A feature I love finding on homeschool blogs are listings of free home school sites. I'm encouraged to find new and different ideas to incorporate into our lessons. This year I decided not to purchase a math book because I found a wonderful free site on-line with math and language arts (spelling, reading comprehension and grammar). The site, www.superteacherworksheets.com, has a wide variety of printable lessons that cover grades 1 to 5. While not all are listed in lesson plan format, the language arts lessons could be used as weekly activities. Math worksheets include addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, word problems, graphing, telling time, counting money, fractions and lots more!
Superteacherworksheets.com also has printables for geography, science, social studies and Teacher's helpers (including awards certificates). If you don't mind creating your own lesson plan, this is an excellent resource site for elementary grade worksheets.
Another site that is indispensable is www.donnayoung.org for any planning sheets. She has created so many terrific printables for homeschoolers -- planners, calendars, lists, etc. -- that this site is definitely one to bookmark. You will save so much time in the future by utilizing these forms.
My last "favorite" site for this post is the "Homeschool Freebie of the Day" site (www.homeschoolfreebieoftheday.com). As the name implies, this changes daily and ranges from downloadable MP3 recordings of stories or old radio shows, out-of-print primers and other educational books, old comics and even current homeschool articles (offered with permission from the author). They are all treasures! If you are unfamiliar with this site, I recommend visiting them every day for a week. You will be amazed!
There are lots of "freebie" sites to be found just by searching the internet! I also recommend the book "Homeschool Your Child For Free" by LauraMaery Gold and Joan M. Zielinski. I first checked this book out of the library to review, but quickly realized I wanted my own copy as a permanent reference guide. The authors cover topics and sites from preschool through high school graduation. The book list sites that cover educational and life skills as well as school courses and topics.
Whatever your homeschool style, enjoy a wonderful and productive week!
Susan
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