Homeschool Zoo Annex: Great web resources

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Great web resources

Wow. It's amazing how many learning websites are available these days. When we were new to homeschooling, our primary source was miningco.com (aka Mining Company) and encyclopedia sites. Real homeschool sites were rare and offered little.

Soon, we discovered sites such as Redwood Academy, RHLschool.com, Donna Young's website, and others that offered free worksheets and short lessons. We began receiving language arts lessons by email, free of course, from dailygrammar.com. Those were very good and they fulfilled everything we needed for grammar, punctuation, and spelling including a weekly quiz.

We used the President's Council on Physical Fitness workbooks and activity suggestions, along with another homeschool family, for our PE one year. We also learned that not every click here led us to exactly what we wanted, but I spent many hours at night browsing the web in search of lesson plans, printables, and free downloads of programs and worksheets we could use.

The fact is, I found so much and got so printer happy that I could have educated a large classroom of children instead of just the two I had at home!