Whether new to the English language or a young student just learning to read, this link suggestion offers free printable practice books to strengthen skills. Check it out!

Thank you to the lovely contributor that sent this suggestion for our list. 

15 Best Free Printable Books for Early Reading 2020    --  Click Here --

New Links

Hello Friends,
  It has been a while since I have updated these links. A lot of them are no longer working with AdBlock which is very unfortunate. It would be lovely if all children's sites could be trusted to only have educational or inspirational ads. This is not the case though. For the safety of the youth using this page, I will be removing pages that insist that adblock be removed before they can be accessed.  I apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause as a lot of the work sheet links will be deleted.

  Additionally, I have added an American Sign Language guide, contributed by one of the patrons of this blog. Thank you so much! :)

  And, I have added several interactive Anatomy Quiz links. Please be advised that these are designed with older students in mind. The main page to this quiz site, Anatomy Quiz, does contain Reproductive quiz links, male, female, pregnancy, etc. which contain basic drawings.

  **NOTE** Please be aware and attentive to the needs of your individual students. I try to add each quiz individually and mark them if they contain reproductive content. However, children can potentially reach the reproductive content of the Anatomy Quiz site by clicking the 'Try Another Quiz' option at the end of taking any anatomy quiz.

  While a link to the main page of Anatomy Quiz has been included on this blog to provide access to the many different quiz link opportunities on that website, the link is marked to show that it includes reproduction. Please note that I will not be including direct links to a reproductive quiz. Parents and older students will need to access them from the main Anatomy Quiz page as just mentioned. This includes my own high school students. I intend for this blog to remain rather stringent about child safety. It is the opinion of this author that children should learn about their bodies with guidance from their parents or teachers, not on their own through internet exploration.

Thank you for patience and understanding.      

Added Complete Free Home School Curriculum Online

The lady who put these together is amazing, and her sites are amazing too. Enjoy!

http://allinonehomeschool.com/

http://allinonehighschool.com/

Link Check

With the help of a friend, all of our links were checked today. Eight of them were deleted, either due to no longer existing, or because they tried to download something more to our computers. 

Please let us know if you find a broken link, or other problems with our link selections.

Thank You 

Place Value Charts

These charts are very useful tools in helping students understand number values, placement, and why we carry numbers in addition and subtraction problems. 

A number's placement determines its value. 

Art Creations With Children!!

Art Recipes and Ideas!!

- Home Made Paint
- Home Made Bubbles 
- Story Stones 
- Soft and Squishy Play Dough (for little hands)
- Magic Potion (cool-aid ice cubes that change the color and taste of a clear drink as they melt) 
- Liquid Water Colors  (her recipe is light and will not make a huge mess everywhere but I prefer to add more color)  
-Tissue Paper Window Stars 

Science Experiments for Children!!

This Post Contains A Lot of Links for Easy Science Experiments to Share With Children:

-Two Liter Bottle Aquaponics System
-Food Chain Stacking Cups 
-17 Super Science Activities For Kids
- Rainbow Jar
- Fun With Sugar Cubes (diffusion, saturation, solvent /solute)
- Magnetic Slime
- Grow Your Own Crystal Geodes 
- Kid Science (lots of experiments) 
- Clean Water, Using The Sun
- Make A Cloud   
- Make It Rain Inside A Jar 
- What Is Inside A Drop Of Blood? 
- 12 Science Experiments 
- Constellations (16 creative ideas) 
- 75 Kid Approved Activities (including Oreo Moon Phases) 
- Free Dinosaur Unit Study  
- Ocean Zones In A Jar 
- Build a Model Robotic Hand 
- Create An Eco-System 
- Make A Lemon Battery 
- Human Body Activities for Kids 
- Human Body Printable Pages  


- Lab of Ornithology (A Youtube Channel)
- Periodic Table Videos (A Youtube Channel) 
- Sick Science -Super Cool Science Experiments You Can Do At Home (A Youtube Channel)

At what age should a child start school?

I saw this video on a blog I read recently. It was eye opening, so to speak. Enjoy! ^ ^

Interesting New Link K-6th

More learning games!

Let me know what you think?

This link will take you to the pre-kindergarten section, but you can click the links on the top of the page to move to higher grades.


http://mrnussbaum.com/prek/

New Science Videos Link Added

http://thekidshouldseethis.com/

From the Author of the Site: "There’s just so much science, nature, music, art, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven’t seen. It’s most likely not stuff that was made for them…
But we don’t underestimate kids around here.
Smart, conversation-starting, “not-made-for-kids, but perfect for them” videos that you can watch together, curated by Rion Nakaya with help from her 3 & 6 year olds."

If this is useful to your students, please let me know. I try to put links in that will be useful to a large variety of students. Feedback is very appreciated. 

New Site!

Woodward English has been added to our links section! 

Learn Grammar rules and then apply them in an interactive game. 

I am rating this site for ages 12 and up, but younger children do well in a setting with a parent's guidance.  I am excited about this site because it is strongly emphasizes using proper speech and sentence structure. 

Remember, if you aren't having fun, you aren't learning anything positive that you will want to pursue later.  So have fun, and establish a lifetime of learning for your family!

Added A Link and Making Changes

How to Write A Book Report has been added to the links section in the form of "Book Report, How to Write One".

I am planning to go through the links, updating and deleting many that have not proven especially useful or interesting to my own children. Please be sure to bookmark those that you like, just in case they will not be included in the new listing.

Thank you for your patience.

Free Interactive Learning Online

Here is a selection of FREE online Learning Sites that Can be used easily in Lesson Plans, or even be lessons in their own right. 

(Please be sure to have adblock - to the links on the right- installed and functioning when having your child visit any online site, and teach your child what to do if something pops up on the screen that makes them uncomfortable. Here is a game that teaches just that:: CLICK HERE FOR CYBER FIVE )  


STARFALL  PreK-1st
           (Phonics, Colors, Reading, Shapes, Counting,...)

ABCya    PreK-5th
            (Use your spelling words to create word search puzzles, Keyboard knowledge games, Sight word recognition, Upper/Lower Case, counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, Holiday and seasonal games, Connect the Dots, Pacman math - for increasing speed, Months, Story Books, Spelling, Spanish, Parts of Speech, Decimals, Number values, Fractions, Measurements, Money, US Maps, US States and Capitals, World Maps, Antonyms, Synonyms & Homonyms, Sujects, Verbs, Nouns, 5 parts of letter writing, Tangrams, Telling Time, Percent, Place Value, Roman Numerals, Countries and Capitals, Latitude and Longitude, National Flags, Food Pyramid, Problem Solving)


US STATES GAME QUIZ 3rd - 6th
              (Spelling, Placement, Timed - great fun for the family to learn together)

IXL         PreK-12th
              (Math and English)

SPELLING LISTS 1st -12th
              (Spelling... :D)

KHAN ACADEMY    3rd - College
               (Every sort of Math, Many types of Science, Economics and Finance, Humanities, Partner Content - Museums - school of meds - academy of sciences, Computer Programming, and more; This site is composed of videos that teach; the math section is also designed into a lesson forum) 

Emma Smith, 'My Story'

Emma Smith- My Story

Please, be wary of the garbage from youtube that may pop up in this box after you finish watching this touching movie.

The Hobbit

I deleted the Opera Adblock. It has proven unreliable in that explorer. I also deleted the Amino Acids quiz in an effort to see whether I had added too many links. While I am able to delete links, I cannot add them. 

Thus, I am adding these links to the blog section only, for the moment.

I have a child with severe dyslexia, which has made audio books a huge blessing. Below are the embedded Audios of The Hobbit, parts 1 and 2 of 2. Please be aware that while embedding prevents the side images of the main youtube site, images and other video links which may not be appropriate, will appear at the end of the recordings. 

Apologies, youtube has had the owner of these links remove the recordings.  

For those looking for The Hobbit to read online, I am adding a link as well: Click Here to read 'The Hobbit'. Adblock removes the annoying ads, see a link for that in my links section for Chrome and Firefox. 

Happy Journey! :)

New Link

I added C-Span to our links today.

There is a lot for teenagers (and adults) to learn, from watching how our government process works both in live feed, and on video.

New Site! ^.^ And, a new Game!

I am very happy to be able to present a new interactive educational site, abcya.com 

Please be sure to have you ad-blocker up and running since no one can ever be certain what sorts of ads will pop up on a site that has them. 

This interactive educational game site has activities for grades Kindergarten through Fifth grade. 

I produced a game for my students: 
Dice Multiplication
Multiple-Player
Rules: One person tosses two dice. All players multiply the two numbers facing up on the dice once they land. The person that tosses must tell the other players if they have the correct answer. Everyone depends on this player to be correct. Each player takes a turn tossing the dice for the other players. 

A timer may added to increase speed and add a new aspect.
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Have students record their work in a notebook for you to look over later. This is really nice for when you need to work one-on -one with a student, yet need to keep the other students busy at the same time. 

Other ways to use this game are to teach finger-multiplications just previous to introducing the game, add manipulatives for students to use in figuring out their answers, and adding a bell for the first student done in each group - OR - for the first group in class that get their answer in a setting where the teacher tosses the dice for the whole class to figure out. 

Have Fun Being Educated! ^.^

Quiz and Know

I have added several new quizzes to the links section. Some are interesting, some complicated, and others are just fun. 

Learn How to Draw - By Darrel Tank

I added this link today, via request by one of my older children.

http://www.fivepencilmethod.com/

New Site Added

I have added the following site:

http://www.abcmouse.com

This site is designed for Preschool through Kindergarten, and is strictly 'pay to play'. I am excited though. Here's why. Each and every area of the site offers multiple learning activities. Even if my young children are drawn to one area over and over again, the experience will continue to expand their perceptions and understanding.  There is no place anywhere in the site, that I have seen thus far, where my young children can waste their time.

Also, as the parent, I have the ability to design lesson plans for my children to follow on this site, from my computer. I can monitor their progress, make changes to their levels, and direct their lessons.

This is day one for my 6 year old, who has been very stubborn about learning. She is mesmerized!

I will offer a review in a few months.