Homeschooling Favourites

Just thought I'd share a few of my favourite sites we use for our homeschooling adventure, some free and some not.

FREE

Super Teacher Worksheets, I have used this site to find free printable worksheets for Math, Grammar, Comprehension...so far.  And I'm assuming I'll be using it much more. 

A Plus Math, I've used this one a few times for online 'flash' cards and for some math worksheets.

Starfall, I used this one in the past but Noah has outgrown it.  I'm keeping this one in my back pocket for future reference because I personally love this site.


NON-FREE

Time 4 Learning, I've been using this site for about 3 years now.  I started using it to help with Noah's English reading, then I used it as a summer program and now I use it as a supplemental resource.  I love it and it only costs $20 per month.  When I first started using it, I found it was a little overwhelming because there was SO much information.  Now that I've found the lesson plans, I can actually find what I need very easily as can I easily assign Noah certain activities.  When Noah first started using it, he didn't even realize it was educational!!!  He couldn't believe I would let him on the computer for as long as he wanted.  NOW, he claims the grade 4 curriculum is a little less 'fun' (based on the fact that he has to read more)!!!  But we still use it alot.

BrainPOP, is my newest find (thanks to my aunt who is a retired school teacher, of 31 years).  This site cost $99 for the whole year and so far, we have got our complete money's worth out of it.  The site is set up with 2-4 minute videos to introduce the student to each of the hundreds of subjects.  Once they are finished watching the video, they can do an online quiz, experiments, do an activity about the subject, read a Q&A section and much more.  Noah is LOVING this site.  I often find him checking out videos or he'll say something like 'hey Mom, did you know that...'.  When I ask him where he learned that, he'll tell me he watched a video on this site!  So.....to me this is amazing!


Both of these sites have a free trial (Time4Learning, I think it's a 2 week free trial and Brain Pop has a 5 or 7 day free trial)....check 'em out!


Let me know if you have any favourite homeschooling sites, free or not.  I'm always looking for resources.  Do you use any of these above sites.