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Since it is the Christmas season let me share some  Christmas links I came across this week:

Scrapbook Scrapbook and Craftown.com have great Christmas crafts to add to your Christmas celebration.

Make sure you visit Brenda from The Tie that Binds Us @ her Christmas blog Joyful Holidays for ideas and daily giveaways until Christmas.

At Quirky momma and The Homeschool Lounge you can find great lists of homemade Christmas gift ideas.

I also what to share this post from the Homeschool Classroom on Organizing and Displaying Children's artwork.


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The homeschool classroom as a great post on Recommended Reading for Homeschool Moms.

I have discovered 2 great educational sites: Arcademic Skill Builders, which is a great online Math games site,  and,  Mark Kistlers great drawing site (it is a paid course but there are free samples and there is a good deal on it at the Homeschool buyer co-op).

Education Place has great resources as well for the teachers and students. Be sure to look around, there is lots of stuff there.

I also found a mine full of free internet resources for the homeschool here.

Heart of the matter on Fun in the kitchen with your preschooler.

An innovative take on workboxes I thought was neat. In the future I might try that.

A post on the Benefits of homeschooling.

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As I mentioned in yesterday's post I have not spent much time at the computer this week, so this week's line up will be short.

Here is what I have for this week:

At  South Forte Farm:  7 habits of highly effective women.

At Confession of an organized homeschool mom:  The 411 on paper.

At Apple pie you can find  2 nice articles on joy and work  and find the other one here.

At Raising arrow, an excellent post on kids and chores


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Here is our next round up of links to share.

Heart of the matter had a few excellent articles that I enjoyed again:  The Journey into teaching our kids to read, Ways to spike up our homeschool, and on the work of Memorization.

Hearts in Training shares a post on a 31 days of prayer for your child list.  I thought that was a very neat thing.

I was reminded of this nice article at The Homeschool Classroom on Multi-aged Lapbooking.

Brenda also has a very good article titled How do you Socialized? also at The Homeschool Classroom.

At Elemental Science you will find a nice post on How Nature Study Fit in?

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I have been busy preparing for a science co-op class starting this Friday. I have decided to teach on Bones, Muscles and Skin. I have been using some online resources to prepare for this and I thought I would share these sites and some others.

First, I would like to recommend Lesson pathway. I few weeks ago I was able to join in a panel of beta tester for this site, and I am really glad I took on the opportunity. They have a great array of resources for K-12 on lots of school subjects. It is a payed membership but they do have some free stuff and offer a trial.

Second, would be a site called KidsHealth, which contains great free info, articles and movies on subjects related to our body and how it works.

Thirdly, I've used the science curriculum we are presently using,  Classic Science.

Fourthly, is abcteach which is a great resource for the classroom for K-12. It has worksheets, activities, with a make your own option. It is a payed membership as well, but I took advantage of a promotion at the Homeschool Buyers Co-op, which was offering 1/2 the normal price (On until tomorrow). Check it out. I am glad I finally joined.

Lastly is SparkleBox, which I believe I mentioned before, but is worth repeating for anybody who has never heard about it. It is full of colorful resources on a whole wide range of subjects. Be sure to check both Sparklebox 1 and SparkleBoKS2.

Hope someone find these useful and helpful.

Have a great day,

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Every so often I try to post about the different links and sites that I recently found. Here is my most recent rundown:

 First some interesting blog posts:

• Julie at The Homeschool Classroom on Combating Homeschool Burnout
• Kris at Weird Unsocialized Homeschooler with some Blogging Tips
• Mr Mclinky with some more Blogging Tips
  

Homeschooling sites:

• Oklahoma Homeschool is a great site with lots of info on homeschooling, ranging from curriculums to how tos, to printables. A definite checkout. Make sure to browse around, there is a lot more than meets the eye at first.
• Homeschool Resources has lots of free and not so free worksheets on lots of subjects.
• Homeschool Math is a great site on everything Math, especially for the homeschool.
• Nature Detectives is a great sites to help with your nature studies. It has info on lots of plants and animals.
• Let's Play Math is a cool site with lots of ideas on the subject of teaching Math
• Audible Kids is a great resource for audio books for kids. And here is another one for the Bible: Christian Communication: Audio Bible Stories
  

That is it for today. Hope you find something helpful. Till the nice time.

Have a great day, Joelle

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I just came across this website neok12, and thought I would share. It has educational videos on a whole lot of school subjects ranging from science topics to math, language art and social studies. It is definitely worth checking out.

Have a great day, Joelle

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As a new homeschooler I am always searching for new information and new tools for our homeschooling.
Here are a few sites that I recently found:

For the homeschool:

Dianne Craft has helpful articles and lesson plans for the struggling learner.

A site with Bible Lesson Plans for children.

A site full of helpful free printables that can be used for teaching.

This site is a collection of links to free printables for the homeschool.

Patty, over at Shiver Academy has great downloads for the home and the homeschool.

A great notebooking site with lots of resources for notebooking. Make sure to check the free resources page

I just discovered Valerie's, whom I know from Lapbook Lessons, new site The Crafty Classrom  which contains lots of crafts ideas and other resources for homeschooling. Do not forget to check her other sites: Christian Preschool Printables, File Folder Fun, Preschool Post,

For homemaking:

Christianhomekeeper.org   is full of articles for the homemaking mom.

Graham Family Ministries offer great articles, and free downloads, as well as ebooks on many homemaking topics.

The Prepared Pantry has loads of free downloads of recipes and guides to baking.

Elizabeth @ Family Life with the Babler shared this site a few days ago and I thought I would pass it along.

I hope you find these helpful.

Have a great day, Joelle

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Recently I came across 2 new sites for curriculum reviews. As a beginning homeschooler I am always looking for reviews on curricula, especially done by seasoned homeschoolers.  I have found these two blogs to be helpful.

The curriculum Choice is a site made up by a group of homeschool moms who are sharing about homeschool philosophies, curriculum and lots of helpful articles on homeschooling. Definitely worth checking out.

Another one is The Homeschool Classroom. This is also a blog put together by a team of homeschool moms sharing tips, curricula reviews and lots more for the homeschool journey.

 

I should also add this lovely online community Our Llifestyle of Learning, where you can ask questions about curriculums and lots of other subjects. I really love stopping  there.



Have a great day, Joelle

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I have come across a few great homeschooling sites recently and thought I would share them.

 Budget Homeschool provides you with tips on how to homeschool on a budget, and has a large array of internet resources.

Mathisfun is a great site for math ressources and games.
Mathfactcafe is another free math ressource.
math playground contains a large array of online math games, math problems and puzzles, as well as small tutorials

Science with me has great animations, printables and information for teaching science. The best part it is free.

 Kidskreate is a site with lots of different crafts. They are categorized which make searching really easy

Little giraffe is a great site for kindergarden with lots of ideas, projects and ressources.

Lesson plan page is a sites with ideas for lesson on all the differents subjects by grades.

Kinderart is a great sites for those who really like arts and cratfs. It contains a whole lot of activities.


Have a great day, Joelle