Sunday, January 30, 2011

Free History



BBC History for Kids

Lesson Pathways (K-5)
36 weeks of lessons for each grade

Heritage History
Many online History books

World History lesson plans and power point presentations

Patriotic Songs

Ancient Greece Coloring Pages
Beacon Lights of History by John Lord
History Books by M. B. Synge

History for Kids

Cooking by Country 
Make recipes from countries you are studying!

White House 101

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for kids

Rainbow Kids Cultures Alive
coloring pages, cultural info

A Book in Time
Links to history-related games and quizzes. Also gives links to crafts, timelines, maps and other history-related sites, as well as best books for history subjects. Listings offer grade level suggestions. Grades K-12

American Heritage Education Foundation
Order a free CD with K-12 lesson plans on American History. Non-profit organization
Grades K-12.

Year by Year

The Story of Civilization by Will & Ariel Durant (11 volumes in PDF & mp3 audiobook format)
This is a wonderful series, and is truly an amazing and engaging history of world civilization.
Timeline Figures
ClipArt ETC

Updated 6/27/12

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Free Math



Updated 6/27/12

Free Language Arts

Grammar:

Skill Builder: Black Line Masters (1st-6th)
Printable grammar workbooks

Intermediate language lessons By Emma Serl (4th-6th)
Online book

Grammar Land pdf (Ages 10-15)
An ingenious and amusing attempt to teach some of the elements of grammar by allegory and pictorial illustration. A wonderful introduction to the parts of speech for young and old. Numerous black and white illustrations complement the text.
Grammar-Land Worksheets

Daily Grammar
Consist of 440 lessons and 88 quizzes

Lessons in Language: Primer Book 1
Online book

Lessons in Language, Literature & Composition Book 2
Practical Lessons in English Grammar and Composition Book 3

Scott Foresman Online Grammar and Writing

Phonics:

Lesson Pathways-Reading and Phonics 
60 weeks of phonic lessons 20 weeks of lessons for K, 1st and 2nd grades

Progressive Phonics
Three Levels of Phonics   Lessons/Books/Printables

Starfall — Learn to Read
Start at ABC and work your way through the levels.

Dream English: Phonics for Kids
Free charts and worksheets for learning the alphabet. Grades PreK-1.

Spelling:

McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book (1st-12th)
Spelling progresses at each lesson.

Basic Cozy Spelling Course (6th-8th)
Lessons, Exercises and Dictation Exercises

TLSBooks.com
50 spelling worksheets

All About Spelling (1st-7th)
Free spelling word list

A Modern Speller, Book One (2nd-4th)
Teaches spelling with the dictation method!

A Modern Speller, Book Two  (5th-8th)

Horn – Ashbaugh Speller (1st-8th)

Custom Word Searches can put word list in here

Writing:

K-12 Lessons from Scholastic

Writing Prompts
by grade level (all grades)

Vocabulary:
WordlyWise 3000 
Click on "student" for word lists & games

Updated 6/27/12  

Free Science

Windows to the Universe (K - 12)
Free online tutorials, activities, coloring pages, etc. on Earth and Space science, includes art, poetry and myths related to the sun and planets

Math/Science Nucleus (K-12)
Science curriculum, includes lesson plans, online animated storybooks, slide shows

Otter's Homeschool Science Curriculum
Combines multiple ages, use "living books" and lots of hands on activities

How To Teach Science
Lessons and materials

Lesson Pathways (K-5)
36 weeks of lessons for each grade

McGraw Hill Science Workbooks

A Book of Natural History
Online book

The Elements of Geology (7th-10th)

Answers in Genesis (7th-12th)
Online Science books

Newton's Apple
Videos

Stellarium
A planetarium for your computer

Kid's Science Experiments

Steve Spangler Science Experiments

Science Bob Experiments

Virtual Chemistry

Updated 6/27/12

Free Foreign Language

The French Experiment
Online Lessons

Instant Replay
Videos and teacher guides that teach several different languages

Ahn's French primer
Online book 

ielanguages.com 
Language Tutorials 

Byki
Free Language Software

Free Handwritting



Handwriting Worksheet Maker
Make your own handwriting pages

Donna Young's Printable Handwriting Lessons
Handwriting Worksheets, Paper, Tips, & Fonts

Famous Quote Copywork (pdf)
Print and Cursive

Print Copywork
Bible verses, quotes, poetry, hymns

Cursive Copywork
Bible verses, quotes, poetry

Simply Charlotte Mason.com
Manuscript copywork pages. Grades K-5

Writing Wizard
Customizable handwriting worksheets in block and cursive. Allows for tracing lines.
Great for struggling writers. Grades K-5

Zaner-Bloser
Customizable handwriting templates: blank, spelling words, vocabulary. Grades K-6.

Paidea Classics
Copywork pages. Other freebies in the links on the right. Grades K-1.

Individual Letter Practice

Mazes

First Grade Mazes


Updated 6/27/12

Free Typing

Sense-Lang.org
Online Free Touch Typing Program

Power Typing
Online free typing tutor

Good Typing
Online free typing course

Dance Mat Typing



Free Curriculum, books needed

Ambleside Online (PreK-12)
The curriculum in free and a lot of the books are also. Some books need to be bought or use the library.               

Simply Charlotte Mason (PreK-12)
Free curriculum Guide, books will need to be bought.

Core Knowledge (PreK-8)
Free Teacher Guides, Downloads & Forms

Charlotte Mason Help (PreK-6)
Free curriculum very similar to Ambleside Online.

Classical Christian Homeschooling
Free except the books

Milestones Academy
Similar to Ambleside but directed to LDS families. I imagine anyone could use it with a little tweaking.

Sonlight
You don't need to buy the instructor's guide. You can use the booklist as a guide and get the books at the library or used.

Tanglewood Education (1st-8th)

Classical House of Learning
FREE classical literature guides following a 4-year history cycle.

The Puritan's Homeschool Curriculum (K-12)
An amazingly large and in-depth collection of homeschool curriculum with a reformed Biblical perspective. There are over 100 full length texts in history, government, home economics, science & technology, literature, art and much more -- all downloadable in PDF format.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

100% Free

Easy Peasy — All in One Homeschool
This is great! Currently covers 1st through 7th grades. She will add more grades as her children get to them.

19th Century Schoolbooks
 
Baldwin Project
Classic children's literature by genre

An Old-Fashioned Education (PreK-12)
The curriculum is free and it uses all free online books. You don’t have to buy anything if you don’t want to.

Donna Young
One of my favorite websites. Free Printables and resources. Love it!

Head of the Class (PreK-5, 5th just added! More grades to come)
This site has free printable worksheet along with online applications to complete.

Child Fun
Hundreds of pages of ideas, curriculum plans and activities.

Homeschool.com
Searchable database of free curriculum and educational resources.

World Book (PreK-12)
Free Course of Study to help you plan your school.

America Online At School
AOL resources site for students, teachers-parents.

Notebooking Pages
Has many free pages for printing.

Garden of Praise
Free online and printable teaching materials.

Letter of the Week
Preschool Curriculum

Discovery Channel
Free Teacher Resources

Education World Lesson Plans Pages
Mostly for PS teachers, but some good ideas here too.

Free lesson Forms
For reading, writing, spelling, history, math, etc.

Links to All Things Free for Homeschoolers
Title is self explanatory.

Robinson Curriculum Books - Sorted by Subject
All these books can be found online for free!

History Channel
Classroom resources

Learning Pages
Free worksheets, books, clip art

Lesson Plans Pages
Huge site of lesson plans

National Geographic Channel Lesson Plans

CurrClick
Over 400 free downloads

Baltimore Curriculum Project Lesson Plans (K-5)  --Scope and Sequence
Month-by-month free lesson plans for Art, Geo., Hist., Lit., Music & Sci.

Christian Preschool Printables
Bible Coloring Pages, Bible Verse Cards, Christian Lapbooks,
Christian File Folder Games, Felt Board Sets, Finger Puppets, Sunday School Lessons and
Homeschooling Curriculum, Bible ABC's and tons of fun Bible Activities and Bible Games.

Freely Educate

Homeschool College USA
"Homeschool College USA is designed for homeschooling high school students who would like to tailor their courses toward using college-level exams to earn college credits while completing their high school studies."

Updated 8/13/12
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Free 100 Easy Lessons- reading program

I'm sure many of you are familiar with the book, Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons. If not, it's just one book with 100 fifteen minute lessons that were created years ago and tested nationwide. Many homeschoolers do the complete program.

In any case, one of the developers of the book has created an online version of teaching 4 - 7 year olds to read and it sells for $249 ordinarily.

Due to hard economic times for public schools and most other people, he has decided that during January only, he's giving this downloadable program away entirely for free. It's not a gimmick.

If you're interested, you only have through the rest of January to download it.

http://www.funnix.com/

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Monday, January 17, 2011

Free Martin Luther King, Jr. Activities

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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Shhh...

CurrClick has a secret sell going on

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I'm a little late but......

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Monday, January 3, 2011

Books

Have you read more than six of these Books? The BBC believes most people will have read only six of the 100 books listed here. 

Instructions: Copy this into your POST. Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started, but didn't finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds if desired.


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (plan on finishing eventually)

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (read most)

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (read a few chapters with Trista, she is finishing the rest herself, don't know if I'll finish it myself or not)

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma -Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis 

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (I couldn't finish this because it was too disturbing for me)

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo



Read:22
Started but not finished: 5
Many of these books I plan on reading eventually!

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Sunday, January 2, 2011

Bringing in the New Year

I hope anyone who stumbles upon this had a great Christmas and New year.

My New Year night went pretty well. My hubby and I helped out with the youth group at church. We had fun. Then, when we got home we found that one of our dogs was missing. He has been missing before, but this time he hasn't come home. :( The kids have been at my parents for the last two nights so it has been really quiet around here. I'm enjoying the peace, but looking forward to them being back home again.
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I don't really believe in New year resolutions, but I think the beginning of the year is always a good starting point to begin any goals and plans that you may have. Below are a few of the plans I have for this upcoming year.


  • For one, I would like to actually update this site more often. I want to be able to actually document things that are going on around here. I also have things I would like to share and haven't gotten around to it. 
  • I want to lose weight....who doesn't!? I only want to lose 10 pounds, which is not a lot, but that is my goal. The 10 Ibs. that I want gone all seems to be in my midsection and I want it to go away!
  • I really really want to be more organized. This last year things haven't been very smooth and I need to get a lot of things back in order including finances.
  • I would like to have a baby.......Ok, that really isn't up to me, but I'm just throwing it out there..lol!
  • I'm pretty sure there are more I just can't think of anything else right now. The above are the main goals for the year.
What are your goals for the new year?
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