Posted on 09/23/2009 11:08:25 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
The Free Republic Homeschoolers’ Forum is an annual thread where homeschoolers share tips and talk about curriculum.
Included on this year’s forum:
GET STARTED HOMESCHOOLING
This year, in response to requests from other parents, we have put together a guide for anyone interested in homeschooling. (See below.)
HOMESCHOOL RESOURCES (in alphabetical order)
Scroll down for the latest list of educational resources recommended by homeschoolers on Free Republic. Corrections and updates were made to the previous list. Links to any product or website no longer available were deleted. Then the recommendations made last year were added. Also, a list of links to resources right here on Free Republic has been expanded under Free Republic Library. As always, feel free to share advice with other homeschoolers in the comments following on this thread.
This will be the final list. Thank you to all who have contributed! If you would like to add more recommendations, please add them in the comments section.
CONGRATULATIONS to all homeschooled students who have graduated this year! Many blessings to you and your families! May you enjoy continued success.
A big THANK YOU to Jim Robinson and to all who make Free Republic work.
You have to replace the quotation marks with new ones and get rid of the semi-colons in between the arrow keys. When I FReepmail you them, somehow it gets added or changed. Some glitch in the program, I guess, but the HTML won’t work right if it doesn’t like the way the quotation marks look and if the semi-colons are left in at the end of the image code. The semi-colons have to be deleted, not spaced out. HTML doesn’t like spaces either.
What kills me about this is that my kids cannot participate in extra-curricular activities as home-schoolers.
Ping
I haven’t counted yet to see how many are on.
When I get done adding all the new requests, I’ll do a head count and let you know.
Of course, if you don’t hear from me in a couple days, remind me.
Did you add *frhf* as a keyword? What does it mean?
I like having distinct keywords, as it can be a big help in searching for specific articles. Some keywords are just too common to be useful.
For the life of me, I was sure you were on the lists. I don’t know why you weren’t but I WILL add you.
FRHF - Free Republic Homeschoolers’ Forum
It should take you to all of the past forums beginning in 2005. I just added the keyword recently.
Duh!
I’ll put it in my homeschool notice thing that I put up when I ping the list so people can use it.
Correction:
Under Puzzle-Makers & Worksheet Generators, here’s the link for
HOME SCHOOL PLANET:
http://www.homeschoolplanet.com/
Hmmm... I double-checked, and your name is on the list. Are you sure you didn’t receive a ping? If you didn’t, I’m afraid now I might’ve cut off a whole bunch of people. Sorry, I’m going cross-eyed after all the typing.
Thanks for the massive amount of work that looks like it took.
I was just wondering because it might give some indication how many freepers do homeschooling. Don’t know if there’s ever been a poll. Come to think of it, I haven’t seen a FR poll in quite a while.
It’s just a once-a-year ping. :-) I will ping your name and everyone’s name here next year when we do this again. In the meantime, if you’re on the Homeschool Ping List run by Metmom, then you’re covered.
WOW!! Thank you so much for compiling all of this. I see a lot of resources I already use and some I can’t wait to check out.
We’re trying a new system this year that works with any curriculum. It’s an organizational thing for me. It started here http://www.workboxsystem.com/ but if you google workboxes you’ll find a million different versions, free printables, etc. I modified ours and use small stackable drawers instead because I was able to fit them into our cabinets so the little ones couldn’t get into them. It’s working quite well! My kids (11, 9, and 4 are on the system) know exactly what is expected of them each day and can visibly see what they’ve accomplished and what’s left. Hope someone else finds this useful! It’s sure helped me stay on track!
It’s far more text than work, really. I just started it the weekend when you reminded me, and then I worked on it a bit at a time, now and then. But it was enough work that my hand is hurting from using the mouse. I’m glad to have it, though, because there were interesting suggestions homeschoolers here gave that I never knew about. I have to go now. I’ll try to check back later tonight.
With that said, I am trying to get a book that I used way back several years ago to teach music theory to little ones. I cannot remember the name, but it was a yellow book, with comb binding.
It taught kids musical note values by first getting them to associate note values with colors:
quarter notes: pink
eighth notes: purple
half notes: blue-oo
whole notes: red-ed-ed-ed
LOL. If any of this makes sense, you might know the book I'm talking about. Please FRmail me if you have any idea what I'm talking about.
It is so encouraging to see so many more resources available to homeschoolers. When we first did homeschooling back in the 1980's A Beka would not even sell to home schoolers. We had to hide our kids in the house all during school hours, and make all sorts of explanations if we took them for a field trip during school hours. By the time we finished in 2001, homeschooling was an acceptable way of life. I miss it, I'll be honest. But I am heartened by the number of families choosing this route, and know that our country will be strengthened by the children raised through homeschooling. Blessings to you all.
Bump for later reading
High five to second generation homeschoolers!
Homeschooled all my life, graduated college and now homeschooling my own ones.....
You’re a couple years ahead of me then but we’re on the same course. Funny how when we were being homeschooled, it was weird and people thought it might be illegal (and was in some places) and now it’s so common people start making excuses for why they don’t homeschool!
Great list. My first go to website when buying anything homeschool is www.libraryanded.com then rainbowresource.com. Things listed that I recommend:
Spell to Write and Read, Mystery of History.
Things I recommend but didn’t see:
Right Start Math www.alabacus.com
God’s Design for Science www.answersingenesis.com
Ancient Civilizations and the Bible www.answersingenis.com
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