C.H.S.G. Resources

 

Be Encouraged!
You Can
Do It!
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And all thy children
shall be taught
of the LORD;
and great shall be the peace
of thy children.
Isaiah 54:13

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 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
 Deuteronomy 6:6-8


Art & Crafts

  • Critiquing art work - Learning Art Criticism Skills to Enrich the Museum Experience
  • Teaching art at home - Your Homeschool Art Curriculum Resource
  • Color Theory and Mixing - 16 Lessons in Color Theory
  • Interactive color wheel - Experiment with saturation, intensity, hue, and luma
  • Museums, Exhibits and Points of Special Interest - Virtual Tours!
  • Art Sparkers - ideas to spark the art imagination in your children
  • National Gallery of Art - The Art Zone
  • Art Capades - Activities to encourage kids to think about the things they see
  • A Lifetime of Color - Shades and Tints
  • DLTK's Crafts for Kids - Children's crafts, including printable craft templates
  • Kaboose Crafts - Craft ideas and instructions for every holiday, occasion and craft ability level imaginable.
  • About.com Crafts - Family Crafts
  • Crafts Fair Online - The Oldest And Largest Craft Directory On The Web
  • Making Friends - Cool crafts for kids

Bible

  • Child Evangelism Mailbox Club - This is wonderful for all ages! No family should do without! FREE!
  • Free Bible study lessons - Bible study lessons, courses, quizzes, and free online studies
  • EBiblestudy -Free lessons, worksheets, activities, crafts, songs, and class material
  • Garden of Praise - Free Bible lessons for teaching elementary school students.  
  • Teaching Home - How to teach high school Bible
  • Sunday School Resources - General Bible Drills
  • DLTK Bible - Bible Coloring Pages
  • DLTK Bible - Bible activities and crafts
  • Bible activity worksheets
  • MemoryVerse.org - The how’s and why’s to memorizing scripture. Free memory verse cards.
  • Bible Memorization - Great list of memory verses for kids!
  • Dig the Bible -Better understand the bible through the use of archaeology
  • Bible Study Guide - Contains interactive lessons, children's stories, topical guides, games, quizzes and more!!!
  • A Kidz Faith - Online place for children and youth to learn about their Christian faith!
  • Young Women of God - Five week bible study for young woman to study godliness
  • Pocket Scriptures - A fresh scripture in his/her pocket each day  
  • Narnia Outreach - Resource center for parishes, schools, groups who want to use the film as a faith-formation opportunity
  • The Screwtape Letters Worksheet
  • Archaeology Links - The Homeschool Mom
  • Bible Curriculum Reviews - For homeschoolers By homeschoolers

Buy/Sell Used Curriculum

  • VegSource - Great results fast! May take a while to be approved to sell since there’s only one owner/operator
  • Ebay - Auction website
  • Half.com - Sell your books with no listing fees!
  • List of used book sites for homeschoolers

Character and Social Traits

  • Character Counts - Free newsletter and other products
  • Christian Character Builders - Aiding parents in training children in Godly character
  • Creating Character - Respect - Fairness – Citizenship 6 more traits & fun teaching tools
  • Character Journal - EXCELLENT!
  • **Character Sketches is by Bill Gothard and is a great Character Training program. You can buy the book on Ebay.**

Economics

  • High School Economics Lessons - Online course
  • Online course - sheds light on today's baffling economic problems
  • National Council for Economic Education - The nation's high school economic course
  • Homeschool reviews for economics - The Old Schoolhouse
  • HomeschoolChristian.com - Economics course
  • Cathy Duffy reviews economics curricula

English & Writing

  • Grammar Gorillas - Grammar Games!
  • Grammar Blast - Answer 10 questions and earn up to 100 game points
  • The Homeschool Mom - Choosing Color Words article
  • The Homeschool Mom - Describing a Person and Adding Details article
  • Learning Page - Handwriting printables
  • Created for ESL teachers - Easily adapted for use with beginning writers
  • Biography Maker - Students take dry dull facts about a person and turn them into a biography
  • Handwriting for Kids - Interactive and printable handwriting sheets
  • School Express - Free printable handwriting sheets
  • Handwriting Worksheets - Online handwriting worksheet maker; basic print, D'Nealian, and cursive available
  • Language Games!
  • Creative Teaching Site - Humorous Grammar Rules
  • Daily Grammar - Lessons with a test on the 6th day
  • Crazy Libs - The best way to learn Part of Speech!
  • Power Proofreading - This interactive online editing game is part of the Houghton Mifflin English website.
  • Great Grammar Games - Beginning to intermediate

Foreign Languages

  • Homeschool Central - Free homeschool foreign language resources!
  • Ignite the Fire - Free online foreign language courses!
  • The Old Schoolhouse - Foreign language product reviews

Forms

  • DonnaYoung.org - GREAT forms to print!
  • Homeschool Forms, Schedules & Aids - Misc. homeschooling forms, schedules and aids to print
  • Homeschooling Forms & More!
  • Homeschool Mom planners - Free Homeschool Planner and Organizer
  • Teacher planning and organizational forms

General Homeschooling

  • Easy Test Maker - Make your own tests!
  • The Homeschool Mom - Lots of unit studies!
  • The Homeschool Mom - Map & Research Links
  • The Homeschool Mom - Academic Contests for Homeschoolers
  • Lapbook sites - How to make them, etc.
  • Home School Legal Defense Association - HSLDA

Geography

  • Mr. Dowling.com - Browse the world with an electronic passport.
  • Homeschool Central - Geography Resources
  • Geography Links - About.com
  • Geography World - A massive collection of links on all aspects of geography
  • Test your Geography Knowledge - Geography quizzes
  • Enchanted Learning - Elementary geography lessons and maps
  • National Geographic - Maps and geography
  • National Geographic Expeditions – Great!
  • Eduplace - Geography game for kids
  • Where is That? - Geography game (FREE!) for kids!
  • US Department of Education - Help your child learn geography!
  • Kaboose - Lots of maps for kids to explore! Fun site! Lots of links.
  • Maps - Loads of maps to reinforce geography
  • Your Child Learns - FREE Software: Print out big maps for kids.
  • The Homeschool Mom - States of the US resource list

History

  • Discovery Education - American history sites
  • Learn History - FREE History resources such as PowerPoint lessons, quizzes and research help
  • The History Channel - Great info!
  • Today in History - From the Library of Congress
  • History Detectives - Explore the complexities of historical mysteries
  • Teaching world history from a Christian perspective - About.com
  • AWESOME list of resources for US history - The Homeschool Mom
  • Social studies resource list - The Homeschool Mom
  • Presidents - loads of links!
  • History Curriculum Reviews for homeschoolers by homeschoolers

Homeschool Blogs (Weblogs)

  • The Homeschool Blogger - The community where homeschoolers gather

Homeschooling Magazines

  • Homeschool Digest - Encouraging and strengthening homeschool families for over 18 years!
  • World Magazine - Today's News/Christian Views
  • God's World News - World Magazine for kids
  • Home Education Magazine
  • A List of homeschooling magazines for adults and kids
  • Family Times Magazine - Newspaper Style Magazine full of great articles
  • The Old Schoolhouse Magazine - The Magazine for Homeschooling Families
  • TEACH Magazine - Very encouraging CHRISTIAN magazine for homeschool moms and homemakers!
  • Above Rubies - A Wonderful magazine for homemakers.
  • Practical Homeschooling Magazine - Homeschool World

Homeschool Related or Organizational Yahoo Groups

  • Homeschooling a Quiverfull
  • Organize to Homeschool
  • Homeschool Organizer
  • Homeschool Fleamail – sell or buy used homeschooling material!
  • Peaceful Cottage – A chore a day to keep a peaceful, clean home!
  • Chore a Day – Get a chore per day e-mailed to you
  • Pre-homeschool
  • CMeLEARN (Charlotte Mason eLEARN) - homeschool group serving families in the Greater Charlotte area
  • Eclectic Homeschooling
  • Flybaby Homeschoolers - For those doing FlyLady and homeschooling!
  • Flying through Drills – GREAT! E-mailed reminders for FlyLady, but with homeschooling in mind!
  • Frugal Homeschooling
  • Homemakers Journal Club
  • Homeschool to College – Great ideas!
  • Homeschool – A Way of Life!
  • Homeschooling Multiple Grades
  • Homeschooling Special Needs
  • Homeschooling Day by Day
  • Teaching Tots to Teens - This group is for public, private, and homeschool teachers to post their "For Sale" and/or "Wanted to Buy" ads
  • The Parent Educator

Lesson Plans & Unit Studies

  • Unit Study Links
  • Free Unit Studies
  • More free unit studies
  • Easy Fun School Unit Studies
  • Free lesson plans and worksheets
  • Lesson plans for free
  • How to make lesson plans for homeschool
  • All kinds of free lesson plan resources
  • Unit Study links

Local Field Trips

  • Top 2005 NC field trips - NC Museum of Natural Sciences tops 2005 NC field trip attractions list
  • NC field trips - from About.com
  • NC day trips - List from ParentZone of day trips from Charlotte
  • Reed’s Gold Mine - first documented gold find in the United States
  • Patriot’s Point (in SC) – USS Yorktown

Local Homeschool Helps

  • The Homeschool Room - Consign used homeschool material and check out their vast supply of curricula!
  • Growing Scholars South (Matthews) - Everything you need new or used for homeschooling!
  • Teen Learning Center - A family co-op with teens in mind!
  • The Homeschool Hut
    • - Quality instruction at an affordable rate to homeschooling families
  • Grace Academy - Extracurricular Classes and Support

Math
  • Free math help - Algebra, geometry, calculus, trigonometry, and more. Site offers lessons & games
  • Math Goodies - Free math help site with over 400 pages of math resources!
  • Teach-nology - Free math worksheets, over 400 of them!
  • Kidzone Math Worksheets – Search by grade level
  • Super Kids - Create your own worksheets!
  • Funbrain - Math baseball game!
  • Cool Math 4 Kids - Math games, problems, calculators, puzzles, and fun and for all levels.
  • Coolmath - Math games and puzzles
  • Homeschool Math - Comprehensive math resource site for homeschooling parents and teachers.
  • Math.com - Loads of ideas for teaching math! Great resources!
  • Family Education - Math fun for homeschoolers!
  • APlus Math - Helps students improve their math skills interactively
  • Primary Games - Math fun!
  • The Homeschool Mom - Great links and loads of ideas for teaching math!
  • Homeschool Reviews - Math Curriculum Reviews for homeschoolers by homeschoolers

New to Homeschooling

  • National Home Education Network
  • Considering Homeschooling Ministry
  • Loads of homeschooling information!
  • Homeschooling information
  • How to plan a lesson for homeschooling
  • Homeschooling Methods & Styles
  • Finding a method that’s right for you
  • Homeschooling Approaches
  • How do I start homeschooling?
  • The basics for getting started.
  • The First 10 Steps to Homeschooling
  • Curriculum Advice

Phonics & Reading

  • Right Track Reading - Reading Links
  • Reading Basics - Fun and free game sites to help build reading skills for young readers.
  • Starfall.com - Reading games and online books. Great motivational tool for beginning to moderate readers!
  • A Book in Time - Great Books outside of your history textbook
  • Reading Curriculum Reviews - For homeschoolers By homeschoolers

Physical Education and Health

  • Children and Fitness - BJU Press Article
  • A sixty minute lesson to improve basketball dribbling skills - Lessons Plan Page
  • Health unit ideas - The Homeschool Mom
  • Sports Media - PE Lesson plan and activity page
  • Jump into the story - Children will learn how they can use their bodies to act out situations or to tell a story.
  • PE Central - Health Challenge
  • Teaching physical education - Resources for teaching Physical Education to your homeschooled student.
  • The Old Schoolhouse - Physical education product reviews
  • Physical Education Curriculum

Preschool/Kindergarten

  • Kindergarten Assessment
  • Monthly Themes - Kindergarten
  • Beginning homeschooling - infants and toddlers
  • 2’s curriculum
  • 3’s curriculum
  • Homeschooling Adventures - Free worksheets, lesson plans and activities
  • ABC HomePreschool - GREAT!
  • Preschool Resources - About.com
  • Preschool Basics - Colors, shapes, etc.
  • TLSbooks.com - Free printable preschool and kindergarten worksheets
  • KinderArt - Free online preschool lesson plans for children, parents, teachers and homeschoolers.
  • First School - Free preschool printable activities, crafts, lesson plans, themes and coloring pages
  • Fun Lesson Plans - Preschool lesson plans and kindergarten themes
  • Fisher Price - Preschool games online
  • Preschoolers and Peace - Discovering Joy in the Journey!
  • Preschool/Kindergarten Curriculum Reviews for homeschoolers by homeschoolers

Science

  • Mad Scientist Lab - Free Science links
  • Easy science experiments – Impress your friends!
  • All Science Fair Projects - Hundreds of science fair projects
  • Home Science Adventures - Homeschool Science
  • Homeschooling Science Fun - Loads of science links
  • Time line science - 1,000 years of scientific thought
  • Answers In Genesis - Ken Hamm's apologetics site for creationism
  • God and Science - Providing evidence for God's existence
  • Inventors and Inventions
  • Black Scientists and Inventors
  • Institute for Creation Research
  • Science News for Kids – Creation Science
  • Science Curriculum Reviews for homeschoolers by homeschoolers

Spelling

  • TLSBooks.com - Free spelling words worksheets for kids
  • Spelling it Right - A series of free printable worksheets designed to improve your spelling
  • Gamequarium.com - Spelling Games
  • US Dept. of Education - A Kinesthetic Spelling Game
  • Lesson Plans Page - Round Robin Spelling Game
  • Finding Spelling Patterns - Spelling Strategies
  • Teachnet.com - Ideas for teaching spelling
  • Spin and Spell game! - This is so good!
  • Spelling: A Lost Art - An excellent article with 29 spelling rules
  • Spell-a-Roo - Kangaroo Spelling game for kids
  • Word-Mapping - How to Study Spelling Words

Typing/Computer Science
  • Senselang - Free Program that lets you exercise and learn Touch Typing
  • Learn 2 Type - Typing test and tutor – FREE!
  • GoodTyping.com - Free online typing course
  • Typing Test - Test your typing speed
  • LessonPlanCentral.com - Free Computer Science Lessons! Great!
  • Yahoo Kids - Computer Science links
  • Typing skill resource list - The Homeschool Mom

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