Parents who home-school: what are your favorite web sites for kids?

Question

And how old are your kids? Do you stick to the "age appropriate" designations, or go with what you know your own kids can do?

Answer 1

what a great question! i have been collecting a great amont of them....check them out! You are always the best one to help your kids when they are homeschooled, try to explore different resources on the internet with them! Good Luck!

A great blog:
http://www.wretch.cc/blog/mcnair1013

Free stuff for Canadian teachers:
http://www.thecanadianteacher.com/web_site_awards_and_memberships.htm

Celebrating the talents and abilities of highly gifted children:
http://www.dirhody.com/home.html

Teach magazine:
http://www.teachmag.com/

Photoreading:
http://www.photoreading.org/index.html

RHL School:
http://www.rhlschool.com/

Free homeschooling:
http://www.bellaonline.com/subjects/7713.asp

Terrific tips:
http://janzeiger.com/blog/

American homeschool association:
http://www.americanhomeschoolassociation.org/

Unschooling:
http://www.unschooling.com/

ELC study zone:
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/index.htm

Academic support:
http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/AS/0GUIDES.HTM

Homeschool E-store:
http://www.homeschoolestore.com/catalog/index.php

Nature:
http://www.nature.com/index.html

Barnes and Noble:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/index.asp?r=1&popup=0

EssayWorld:
http://www.essayworld.com/
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these are also helpful

http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/AS/0GUIDES.HTM

http://www.bookbrowse.com/

http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?name=Daily+Prospect§ion=root

http://www.multi-intell.com/MiQProfile/MiQ_Profile.htm

http://surfaquarium.com/MI/

http://www.thinkquest.org/library/index.html

http://www.globalschoolnet.org/index.html

http://www.metmuseum.org/

http://www.getty.edu/education/

http://www.americanscientist.org/

http://www.supercamp.com/inforeqtygpdf.htm

http://www.libraryspot.com/

http://www.education-world.com/

http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday

http://www.42explore.com/skim.htm

http://eduscapes.com/

Answer 2

Mine's just three and a half, so I only know kindergarten level sites well.
PBS kids site is great. each kids show has several features, including printable materials. what are really great are their games: phonics, logic, letter and number recognition, etc.
There's even a Curious George site there that has a lever game, where kids have to adjust inclines to guide a meatball to land on a plate.

Scholastic has a website, too, that seems to be geared only to readers, but check out their I Spy section. If you like what they find there, the I Spy softwear is really great, and the puzzles get harder each time you complete them. they're a big hit with my son.

Answer 3

Well, I'm not a parent, but I was homeschooled when I was 16 for the last two years of high school. I went through the American School of Correspondence. Penn Foster is good, too. But those are just high school, so my parents didn't need to help me very much. You have to push you children, see if they can stretch what they know....if they don't know it, teach it to them...hope this was helpful :)

Answer 4

My kids don't use websites too much. My 9yo does use Wikipedia for research (it can be dangerous letting her just google something!!), they both sometimes use http://www.funbrain.com and sometimes I'll find the odd site here and there they might like.

Answer 5

my children are 13 and 14
we seem to stick with their intrest rather than age