I've had a few requests for the websites I'll be using for school this upcoming year. I finally have them narrowed down. There are so many!

BIBLE  We are using the AOP LifePacs for grade 3 and studying chronologically along with History, Art, and possibly Music as well. There are a couple timelines I'll be using. One is this timeline and the other is this world history timeline. I also have a couple sites for the kids to use. This site is an interactive Christian site and this site has interactive sections on the rainforests, dinos, creation. It's also a christian site, but check it out, it's beautiful!

HISTORY  We're studying this along with Bible. But I wanted to give you some of the American History sites we'll be using later. There's this one that I'll have to tweak just a bit, but a good jumping off point. And this reading list that has books beginning with Columbus.

ART  I've decided to study this chronologically as well, it just makes more sense to me. I love art and I can't wait to share this with the kids. Last year we started with a book How to Teach Art to Children and we'll continue to use that as well for this year. It's a great book, teaching the basics of theory and has projects for each lesson, building on each other. Some of the web resources I'll be using are this timeline and this lesson site for more ideas.

MUSIC  I have a book, Musical Instruments of the World, I picked up a teachers store in Indiana. Amazon doesn't have it, but they have a couple that are close with the same title. I found this really neat website and this site for a fun activity online.

ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE ARTS  I have several workbooks I picked up at a teachers store here in Florida. I'm using grades 3,4,5,6. My son is starting with 3, and my daughter will start with 5, but I'll add in worksheets from 4 that she missed this last year. (Things I didn't think to teach!) The workbooks are called English & Grammar by Skills for Students. I'm using RHL School and Busy Teachers Cafe for additional worksheets and Mini lessons for additional activities. I'm using SuperKids Vocab for a word-of-the-day to help build vocabulary. And Word Central as an online dictionary, as well as using the regular ole Websters Dictionary. My daughter absolutely HATES dictionary work, so I'm hoping the online option will grab her interest. For spelling I found this site for 3rd grade lists and this site 4th grade lists and here's the one for 5th grade lists. None of them are printable, so I had to copy the text and paste it to notebook and then print. For spelling activities I'm using this site to keep spelling from getting too boring! I'm also using this site to introduce typing. And I picked up a SpongeBob Squarepants typing tutor/game disc at the local BestBuy store. For journaling prompts I found Writing Prompts, More Writing Prompts, and Creative Writing Prompts. I found several others but these are the ones I really liked.

READING AND LITERATURE STUDIES  I have several sites for reading lists: K-12 by genre, Elem Lists 2007, grades 2-4, Florida State by grade, Charlotte Mason, Living Books, Classics, Recommended K-12, MultiCultural, Bilingual books, Librivox, for poetry I found these: BPL Poetry list, CBC Poetry list, Forms of poetry, The Poetry Zone.

SCIENCES   I mostly have links for specific lessons, but here are a few sites that I found interesting. Kitchen Chemistry article. You'll need to scroll down to find it. Build a Solar System link came from group on myspace. Simple Machine Gizmos, Physics Classroom, Teens4PlanetEarth, Clean Sweep USA, Space Station, 2nd3rd grade science.

ECONOMICS   EconEdLink, EcEdWeb, PBS Kids

GOVERNMENT  I am using a book from Skills for Success called US Government and Presidents as well as Ben's Guide and edsitement.

CULTURAL STUDIES  lesson plans, 10 lesson unit, Kids Calendar, Kids Peace Corp, Cool Planet.

GEOGRAPHY I am using Spectrum Geography grade 4 and these websites: Regions and culture, National Geog, Learn US states (this site also has world geog), Landforms, Lots of neat stuff, football geog.

MATHS  I am using Spectrum Math, finishing level 5 in Sept. Will finish level 6 and maybe 7 in the coming year. Plus these websites: Fraction worksheets, teach metric, metric worksheets, Rainforest maths, Times table game

SPANISH/SIGN LANGUAGE  For sign language I'm using A Word in the Hand. For spanish I haven't found a good workbook, but last year we used one of the Sam's Club/WalMart books. I did find these websites that I think will help. for children, made easy, BBC Primary level, teach-nology lessons, resources, A to Z links.

Hope some of you find these helpful. And if anyone has any really cool links, please pass them on! I love links!