy your time off!
I LOVED the one-a-day format this week! I don’t spend much time at the computer except to check email so there have been many weeks when I’ve missed a good freebie because I forgot to make a note of it to visit your website. With the one-a-day format, I saw what was available that day and didn’t miss anything I was interested in. Thanks!
I did enjoy all the special resources you sent subscribers during your break! thanks for all that extra effort!
Just wanted to say “thank you”. I’ve enjoyed the freebies again this week.
Thank you for letting us know about the free Yale music course. I watched some of the introduction and it looks good. I’ll probably use this some this year for all my kids as part of music appreciation.
Prayers have gone up.
I just wanted to thank you so very much for how you minister to homeschooling families.
I hope you get the Research Paper PDF again for us. I was unable to get on this site yesterday and didn’t get to take advantage of the freebie. My daughter is in 8th grade and I am hoping that I can find something like this to help us learn the right way to do a research paper. Thanks so much for all the freebies you give to us. They are all so helpful.
Please, please run the Steps to Writing a Research Paper again. I was in bed with a migraine all that day and did not get to take advantage of this excellent offer. I have an eighth grader this year, we were looking forward to using this curriculum. Thank you so much for providing these offers and continuing to help home schoolers.
You guys are awesome! Thank you so much for all the wonderful freebies and resources! They have helped me tremendously with homeschool. I hope you offer the classic Christmas tales again next year – couldn’t get them ths time but will next time :-}. Thanks again.
Have a great spring break! Thank you for all you do! God bless you and your family!!!
Love the look of the newly designed website! Thanks for all your fun freebies.
I really like your new look! Thanks for continuing with this wonderful ministry to us all.
Wow! Love the new look of the website and I love all the poetry this week! Thanks for all the wonderful stuff over the years.
Dear Jess,
I will be praying for you and your travels. I “get” it. You’re doing what God has told you to do. May He bless you immensely, and those you will meet, as you travel this path.
Liza, from NH
p.s. Looking forward to the Fumbletons next year.
p.p.s. Also, looking forward to hearing about your travels when you get back.
Hi HomeschoolFreebie Family! Thanks so much for all the resources you provide. My kids love the radio programs, and we appreciate all the work you put into finding us such great sites and downloads. I had a question regarding the e-books, pdfs, and documents I often get from your site. I’m looking to purchase an e-reader; and I was wondering if you happen know which readers would work well with the kinds of downloads your provide. I know there are a lot of pdfs. I know nothing about e-readers – do they all read pdfs well? I discoved I’m not using some of the resources I get here simply because I don’t want to read a book to my kids from on my laptop. Anyways, any input or opinion that you have on any reader would be wonderful. Thanks again for all your hard work.
we were on you site yesterday looking for the paper dolls… didn’t see any, did we miss it? Thanks for all your great resources.
See the Practical Pages site featured for Monday!
Hi guys,
I really appreciate all you do and provide on this site. I am missing the comments section after the resources as this was really useful. I am disappointed that todays entry ( the science comics) does not have any warning they are from a evolution point of view. Also they are pushing the global warming propaganda, instead of good science of looking at the real evidence. In the past I have noted you have usually been careful about these warnings, and figured you’d accidentally missed this one. Thanks.