Free is GOOD!
Just thought I’d take a minute to pass along a few of my favorite spots online for finding FREE ways to enrich our homeschool experience.
Freelyeducate.com is a wonderful blog that daily posts free resources for homeschoolers. If I see something that interests me, even if it’s too advanced for my children, I usually go ahead and download it to have available in the future.
Sometimes those freebies are from CurrClick.com, but I like to check that site out directly as well. I’ve found several fun ideas here, some for preschool, some for later on.
HomeschoolShare.com is probably the site I use most regularly at the stage we’re in (and I anticipate it remaining so for the next couple years as we continue using Five in a Row). It’s a great place for unit study resources, especially those that are literature based.
As far as curriculum, obviously we get tons of great preschool ideas from ABCJesusLovesMe.com, but I also love AmblesideOnline (as I’ve written about before). Most of it is geared toward kids older than mine (elementary on up), but the preschool/Kindergarten booklist and suggestions are a wonderful resource. Learning about the Charlotte Mason method has also really helped shape my vision for our homeschooling journey. I realize not everyone is as nuts about books as I am and AO is definitely not a “school at home” type of curriculum. Check out this post from freelyeducate.com that discusses several options available for free online.
I know there’s a lot more out there, but these are sites I access regularly for great free ideas, so I thought I’d pass them along 🙂
Our kids links page seems to get passed around quite a bit on facebook. Not all of these are educational, but most of them are, and free. 🙂
http://cf.4bz.org/kids.links.html
I know you’ve been there before, Deanna, but I thought anyone stumbling on this post later would find it useful.
Yes, we love some of your links. Ian’s favorite sites online are Starfall, Peep and the Big Wide World, and MightyBooks, Jr. (which we got a free subscription to for a year). He could spend hours on all of them!