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Ping to metmom
Wow. Thanks for the info. already forwarded the thread to my wife. Thanks again.
Some other companies I like:
Veritas Press
Area 127
Curriculum Click - I found a great download for printables (household and school) on this website called Master Planner. It had 160 different printables for about $7.00 and it was totally worth the money.
Excellent! Thanks so much. This year we’re going to follow Ambleside Online curriculum, found at amblesideonline.com. It’s a free curriculum that follows the spirit and content that Charlotte Mason used in her school in England in the 1800’s. Lots of great, classical literature, short lessons, emphasis on nature and the outdoors. I think it will be a good fit for us.
Ping to RightWingTeen. Look like great resources for my kids.
Homeschool graduate, no kids yet to homeschool. I can attest that a number of titles on your list are excellent from personal experience - particularly Writing Strands and Saxon Math.
You might add some courtship links :) although my homeschooled husband and I found each other on FreeRepublic, I believe other homeschoolers have found soulmates on more, er, romance specific forums.
We used The Prairie Primer for one year in grade school using the Little House books. It was fine for grade school.
For English grades 1-6 and reading grades 1-3 we used Rod & Staff publishers. Their curriculum is very low cost and the English is great for teaching grammar and mechanics.
They also have a section in their website where you can bring up actual pages out of their books to see what the format is and how they teach it.
http://www.rodandstaffbooks.com/
Another resource homeschoolers might want to take advantage of, or look into.
*Better Late than Early* is a book by Drs. Moore and Moore and is excellent for understanding how kids learn and early childhood education. I read it some years ago and would strongly recommend it to anyone with small children. The book can be found through Amazon. I didn’t know if posting the link was permitted since it’s selling something.
http://www.moorefoundation.com/
http://www.moorefoundation.com/article.php?id=3
LearnsFromMistakes sent the list below from his wife. (Thank you again!)
Buy/Sell curriculum:
http://www.homeschoolclassifieds.com/
http://market.hslda.org/Auction/xcAuction.asp
http://www.thecurriculumcoop.com/
Naturally Simple Homeschooling: http://www.naturallysimple.org/FreeorlowpriceOnlineHomeschoolResources.htm
http://www.homeschoolplanet.com/
Lapbooking:
http://www.dinah.com/
http://www.tobinslab.com/
http://www.geocities.com/gibsevengang/lapbooks.html
Letterboxing in North America:
http://www.letterboxing.org/
Math Worksheets:
http://donnayoung.org/math/
http://www.edhelper.com/math.htm
http://www.smartalecbooks.com/
http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/
http://themathworksheetsite.com/
rent calculators: http://www.rentcalculators.org/
Unit studies:
http://www.waldsfe.org/Study%20Topics.htm
Music Forms:
http://highland.hitcho.com.au/musicforms.htm
Spanish: http://www.jvlnet.com/~liliana/Spanish_Numbers.html
to keep portfolio’s of student portfolio…
http://www.osportfolio.org/
http://donnayoung.org/forms/planners/
Educational board games: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec670/cardboard/CardboardCognition.html
Trivia games: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_menu.htm
http://www.funbrain.com/
Science:
http://www.bartleby.com/107/indexillus.html
Maps:
http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/seals/ia_seal.htm
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/namera.htm
History:
http://historylink101.com/
presidents:
http://www.presidentsusa.net/
Home School Classifieds.......
website for posting curriculum like vegsource
I can’t believe Mystery of History by Linda Lacour Hobar from Bright Ideas Press is not on that list.
Horizons Math....
We had some curriculum changes this year that are not already on the list.
Drive Thru History (by National Day of Prayer and Focus on the Family)
http://www.drivethruhistory.com/
Character Quality Language Arts (aka CQLA)
http://www.tfths.com/cqla.php
Teaching Textbooks (mathematics 5th grade and up)
http://www.teachingtextbooks.com/
Real Science 4 Kids
http://www.arn.org/realscience/realscience.html
Does anybody have a source for basic grade level assessments/requirements?
“SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: INVENTIONS & DISCOVERIES”, by Rodney Carlisle, recommended by conservatism_IS_compassion (click below for the thread):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2067743/posts
For an inside look of the book at Amazon.com, click below:
(Thank you, Conservatism Is Compassion.)
The Calvert School *pops* (all-inclusive curriculum for the lower grades)
Mars Hill Latin Curriculum (no link)
Saxon Math *pops*
The Colored Fairy Books by Andrew Lang online *pops* (refers to the color of the book - The Bue Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, etc). Classic fairy tales.
Pingarooni! Thanks for recommending Highet’s “Man’s Unconquerable Mind.” We have multiple copies, it’s a perennial favorite here at #668.
Free Republic thread: “Two Great Classics of Economics”:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2143182/posts
INCLUDING:
“Economic Sophisms” by Frederic Bastiat
http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basSoph.html
“Economics In One Lesson” by Henry Hazlitt
http://jim.com/econ/contents.html
To be added to Colleges & Universities:
John Paul the Great Catholic University:
http://www.jpcatholic.com/
A relatively new university. Some videos produced by students there include this one:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224915/posts