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Find advice from other parents on our Homeschool forum. You may also find our round up of the best online learning resources useful.

Nominations for your best Internet based resources here please!

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robino · 05/08/2012 11:02

Our accidental home edding is becoming more long term. Bit of a long, tedious and stressful story involving moving to the Middle East, massive school waiting lists, job losses and lack of residency permit.

We moved here in May; taking DD1 out of reception and DD2 out of pre-school. I've always been interested in HE and was perfectly happy to have then out of school for a while and see how it worked out. As we'd just moved to a new place I decided we'd do very little formal stuff to start with and let them experience life here. However, there is no way they will have school places until
September which means that quite possibly there will be no school places for at least a year (we think that school will be the eventual aim - DD1 is missing it) and I'm beginning to think about what I want to achieve.

I've joned the HE group here. I don't think I have the guts to go for entirely autonomous home ed but neither am I organised enough for a full on timetable. I think DD1 will respond to a timetable of sorts. As such, I think we'll probably do some focussed literacy and numeracy stuff and let everything else take its course.

Would anybody be kind enough to share their favourite Internet based resources? English language books out here are pricey!

I'll start by suggesting the Oxford Owl website which has over 250 free ebooks

And the motion maths apps seem good too.

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mam29 · 05/08/2012 11:25

Fab post as wondered same thing.

keep reading in posts about galore park but that seems more at secondry level.

which country you in?

good luck with it sounds like you enthusiastic.

my eldest likes website called phonicsplay.

bbc webisites has few bits.

theres so much out there finding what works for you.

ThreadWatcher · 05/08/2012 14:45

Activity Vilage for printing stuff out and ideas for making stuff.

ToffeeWhirl · 05/08/2012 16:50

The MuddlePuddle Home Education site is good for young children and has links to lots of other websites.

ThreadWatcher · 05/08/2012 20:37

Fun stuff for little ones and not so little

Poisson Rouge
and my new favourite Soup toys (I happily fiddle with this whilst watching tv!)

ThreadWatcher · 05/08/2012 20:50

Teacher File Box from Evan Moor Publishing (sign up to Hoimeschool freebie yahoo group and then wait for them to offer a discount on teacher file box) Suits primary age.

I love it - it isnt free but its resources are well organised and of a far higher quality than any of the free stuff I have come across. A lot are also organised by American 'grade' so your child can work through in sequence. The American spellings and grammar are not as bothersome as I feared.

teacher file box - I personally dont use the file box feature (it runs slowly) I just use the search facility and print everything I fancy. Also you can look at their book website evan moor and download a catalogue - that will enable you to see the number code for each book. Type the number code into the teacher file box site and all the book will come up (in page order) for you to print what you want.

My sub wasnt particularly cheap but I will get my money's worth :)

robino · 08/08/2012 07:55

Thank you. I'd forgotten about Activity Village, will be putting that to use when I have access to a printer again (it's in storage at the moment).

And homeschool freebies? Like the sound of that.

I probably read about this maths site on here but just in case you haven't seen it...

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ToffeeWhirl · 08/08/2012 09:06

That maths site is fantastic, robino Smile.

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