Homeschooling

Arts/Crafts | Email Groups | Games | Holidays| Language Arts | Life Skills | LapBooking | Math | Merchants | Music | Preschool | Reference/Resource | Science | Social Studies | Software | Unit Studies |

Art/Crafts

  • Access Arts
    a teaching program offering quality experiences in the arts with accessibility to people of all ages…
  • Cannon’s Creative Park
    tons ‘o really cool stuff to print out and create.
  • Clipart ETC Homepage
    Awesome free (to educators) clip art resource.
  • DadCanDo
    a great site with lots of free downloadable craft ideas like minibooks, cool things made from junk, paper airplanes and cooking recipes.
  • Draw Squad
    A book of simple drawing lessons. A few online too.
  • Karen’s Whimsy
    Well organized collection of public domain images
  • Kids Craft Weekly
    Newsletter and archives of kid friendly activities and crafts.
  • Make a Mosaic
    Online! If you don’t want ot mess with glue or glassy bits, use this online mosaic pattern creator. Links to examples and historic information on Roman mosaics.
  • Words Alive
    Make a wax tablet, strip book, horn tablet, scrolls and more.

Email Groups

Games

History

Holidays

Language Arts

  • Dance Mat Typing
    From the BBC. A fun flash presentation to get you started in typing. Seems to go a bit fast in that it doesn’t go slowly over each skill before jumping head first into full words.
  • Daily Grammar
    Free Lesson Archive
  • The Baldwin Online Children’s Literature Project
    They have put online children’s literature that is in the public domain, some of which has been republished so that you can buy it in hard copy form.
  • Fun with Words
    Pallindromes, Panagrams, Contronyms oh my!
  • Foreign Language Resources
    FREE(Greek, Latin and more)
  • Kids Typing Skills Software
    FREE! Very basic but useful. Learn keyboard, keyboard practice, character drill, word drill and timed drills.
  • Performing Cicero
    See it. Hear it… in latin or with english translation.
  • TRYPS
    Classes, play dates, fun theatre stuff
  • Typer shark
    A fun online (or free download) game to help with typing speed. Type the word on the shark before he eats the diver.
  • WritingFix
    Kinda kewl. Random writing prompts generator.

LapBooking

Life Skills

Math

Merchants

  • edHelper.com
    Themes, lesson plans, units on just about every subject. Some areas require subscription.
  • Enchanted Learning
    A great online resource. You can access a lot for free.
  • Enrichment for You
    Haven’t ordered from them yet, but they have many interesting things available in PDF form.
  • Evan-Moor
    They have these neat “pocket-book” ebooks that remind me of lapbooks but simpler. You can preview many of their titles in their entirety from the website as well as seeing how their products meet your state grade level expectations.
  • Hands of a Child
    Great project packs to make lapbooking easier
  • Harmony Fine Arts at Home
    Created by mom who has been homeschooling for 11 years! I have bought her 5th grade pack and can’t wait to start using it.
  • Homeschool eStore
  • Home School in the Woods
    I really like their history timeline binder and pages
  • Lively Latin
    Latin Resources for kids and parents
  • Minimus
    Introductory Latin courses from England. The website has many neat resources and printables.
  • Math Mammoth
    Inexpensive, downloadable, comprehensive, self-teaching workbooks.
  • NotebookingPages.com
    I bought their greek and Latin word study sheets (they are nicely done) and would someday like to purchase their 50 states pack.

Music

Preschool

Reference/Resource

Science

Social Studies

Software

Unit Studies

  • Ancient Rome
  • Bones Unit study
    designed to complement the Children’s museum of Indianapolis newest exhibit Bones: An exhibit Inside You. No visit necessary. Information available in PDF format.
  • Triops
    elementary science curriculum centered around the lifecycle of the triops