HOMESCHOOL HELPS

• Childrens Vision Reading difficulties or short attention span could be caused by vision problems! Check out this link to see if it applies to your child. (One of my sons had vision therapy and is now doing great.)
• Family Bank Take a look at the Parentware software for teaching children how to budget money all the way to taking out loans--with you being the banker!
• Health Consent Form Okay, so this is a weird place to put this but I'm not sure where else it should go. :-) If you're going out of town and leaving your children with others, this is a great form to print and fill out!
• HOMESCHOOL TRACKER
  Homeschool scheduling program plus much, much more. Personal support and a yahoo group available for users.
  Only for MS Windows.
• HSLDA Homeschoolers in the U.S. are wise to become members of the Home School Legal Defense Association.

HOMESCHOOL
SUPPORT SITES

• Linda's Homeschool Page (valuable help!)
• Perkins Homeschool This is the Directory page. Debbie has so many pages that I've never seen them all! A simply AMAZING website.
• Christian Homeschool Community Message Boards
• Christian Homeschool Fellowship (CHFWeb) Message Boards

ART

• Prang products!
• National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. Purchase postcard reproductions for only 50 cents!
• Homeschool Art This is an art curriculum.

MAPS

• Geography Matters Lots of great maps for sale (including a world map without Asia divided), a timeline and more. (I have the timeline figures.) They also sell timeline pieces.

TIMELINES

• Heads from History Free clipart
• Hold That Thought Take a look at their timeline cards! The Bible/Church Timeline has over 700 cut-outs and the World/U.S. History Timeline has over 800 cut-outs. These come on a cd-rom which is a great feature in itself.
• A Timeline for All Time This is a book that looks really amazing!
• Hundreds of TIMELINE FIGURES! From HomeschoolintheWoods.
• A Timeline Generator Make your own timelines. (Have the information you want to use handy!)
• OurTimelines.com Another timeline generator. This one looks a little "smarter" than the one above.
• Alterna Timelines
• Timelines of History
• WorldHistory.com "Popular Timelines"
• Hyper History (Before 1000 B.C. is all evolution.)
• Age of Antiquity through Present
• Timelines by Topic
• BBC Timelines (Europe and elsewhere)
• Timelines of British History
• Timelines of Art History
• Science Timelines
• Timelines of Invention and Technology This is at about.com.
• Composer timelines! I love this one, of course! :-)

EDUCATIONAL
PRODUCTS

• Usborne Distributor Ask Phyllis (TN) for a catalog!
• Story Teller Felts Find out about them here.
• NEST Videos Julie Banton (IL) is a NEST distributor. Learn about them here.
• Nest Entertainment Videos Angela's site.
• Educational Placemats Educational placemats to help your children learn about presidents, composers, scientists, the world, and more!

READING

• Pizza Hut's Book It Program It's free and it's fun!
• Reading Rainbow Website This has a program schedule but remember that each local television station can show their own choices so be sure to check your local listings too.

SCIENCE

• Sign up for Weekly Science Experiments by Robert Krampf.  His website
• Magic School Bus Scholastic's MSB website.
• WonderNet: Your Science Place in Cyberspace! If this link doesn't work, just start from www.chemistry.org and search for Education and then Kids, Teaching Resources, etc. My husband is a chemist and has found great resources at this site. The WonderNet is just one of the many Education resources the site lists.

CURRICULUM LINKS

PHONICS

• Alphabet Island
• Child Diagnostics, Inc. A program available for children with learning disabilities in reading, including dyslexia.
• ETA Cuisenaire Order your free Sample Kit of their Reading Rods. If you click on the “Parents” Link, you can purchase a Reading Rods set that doesn't include multiples a teacher would receive for a classroom setting.
• "How to Tutor" by Sam Blumenfeld. How to Tutor is Alpha-Phonics without all the new “frills” and cost.
• Play 'N Talk Highly recommended by those who use it.
• READING MADE EASY Written by Valerie Bendt. We loved it!
• Reading Reflex Phono-graphix method for teaching your child to read. Direct page to cart which actually mentions Reading Reflex by name.
• Sing, Spell, Read & Write Interactive Phonics program.
• "Simply" Series Found at shoelacebooks.com, you can purchase the Simply Phonics, Simply Spelling, Simply Numbers books.
• Worksheets Unlimited A website for users of Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons and many others. TONS of printable helps from worksheets to chore cards. You will be amazed!

SPELLING / GRAMMAR / HANDWRITING

• A Reason for Writing
• Handwriting Without Tears This program seems to work especially well for children with special needs.
• StartWrite A great cd-rom program that allows you to decide what your children will write, with a choice of several handwriting styles (manuscript, Italic, D'Nealian, and all including cursive).
• Design-A-Study
• Easy Grammar and Daily Grams
• Explode the Code, Wordly Wise
• LLATL (Learning Language Arts Through Literature)
• Primary Language Lessons This is the Lost Classics Books site. These are for grades 2nd - 6th and incorporate poetry, comprehension, and more along with grammar. The next book is Intermediate Language Lessons.
• Rod & Staff
• Shurley English (Grammar)
• Spelling Power Elementary through adulthood.
• Winston Grammar Visual grammar program

MATH

• Free Online Graph Paper
• CD-roms for Math
• Edmark We've loved their Mighty Math cd-roms in the past.
• Horizons Math Horizons is a separate, accelerated math curriculum put out by Alpha Omega but is not part of their LifePac Curriculum. If the direct link doesn't work, here is the Alpha Omega homepage.
• Math-It Math-It doesn't seem to have its own website but is sold in homeschool catalogs.
• Math-U-See Brand new, updated curriculum as of Spring 2004.
• Making Math Meaningful
• Miquon Math
• Rod & Staff I can understand the teacher's manuals! I'm very pleased with their math curriculum.
• Saxon Math
• Scott Foresman Math Sixth through twelfth grade products are sold through Prentice Hall.
• Singapore Math
• Spectrum Math
• Teaching Textbooks Excellent program! All lessons and tests are shown on cd-rom, with explanations and more!

SCIENCE / GEOGRAPHY

• Considering God's Creation
• Runkle Geography We met the lady who wrote this at a homeschool convention and were VERY impressed with her curriculum! It is geared toward upper junior high and high school students and by the end of the study the students will know every country in the world! The way they review is by cutting the continents up into countries and making puzzles out of them. She provides the maps and everything. This is a textbook curriculum.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

• The Learnables They offer many different languages, from Spanish to Chinese to Hebrew!
• Power-Glide
• Rosetta Stone

BIBLE

• Grapevine Studies This is a very creative (literally!) Bible study for young readers through high schoolers using stick figures! Great visual enhancement and good, solid Biblical teaching.

EMAIL HOAXES

• Is That E-Mail You Just Received A HOAX?????? Probably!
• Snopes.com
• Truth or Fiction Researches and offers proof.
• Urban Legends

ONLINE BOOK-BUYING

• 
  Only pay for mailing!
• Book CloseOuts New books at fantastic prices.
• Linda's Used Books Great condition, great used bookseller.
• Breezy Books Linda's Out of Print Books site.
• Amazon Books (new books at discount prices; free shipping over $25.00)
• Purple House Press

Homeschool
Fun

• PASSPORT
• Find Author/Illustrator Websites
• Cyber Fieldtrips
• Pendleton Wool (Request free samples of wool.)
• Ringling Bros. Circus They offer a wonderful FREE Circus Learning Packet. Go to the Site Map and find the "FAQs" and look for "I am a teacher looking for materials to use in my classroom". (#15 last time I looked.)

CURRICULA / RESOURCE SITES

• Charlotte Mason links
• Valerie Bendt's Website
• Amanda Bennett's Unit Studies
• Charity Lovelace's Unit Studies. Charity closed her website but you can access her unit studies at Mary Ann's website (The HomeSchool Mom).
• Another site of Unit Studies Charity's unit studies may be found here as well.
• PBSKIDS The Democracy Project A neat study about government.
• Diana Waring's History Alive! Diana's tapes are EXCELLENT! We love to listen to these on car trips.
• Heart of Wisdom Another curriculum similar to Learning Adventures and Trisms (below). This program is totally based on the Bible and families can purchase an online version rather than hard copies, if preferred.
• Learning Adventures This is an awesome program that is remarkably like Trisms (below). To me, as Konos is to Five in a Row, Learning Adventures is to Trisms. (Very hands-on, with the student creating many different games and booklets. Great for the kinesthetic learner.) They also have an email loop for users.
• Mystery of History by Linda Hobar. 4th-8th grade. Plans to have five years of study. EXCELLENT.
  Yahoo group: Mystery of History, V. 1
  Yahoo group: Mystery of History, V. 2
• Trisms Middle school through high school. Includes English, Grammar and Writing. Chronological, historical base with a unit study feel. They have an email loop and Trisms users' helps on the website.
• The Teaching Company The "best teachers in the U.S." teaching different subjects are chosen to make either audiotapes, videotapes or both. Workbooks are provided along with them. High school through adult classes. We have the high school history courses and are very impressed.
• Beautiful Feet Books
• Greenleaf Press
• Veritas Press
• Dinah Zike's website The home of the popular minit books used in Tobin's Lab's lapbooks.

HOMESCHOOL
CATALOGS

• Christian Book Distributors (CBD)
• Elijah Co. Family-owned.
• Home Training Tools Lots of science stuff (like owl pellets!). :-) Includes creation science.
• Insect Lore If you're wanting an ant farm or other insect "stuff", check this out.
• Lifetime Books & Gifts Family-owned.
• Mantle Ministries Little Bear Wheeler
• Rainbow Resources Request a catalog Family-owned.
• R.O.C.K. Solid Free shipping if you order $60 or more. Family-owned.
• Shekinah Curriculum Cellar Family-owned.
• Timberdoodle Family-owned.
• Tobin's Lab Another source for owl pellets, etc.
• Vision Forum Doug Phillips. Includes the All-American Boys Adventure catalog and the Beautiful Girlhood catalog.

CHRISTIAN MAGAZINES / NEWSLETTERS

• God's World News A newsletter-type subscription for kids. Highly recommend.
• World Magazine Christian perspective. For adults.
• Sports Spectrum Magazine written from christian perspective. Perfect alternative to Sports Illustrated!!!