LINKS

CurrClick
Curriculum in a click!

Yearly Testing

Family Learning Organization
For more than twenty years we have been networking homeschoolers all across the country from our base in Spokane, Washington. Our extensive experience in Natural Learning and our familiarity with current legislation make us one of your best resources for home-based education.

Seton Testing Services
Providing professional testing service to homeschoolers for over 20 years.

High School Graduation

Homeschool Diploma.com
Quality Graduation Supplies for Small Schools

Forest Trail Academy
Forest Trail Academy is committed to providing quality education to students any time, any place, online at their own pace. Our curriculum is aligned with the national standards along with the Sunshine State Standards. Upon graduation, students will receive a nationally accredited high school diploma.

Graduation Cards Shop
GRADUATION ANNOUNCEMENTS, GRADUATION INVITATIONS, PERSONALIZED GRADUATION CARDS, FREE COLLEGE GRADUATION ANNOUNCEMENTS, GRADUATION CARDS FOR COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY, HIGH SCHOOL, NURSING, HOMESCHOOL, 8TH GRADE, KINDERGARTEN, PRESCHOOL, GRADUATION PARTY & OPEN HOUSE INVITATIONS, OTHER GRADUATIONS,WORDING IDEAS & MORE!

Parental Support

Family Education
Educational family oriented site with awesome printables

Homeschooling in North Carolina
Join us as we explore homeschooling in North Carolina. You'll find support groups, teaching tips, stories of successful homeschoolers, events, discussions of homeschooling methods, and much, much more.

Kidica
A website all about children.

Support Groups, Homeschool.com
All around homeschool connections and information.

The Homeschool Mom
Bringing you the best free homeschool resources.

Homeschool Marketplace
Here's where you will find everything you've ever wanted to know about home life in all of its facets ? schooling at home, creating family businesses, raising children, and more! Homeschool Marketplace is your home school and home business resource center.

Parental Tech
Parent discussion groups can be an invaluable resource, no matter what age or issue your child might have.

Web-Home-School.com
Read about personal journeys through the trials and successes of homeschooling, including finding solid homeschool curriculum, educating special needs children and more from military families,homeschooling parents, Christian homeschoolers, and other parents taking the upper hand in their children's education.

Confessions of an Organized Homeschool Mom
I am an organization junkie and this blog is right up my alley. I keep binders for everything (and people who see me carrying them around always "ooo" and "ahhh" about them while I am wondering how they function without them). It is so much easier to think clearly when your stuff isn't cluttered and disorganized! From How to Set Up a Binder System to The Procrastinator's Guide to Planning, Bethany's blog has something for everyone who needs a little organization.

Toddler & Preschool Resources

Sesame Street Games online
Educational games for toddlers and preschoolers.

Fisher Price Online
Educational games and printables

Curious George
Educational games, printables, activities, etc..

PBS Kids
Educational games with themes from PBS Kids.

Toddler and Preschooler Online Games
Page full of links for toddlers.

Homeschooling in North Carolina

Home School Legal Defense Association
The Home School Legal Defense Association is a non-profit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is tens of thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong voice when and where needed.

NC Department of Non-Public Education
Legal requirments.

North Carolinians for Home Education
Home schooling in North Carolina

Material Resources

Home School Central
All the resources you need.

Home School World
The Official Website of Practical Homeschooling Magazine

Rainbow Resouce Center
Learning materials for home and schools.

Home School Books
We offer a variety of curriculum resources, name-brand publishers, and supplemental materials at discounted prices to help maximize homeschooling efforts.

Family Learning Organization
We are eager to offer you encouragement, advice, and standardized achievement testing to support you in homeschooling.

Hoot of Loot
Classifieds for Schools, Teachers, and Homeschools

HS L.O.F.T. (Leap Of Faith Teaching) New & Used Homeschool Books

Homeschool Launch
The resource sharing platform for home educators.

Show and Know
show what you know--so others know, too!

The Homeschool Toolbar
The toolbar for homeschool families.

ASL University
ASL University is an online curriculum resource for American Sign Language students, instructors, interpreters, and parents of deaf children. Feel free to use the various lessons and resources for self-study. There is no need to register or pay (unless you want documentation to fulfill high school, college, or continuing education course requirements). If you are a teacher, I give you permission to use the lessons to teach your in-person classes. Enjoy! -- Dr. Bill Vicars

Conservapedia
I am an administrator at the Christian, conservative online encyclopedia Conservapedia. I am writing on behalf of the founder and chief administrator of the site Andrew Schlafly, a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, who teaches what may be the largest in-person homeschooling classes in the United States.Courses are available online at Conservapedia
The class this coming semester will be Economics. These classes may be taken online at no charge; the lecture can be read and homework, if posted on the website, will be graded. These classes are about on the high school level, though they could be useful for younger children too.
Feel free to check out Conservapedia, the Educational Index, and this semester?s Economics course. If you have any questions contact me back: addisondm@yahoo.com, or contact Mr. Schlafly at his page on Conservapedia (first you must create an account to contact him, which is not a big deal)
Hope to see you on Conservapedia this semester! Addison Daniels

Candy 4WAY Phonics Ages 4-10
The Candy 4WAY Phonics Program Systematic 4WAY Phonics: Your Child Can Learn to Read Over 30,000 Words
To Find Out What Your Child Could Learn Read Candy's true story!

For less than $10 you can own a COMPLETE Systematic Phonics Program.

100 Systematic Phonics lessons
Lifetime Rhyming Phonogram Charts
Multisensory Vowel Charts
20 Leveled Color Story Readers
Rhyming Alphabet Colored Flashcards
Spelling Rules

PLUS an 82-Page How to Teach Phonics e-book and so much more!

Educator.com
Although the entire site isn't free, there are several free video lessons on Educator.com to get you started with high school science and math courses. These lessons are from excellent instructors (all have doctorate degrees and are currently teaching at universities) and would be a great way to determine whether a student finds a subject interesting enough to take an entire course. Should you like the site and decide to subscribe, it's very affordable.

From the site: "The Educator experience is designed to provide you with everything you need to succeed in your courses. The customized interface creates a one-to-one learning environment with the professor while emphasizing graphical explanations and working through solution steps. Below each lecture video are detailed notes which highlight the most important points to remember as well as common student pitfalls. A powerful search engine also locates the exact time in a lecture your problem topic is discussed. Lastly, student comments are moderated by our instructors make sure any questions you have are answered."

Wondrous Worksheets
Wondrous Worksheets is a new and rapidly growing website designed to offer quick and ready worksheets for homeschoolers, teachers and parents. Each worksheet is decorated by a childs illustration with answer sheets provided where appropriate. New worksheets are being added all the time and individual requests for particular worksheets are highly encouraged.

I have also provided a free test account for your evaluation. This account will be valid for 1 week.

User Name : reviewguest71
Password : worksheets71

We also have a special registration price of $9.95 for you and members of your group by entering the promotion code "worksheets" when they register. Please feel free to pass this offer on to your members.

Field Trip Websites

The Wilmington Ice House
Ice skating for homeschoolers on Thursdays for $5 a person

Educational and Suplemental

Microsoft FREE Word Viewer
Word 97-2000 Viewer
This freeware program allows users who do not own Microsoft Word to view and print documents that were created in Word. The latest version of Word Viewer can open documents created with all previous versions of Word for Windows and version 4.x and later of Microsoft Word for Macintosh.

Before You Know It
Free download of any foreign language. Very easy to learn from.

Home Schoolers for GOP
Many homeschooling parents only vaguely understand the presidential election process. We vote in the primary (maybe), endure the endless political ads, and then vote again in the general election (probably). In contrast, other families already enjoy politics and arg ? uh, discuss their views every time the extended family gathers, yet they haven't found a way to explain the complex process to their youngsters.

Time4Learning
Looking for Home School Curriculum Help?
Student-Paced Online Homeschool Curriculum for PreK-8th
Math, Language Arts, Science & Social Studies

Learning Vocabulary Fun
The Fun Way to Build Vocabulary Skills!
Test Preparation & Vocabulary Building Made Fun

SpellingCity.com
SpellingCity is an online spelling program that makes practicing for spelling tests fun.

Learning Games For Kids
A great way to build the foundation skills that today's elementary school curriculum requires. These learning games and songs are fun, teach important skills for preschool and elementary school kids and they're free.

Time4Writing
Online Elementary, Middle and High School Writing Courses.
8 Week Teacher-Led Sentence, Paragraph and Essay Courses

OLogy
American Museum of Natural History presents OLogy

Free Spanish Lessons for children
This site was created to offer free Spanish lessons for both children and parents, whether for educational purposes, or just for fun. We have different lessons for each age, and everything is designed to make learning fun. There are plenty of interactive activities for you to engage in, and offer basic introductory Spanish skills. With all of the games, lessons, tips, and resources, you'll be speaking Spanish in no time!

Free Geography Download
Seterra is a challenging educational geography program with 70 different exercises. Learn about countries, capitals, flags and cities in Africa, Europe, South America, North America, Asia and Australia, using outline map exercises. The software keeps track of scores, making it fun to try to improve each time you play. Windows only.

PE Teacher Toolbox
Do you ever allow PE to get the short end of the stick in your homeschool? I found that it is very easy to ignore this important topic but I definitely want to be sure that my children get enough activity in their day. The National Association for Sport and Physical Education publishes monthly activity calendars that list some great ideas for keeping kids active. Each month also offers a parent's letter with activity and resource suggestions. June is National Great Outdoors Month, so log on and find some fun ways to celebrate the outdoors in your region!

Algebra Class
Algebra-class.com is set up very much like a book which makes it easy to follow along! When you click on each unit, you will see a box with a list of lessons and practice pages for that unit. Each lesson has a brief introduction and numerous examples with detailed explanations. The are plenty of examples to help explain the concepts for each lesson which are followed by several practice problems. The site is well-designed and has a user-friendly interface. Lessons are continually being added. Great for either a student or a parent who could use a refresher course.

Starfall Reading Tools
At age 9, young Stephen Schutz was still struggling to read. What came easily for some children required many more hours of Stephen's work, and he was consistently toward the bottom of his class in reading. Now a PhD in physics and a successful publisher and artist, Dr. Schutz wanted to make sure children in his situation today have a resource that can help. He turned to the Internet and conceived a program that would be available online across the world to all children who are learning to read in English." Created by carefully observing the way children learn using a computer, Starfall is the result of Dr. Schutz' quest to make learning fun and productive for young children. The site offers many free activities, interactive books, downloads and learning games in addition to a store with products to teach reading.

Tablet Class
The TabletClass program is simple, but highly effective. Our secret is the way we teach in our lessons...explaining concepts in a remarkably easy and understandable manner. With our in-depth video instruction you will be able to start at any skill level and work up to advance proficiency.

Visual-LinkSpanish
Visual Link Spanish? makes all the difference in your child?s education in learning the Spanish language. Our program is first choice among thousands of homeschoolers since 1995.

See how Visual Link Spanish? is set-up using unique patterns that help your students learn Spanish in complete sentences from the very first lesson.

Trans-Global Translation
We offer online courses for a large variety of languages. We understand and specialize in what home schools need.

Tobin's Lab Inc.
Our Mission: To offer hands-on science
materials for all ages at great prices in one place.

Our Motto: Science is not a book; it's a mess!

Apollo 11
NASA has put together a commemorative Apollo mission section of their site to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing of Apollo 11. I recommend starting with the flash video on the linked page, then looking around the site. Navigation is a bit clunky, but if you click on the "to NASA's Apollo site" link below the video, you will find the main Apollo page. From there, check out the Google Moon exploration of the lunar landing site, the onboard audio from the ship (you can either listen to the hours of transmission or download a pdf transcript), see the restored videos of the moon walk, view the image gallery, and more.

American Heritage Education Foundation
AHEF is a non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation dedicated to the understanding and teaching of America's factual and philosophical heritage to promote constructive citizenship and Freedom, Unity, Progress, and Responsibility among our students and citizens.

AHEF accomplishes this patriotic mission by writing, producing, and distributing FREE K-12 lesson plans to teachers, students, and families in all 50 states and through additional initiatives, programs, and partnerships.

Science Friday
Science Friday is a live news/talk show about science that is broadcast every Friday on National Public Radio (NPR) stations nationwide. NPR has made new video-based science lessons available to complement the show free of charge on their Web site. These science lessons for middle school (though they can be useful at all levels) are geared to state science standards for teaching and learning, and are based on broadcasts of Science Friday. Every week, Science Friday produces and adds a short science video, three to five minutes long. You may view the videos online or subscribe to the podcast and download them.

Shiver Academy's Book of Virtues Unit Study
T8ermomma, owner of Shiver Academy (Shiver is a penguin who is the school mascot, in case you are wondering), has put together a 992 page unit study based on the Book of Virtues and has made it available for download at no charge. This enormous resource is full of printables, lesson plans, worksheets, planning sheets and much more. It's obvious that many hours went into planning this great unit and T8ermomma is gracious enough to share it at no charge. You can see all of the details at her blog, and look in the right column about halfway down the page for the download links (under the Book of Virtues heading). There are a few other downloads available below the Book of Virtues section. The unit is available as both one large file and several smaller files for those who might be on a slow connection.