HOMESCHOOL CATA-BLOG

MAKING LEARNING FUN

2009-10-24T15:42:00.001-07:00

Welcome to Making Learning Fun: An early childhood education website filled with free printables designed to do just that, make learning fun! Whether you are a parent, teacher, or childcare care provider, you'll love our site filled with educational printables and activities for the children you love. You'll find that pre-kindergarten through second grade students will enjoy our activities most, but you'll find yourself having fun too!

FREE PHONICS

2009-04-30T05:40:00.000-07:00

Free phonics lessons in QuickTime movie format. These lessons are offered for free out of love for Jesus Christ. They are designed to improve reading and spelling abilities for adults and children in the 2nd grade and older.

Click here

ON-LINE GAMES, ACTIVITIES, ARTICLES

2009-03-04T05:12:00.000-08:00

Hundreds of educational games, activities, quizzes, articles and more, for kids and everyone to use online and free!

Click here

Super Teacher Worksheets

2009-02-12T07:31:00.000-08:00

Super Teacher Worksheets presents a high-quality phonics-based spelling program specially designed for first grade students. This page contains 30 phonics-based spelling lists, three theme lists, and three holiday lists. Each list has accompanying worksheets and activities that will help students build their knowledge and familiarity with the words throughout the week.

EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE (FREE)

2008-10-13T09:46:00.000-07:00

This site is dedicated to listings, descriptions and reviews of the best free educational software for kids and grown-ups. Some of the software is web based (see the online section), and some is Windows software that you can download (see the downloadable section).

www.educational-freeware.com

CATEGORIES:
• All • Favorites • 3D • Art • K-12 • Kindergarten • Languages • Mathematics • Music • Programming • Reading • Science • Social Studies • Toddlers • Typing

E-BIBLE TEACHER

2008-10-11T16:57:00.000-07:00

Sunday School Sources.com provides free Bible study lessons, review activities and games, songs, trading card files, and teaching tips for primary and junior level church classes. If you're making your own children's ministry curriculum, you can find lots of ideas, worksheets, graphics and other materials for your students!

EBIBLE TEACHER.COM

NATURE & WILDLIFE

2008-10-09T11:04:00.000-07:00

Are you interested in nature and wildlfife? JungleWalk is the site for wildlife lovers which will give you quick access to:

• Animal Sound Clips• Animal Movie Clips• Animal Information• Animal Pictures

We have a large gallery of links to animalmovies, animal sound clips, categorized and arranged for easy reference, make it a greatresource for teachers and students.

Learn about all animals, big and small - the wildlife in action through audio and video clips.

Watch movies of cheetah hunting, explore bird sounds; right here at junglewalk - the popular

Click here

WORKSHEET WORKS

2008-08-05T06:34:00.000-07:00

This website is the result of many years of hard work by a by a small, dedicated group of software designers, programmers, artists, teachers and parents with a vested interest in childhood education. Our goal is to provide the finest quality paper-based teaching materials to teachers and parents around the world. We aim to make all of our worksheet modules useful, valuable and effective in everyday classroom and homeschooling situations.

You will not find anything on this website that is designed to interact directly with a student. Our guiding principle is that paper-based documents are the best way to help kids learn. There are many good sources of computer-based educational materials, but we have learned through experience that they simply do not compare to a quality printed worksheet. Numerous studies of the effectiveness of computers in the classroom support this view.

The website is currently still in development but has a wide range of already usable features. Things can and do go wrong, and despite thorough testing by our friends, family and peers, certain modules are prone to behave strangely now and then.

worksheetworks.com

PRINTABLE TEACHING MATERIALS

2008-07-28T16:43:00.000-07:00

Garden of Praise is an educational website created in 1999 by a veteran classroom teacher with 35 years experience. Our purpose is to provide free online and printable teaching materials. You are free to print material for your own use at home and in the classroom, but you may not reproduce it for profit.

TYPING RESOURCE

2008-07-28T16:41:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Dance Mat Typing, an introduction to touch typing for children aged 7 - 11 years.

Each of the 4 levels are divided into 3 stages. Begin at Level 1 and build up your skills gradually through to Level 4.

THE WHITE HOUSE FOR KIDS

2008-07-25T05:57:00.000-07:00

Whitehousekids.gov is an educational opportunity for young Americans to learn about the White House and the President through fun and exciting features. This guide gives teachers ideas on how to use the site in the classroom and parents ideas on topics to discuss with their children as they navigate through the site. The themes of reading, making good choices (such as going to school) and dreaming about the future are woven into the site's content through the personification of the President's pets and animals.
Contacting the President
Freedom Timeline
Biographies of the President, Mrs. Bush, the Vice President and Mrs. Cheney
Biographies of the First Family's Pets and Animals
White House Historical ABC's
Presidential Occupations Quiz
White House Dream Team

FBI FOR KIDS

2008-07-25T05:50:00.000-07:00

The Kids' Page is designed for children and their parents to learn more about the FBI through age-appropriate games, tips, stories and interactives. We also introduce you to our working dogs and show how FBI special agents and analysts investigate cases.
First, can you help Special Agent Bobby Bureau get in disguise for his undercover assignment? He's depending on you.

To visit click here

OFFICIAL KIDS' PORTAL FOR THE US GOVERNMENT

2008-07-25T05:46:00.000-07:00

Find links to government and other kids' sites -- grouped by age and subject. Explore, learn, and have fun!

Popular Links
Games and Activities Careers Presidents State Websites Environment Animals Making Laws U.S. History

Visit kids.gov

AUDIOS FROM HOMESCHOOL CONFERENCES

2008-07-24T09:04:00.000-07:00

Here's a link to a website that's full of audios from homeschool conferences. They are free to listen to online, but you must purchase if you are going to download them. There is a variety of topics so hopefully something for everyone.

Click here to listen

HORSES

2008-07-24T08:58:00.000-07:00

4-H Horse Farm has many categories of information about horses. They also have movies to watch.

Some of the activities:

match parts of a horse
click on different names of colors of horses to see what it looks like
information about a horse farm - costs, concerns, typical day, etc.
trivia questions
different breeds with descriptions

and much more...

THE TEACHER'S CORNER

2008-07-22T15:01:00.000-07:00

Find the following at theteacherscorner.net:

lesson plans
thematic units
seasonal items
bulletin boards
teacher resources
printable worksheets
the teacher's lounge
book nook

FREE WORKSHEETS

2008-07-22T14:37:00.000-07:00

Welcome to tlsbooks.com, where you'll find a variety of free printable worksheets for home and school use. Tlsbooks offers numerous worksheets to supplement your early childhood education program, home day care, elementary school classroom or home-school. Parents love using our free worksheets to help their child gain valuable readiness skills or to reinforce material they may already be learning in school.

MAKE YOUR OWN CROSSWORD PUZZLES

2008-07-22T13:14:00.000-07:00

Crossword Puzzles!
Make a free crossword puzzle
Printable crossword puzzles

FREE UNIT STUDIES

2008-07-17T11:33:00.000-07:00

Homeschool Share (HSS) is a on-line cooperative effort of several homeschooling moms to provide free but quality literature-based unit studies and resources.

CURRICULUM REVIEW SITE

2008-07-17T11:31:00.000-07:00

The purpose of this site is to provide a community where homeschoolers can read reviews and discuss curriculum and other issues that relate to homeschooling. Because all of the content of this site is created by Homeschooling parents, a unique perspective is obtained. This perspective is invaluable to other homeschoolers when it comes time to make curriculum choices or solve problems in thier homeschools.

Click here to read reviews

CHRISTIAN MOVIE REVIEWS

2008-07-17T11:27:00.001-07:00

Click here for Christian Movie Reviews

Reviews are listed alphabetically including genre, rating and moral rating (based on review). Reviews include occurences of: Violence, Profanity, and Sex/Nudity and will often tie in scripture if applicable to the film.

WONDERFUL PRINTABLES, FILE FOLDER GAMES, MORE...

2008-07-17T11:14:00.001-07:00

Shelley Lovett creates learning activities for early childhood educators. She originally created this site with the child care professional in mind... but it really is for anyone who works with children on a daily basis - whether that is in the role of a child care provider - parent - or teacher - we should all be proud of the work that we do! This site features printable hands-on learning activities for pre-k and kindergarten children. There are file folder games ... flip books ... matching games... learning sheets ... craft projects... flash learning pages... teaching ideas and more!

Click here to visit childcareland.com

50 STATES

2008-07-17T11:00:00.000-07:00

Anything and everything you ever wanted to know about the 50 states is at 50states.com. Listed by state with active links in categories such as state bird, flower, song, famous people, political, libraries, state parks, state tree and many, many more.

MATH WORKSHEET GENERATOR

2008-07-17T08:28:00.000-07:00

With The Math Worksheet Site you can create an endless supply of printable math worksheets. The intuitive interface gives you the ability to easily customize each worksheet to target your student's specific needs. Every worksheet is created when you request it, so they are different every time.

This way you can add the practice that your student needs to a curriculum you already like, or you can be freed from the constraints of a workbook or textbook that gives either too much or too little practice if you would rather direct the studies yourself.

These worksheets are provided in PDF format. For those who have a slow internet connection or an older computer, we also provide these worksheets as printable web pages.

CHRISTIAN HYMNS & GOSPEL SONGS

2008-07-17T08:23:00.000-07:00

This site has over 7,000 Christian hymns & Gospel songs from many denominations. You’ll find lyrics, scores, MIDI files, pictures, history, & more. To use the site effectively, you’ll need speakers, a sound card & a browser that supports JavaScript & XHTML, & can play MIDI files.

cyberhymnal.org

PATRIOTIC SONGS LINKS

2008-07-17T08:21:00.000-07:00

Click here to link to Patriotic Songs

FREE HORSE UNIT STUDY

2008-07-17T08:15:00.000-07:00

Click here for a free horse unit study including printables, coloring sheets and more...

FREE CREATION BASED DINOSAUR UNIT STUDY

2008-07-17T08:11:00.000-07:00

Click here for everything you need for a creation based dinosaur unit study.

Includes printables, book lists, weblinks and more...

FREE BIBLE COLORING PAGES

2008-07-16T17:58:00.000-07:00

Found at heartofwisdom.com

Old Testament coloring pages
New Testament coloring pages

Last year I let my kids color these while I read the story.

CELEBRITIES READING STORIES ONLINE

2008-07-16T17:49:00.000-07:00

Visit Storyline Online an on-line streaming video program featuring Screen Actors Guild members reading children's books aloud! Each book includes accompanying activities and lesson ideas.

WEEKLY SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS

2008-07-16T17:40:00.001-07:00

Visit krampf.com to see free science videos and an experiment of the week. You can also sign up here to have the experiments emailed to you. I have done this and it is ONLY one a week. It helps me remember to do science.

Some of the experiments are:

•How can you make flowers change their color?•Why don't you put a tomato in the refrigerator?•How can you easily tell if an egg is raw or cooked?

FAMILY FRIENDLY MOVIES

2008-07-16T17:31:00.000-07:00

This site has great family friendly movies and activity packs to go with some of them. A homeschooling mom's dream! The site allows you to search by value, age and title. Their mission statement is as follows:

What We Do
We produce and distribute uplifting and entertaining motion pictures that are suitable for all ages and strengthen positive values while containing no profanity, vulgarity, sexual content or graphic violence.

Why We Do It
We believe that all people, especially children, are affected and influenced by the entertainment they view. We believe millions of families feel helpless against the harmful influences of the media and yearn for excellent entertainment that supports their family values and provides a positive influence for the viewer. We are committed to providing that quality entertainment.

How We Do It
We help caring people understand and accept that their financial support will make the difference — that it is the only way to enable the production of more quality family films.

Visit them at familytv.com

PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG

2008-07-16T17:24:00.000-07:00

I created HOMESCHOOL CATA-BLOG to arrange, categorize and share all the wonderful homeschooling resources I come across. They will be categorized by age and subject at this point. If you come across resources that you would like to share please let me know.

A catalog is defined as "any list or record", hence CATA-BLOG. It was hubby's clever idea.

Homeschooling is hard, but we are not in this alone!

Mission Blog Tour hosted by Angela at Becoming Me, head over there to read hers and many others or join in.