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HOMESCHOOL RESOURCES (in alphabetical order)

Please note: The website links below are provided only to give more information on each item. They are not intended as solicitations nor are they endorsements by Free Republic.



*** ART ***

Draw Write Now
(Art, penmanship, and storytelling)
http://www.barkercreek.com/dwn.htm



*** ARTS & CRAFTS ***

Sewing Made Easy
http://www.marthapullen.com/



*** BOOKS ***

Homeschool Your Child for Free (by Laura Maery Gold, Joan M. Zielinski)
http://www.writerspost.com/hs4free/

Homeschoolers’ Success Stories (by Linda Dobson)

Man’s Unconquerable Mind (by Gilbert Highet)

The Well-Trained Mind
http://www.welltrainedmind.com/



*** CATALOGUES FOR HOMESCHOOL PRODUCTS ***

Rainbow Resource
http://www.rainbowresource.com/index.php

R.O.C.K. Solid, Inc.
http://www.rocksolidinc.com/



*** COMPUTER & TECHNICAL SKILLS ***

e-Learning Center
http://www.e-learningcenter.com/



*** CURRICULUM PACKAGES ***

A Beka
http://www.abeka.org/

AlphaOmega Lifepac
http://www.aop.com/lifepac/

Sonlight
http://www.sonlight.com/



*** DIPLOMAS & TRANSCRIPTS ***

North Atlantic Regional High School (in Lewiston, Maine)
http://narsonline.com/



*** DUAL CREDIT ***

St. Petersburg College
http://www.spcollege.edu/ac/dc/



*** EDUCATIONAL BOOKS ***

Usborne books
http://www.usborne-books.com/

DK Eyewitness books
http://us.dk.com/static/cs/us/11/childrens/intro.html



*** ENGLISH - LANGUAGE ARTS / READING / SPELLING ***

Analytical Grammar
http://www.analyticalgrammar.com/

Easy Grammar Systems
http://www.easygrammar.com/index2.html

Educators Publishing Service
(Explode the Code, Ridgewood Grammar, and Wordly Wise can be found here)
http://www.epsbooks.com/

Explode the Code
(see second book on the list at this link)
http://www.epsbooks.com/dynamic/catalog/subject.asp?subject=02S

Institute for Excellence in Writing
http://www.writing-edu.com/

Phonics Pathways
http://www.dorbooks.com/phonics.html

Play ‘n’ Talk
http://www.homeschool.com/resources/playntalk/default.asp

Reader Rabbit (CD)
http://www.learningcompany.com/jump.jsp?itemType=CATEGORY&itemID=512

Ridgewood Grammar (see “Educators Publishing Service” above)

Saxon Phonics
http://saxonhomeschool.harcourtachieve.com/en-US/saxonhomeschool.htm

Scripts Howard website
(Option available only during certain months: Click on "Audio Paideia" for a word list along with the definitions)
http://www.spellingbee.com/

Spelling Power
http://www.castlemoyle.com/

Straight-Forward English (Garlic Press)
http://www.garlicpress.com/links/links.html

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
http://www.startreading.com/

Wordly Wise (see “Educators Publishing Service” above)



*** FREE, ONLINE - LESSON PLANS & STUDIES ***

Baltimore Curriculum Lesson Plans
http://www.cstone.net/~bcp/BCPIntro2.htm

Core Knowledge Lesson Plans
http://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/resrcs/lessons/Prek.htm

The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Lesson Plans
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/lordoftheringstrilogy/lessons/

Ocean studies (Smithsonian)
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/ocean/main.html



*** HISTORY ***

1776, by David McCullough
http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?sid=33&pid=506476

Famous Men of Rome (Greenleaf Press)
http://www.greenleafpress.com/catalog/

TruthQuest History
Age of Revolution I, II, III
http://www.truthquesthistory.com/



*** HOMESCHOOL NEWSPAPERS / NEWSLETTERS / MAGAZINES ***

The Link
http://www.homeschoolnewslink.com/homeschool/index.html



*** LATIN ***

Latina Christiana
http://www.memoriapress.com/

Latin’s Not So Tough
http://www.greeknstuff.com/latin.html



*** LITERATURE ***

Books by Charles Dickens

Books by G.A. Henty
http://www.henty.com/

Eragon (by Christopher Paolini)

The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings (also see “Lesson Plans”)

The Homeschool Detectives series

Little Britches (book series) by Ralph Moody

McGuffey Readers
http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/view/rc/s31p430.htm

Narnia (book series) by C.S. Lewis

Redwall series
http://www.redwall.org/

The Spiderwick Chronicles
http://www.spiderwick.com/

Stobaugh’s American Literature

Williwaw (by Tom Bodett)



*** MATHEMATICS ***

Key-To Series
http://www.keypress.com/catalog/products/key_to/index.html

Saxon Math
http://saxonhomeschool.harcourtachieve.com/en-US/saxonhomeschool.htm

Saxon Math 54
http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/product?item_no=793176&p=1008728

Singapore Math
http://www.singaporemath.com/

Straight-Forward Math (Garlic Press)
http://www.garlicpress.com/links/links.html



*** MUSIC ***

San Francisco Symphony for Kids
http://www.sfskids.org/templates/home.asp?pageid=1



*** RECORDKEEPING ***

Donna Young’s Free Printables
http://donnayoung.org/

The HomeSchool Mom
http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/gettingorganized/allplanners.php



*** SCIENCE ***

Bob Jones Chemistry
http://www.bjupress.com/

Jason Project
http://www.jasonproject.org/

Rainbow Science
http://www.beginningspublishing.com/products.html

Home Science Tools
http://www.hometrainingtools.com/



*** TELEVISION & VIDEO ***

PBS Mail List
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/previews/previews.shtm



*** THINKING SKILLS ***

The Bright Blue Thinking Book
http://educyberstor.com/store/ecs/catalog/parentresources/blue1.html



*** UNIT STUDIES ***

Baseball (free online unit lessons):

PBS Fantasy Baseball (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



*** WEBSITES ABOUT HOMESCHOOLERS & HOMESCHOOLING ***

Successful & Famous People (who were homeschooled)
http://www.sharebradenton.homestead.com/Famous.html



*** YOUTH GROUPS ***

American Heritage Girls
http://www.ahgonline.org/

Boy Scouts of America
http://www.scouting.org/

4-H
http://www.4husa.org/

[Tired of Taxes]

Ping!

Many of you will recognize the items on the list above because you recommended them last summer on our Home Education 2005-2006 thread right here. :-)

Please feel free to post more information, share advice, or make note of any corrections on this new thread.

P.S. (I'm not sure how much computer time I will have this year, so anyone who is interested in assuming control of this ping list, please freepmail me. First one to freepmail me is the winner.) :-)

[TightyRighty]

Is there anyone that homeschools in CA that can help explain to me how filing the homeschool affidavit works? I see where you fill it out but what happens afterwards?

[SuziQ]

Our daughter is finishing up her Senior Year work and will graduate from North Atlantic Regional High School. She has already been accepted to, and received a nice scholarship from Ave Maria University in Naples FL.

[SuziQ]

A curriculum that we like a lot is TRISMS . The kids can start in Middle School, and there are programs to follow all the way through high school. It is heavily reading and research based, and the kids gain terrific writing skills through assignments which use the Institute for Excellence in Writing program.

[StarCMC]

WOW! Excellent list!!

[Peanut Gallery]

Please, add us to your ping list.

We are starting our second official year of homeschooling. We really love it. We use a variety of curricula, so I guess that would make us somewhat eclectic?

Winter Promise (for history and LA readers)
http://www.winterpromise.com
Miquon Math Materials and Singapore Math
http://www.keypress.com/catalog/products/supplementals/Prod_Miquon.html
http://www.singaporemath.com/Homeschool_s/60.htm
Spell to Write and Read (spelling, reading, and elementary grammar)
http://webs.integrity.com/backhome/BHI_Catalog.html
http://home.mindspring.com/~teachingkids/id23.html
NoeoScience
http://www.noeoscience.com/
and lots of living literature

When we get to formal writing next year we will probably add IEW (Institute for Excellence in Writing) to the mix. I have Writing Strands already, though. I am studying it and am not sure that it blends well with us (me in particular).

IEW
http://www.writing-edu.com/

[shezza]

Nice list of resources! We use many of your suggestions already. May I add, if you would be so kind as to indulge me:

HISTORY:
all of the Greenleaf History books:
Famous Men of Greece
Famous Men of Rome
Famous Men of the Middle Ages
Famous Men of the Renaissance and Reformation
Kingfisher's History Encyclopedia
Our own FReeper LS's A Patriot's History of the United States

SPELLING & GRAMMAR:
Vocabulary from Classical Roots (fifth grade and up)
Shurley Grammar (grades 3-7)

FOREIGN LANGUAGES:
Power Glide courses in everything from Latin to Spanish, French, German, Russian -- for early elementary grades through High School level (with HS credit available)

THINKING SKILLS:
The Building Thinking Skills series of workbooks
Mind Benders workbooks
Logic, such as Trivium Pursuit's Fallacy Detective

LITERATURE:
100 Great Books list - excellent compilation
1000 Good Books list - lots of good reading material to replace the plethora of fluff out there these days.

I've found some of these resources in the local library, although not many. If you can wait months at a time, interlibrary loan is an option. Otherwise, we've found excellent bargains at places like www.half.com and eBay. I've never wanted for a book that I've not been able to find, eventually.

Thanks again for this resourceful thread!

[samiam1972]

Lapbooking websites:

http://www.handsofachild.com/2/

http://liveandlearnpress.com/

http://www.homeschoolestore.com/catalog/index.php

My kids love these! (8 and 6) They work for preschool thru highschool!