These are links I’d posted on my old – I haven’t had time to go through the whole list so do let me know if you find any broken links.

Story Sites

• Aesop’s Fables
• BAB Books
• Baldwin Online Children’s Literature Project
• Between The Lions Printable Stories
• Book Hive – with videos of professional storytellers!
• BookPALS Story Online – video of celebs reading books… with accompanying activities
• Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site
• Children’s Books Online
• Children’s Literature – Links etc
• Classics for Young People
• Contemporary Writing for Children & Young Adults
• Fable Vision Library – books by Peter Reynolds and more
• Free Animated E-books (science)
• Folk Tales Around the World that help kids grow
• International Children’s Digital Library
• Kids’ Corner – featuring Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit in audio & other languages too!
• Learning Page
• Leo Lionni Teacher Resources (my kid likes Swimmy)
• Lookybook
• New York Public Library’s E-Books
• Online Children’s Stories
• Reading A to Z
• Reading Rainbow – LOVE their lesson plans!
• Starfall
• Story A Month: Printable Patterns for felt-boards or folder games
• Story Online – actors read children’s books
• Story Place’s Digital Library
• Story Street
• Sunshine Online
• Teacher Tap E-books & Online Reading – lots of links!
• The North Star – by Peter Reynolds… inspiring! With teaching resources too!
• The Rosetta Stone Project – illustrated antique books
• TumbleBook Library – Queens Borough Public Library
• WOWIO – free books, free minds

HomeWorks – Where Living is Learning

Click on the image above to read the magazine online.

Need to shake the cobwebs off this blog! *cough*

A lot’s been happening right here in Isloo but I have not been able to churn out a post on our goings on. Horrid case of the spirit being willing and the flesh being weak, I’m afraid. I am not posting any links today but I thought I would for once offer a freebie of my own. *grin*

We’ve made up some bookmarks using some catchy quotes we’ve heard or been told :) So click on the image down there and download and print away.

(I used more black and white graphics for easier printing. Use colour paper for a nicer effect!)

You can access the bookmarks here or at Scribd.

We hope you enjoy them :)

OK fans and friends – and there are what… all of 2 of you? :P – here is another homeschooling freebie I dug out of the WWW.

FOSS (Full Option Science System) is a research-based science curriculum for grades K-8 developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California at Berkeley. It is also an ongoing research project dedicated to improving the learning and teaching of science.

The FOSS project began over 20 years ago during a time of growing concern that our nation was not providing young students with an adequate science education. The FOSS program materials are designed to meet the challenge of providing meaningful science education for all students in diverse American classrooms and to prepare them for life in the 21st century. Development of the FOSS program was, and continues to be, guided by advances in the understanding of how youngsters think and learn.

There are interactive activities for kids and teacher resources for grades K-2, grades 3-6 and middle school. There is also a Science Notebook Folio with suggestions for getting started with notebooks plus ideas for deepening student understanding through the use of science notebooks.

I have absolutely no business looking at more home-ed materials, free or otherwise, when I have my books threatening a coup d’etat to expel me out of hearth and home, but I have a tough time trying to determine if you can have enough of a good thing :)

Tea, my friend, I know you will love this! And for those of you who like a holistic scheme of work – ah! the science of relations! – I know you will love this too :)

Two lovely home-educating sisters from the UK, Umm Raiyaan and Oum Loubabah are working together on a Qur’an curriculum. In this, they will not only go through the tafseer of the chapters of the Qur’an but also study bring in the scientific, historical and geographical aspects that the chapters touch on. There are art and craft ideas as well.

SO! Check out Umm Raiyaan’s blog where she has listed the curriculum and resources for Surah An-Naas. It’s really wonderful ma shaa Allah so go, go, GO!

Edit: The blog Ummi Homeschools Me has now been marked private by the owner. You’ll need a WordPress account to request access – I’ve not been successful! :(