Gather with us in the virtual town square to honor the oldest surviving constitution in the world! We’ll explore the lives and times of the men and women who helped form this magnificent document. I’ll show you how to play some of the games that families played at the time of our nation’s founding — I’ll even show you how to make your own games to play at home! 10:00 a.m. PT/ 11:00 a.m. MT/ noon CT/ 1:00 p.m. ET This live, online class will last for one hour and is great for the whole family. Your whole family will enjoy this Constitution Celebration!
I signed up my kids for this FREE online class. I wanted to let you know about it too. Below is the post I recieved inviting folks to join. Hope reposting it here will help more folks find out about great educational resources to enrich your homeschool learning adventures.
http://foundersacademy.net/hot-freebie/
Calling All Patriots:
Constitution Day 2013 is coming, and we have a lot to celebrate!
Email subscribers get free enrollment in my live, online Constitution Celebration course on September 17, 2013.
a $10 value — free for subscribers
Join in the Online Class — Constitution Celebration
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
What students will discover at this event
Category Archives: Free Education
Free for Homeschool Spirit Week
I am sorry to get this posted
on the last day of
International Homeschool Spirit Week.
But better late than never!
FREE
Unit Study Guides
and Lapbooks
The History of Homeschooling, Famous Homeschoolers, and more!
By Hands Of A Child
Retails for $7.99
FREE today only to celebrate the last day of International Homeschool Week 2012.
By Knowledge Box Central
FREE right now!
Just click on the titles and it should take you to the downloads.
I am thrilled with the one by Hands Of A Child and can’t wait to make it with my kids soon! I’ve downloaded it to a file on the computer until I am ready to use it. This is a great product and points out amazing facts about the history of homeschooling, and encourages our children, and me, in our homeschool endeavors. Everything is spelled out in an easy to follow guide. I can’t wait to do this unit study and make a cool homeschool lapbook!
Be Blessed and Happy Homeschooling!
Free Education Planning And Record Keeping
Having a good and useable system to help you stay organized is essential.
Here is a list of free record keeping forms and planning forms you can use to make your own planner or file system.
Find the forms that fit your personal style of planning and record keeping. Print them and keep them in a three ring binder, or have them bound, to make a handy portable planner you can use every day of the year.
Use these forms for updating your students files, posting on a bulletin board, and homeschool portfolio too.
Check out all the Free Education resources on our master list link at FREE EDUCATION
Planning and Record Keeping
Donna Young Planning Pages
Highland Planning and Record Forms
Knowledge Quest Curriculum Integration Guides
Homeschool Creations Planning and Preschool Forms
Stickers and Charts
Home Fires
Homeschool Helper Online
Printable Homeschool
World Book Typical Course Of Study Per Grade Level
TEACH-nology Rubics
Teacher Jet
Open Court
Bulletin Board Displays
Homeschool Skedtrack
What free planning and record keeping resources have you found helpful in your homeschooling journey? Leave a comment below, thank you.
Free Education Tests And Quizzes
Do you live in a state that requires standardized testing of your homeschool student?
You can find out what the requirements for testing are, and the homeschool laws, for the state you live in here at this link http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp
After arriving at the site, just click on your state and it will take you to a page specific for you.
There are lots of options for testing. If your state does not require standardized testing, there are many free assessment options that you can use to gage where your children’s skills are, and how they perform academically.
If your state does require you to administer a standardized test, there are many tests to choose from and they are in many different price categories. I have seen prices range from $25 to over $200 and even over $1000 for some specific specialty testing.
We live in NC, and our state requires administering a nationally standardized test and keeping the results on file one time a year for each student. We have been testing our children with the CAT5 test for the past three years since moving to North Carolina.
The CAT5 can be administered by the parent in your own home, or you can join up with a group of homeschoolers taking the test in a class setting. So far, it is the most affordable nationally standardized test I have found that covers all the academic areas. Depending on who you get it from and the setting you give it in, the price ranges from $25 to $80. This test typically costs our family about $35 per child to rent the materials and have the results scored and mailed to us.
The CAT5 does not address things like your child’s learning style, or make recommendations. It does however, provide you with a comprehensive scoring form that shows how your child is performing compared to all grade levels when given the same test. So the test could show your 3rd grade child is performing better than an 11th grader in all categories, or it could show they are not doing as well as the average 3rd grader in math comprehension, but is doing better than the average 10th grade student in language comprehension, etc.
I am thankful that the test is not expensive, and has shown me that my children are doing very well in their academic skills. My kids are are on target or above target for their grade level. It does set my mind at ease to know we are on track and also where we may need to focus for the upcoming year.
Find links to all our Free Education articles here FREE EDUCATION
FREE Tests & Quizzes
Alpha Omega Placement Testing
Saxon Placement Testing
Mindsprint Placement Testing
Texas Education Agency TAKS
ACT Practice Test
SAT Practice Test
Make Your Own Test and Quizzes
That Quiz
Quizlet
IQ Test
Quiz Tree
Garden Of Praise
Soft School Quizzes
“Not Free” Tests
With a little searching, you can likely find qualified testers in your local area for many of the tests listed below.
CAT E Seton Testing Services
CAT 5 Bayside School Services
CAT 5 Family Learning Organization
Woodcock Johnson ATC ED
Woodcock Johnson Brewer Testing
Terra NOVA Brewer Testing
Terra NOVA The Sycamore Tree
Achievement and Learning Ability BJU
PASS
ACT
SAT
Bright Storm: PSAt, AP, ACT, SAT
What other testing sources have you found?
Please leave a comment below, thank you.
Free Education Art Crafts and Coloring Pages
Adding ART of various forms into our daily routine makes living enjoyable.
Without joy, people are depressed, overwhelmed, and unsettled. But add in a cup of joy to each day, and people change. They express happiness, acceptance, and optomism. The bible says the joy of the Lord is our strength. We can find joy by spending time with the Lord each day. A fun way to encourage the expression of joy in our character is through art.
Not all artists display joyful or happy character qualities, mainly because art becomes a route job or project to get done. For them, art no longer represents something enjoyable and truly creative in their life. They worship and serve art, rather than art serving them.
I love the approach children take to art. There is fun and freedom in their creations, art serves them joy, the way art should be.
The greatest artist I have ever learned about is God. He is a master artist. You can see his creativity in every sunrise, every face of a child, every plant that grows, every wave that reaches the shore, every bird that sings, every star filled sky. He is a sculpter, potter, painter, designer, carver, refiner, architect, engineer, inventor, a creator, and so much more.
As I teach my children about the amazing ART that is part of this world, I remind them of the Artist who created the world. Scientists call him “Intelligent Design”, but I call him Father. There has never been, nor will there ever be, an artist as great as God who calls himself “I AM”.
Here are some wonderful FREE Educational resources to use in teaching your children about the various forms of art and creativity.
If you would like to link to this page and tell others about these resources, please share this link
http://weiseracademy.com/2011/08/22/free-education-art-crafts-and-coloring-pages.aspx
Arts & Crafts & Coloring Pages
School Express Drawing Worksheets
Easy Fun School
Dick Blick Art Lesson Plans
How To Draw Videos By Jan Brett
Making Popup Books, Paper Engineering, Crafts, and more
Art Made Easy by Samantha Bell Lesson Plans
Christian Answers Coloring Pages
Donna Young: Art
Artists Helping Children
Activity TV
Deep Space Sparkle
DLTK
KDDoodle: Hand Drawn Coloring Pages
Parents
Paper Toys
Danielles Place
The Crafty Classroom
Coloring Page Source
Art Encyclopedia
Bright Ring
Make Stuff
Smithsonian: Everything Art
Homeschool Art Lessons
Art Safari
Origami Kids
Some Great Blogs I Enjoy Reading With Lots of Art Projects For Kids Among Many Other Helpful Things
No Time For Flash Cards
Red Ted Art
Pink And Green Momma
What free art, crafts, and coloring websites and resources have you found that have helped in your homeschooling journey? Please leave a comment below, thank you.
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Free Education
This is the first post in a series of posts titled Free Education.
Each post will focus on a category or subject matter and include links for free resources you can use to homeschool your children for free (or almost for free, as there are costs involved for printer ink, paper, basic supplies, etc.).
As we travel on this Free Education learning journey, I will update the links as I find new ones to share.
This post serves as a Table Of Contents, and master link, to the categories in this series. As I post each category, the link on this page for that catergory will become active.
If you have suggestions and resources, please send them in, and we will keep the list continually updated with information.
Free Education Categories:
Art, Crafts, and Coloring Pages
Books
Christian Faith:
Bible Study,
Character Development,
Faith,
Church Programs
College Courses
Contests
Current Events
Curriculum: Full K-12 Programs, Scope and Sequence
Documentaries & Other Free Videos
Early Childhood & Elementary & Special Needs & ESL
Field Trips
Games
Geography
High School
History
Language Arts:
Grammar,
Vocabulary,
Spelling,
Phonics,
Reading,
Writing,
English,
ESL
Language (other than English):
Arabic,
ASL,
Chinese,
French,
German,
Greek,
Hebrew,
Itallian,
Japanese,
Portugese,
Sign Language,
Spanish
Lapbooks
Life Skills:
Auto Repairs,
Budgeting,
Child Care,
Cleaning,
Cooking,
First Aide,
Health & Hygene,
House Keeping,
House Repairs,
Relationships,
Sewing,
Survival Skills,
Math
Music
Notebooking
Parenting Helps
Planning and Record Keeping
Poetry
Science
Spelling
Sports
Technology Skills:
Applications,
Cameras,
Computers,
Internet Safety,
Video
Tests and Quizzes (Free and “not free” resources)
Typing
Unit Studies
Vocational Curriculum:
Childcare,
Computer,
Construction,
Engineering,
Farming,
Flight,
Photography
Plumbing,
Mechanical,
Medical,
Ministeral,
Therapy,
Veteranarian,
Weather
Worksheets
MISCELLANEOUS Homeschool Resources
What free resources have you found that your family enjoys using in your homeschooling journey?
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Raising Homemakers