Recommendations and Reviews

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Here’s our sticky thread for any home education resources that you have found helpful. It’s our One Stop Shop for reviews and recommendations for future reference.

  • curriculum
  • parental & teaching helps
  • websites
  • activities
  • legal resources

Don’t be shy about posting what has worked well for you and your family. You never know when some little thing will be a light bulb for someone else!

Discussion

Here is a list of websites for information that impacts home education:

http://hslda.org/Default.asp?bhcp=1] HSLDA - Home School Legal Defense Association

http://www.nheld.com/ NHELD - National Home Education Legal Defense

http://www.americanhomeschoolassociation.org/info.html AHA - American Homeschool Association

http://www.yedies.blogspot.com/ Consent of the Governed - Conservative homeschooling blogger Judy Aron

http://www.homeedmag.com/newscomm/ HEM - Home Education Magazine News and Commentary

http://learninfreedom.org/ Learn In Freedom - Information about issues in education, both home and traditional

Here are some more helpful websites for homeschoolers-

[URL=http://homeschoolbuzz.com/ Homeschoolbuzz.com[/URL] - I guess you’d call it an aggregate blog feed for homeschool blogs, but they also post homeschool news and reviews of books.

[URL=http://www.debrabell.com/ Debra Bell’s Homeschool Resource Center[/URL]

[URL=http://www.thehomescholar.com/ The Homescholar[/URL] Homeschooling in high school

[URL=http://thethinkingmother.blogspot.com/ The Thinking Mother[/URL] - lots of book reviews and thoughtful posts

[URL=http://heartkeepercommonroom.blogspot.com/ The Common Room[/URL] - another homeschool blog recommendation

I have come to prefer Foersters over Saxon. Good stuff. I’ve also used Jacobs Geometry. Again- high quality, and very engaging. Thanks for the recommendation.