Following are some of my personal favorites among homeschool websites and those that I think nearly every homeschooler should have bookmarked. I hope you see some of your favorites on the list and find some new ones to love.
1. Paula’s Archives — great resources for everything from preschool to high school. I’ve referred to this one for years.
2. Calvary Chapel Children’s Ministry — coloring and activity pages for just about any story in the Bible.
3. National Geographic Coloring Book — true-to-life coloring pages, with facts, for a variety of animals.
4. Spelling City — create your own spelling lists for online study and games.
5. Best Homeschooling — tons of articles to encourage and inspire. Be sure to read my favorite, “A Preschool and Kindergarten Curriculum.”
6. Donna Young — hundreds of great printables for organizing your homeschool.
7. Vegsource Homeschool — I love their swap boards. They’re set up “flea market” style, so that each individual sets their prices. If you find what you’re looking for and it’s at a price you like — no being outbid or having a competing bidder drive the price up. I’ve always had great success here and never a bad experience buying or selling.
8. Simply Charlotte Mason — Loads of great resources for those Charlotte Mason homeschoolers (or those of us with a “little twist of Charlotte Mason”). All are either free or very reasonably priced.
9. Games to Make — Lots of printable games for your early learner.
10. Living Math — Don’t believe me that math can be fun? I didn’t either, until I found this site. Go check it out!
11. PPS Leveled Books — A great, low-key way to assess your child’s reading level.
12. Jimmie’s 50 States Notebook – A fantastic resource for putting together a study of the 50 states.
13. Highland Heritage Homeschool – Tons of printables, units, forms, articles and my favorite resource for reading level assessment.
14. Keeping Your Preschooler Occupied – An extensive list of ideas for keeping your preschooler occupied — and learning! These aren’t just ideas for keeping your preschooler out of your hair so that you can do school with the older kids — they’ll actually be working on useful, age-appropriate skill while they’re having fun.
15. Brightly Beaming Resources – This is the home of the Letter of the Week curriculum that I used for my younger two during their preschool years. It has learning ideas from birth through early elementary school — and it’s all FREE!
16. World Book’s Typical Course of Study – We all know that kids develop differently and with different strengths and weaknesses, but if you ever want to know what kids “should” be learning at different ages — either for a little reassurance or for planning — World Book provides a nice set of general guidelines broken down by grade level.
17. Can Teach – Need an exhaustive list of writing prompts to get the ideas flowing? This one’s for you!
18. BlackDog’s Word of the Day – A new vocabulary word every day!
19. A Book in Time – We love learning history through literature. This site offers a chronological list of historical fiction and non-fiction books, along with lesson plans.
20. Science Timeline - Want to add some relevant science study in with the historical time period that you’re studying? Check out this list.
21. Outline Maps – Free outline maps to enhance your history or geography studies.
22. Sheppard Software Online Math Games – The site features arcade-type games for practicing math facts. Much more fun than flash cards!
23. Amblside Online – Free Charlotte Mason-base curriculum for grades K-11 (with grade 12 coming soon. There is a link on the site for an unofficial grade 12 curriculum.)
24. Homeschool in the Woods Timeline Helps – Are you timeline phobic like me? This fantastic list of ideas and how-to’s can help even the most timeline phobic among us put together an awesome and educational timeline.
25. The Homeschool Classroom – Well, it should. ;-)
Kris is the sweet-tea-drinking, classically eclectic, slightly Charlotte Mason, homeschooling mom to her three Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers.
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Thanks! I look forward to going through these. We are homeschooling for the first time next school year and looking for good resources.
This is great. I don’t have time to look at the sites now so I’m bookmarking YOUR blog entry until I can go back to look at them.
Broken link on #22.
@flmom — Ugh! Thanks for letting me know. It was working Sunday because I clicked every single link to make sure…and I remember clicking on that one because it was a forgotten favorite. I wish I’d printed it out while I was there. *sigh*
Oh, well, I’ll replace it with a new, soon-to-be favorite that I just discovered last night.
Great list! Thanks.
I can’t wait to check some of these out. I used Brightly Beaming to get me started when we first got going with homeschooling. She has a lot of fun things for the little kids.
Thanks!
Great list! Thanks!
ooooooh, you ROCK for putting these websites up. I was NEEDING some new fresh ideas. Blessings to you :)
This list is a wonderful resource, very cool!
Great list! Thanks!
I hope you'll consider adding our homeschooling site to your list of worthy sites to bookmark!
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Found some new links here. Thanks! (And thanks for linking to my 50 States Notebook page.)
I've featured The Homeschool Classroom as well. Visit The Best Homeschooling Blogs to see it!
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