Parent Helps PreK through Grade 8

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Parent Helps - Website Links

  • A Guide for Homeschooling Through High School

    free, extensive information on high school planning and requirements is available online from HSLDA

  • Ambleside Schools International

    Ambleside Schools International trains and mentors homeschooling parents who want to provide a Charlotte Mason education for their children.

  • DonnaYoung.org

    site for free forms and tools for handwriting instruction, record keeping, transcript creation, attendance, lesson planning, and more

  • Easy Teacher Worksheets

    Easy Teacher Worksheets offers free worksheets for PreK through high school under tabs for math, English language arts, social studies, science, and foreign language. There are also tabs for graphic organizers, holidays, and teacher printables. The site is supported by ads, so there is no push to sign up for premium access.

  • Homeschool Library of Links

    "Homeschool Library provides quick and easy access to thousands of educational websites, curriculum, lesson plans, online books and courses, web-based learning activities, videos and games!" You can also subscribe to their daily "link of the day" for free.

  • Hope Homeschool Consulting

    Veteran homeschooler Angie McFarren offers a number of "getting started" resources through her website. She also offers curriculum counseling services (fee based) via phone and email, so she is able to help homeschoolers everywhere.

  • KinderTown

    website that reviews apps for iPads and iPhones, providing an easy interface for finding useful educational apps for ages 3 to 8 for math, language, social studies, science, and art. See my brief review here.

  • Lesson Plan Ladies

    The Lesson Plan Ladies have created lesson plans for many resources for art, Bible, math, music, history and geography,  literature, penmanship, phonics, spelling, reading, and science,to make them easier to use. Among resources for which there are lesson plans are Spell to Write and Read, Saxon Math K through 2, and Story of the World.

  • Mommy Maestra: Comprensive List of Spanish Curricula

    best site I've found with lists and links for resources for families who are homeschooling their children bilingually or in Spanish

  • PEAH Transcript Template

    Create professional homeschool transcripts easily by downloading PEAH's Free Homeschool Transcript Template.

  • The Old Schoolhouse Magazine

    FREE digital editions of this quarterly magazine

  • Tools for the Home Educator

    veteran homeschooler and support group leader Penny Ross offers curriculum counseling and other support for parents via phone or Skype

  • WatchKnowLearn Educational Videos

    WatchKnowLearn catalogs hundreds of free educational videos "wiki-style." Videos are linked in both broad and sub-categories so it's easy to search. No registration required.

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Featured Parent Helps PreK through Grade 8 Resource

The Three R's

I have been recommending The Three R's for years as required reading for anyone teaching children in grades K through 3. Dr. Ruth Beechick originally wrote a set of three small books on how to teach math, reading, and language arts to children in grade K through 3 that were sold either as a set or individually. Those three small books have now been combined into a single 128-page book.

Dr. Beechick has a remarkable talent for demystifying the educational process. She explains what needs to be accomplished, then presents easy and practical ways to meet those goals. She stresses the importance of parent/child interaction, real-life experience, and the value of reading "real" books. (This is very compatible with Charlotte Mason methodology.)

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