Freebies and Links

Please leave a comment to let me know if any of these links are not working, or if you have a suggestion you would like me to add.

Information/ Online Libraries

• World Digital Library
• Online Documentaries
• Ten Tips for Smarter Googling
• Internet Public Library
• Info Please: News, Encyclopedia, atlas, timeline, almanac, periodic table, perpetual calendar, and more

General Homeschool Freebies

• Daily Homeschool Freebie
• Practical Pages– almost daily freebies
• CurrClick- weekly freebie
• Educational Songs
• Circle Time Activities
• Time for Kids
• An Old-Fashioned Education
• 11,000 Free eBooks at The Book Depository

Online Homeschool Books

• ‘Dumbing Us Down’ John Taylor Gatto
• 100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum
• ‘The Underground History of American Education’ John Taylor Gatto

Kindergarten

• Kindergarten Activities pdf
• Kindergarten Activity Book pdf

Lesson Plans

• Paso Partners: K-3 Lesson plans Integrating Math, Science, and Language

Charlotte Mason

• Charlotte Mason’s Orignal Homeschooling Series
• Ambleside Online: A Charlotte Mason Curriculum
• Charlotte Mason in a Nutshell
• A Charlotte Mason Education: Catherine Levison’s site, lots of info
• Simply Charlotte Mason
• Charlotte Mason’s 20 Principles: A synopsis of her Educaitonal Method
• Articles by Karen Andreola
• Charlotte Mason Help

Nature Study

• General/ Getting Started

• Out-of-Door Life for the Children by Charlotte Mason
• Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Comstock
• Outdoor Hour Challenges using Handbook of Nature Study (FULL of info and activities)
• Getting Started with Nature Study (huge amount of info and resources)
• Nature Detectives (loads of great printables)
• Link list of Living Nature Books available online
• BBC Breathing Places
• Backyard Nature
• Jungle Walk: for animal lovers
• Forest fun Coloring Book (pdf)

• Insects

• The Bee People
• The First Book of Bees

• Birds

• The Burgess Bird Book for Children
• Bird Coloring Book
• The First Book of Birds
• All About Birds

• Mammals

• The Burgess Animal Book for Children
• Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers
• Wild Animals I Have Known

• Plants/Gardening

• My First Garden

• Nature Journaling
  

• Getting Started with the Nature Journal
• Creating Water Colour Prints for your nature journal
• Drawing with Children: Nature Journal Style

Science

• How Stuff Works
• Kitchen Science Experiments
• How to Teach Science
• Science Notebooking (Squidoo)

• Physical Science
  

• Chemistry Help
• Chem Guide: Helping you to understand chemistry
• Periodic Table Videos
• Printable Periodic Tables

• Earth Science
  

• Bruce C Gull: Caring for the Environment
• The Green Frog Environmental Resources
• Rainforest Heroes

• Life Science
  

• The 5 Senses [pdf] (fantastic curriculum!)
• The Lab of Mr.Q Life Science Curriculum

• Living Books

• The Fairyland of Science
• The Story Book of Science

• Songs

• Singing Science Records
• Science Songs

• News
  

• Science News for Kids

Phonics

• Phonics Worksheets
• Phonics, Syllables, and Accent Rules

Reading

• Informal Reading Assessment pdf

Literature

• How to Read a Book by Adler and Van Doren (Scribd)

• General Resources

• The Baldwin Project
• Open Library
• Many Books.net
• A-Z Writers in Classic Literature
• Living Book Finder
• Project Gutenberg: Free Online Literature
• Bartleby: Great Books Online
• Classic Authors: Great Literature Online
• Bibliomania: Free Online Literature
• Children’s Books Online
• Recommended Readings in Literature K-8

• Aesop

• The Aesop for Children -Milo Winter
• Aesop’s Fables In English, Latin, & Greek

• Shakespeare

• Shakespeare Online
• Shakespeare Movies for the Family
• Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
• Tales from Shakespeare
• Shakespeare Animated Tales on YouTube
  

• Nursery Rhymes & Fairy Tales

• Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books
• Nursery Rhymes Lyrics and Origins
• Fairy Tales and Children’s Stories
• The Real Mother Goose

• Folk Tales

• South African Folktales
• African Folktales

• Great Books
  

• Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Poetry

• A Child’s Garden of Verses
• Nature Poems

Narration

• Narration Helps
• Narration/Journaling Ideas
• Narration Cube
• The Art of Narration by Charlotte Mason
• Narration article by Karen Andreola
• Narration and its Benefits
• Narration Ideas
• Tips for Narration by Susan Wise Bauer

Copy Work

• Copy Work Pages I
• Copy Work Pages II
• Copy Work Books

Audio Books

• Kiddie Records
• Story Line Video/Audio Books
• Story Nory Audio Books
• Big Toe Audio Books
• Lit 2 Go

Art

• Miscellaneous

• Art Recipes
• 6 Printable Pages from Susan Striker’s Anit-Colouring Book Series
• Preview of Susan Striker’s Young at Art

• Lessons
  

• Incredible Art Lessons
• Kids Art: Hands On Art Education and Art History
• Evan-Moor: How to Teach Art to Children
• The Real Colour Wheel
• Art Lessons

• Drawing

• Drawing with Children: Nature Journal Style

• Picture Study/ Artist

• Approaching Picture Study
• Squidoo: Artist Study- Charlotte Mason style
• Art indices: Artist and their works
• World Art by Country, Culture, or Region
• Edupics Art Coloring Pages
• More Art Coloring Pages
• National Gallery of Art- The Inside Scoop (great pdf downloads on several artists)

• Monet

• Great Monet Download

Music

• Classics for Kids
• Music Ed Magic
• Classical Net

Handicrafts

• Handicrafts within the Charlotte Mason method
• Ambleside Online Handicrafts
• Children’s Cooking Lessons
• Children’s Sewing Lessons
• Finger Knitting
• Making Paper Toys

Spelling/ Grammar

• Grammar Land
• English Banana: English Curriculum
• First Language Lessons (A rather large chunk of it)
• Spelling Curriculum
• Grammar & Writing Workbook

Handwriting

• Worksheet King: Handwriting worksheet software
• Worksheet Maker (manusript & cursive)
• D’nealian worksheet maker, small lines
• D’nealian worksheet maker, large lines
• Alphabet Worksheets in various fonts

Math

• Math Help

• Teaching Multiplication
• Math for Morons Like Us
• Ask Dr. Math

• Homeschool Math

• The Math Worksheet Site
• Homeschool Math
• Math for Home Educators

• Curricula

• Curriculum Grades K-2
• Curriculum Grades 3-5
• Curriculum Grades 6-8
• Curriculum Grades 9-12
• Free Math Curriculum (in line with nat’l curriculum)
• Mental Math Lessons

• Living Math

• Living Math Info and Helps
  
• Living Math Website
• List of Living Math Books
  

• Journaling

• Article on math notebooking
• Info and Ideas for math notebooks
• More Ideas
• Math Notebooking
  

• Activities

• Math Songs
• 20 Things to do with a 100 chart

• Printables

• Printable Pattern Blocks
• Geoboard Dot Paper
• Printable Pattern Block Pattern Mats
• Customizable Graph Paper
• More Graph Paper

History

• Classic World History Books Online
• World History Curriculum
• Our Island Story (British History)

Geography

• Outline Maps
• Geography Songs
• Master World Geography in 7 Months
• Paddle to the Sea

Logic

• Logic Workbook

Getting Organised

• Donna Young Printables
• Homeschool Tracker: record-keeping software
• Chart Jungle
• Scope and Sequence
• Charts and Posters
• Create a Homeschool ID Card

Activities/ Play

• Imaginative Play Ideas
• Puppet Scripts
• 22 Fun Activities for Kids

Wonderful links/articles for home education

• The Meaning of Education
• A Guide for Parents of Gifted Children
• You Do The Math: Explaining Basic Concepts Behind Math Problems Improves Children’s Learning
• How Not to Teach Math
• Charlotte Mason and Home Education
• Secular Charlotte Mason
• What is Classical Education?
• How to Get the Classical Education You Never Had- Susan Wise Bauer
• Well-Trained Mind
• Dorothy Sayers- The Lost Tools of Learning
• On the Trivium
• Thinking Logically About Logic
• How to Teach Logic
• Why Read Homer’s Iliad
• Teaching Classical Literature Classically
• Two Methods of Instruction: The Didactic Method & The Dialectic Method
• What is Classical Rhetoric?
• Why Study Latin?
• The 6-Lesson School Teacher- John Taylor Gatto
• Informing Ourselves to Death- Neil Postman
• Charlotte Mason approach
• A to Z Homeschooling
• Homeschool Comments on the Fly
• Support for Dads in the UK
• Huge database of homeschooling articles
• In Defense of Memorization

Parenting

• Science for Raising Happy Kids
• The Myths of the Teen Mind
• The Commercialization on Play
• Materialistic Values and Family Stress
• The Commercialization of Babyhood
• Get off Your Butt Parenting

My Favourite YouTube Videos

• Christian The Lion
• Do Schools Kill Creativity? -Ken Robinson
• How Crayons Are Made
• Stupid in America
• The Water Cycle