Homeschooling Resources

Organizations:

HSLDA - Homeschool legal defense association – a GREAT organization to belong to!

Curriculum:

A Beka- great curriculum for elementary but we haven’t liked it as much for middle school and up

Teaching Textbooks - a great math curriculum!

Apologia - a fabulous science curriculum!

Sonlight – we haven’t used this exclusively but they have a great way of putting the curriculum together – we like to follow their reading list

Websites:

Homeschool Classifieds – this is a great place to find used curriculum for great deals!  Here’s my page.

Sheppard Software – this site has some fun quizzes and games over all kinds of things! Our favorite thing to use it for is geography though.

Grammar Rules – a cool site to find all the grammar rules!

Factmonster - basically an online encyclopedia for kids to use to find out all kinds of things.

Homeschooling books:

Homeschooling All the Way through High School by Renee Mason
The Evolution of a Creationist by Jobe Martin

Home Schooling: The Right Choice : An Academic, Historical, Practical, and Legal Perspective by Christopher Klicka

The Spiritual Power of a Mother: Encouragement for the Home Schooling Mom by Michael P. Farris

Homeschooling: The Teen Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 13- to 18- Year-Old (Prima Home Learning Library) by Cafi Cohen – has a LOT of fantastic information!

Homeschooling: The Middle Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 8- to 12-Year-Old Child (Prima Home Learning Library)
by Shari Henry – same as above

The “Christian Heroes – Then and Now” series by Janet and Geoff Benge are some our favorite biographies. Check them out at YWAM publishing. They also have a “Heroes of History” series.

Magazines:

The Teaching Home – they are not printing any right now but if you can find old ones these are great magazines!

Brio - for teen girls – my daughter gets this and really enjoys it.

God’s World News – a current events/news magazine for kids.