Posted on 08/11/2005 10:00:17 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
A spot for homeschool families to share advice and offer support as we prepare for the 2005-2006 Homeschool Year
Many home-educated children continue their lessons throughout the summer, but we parents often look to purchase new materials and begin new projects in September.
In the past, FR homeschoolers started a thread every year to post links and recommend books and materials to each other. I haven't seen that done recently, so I'm creating one here. (My apologies if I missed anything).
If there is anything you'd like to recommend to other home educators, please do so:
Those are just a few topics. Maybe we can keep a running list of recommendations here on this thread.
Awesome site!! Thanks so much for the heads up! We're on that shoestring budget :D, and it's getting a little frayed and double knotted so we can hang on. This was a blessing.
Absolutely! And welcome to homeschooling!
I'll be pinging everyone again in a day or so, just to try to keep this thread going and the information coming.
More suggestions added above.
Also, welcome to all newcomers to homeschooling. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. You will find the homeschoolers here very helpful.
Here are a few more links. Some of these sources were mentioned in posts above, too:
SUPPLIES:
The Key To Series: Fractions, Decimals, Percents
http://www.keypress.com/catalog/products/key_to/index.html
Also see "Key Curriculum Press" mathematics by clicking on "Home" there.
Educators Publishing Service
http://www.epsbooks.com/
"Explode the Code" (mentioned already here) is available there. We've used "Ridgewood Grammar".
ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS:
Donna Young's Free Printables:
http://donnayoung.org/
The HomeSchool Mom
http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/gettingorganized/allplanners.php
UNIT STUDIES: BASEBALL
My 9yo son loves baseball. Here are some free online lesson plans we found on baseball math, physics, sportswriting, etc.:
PBS Fantasy Baseball (this is a PDF file)
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/lessonplans/pdf/msmp/fantasybaseball.pdf
The Batting Cage
http://library.thinkquest.org/11902/physics/batting.html
Fun with Baseball Stats:
http://www.teachersfirst.com/autoframe.htm?http://illuminations.nctm.org/index_d.aspx?id=257
Learning from Baseball
http://www.teachersfirst.com/baseball.htm
Physics in Sports connection (online video):
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/VideoTestbed/Projects/NewPhysics/newtons_3.html
Hope all is going well for all of you!
As someone who is just starting out with a preschooler - here are some sites I found to be a big help:
Core Knowledge Lesson Plans - this site has some great lesson plans for Preschool thru Eighth grade.
Core Knowledge Lesson Plans
Another website that goes with that is:
Baltimore Curriculum
For someone like me who is still trying to get their bearings - this site was great! They have used Core Knowledge to develop a curriculum from Sept. thru May. I've taken some of their ideas and added some of my own for a solid study.
For anyone who has a preschooler/kindergartner and needs some websites - feel free to Freepmail me. I've got a bunch of sites bookmarked that have great worksheets and number/letter tracers.
Those sites will be very helpful. Thanks for posting them.
My favorite science site:
www.hometrainingtools.com
Thanks for posting that link.
Btw, I know someone who is doing the "owl pellet dissection" (that was on the list of experiments) with her kids. That one sounds difficult.
I'll probably stick with something like the Terrarium idea. :-)
That site actually has kits for whichever curriculum you are using as well as their own curriculum. My son is going into 10th grade, daughter just starting 9th. So, I held back on his labs for 1 year (half year for them) so they could do labs together. It is so nice just placing a single order and it all comes to you.
2Jedismom has a Homeschool ping list. I copied her on this, but you might want to FReepmail her to get on the list
Bumpmark.
Thanks, I'll do that.
ping to self
another request for ping list
Mrs VS
I'm looking for a webtext for highschool geometry. I also have a good website reference book (for those who haven't read about it yet):
Homeschool Your Child For Free by LauraMaery Gold and Joan m. Zielinski
Did you know those guys on Mount Rushmore were all HSed at one point or another ;~)
Welcome aboard. :-)
Ping...
See message #55 above. Domestic Church is looking for a webtext for highschool geometry. Any recommendations out there?
Also, other posts and suggestions have been added since my last ping (starting with message #45).
Hey, Red Boots!! How are you? Haven't heard from you in a while....
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