Re: Free Resources?
 

Re: Free Resources?
 

Do you guys know about Paperback Swap?
http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.p...FUHF3AodsCxhew

and my freesharing blog:
http://freecycledelights.blogspot.com/

Re: Free Resources?
 

Some useful and fun things I found in the new edition of Homeschool Your Child for Free :)

Maths:

http://coolmath.com/
http://illuminations.nctm.org/
http://countdown.luc.edu/
http://math.usask.ca/emr/menu.html


Spelling:

http://aaaspell.com/
http://everydayspelling.com/

Curriculum/National Standards By Grade:

http://www.cstone.net/~bcp/BCPIntro2.htm
http://mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/

Cross-Curriculum and Overall Studies Programs:

http://www.edpubs.gov/
http://kidsknowit.com/ *we won't discuss the fact I've been playing games on there for the last 1/2 hour, mkay?*

Test Prep- Even my husband found this one interesting and helpful: http://internet4classrooms.com/assistance.htm

I"m only on the third chapter, I'm sure I'll be back to add later in the week when I have more time.

Re: Free Resources?
 

I know that many children/ families are fans of the audio based Adventures in Odyssey.
There are many web-based audio shows. There is a huge list I found, but some are soapoperas that are geared for adults so I won't put that list here. However, I will post the ones geared for children and add to the list as I find more.

http://imaginationlane.net/shows.html

Here is their list on story guidelines:

"Family Friendly / Clean Feed
These need to be released on a clean feed and be safe for the entire family as well as conservatives. This means:
- No swearing (not even OMGs)
- No mature situations / sexual references
- No detailed graphic violence "

This is a volunteer based audio drama. I would personally say that it is geared for "middle school" age children on up with parents, I listened to one of the stories in the Imagination Backroads series which was very well done.

Here is a children's radio link site many of which are Christian based:
http://radiotime.com/genre/c_227/Children.aspx

Re: Free Resources?
 

Re: Free Resources?
 

I just discovered this one in my search for times tables.


http://www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-k...le-charts.html

Re: Free Resources?
 

Just found a great site!
[QUOTE]http://oldfashionededucation.com//[QUOTE]

It shows you how to print living books (no copyright before 1920) and it just looks like it has everything- every subject- where to find free and printable books and workbooks.

Re: Free Resources?
 

http://storynory.com Montessori site with LOTS of free audio books (poems, fairy tales, classic books, etc) :)

Re: Free Resources?
 

Teach a Child to Read With Children's Books can be downloaded in its entirety here (your pick of editions, too).

MEP math - Pre-K through high school. British program based on Hungarian approaches to teaching math - very conceptual, full of thinking, puzzle-type problems.

CSMP - K-6. Very unique conceptual math program, comes out of the original New Math of the 60s. Has math storybooks, very hands-on in younger years - feels like a bunch of mathematicians got together and tried to make arithmetic fun :giggle.

KISS Grammar - free grammar program that has a big picture approach, and uses passages from literature for analysis.

Re: Free Resources?
 

Sites we love....spellingcity.com & superteacherworksheets.com

Re: Free Resources?
 

Lots of free mazes here:
http://www.krazydad.com/mazes/

Re: Free Resources?
 

GREAT! Thank you

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Windows to the Universe
http://www.windows2universe.org/our_...ar_system.html

Math Nook (Games etc)
http://www.mathnook.com/

I have had this list for awhile,and have not checked each one ...
Loads of Links

Science

http://www.edhelper.com/ReadingCompr...s_Science.html

http://www.education-world.com/a_cur.../science.shtml

http://www.education-world.com/a_cur.../soc_sci.shtml

http://kidskonnect.com/ScienceSites/...SitesHome.html

http://www.mikids.com/science.html

http://www.step.k12.ca.us/students/lessons.html

http://suzyred.com/sciendex.html

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/science/science.htm

http://www.teachers.net/cgi-bin/less...chterm=Science

http://www.sitesforteachers.com/reso...ci_lesson.html

http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html

http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/

http://www.lme.mankato.msus.edu/ci/Backish.html

http://www-ed.fnal.gov/samplers/fnaledmtl.html

http://www.serve.com/chunter/

http://www.kumc.edu/instruction/medi...tomy/histoweb/

http://www.pitt.edu/~dwilley/hdatltwmenu.html

http://ippex.pppl.gov/

http://www.newscientist.com/weblinks...ries/kids1.jsp

http://www.fi.edu/qa96/amyindex.html

http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/

http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/scifun.html

http://www.pa.msu.edu/sci_theatre/

http://sln.fi.edu/http://www.cellsalive.com/index.htm

http://www.audioclassics.net/html/sc...ource=findwhat

http://www.ftexploring.com/

http://www.firstscience.com/site/home.asp

http://www.csrnet.org/csrnet/teachre...enceplans.html

http://www.netrox.net/~labush/scilinks.html

http://www.treasure-net.com/smatters/smatters.htm

http://expage.com/TheScienceLinks

http://kidskonnect.com/Museums/Science.html

http://kidskonnect.com/ScienceSites/...SitesHome.html

http://www.southpole.com/

Science—Agriculture Research Service Site for Children
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/

Science—Enrichment Activities
http://sln2.fi.edu/biosci/activity.html

Science Fair Project Resource Guide
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/projectguide/

http://www.fi.edu/qanda/spotlight1/spotlight1.html

Science—Hands on Activities
http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/handson.html

http://www.monroe2boces.org/shared/esp/StudRes.htm

http://webpages.marshall.edu/~bady/RICK/CATEGOR.HTML

http://www.newscientist.com/weblinks...periments1.jsp

http://www.fi.edu/qanda/amy3/amy3.html

http://www.messiah.edu/hpages/facsta...linky/home.htm

http://www.fi.edu/qa96/amy3/amy3.html

http://www.cosi.org/ossw/2001/experiments/index.htm

http://www.fi.edu/qanda/amy6-7/amy6-7.html

http://www.fi.edu/qanda/amy1/amy1.html

http://www.fi.edu/qanda/amy5/amy5.html

http://www.kraftfoods.com/html/features/magic.html

http://home.earthlink.net/~lenyr/

http://www.tryscience.org/experiment...ty_athome.html

http://www.tryscience.org/experiment...ents_home.html

Science Museums
http://kidskonnect.com/Museums/Science.html

Science Teaching Resource http://chem.lapeer.org/http://www.ed...nce/index.html

Science—Wildfires
http://www.smokeybear.com/only_you_flash.asp

Science Songs
http://www.suzyred.com/music.html

Science Theme Units
http://abcteach.com/directory/theme_units/science/

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Printable Home school Diplomas
I did these when Jacob was young.
Here is some printable homeschool Diplomas.
Ya'll that homeschool can hold ya'lls own graduation from each grade at home :)

http://www.freeprintablecertificates...diploma_formal

http://www.chartjungle.com/schoolhome.html

http://www.freeprintablecertificates...tegory/diploma

http://free-onlinehomeschoolingprogr...hool-diplomas/

http://www.graduationcardsshop.com/h...sting-3-21.htm

http://www.squidoo.com/awardcertificates

http://www.chartjungle.com/schoolhome.html (Scroll to bottom)

http://donnayoung.org/forms/planners...en-diploma.htm

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Some Math & Algebra DL & Printables

Writing Algebraic Expressions
http://math.about.com/b/2011/10/24/w...sions.htm?nl=1

Halloween Math
http://math.about.com/b/2011/10/21/s...-math.htm?nl=1

Using Bar Graphs
http://math.about.com/b/2011/10/19/u...raphs.htm?nl=1

Math Formulas and Tables
http://math.about.com/od/formulas/Ma...ath_Tables.htm

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Seasonal Downloads

Seasonal Writing Paper
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...ting-paper.pdf

Monthly Seasonal Spelling Test Sheets
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...l-spelling.pdf

Monthly Reading Log Journals
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...g-journal1.pdf

Jaunuary Word Search
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...ord-search.pdf

January Word Shape
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...word-shape.pdf

Martin L King Word Search
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...ord-search.pdf

February Word Puzzles
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...rd-puzzles.pdf

Calendar-Holiday Study
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...f-the-year.pdf

March Word Puzzles
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...word-shape.pdf

March Crossword Puzzle
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...-crossword.pdf

St. Patrick's Day
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...st-patrick.pdf

April Word Puzzles
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...rd-puzzles.pdf

Father's Appreciation Poem
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...hers-poems.pdf

Father's Day Word Search
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...athers-day.pdf

Independence Day Word Search
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...ndence-day.pdf

Summer Fun Pages
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...un-puzzles.pdf

The Good Little Apple
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...s-decorate.pdf

Apple Classroom Decorating
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...s-decorate.pdf

September Fun Pages
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...fun-sheets.pdf

Johnny Appleseed
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...-appleseed.pdf

Squirrel
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...9/squirrel.pdf

Christmas Fun Book
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...y-workbook.pdf

Christmas Patterns Crafts
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...s-patterns.pdf

Christmas Madd Libbs
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...mas-adlibs.pdf

12 Days of Christmas Counting Mini Book
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...-questions.pdf

12 Days of Christmas Quiz
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...-questions.pdf

My Christmas Counting Book
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...ting-book3.pdf

Christmas Carol Cursive Writing
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...ls-cursive.pdf

Christmas Carols Fun Book
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...s-wb-pages.pdf

Christmas Writing Paper
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...tmas-paper.pdf

Thanksgiving Writing Paper
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...ing-paper1.pdf

Thanksgiving Cursive Writing
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...ve-writing.pdf

Thanksgiving Mini Book
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...iving-book.pdf

Design Your Own Calendar
http://school4free.files.wordpress.c...1/calendar.pdf

Re: Free Resources?
 

http://macmillanmh.com/languagearts/...workbooks.html - not sure if this has been mentioned already but these look like nice language arts printables.

I have only looked at the K and 1st grade levels but they seem nice if you have a little worksheet lover. I moved them to the ipad for a traveling option.

Re: Free Resources?
 

Oh, hey, look, a listing of free K12 curricula, including things I never found on Google! The PreK & Kinder tab lists everything I spent several days Googling up in the Lesson Plans forum :doh.

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=9506

Re: Free Resources?
 

http://www.jennyphillips.com/home-school-curriculum/

I just browsed a bunch of the samples and this looks like a great integrated language arts curriculum. You can order the printed version but the PDF's of the entire program are FREE!