- www.lessonpathways.com - this site is a guide to what they should learn, and is the one that has links to free books on the web that you can use to read to the kids, I was just really digging through this recently and wished I had explored it more thoroughly before purchasing a bunch of stuff. I suggest signing up and reading through some of the lessons.
- http://www.educationcubes.com/ – I believe all the printables on this site are free, you just need to purchase some picture blocks to insert the printables on and apparently this is a great educational tool and the kids enjoy it, I have not bought blocks yet, but I want to. The blocks are under 20.
- http://totallytots.blogspot.com/– One of my favorite websites. Great Great ideas on how to make educating toddlers and preschoolers fun, free printables and crafty ideas.
- www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com- She is my absolute FAVORITE!!!! Not all of her stuff is free, but a lot of it is… start digging through her pages, great letter of the week curriculum (you can purchase the whole curriculum in one download for 25 I think, but if you dig through her blogposts you can find each letter section for free, pretty sure, I have seen most of them)
- www.filefolderfun.com - I have made a bunch of these, it does cost you in paper for your printer, ink for your printer, and the folders, but as far as curriculum and stuff goes that’s cheap.
- http://lapbooksbycarisa.homestead.com/TotSchool.html – This is the one I would recommend mostly for ages 2-5, awesome crafts, abc page downloads for free… again just printer paper and ink and your time.
- http://www.coloring.ws/alphabet.htm – cute alphabet coloring pages!
- http://www.coloringcastle.com/alphabet_coloring_pages.html – more great alphabet coloring pages
- www.homeschoolshare.com- this is like LAPBOOK central, if you don’t know what a lapbook is, the best way for me to explain is for you to either google it, or go to this website and start digging through, it generally has pictures of completed lapbooks and such so you have an idea of what you are getting yourself into. I recommend NOT making one for each of your children, as I tried to do, it is entirely too much work, but they say to complete one as a group.
- thehomeschoolmom.com - tons and tons of links, ideas, free stuff, etc. Reviews on products, etc.
- www.kidzone.ws— great stuff, facts, and worksheets, and I think even games
- http://first-school.ws/– worksheets, crafts, alphabet stuff
- http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/ — check out the teacher scholastic website all around, but this links specifically to free read aloud clifford books online. sometimes scholastic has dollar days for their pdf books, and I got like 20 of them this year, and they are great…. I loaded up on things to use for years to come. I mean, I spent 20 and got 20 resources, now that’s a deal!
- http://www.kinderstart.com/ – not sure what all is in this website, but it looks like it has great information
- http://www.kidsnumbers.com/ – MATH games
- http://www.coolmath4kids.com/addition/index.html – math lessons and games, this links directly to addtion
- http://www.mathsisfun.com/ – math games, and worksheets
- http://www.aplusmath.com/Games/index.html – more math games
- http://www.aaastudy.com/kinder.htm – math topics
- http://www.easyfunschool.com/index.html – Unit studies
- http://www.wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm – free Beautrix Potter books to read online- pictures and text and other stuff- (Peter Rabbit, in case you don’t know the author)
- http://www.songsforteaching.com/index.html – these are music for downloading for educational lessons, I don’t think it is free though, but still a good resource
- http://www.peterrabbit.com/us/index.asp – more interactive free Peter Rabbit stuff…. LOVE IT! We did the puppet show with the kids and they loved it, cause you can put their name in it.
- http://www.chartjungle.com/ – LOVE the chart jungle!!! there are just some great printables, some worksheets, some chore chart stuff….
- http://www.vocabulary.co.il/?utm_source=AWeber&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=Vocabulary.co+link+NL05&utm_content=NL+05+School+Trouble&utm_campaign=DSU+Newsletter+05 — Vocabulary games, not really for kindergarten or preschool, but a good thing to save ahead of time.
- http://www.spellingcity.com/ – spelling city is a great spelling website, you can actually put words in you want them to practice into the games, and also print up handwriting pages for those spelling words.
- http://www.brainpopjr.com/ – FREE games and videos with information on educational topics like science, health, history, etc.
- http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_en.php – good for practicing letters and sounds, all about reading.
- www.starfall.com- again GREAT resource for reading, learning letters, and letters sounds, just a great help to you practicing with them also.
- http://childcarelounge.gotop100.com/index.php – This is a list of 100 websites that have preschool stuff on them! I forgot about this one, I need to go through the pages myself!
- http://math-and-reading-help-for-kids.org/index.html – a great resource if your child is struggling with reading or math
- http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Aisfor.shtml – you do have to pay a fee to use their stuff, but a wealth of informtion
- http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/ – Handwriting pages for free- with animated videos to show you how to write the letters. There is a lot more then that, look around the website and see what all it has to offer.
- http://homeschoolcentral.com/ – great wealth of information, not sure what all is here, it has been awhile since I was digging on this site
- http://www.khanacademy.org/ – free videos to explain MATH, all the way from elementary addition to Calculus!
- http://www.rhlschool.com/ – free worksheets
- https://www.time4learning.com/index.htm – this is not free, but it is really cool and I wish I would of signed up the kids, if you can swing 20 a month per kid, it looks like fun lessons for the kids.
- http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/print-k/choose.htm – more handwriting worksheets, you get to put in what you want and I have used this to make scripture handwriting pages, if they are not too long.
- http://simplemom.net/twaddle-free-books-for-preschoolers-my-top-10-favorites/ – book favorites for your preschooler, you can probably find these at the library
- http://msboyer3.weebly.com/useful-links.html – this is a 3rd grade teacher, and she has a great list of online educational games
- www.funbrain.com- online educational games
- http://makinglearningfun.com/themepages/ZooEmergentReader-Colors.html – Tons of stuff, but it has emerging readers that you can print in black and white for practicing certain sight words
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/ – Free typing games and practice
- http://www.homeschool-how-to.com/favorite-homeschool-resources.html – this site is how to homeschool and this is the link to her favorite homeschooling resources
- http://www.progressivephonics.com/~suzettew/ – more readers and phonics practice website, also has articles about learning to read, and activity suggestions, they are download form.
- http://www.speekee.co.uk/online.php – spanish program for kids for 7.50 a month, ok, not free, but a cool idea
- http://homeschoolcreations.blogspot.com/ – more homeschool creations, I am so buying her weekly planner for 20 dollars, but I think she has free printables and links to other stuff too. She also does that one that was called Tot school
- http://www.preschoolersandpeace.com/ – a blog about teaching her preschoolers, and it has ideas and such.
- http://thecraftyclassroom.com/CECraftTools.html – crafts for educational ideas!
- http://delightfullearning.blogspot.com/ -
- http://www.biblestoryprintables.com/BibleMinibooks.html – bible story printables
- http://www.biblestoryprintables.com/BibleFileFolderGames.html – bible file folder games
- http://www.homeschoolforfree.net/
- http://notebookingpages.com/– free notebooking pages, notebooking is the next step past lapbooking, but it also has free pages of you can print of printing paper (meaning to practice letters or words, or write stories), and some of their stuff is pay.
- http://www.letshomeschool.com/
- http://www.freehomeschooling101.com/
- http://www.schoolexpress.com/
- http://www.homeschoolfreestuff.com/index.asp
- http://homeschooling.about.com/od/freestuff/Free_Stuff_for_Education.htm
- http://guiltfreehomeschooling.org/
- http://www.homeschoolmath.net/
- http://homeschoolingadventures.com/worksheets.html
- http://www.writerspost.com/hsfree/
- http://mama-jenn.blogspot.com/— She is one of my FAVORITES TOO!!!!
- http://livingmathbooklist.blogspot.com/ — math book list!!!! GREAT GREAT!
- http://fi.edu/time/Journey/JustInTime/contents.html — I just found this, looks cool!
- http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/ – I love the title and I love the idea and want to move towards this type of learning, but don’t think I can do it totally cause I have too much “school” indoctrinated in me. lol.
- NETFLIX- a netflix account is awesome, they have educational shows, and movies on there, including documentary films. A kids science show called Beakman’s world, old, but the kids still like it. Liberty Kids talks about the founding of our country and the revolutionary war. Explore this as a resource.
- PBS- keep an eye on what programming is coming on, they always have great stuff… I love the Electric Company for phonics, and vocabulary.
- Calendar time printables:
- http://confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/search/label/Calendar%20Time – I use a lot of these printables from her.
- http://mama-jenn.blogspot.com/search/label/Calendar%20Time – and I have printed out some of these as well
- http://www.worksheetworks.com/math/time/calendar-math.html – something I just found, looks promising.
- http://www.play2learnprintables.com/calendar%20links.htm – another one I just found and looks great as well
- http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/TotSchoolFAQ.html
- http://www.guesthollow.com/index.html –free curriculum older elementary and middle school age
- http://www.homeschoolfoundation.org/index.php?id=22 – financial aid for homeschooling families to afford curriculum etc.
- http://simpleschool.squarespace.com/
- http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/genre/Children/all – BOOKS TO READ ONLINE!!!!
- http://www.shirleys-preschool-activities.com/index.html
- http://www.math-drills.com/
- http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/book-themes2.htm -preschool book list by theme
- http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html– library of online manipulatives
- http://pics.tech4learning.com/index.php?search=cat&query=Science_Misc&sfield=1&sorder=desc&viewmode=2&page=3&mult=1
- http://classroomclipart.com/cgi-bin/kids/imageFolio.cgi?direct=History/United_States
- http://www.readinga-z.com/samples/preview.html
- http://homeschoolwithindexcards.com/Notebooking-Forms.html
- http://www.abcteach.com/
- http://www.homeschoolinginohio.com/
- http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/customer_login.asp?accessdenied=%2Flibrary%2Fasp%2Fhome_tumblebooks%2Easp
- http://www.yourchildlearns.com/letters/letter-sounds.htm
- http://www.rif.org/linked/flash/stories/preschoolers/oms_lib_invis.aspx?whichBook=theSnowyDay
- http://www.visualmathlearning.com/index.php
- http://itsybitsylearners.blogspot.com/
- http://heartofwisdom.com/homeschoollinks/free-printable-bible-verses-for-handwriting-and-copywork/
- http://ladybizzy.funeasycomputer.com/
- http://www.beginningreading.com/Free%20Workshe.htm
- http://www.yourchildlearns.com/geography.htm
- http://www.kaboose.com/
- http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/
- http://textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_Page
- http://www.a-z-worksheets.com/Worksheets-blog.html
- http://prncsstefy.blogspot.com/p/my-printables.html
- http://www.canby.com/hockmanchupp/index.html
- http://www.homegrownhearts.com/
- http://www.lilbunnyhops.com/
