If you are looking into homeschooling, or are currently homeschooling, and are looking for Christian & secular homeschooling information, tips, advice, etc…you have come to the right place!
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I am currently working on a couple homeschooling printables, such as planner pages, etc..I hope to have them added by the end of the year. PLEASE CHECK BACK!
Getting Started With Homeschooling
- What is Homeschooling?
- Homeschooling Basics (101)
- A Comparison of Different Methods and Approaches to Homeschooling
- Find Homeschooling Laws in Your State
- Homeschooling: Getting Started
- If you are a homeschooling family or are interested in homeschooling, we would like to offer you one of two FREE Homeschool Welcome Baskets
- Getting The Homeschool Journey Started
- Can I Homeschool my Child?
- 4 Simple Steps to Get Started Homeschooling
- The Art & Science of Homeschooling: What You Need to Know
- Homeschooling: Tips to Getting Started (PBS)
- 7 Non-Religious Reasons to Homeschool
- 7 Reasons Why Some Parents Choose Homeschool
- Parent’s Guide to the Pros & Cons of Homeschooling
- Begin Homeschool Mid-Year
- Creating Your Own Studies
- Picking a Schedule
- Thinking About Homeschooling? See AOP’s Educational Options!
- What Age Should I Start Homeschooling My Child?
- Things You Don’t Need to Homeschool
- Our Main Reason for Homeschooling: Character Development
- Then-High School Science Teacher. Now-Homeschool Mom. WHY?
- Homeschool Launch’s FREE guide – Tips & insights from veteran homeschoolers to help you get started & succeed.
Homeschooling Advice & Tips
- Praying Over Your Homeschool Plan
- Navigating the Used Curriculum Route
- Homeschooling Do’s and Don’ts – Part 2 here
- How I Survived my First Year as a Homeschool Parent
- 5 Minutes to a More Organized Homeschool (Really!)
- 8 Things to Remember About Homeschooling
- Grading Guidelines: What You Need to Know
- 5 Reasons to Attend a Homeschool Convention
- An Organized Space for Unorganized Homeschooler
- 3 Tips for School Shopping with Ease
- 4 Reasons Why Homeschooling with Unit Studies Work
- Understanding Learning Styles-Gaining insight into how your child learns best.
- Rekindling the Joy in Your Homeschool
- What is an Eclectic Homeschool Program
- 3 Rs of Charlotte Mason Education
- Homeschool Scheduling for the Busy Homeschool
- Free Resource Guide – Learn “The 5 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make Homeschooling High School” and Avoid Stumbling Blocks and Pitfalls on Your Way to Homeschool Graduation!
- How to Homeschool: 6 Rules Learned the Hard Way
- How to Empower Kids to Take Charge of Their Learning
- 14 Resources for Schooling on the Go
- 6 tips for homeschooling a child who won’t sit still
- Time Management Tips for Your Kids eBook
- 10 Ways to Save Money on Your Family’s Back-to-School Shopping
- What are Some Books That DG Recommends
- Reentry: When Homeschool Students Enroll in Traditional Schools
Homeschooling Resources
-Reviews
- The purpose of HomeSchool Reviews is to provide a community where homeschoolers can read reviews and discuss curriculum and other issues that relate to homeschooling.
- Cathy Duffy Reviews has an extensive list of curriculum & products review for the homeschooling community and those interested in homeschooling, education, the origins debate, and related political, and spiritual topics.
-Planning & Organizing
- THE BEST HOMESCHOOL PLANNER EVER on Homeschool Planet
- My School Year Become a member to better organize your homeschool records. This online homeschool tracking system provides many easy to use features to help with daily lesson plans.
- My Skoobi makes it simple to design gallery-quality notebooks and planners using your own digital images.
- Try the Cozi Family Organizer today. It’s FREE! Our family has been using this for years & we LOVE IT!!!
-Printables & Worksheets
- TestingMom – Start with 100 Free Practice Questions
- FREE (with subscription) downloadable Printable Collections: Ultimate Family Discipleship, Ultimate Homeschool, Ultimate Christian Holidays.
- Lesson Planet -Search Lesson Plans and Worksheets for All Subjects and Grade Levels.
-Books & Reading
- Epic! Books-The Netflix of Children’s books. Sign up now and read FREE for 30 days!
- A Big Long List of Good Books for Children (Grades 4-6)
-Subject Helpers
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online
- SchoolTube.com is the nation’s largest K-12 moderated video sharing platform, specifically designed for students and educators
- TeacherTube
- World Book has set the standard for providing accuracy, objectivity, and reliability in innovative print and web technologies for children, adults, and schools since 1917.
- GCFLearnFree.org program has helped millions around the world learn the essential skills they need to live and work in the 21st century. From Microsoft Office and email to reading, math, and more, GCFLearnFree.org offers more than 180 topics, including more than 2,000 lessons, 800+ videos, and 55+ interactives and games, completely free.
- The Smithsonian Science How webcast archives
- NASA Space Place
- Montessori Services has focused on bringing hard-to-find, child-size Practical Life materials into the classroom. Although our School Catalog focus has expanded to include materials across the curriculum, materials for the exercises of Practical Life remain our specialty.
- Today I Learned videos – Learn something extraordinary! National Geographic explorers tell you new, obscure, and amazing things about the world (and beyond).
- Kids Discover Online Enhance your homeschool with over 1,500 visually stunning science and social studies topics.
-Fine Arts
- Art For Kids Hub! On our YouTube channel we do art together as a family, and we love sharing it with you. You can follow along with us and learn how to draw, paint, fold, and sculpt all kinds of cool things
- Art Cadets YouTube Channel
- Art So Cute YouTube Channel
- Musical Notes! Learning about music for Kids
- Kid’s Music Workshop YouTube Channel
- Music With Lindsay YouTube Channel
- Vocal Warm ups for Kids from Sing! Voice Studio
-Misc.
- The Well Trained Mind Forum
- Receive your FREE e-book, 101 Ways to Save Money on Homeschooling.
- Download this Learning Style e-book – It will not only explain the science behind learning styles, but provide you with strategies, tips and ideas that will help you incorporate learning styles into your homeschool lessons and activities.
Middle/High School/College Prep
- Choosing Curriculum: Should Your Middle Schooler Have a Say?
- 5 Changes for Your Homeschooled Middle Schooler
- 7 Skills Homeschoolers Need to Develop Before College
- Standardized Testing for Homeschoolers
- Homeschooling in High School
- The Easy First Step for High School Curriculum Planning – 2nd Step
- YouScience – Helps young adults (and adults) understand they have abilities, talents, and gifts that are meaningful. We wanted them to understand how their gifts and passions fit with real-world careers.
- Homeschool Friendly vs. Homeschool Fussy
- 4 Year High School Plan (with FREE Printable spreadsheet)
- A Complete Guide to High School Course Descriptions for Homeschoolers
- Homeschool High School Transcripts Download
- Demystifying the High School Transcripts (with fillable PDF)
- High School Transcript Template
- State High School Graduation Requirements
- Download the Free Dual Credit eBook
- How to Write a 5 Paragraph College Essay
- Online Teen Driver’s Ed
- SAVE UP TO 40% on DriversEd.com
- Homeschool Graduation Planner
- Free one-hour webinar to discover a ninja-secret to use a comprehensive homeschool record to capture your homeschool education in a way that stands out from the crowd and gets your student noticed.
- 10 Days of Homeschool High School
- Mapping Out the Homeschool High School Plan
- Planning Your Homeschool High School Requirements: Core Courses
- Planning High School Electives for Your Homeschool
- The HomeScholar – Your Trusted Resource for Homeschool High School Encouragement, Training, and Support.
- Dual Enrollment in Your State
- A High School Homeschool Economics Elective Course – This course guides students through an in-depth, biblical exploration of the basic principles of economics.
- The College Guide – Chocked-full of college info, tips & tricks!
- Financial Aid: The Tough Questions
- We Can’t Afford it Can We? (Christian Colleges)
- College Alternatives
- Dorm Room Essentials
Unschooling
Gifted/Talented
- Gifted, Talented, or Just Hardworking
- Web Resources for Parents of Gifted
- Gifted Homeschooling Forum (GHF)
- National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Support for those who enhance the growth and development of gifted and talented children through education, advocacy, community building, and research.
- Prufrock Press – The Nation’s Leading Resource for Gifted, Advanced, and Special Needs Learners.
Special Needs/Chronic Illness
- National Association for Child Development
- 3 Tips to Teaching Writing to a Child With Asberger Syndrome
- National Autism Resources is the leading online resource for information, advice, toys, gifts, educational products and more.
- Defusing Refusing: Reaching and Teaching Students Who Display Resistant, Defiant, and Confrontational Behavior [Part 1 of 3] – [Part 2 of 3] – [Part 3 of 3]
- Prufrock Press – The Nation’s Leading Resource for Gifted, Advanced, and Special Needs Learners.
- NATHHAN National Challenged Homeschoolers Associated Network
- Special Needs Homeschooling Resources
- 5 Tips for Homeschooling a Child with Chronic Illness
- Special Needs Child Thrives by Homeschooling, School District Doesn’t Understands How.
- 6 Tips for Homeschooling a Child With Chronic Illness
- System 44 Next Generation is an intensive foundational reading program for your most challenged readers in Grades 3–12+.
- You Can Homeschool Your {Dyslexic} Child Successfully
- Homeschooling Experts on Homeschooling a Child with Learning Disabilities
- Supporting Students With ADHD
Homeschool Magazines
- The Old Schoolhouse MY FAVORITE HOMESCHOOLING MAGAZINE!!!!!
- Practical Homeschooling magazine.
- Homeschooling Today magazine.
- The Home School Digest Find practical tips, simple suggestions and bold Biblical challenges that make up an open forum for wrestling through the complex issues that affect homeschooling families.
- Home School Enrichment No matter where you are in your homeschool journey, we are here for you. Check us out to see how we can help your family – we look forward to serving you!
- The Homeschool Handbook Presents articles written by established authors in the homeschooling and educational fields that maintain an independent viewpoint and enrich the homeschool life style.
- The Teaching Home
- Back-To-Homeschool Magazine (BTH for short) is an awesome magazine for girls who are homeschooled- and it’s FREE!
- Creation Illustrated
- Nature Friend Magazine is a creation-based, monthly nature magazine for children that the whole family will enjoy.
Homeschool Organizations
- Join the Home Learning Association today to help protect the right to homeschool for everyone.
- HSLDA members receive unique services, special discounts, and personal advice to support and equip their family’s homeschool program.
- Join homeschoolers from across the country on family and student homeschool adventures with the National Home School Association. Become a member today.
- The Foundation for American Christian Education
- HSAMF is comprised of military families; parents, grandparents, children, and community leaders standing together to advocate for our homeschool community.
Homeschooling Programs
Field Trip Ideas
- Little Passports A global adventure.
- Museum of the Bible is an innovative, global, educational institution whose purpose is to invite all people to engage with the history, narrative and impact of the Bible.
- The Ark Encounter is a one-of-a-kind historically themed attraction (Noah’s Ark replica) located in northern Kentucky.
- The Creation Museum is a state-of-the-art 70,000 square foot museum brings the pages of the Bible to life, casting its characters and animals in dynamic form and placing them in familiar settings.
- National Aquarium Homeschool Field Trips
- Visit The Architect’s Virtual Capitol where you can discover, explore, and learn inn the comfort off your own home.
- List of virtual field trips
- Travel the World for FREE with Over 400 Virtual Field Trip & Virtual Tours ideas for Homeschoolers!
Homeschooling Discounts & Freebies
- Free Homeschool ID cards
- A list of Free Teacher Discounts
- Another list of Teacher & Homeschooler Discounts
- Homeschool Teacher ID Discounts
- Smithsonian Magazine Free Museum Day
- Book Adventure is a fun, free way to motivate your child to read! Kids in grades K-8 can search for books, read them offline, come back to quiz on what they’ve read, and earn prizes for their reading success.
- Free Kid’s Bible Worksheets
- FREE Homemaking Planners and Printables for 2017
- Homeschool Discount Programs: Save Money on Your Homeschool Curriculum Resources!
- Teacher Printable Packs from Bible Pathway Adventures
- Free Homeschool & Household Printable Planner
- Great Wolf Lodge Water Park Homeschool Discount
- Florida LEGOland Homeschool Days ticket discounts
Devotionals & Bible Studies [More here]
Check out my other homeschool pages: [Homeschool Curriculum] [Homeschool Links I Love]
