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More is not always better.Choosing a curriculum can be somewhat overwhelming at first because there are so many to choose from. To see a more detailed description of the curriculum resources below and many others "out there", a good place to start is to purchase The Big Book of Homelearning by Mary Pride. This book is full of product reviews and how-tos.
Please browse the varied curriculum and supplies listed. The items marked with this image BookStar Image - Product Recommended by SFCS indicate product highly recommended by SFCS. Products with obvious Secular or Christian tones are indicated "Secular" , or "Christian". Items in neither category have no noticeable tone.

SPECIAL NEEDS

  • Weiser Educational
    Wieser Educational provides an extensive line of high-interest instructional materials specifically designed for their appeal to remedial and special needs students in grades K through adult. These classroom and library materials include Textbooks, Workbooks, Videos, CD-ROM and other Computer Software for Special Education, Reading, Social Studies, Literature, Science, Mathematics, Language Arts, Personal Social Skills, Students at Risk, ESL, Independent Living Skills, Career Education, Adult Basic Education.

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  • NATHHAN
    NATional cHallenged Homeschoolers Associated Network - NATHHAN. A site for Christian families homeschooling special needs children. Excellent! (208)-267-6246.

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HOW TO'S

  • Design-A-Study
    Make it easy on yourself! Resources for creating a custom curriculum. (302)-998-3889. 408 Victoria Ave. Wilmington, DE 19804-2124

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  • Carschooling Turn travel time into leaning time. Dashboard decimals, Glove compartment geography, and more.

  • BookStar Image - Product Recommended by SFCS The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
    by Grace Llewellyn
    From the publisher: Full of stimulating, controversial and exhilarating ideas, this practical book is a must for all teenagers who want to learn, but seriously question the educational system's abilty to teach.

  • The Complete Guide to Home Schooling
    by John Perry and Kathy Perry
    A straighforward guide to the most necessary questions. Included are several anecdotes and success stories. This book presents step-by-step instructions for tailoring a curriculum to the individual, integrating academic homeschooling with public school extracurricular opportunities, maintaining family energy and peace, and developing diverse community based enrichment studies.

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RESOURCES

  • Curriculum Yellow Pages
    Lists 501 websites featuring free printables, unit studies, lesson plans, tools and resoursces for K-12.
  • Early College Guide
    Features include: First book ever written on early college programs Over 250 programs at 190 colleges profiled Early college program strategies for more than 80 exciting careers Special sections for underrepresented and learning disabled youth 256 pages
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  • Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary Webster's 1828 Dictionary.
  • Noah Webster used God's Word as the foundation for his definitions.
  • Not "politically correct".
  • Definitions do not change with the times.
  • Scriptural References.
  • No slang or vulgarity.
  • Available in CD or hard cover.

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MISC CURRICULUM & SUPPLIES

  • Great Shirts.com offers software and homeschooling t-shirts.
  • Learning Resources sells manipulatives, board games, resource books, and more. (888)-342-5381 ext. 1107
  • ResourcefulHomeschoolers
    A great unschooling resource. Build a computer game. Program a robot. Fly through human anotomy. Take a virtual walk through the rain! This is a family sponsored website. (877)523-0494.

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  • BookStar Image - Product Recommended by SFCS AlWrightPublishing
    The COOLEST unit studies we've seen. Designed for grade levels 4-12 these unit studies are chock full, really, really full, of information. Interested in sheep? How about color? Arachnids? So far, they have 15 different titles, and they are inexpensive. Email:info@KymWright.com
  • Builder Books Inc.
    A discount Catalog for courses in the 3 R's, history, timelines, economics, biographies, music, historical fiction and more! Questions: (425)-778-4526. Orders: (800)-260-5461. PO Box 5789 Lynnwood, WA 98046.
  • God's World Book Club
    Books, magazines, posters, stickers, books, and more. (800)-951-2665 .
  • BookStar Image - Product Recommended by SFCS Konos offers character building unit studies for K-12. (972)-924-2712
    KONOS can almost be used as a complete curriculum in itself! The subjects covered: Bible, character, history, science, literature, writing, practical living, field trips, critical thinking, arts/crafts, music, grammar/speech, geography, social studies, health/safety.

    No spelling, phonics, upper level gramamr or math. It is even better if you can get several families involved.

  • Sing 'N Learn
    Offers a variety of videos, textbooks, workbooks and more in the basic areas, as well as art, music, cartooning, foreign language and more! ( 800)-460-1973.
  • The Teaching Company
    Teaching videos for highschool students in History, English, Literature, Philosophy, Social Science, Business Economics, and more. (800)-832-2414.
  • Timberdoodle
    Art, Bible, CPR, drafting, foreign languages, games, handwriting, music, and much more for all ages.
    (360)-426-0672.

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Art

  • Art for homeschoolers from Meet The Masters. (866)-MTM-4ART
    Kids learn about texture, portraits, balance, composition, color and value by studying Van Gogh, Cassett, Picasso, Monet, Homer and more. Hands on.
  • HomeSew
    Serving crafters and home sewers for over thirty-eight years. order online, or call for a catalog. (800)-344-4739.
  • MakIt
    Lots of neat ideas for craft projects. A very popular item it the Make A Plate™. Order plates or bowls, and special markers for students to color on, and you have a wodnerful keepsake!(800)-248-9443.

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Foreign Language

  • GreekNStuff
    Learn Biblical Greek. Levels one through seven. GreekNStuff also has five levels of Latin curriculum, and Bible Studies. (309)-796-2707.
  • Learnables®
    The Internationnal Linguistics Corporation, publisher of The Learnables® Foreign Language Courses, offer Chinese, Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. (800)-237-1830.
  • Power Glide
    Power Glide offers courses in French, German, Japanese, Latin, Russian and Spanish. (800)-596-0910.
  • Artes Latinae Comprehensive, self-teaching, self-pacing, award winning Latin course. (847)-526-4344

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* Reading * Language Arts * Grammar * Vocabulary * Creative Writing * Literature *

  • Brighter Vision
    Brighter Vision LEARNING ADVENTURES ™ is a program designed by early childhood educators to help parents help their children develop a love of learning. Each month a shipment of fun-filled educational materials is delivered conveniently to the home. Each shipment contains a variety of activities designed to teach children essential early school skills and to develop the self-confidence that leads to a love of learning and a successful school experience. Order your free introductory packet.

    This series was recommended by one of our Home Study Families
  • Critical Thinking
    Offers critical thinking skills workbooks and software to K-12 in Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and general Critical Thinking skills. (800)-458-4849.
  • BookStar Image - Product Recommended by SFCS Easy Grammar, Daily Grams and Easy Writing.
    Easy Grammar is just what the title implies: grammar made easy! By learning to delete prepositional phrases from sentences first, students are able to distinguish and recognize the other parts of speech more easily. Easy Grammar simplifies learning grammar along with other concepts, such as punctuation, capitalization, clauses, and more. It is designed especially for students who struggle with learning grammar, or as a review course for older students. Grades 3+. Teachers Editions available. (866)-725-2662.

    Daily Grams: Guided Review Aiding Mastery Skills Each book contains 180 review lessons for grammar concepts and usage - one to be done each day to aid in mastery learning. Each lesson covers capitalization, punctuation practice, sentence combining, and more. Grades 3-6. (866)-725-2662.

    Easy Writing is a text for learning higher level sentence structure, including appositives, introductory participial phrases, semi-colon construction, subordinate clauses, and more. Two levels of instruction for every concept enable the parent to use this manual with upper elementary through high school students. Grades 5-12. (866)-725-2662.
  • Wordsmith.
    The Wordsmith Series course is designed with step-by-step instructions for students who want to improve their writing skills. It is a fun approach that uses the newspaper as a basis to learn reporting, paragraphing, sentence review, and more. Grades 4-12. (866)-725-2662.


  • BookStar Image - Product Recommended by SFCS English From The Roots Up by Joegil Lundquist
    This program teaches children 100 Greek and Latin words and their derivatives. Each child compiles their own file of 3X5 index cards with the root word on the front and the definitions and derivatives on the reverse. Not too dull, too schoolish, too intense, or based too heavily on mythology.
  • Italic Handwriting
    Legible Handwriting. Effective becuase it makes sense. Legible because it's loop free. Smooth transition from print to cursive.
  • Learning Language Arts Through Literature
    An innovative 36 week program that teaches phonics, reading, spelling, grammar, and higher order thinking skills, all through using books such as Goodnight Moom, Old Hat New Hat, and The Tale Of Peter Rabbit for 1st graders, to Across Five Aprils, A Lantern In Her Hand, Eric Liddell, and God's Smuggler for 8th graders. High School studies cover American and British Literature, using books by Ernest Hemmingway, Charles Dickens and more.
  • Rigg's Institute
    (From Rigg's Institute website) "The method of instruction explained...begins by teaching manuscript letter formation through dictated (no copying or tracing) instructions, together with a sufficient set of phoneme/grapheme relationships to accommodate the Webster-Oxford collaboration that standardized English spelling in the early 1860's. These spellings are virtually unchanged 140 years later. These sound/letter relationships (the alphabetic principle) are taught together as "explicit" phonics, without key words, pictures or letter names as recommended in the federal synthesis of reading research done by the nation's leading reading professors, 1985's Becoming a Nation of Readers (BNR). This takes only four of the first nine weeks of instruction in Grade 1, and at half that pace in Kindergarten."
  • Shakespeare
    These new editions of Shakespeare's most popular plays feature the complete original text and a translation into contemporary English, aligned on facing pages for easy reading. Most importantly, each translation retains the rhythm of the original, yet obscure words and phrases are modernized, making footnotes a thing of the past. A manual / study guide is available for Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Caesar . Each features a summary of acts and scenes, background information about Shakespeare, and suggestions for teaching and even staging the plays.
  • Startwrite
    Startwrite handwriting software lets you create your own handwriting lessons, tailored specifically to your child's needs. (888)-974-8322
  • BookStar Image - Product Recommended by SFCS The Writing Road to Reading by Romalda Spalding.
    Dr. Robert C. Aukerman, in his book, Approaches To Beginning Reading, describes Spalding(s Writing Road to Reading) as, "... The Spalding Method ... is ... a total language arts system, in that it ... is an approach to learning the phonetic base of the language through listening, seeing, speaking, writing, spelling, and reading.
    ...in a first grade class the children were reading at an almost unbelievable level of comprehension, voice inflection, knowledge of word attack."

    Couple The Writing Road to Reading with Wanda Sanseri's, Spell to Write to Read, the companion guide to teach The Writing Road To Reading
  • Wordly Wise
    A fun way for students grades 2-12 to improve vocabulary by using workbooks.

  • WriteGuide
    WriteGuide provides individualized writing instruction for homeschooled students in grades three through twelve. They provide you with your own private writing teacher who works with your son or daughter five days a week (Monday through Friday) on a wide variety of papers and projects. The papers can be designed by parents and students themselves, taken from other curricula or classes, or you can ask your writing teacher to suggest or assign projects. Their goal is to provide in-depth writing instruction to fit the precise needs of the individual student. All that's required to use our program is a computer and the ability to communicate via e-mail.

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  • BookStar Image - Product Recommended by SFCS National Writing Institute
    Offers PreK-12 curriculum, called "Writing Strands", for improving writing skills in fours basic areas: 1)creative writing 2)research & report 3)explanatory 4)argumentative (persuasive) (800)-688-5375

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  • Progeny Press Offers literature study guidesto a wealth of different books for K-12. (877) 776-4369.
  • BookStar Image - Product Recommended by SFCS Total Language Plus
    Teaches 5-12 graders thinking and communication skills using literature as a base. Each unit and book can cover comprehension, vocabulary, crictical thinking, and more. This is a great program!(360)-754-3660.

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Mathematics

  • BookStar Image - Product Recommended by SFCS Mortensen Math
    An excellent hands-on math program for K-12. Parents do not need to know algebra to teach this. Your 1st graders will be doing algebra, and won't even know it! (800)-475-8748
  • Saxon Math
    An incremental math program for K-12. They also offer phonics and spelling for early learning. Their math program is one of the most popular in today's homeschooling market. (800)-284-7019.

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Science

  • Kitchen Table Art & Science by Champion Kids™
    Science, art, learning and fun all go hand-in-hand with this interactive thematic workbook for kids. With over 50 projects, kids are bound for hours of adventure using ingredients and items (that you probably already have in the home) to encourage learning, science and curiosity. And parents will love the fact there are no hard-to-find, expensive or hard-to-get items.
  • Homeschool Science
    Offers hands-on science curriculum and kits for 1-8 graders. Children of different ages can work together.Fun! (800)-694-7225
  • ScienceClass
    High quality Science for the Home School. Dissection Works, Discover the Elements, Rocks & Minerals, Sky Works, Slide Works. (800)-478-8476
  • The Teaching Tank®
    You can do hundreds of experiments with just one tank. View ants, worms, roots like no other product. 150 lessons using everyday materials. Set up is simple. It is intuative and very visual. Hands-on for better retention.

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  • Apologia offers high school science. (888)-524-4724
  • Good Science
    From the Institute for Creation Research. A science program presented within the Christian creationist framework to students in grades K-6. Materials include demonstrations and experiments that can be done in a home setting.

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Cool School with Ms. Maria
A fun, educational, entertaining upbeat music CD and video series for kids ages 3-8. These CDs and videos feature Spanish songs, counting songs, spelling songs, songs about manners, and a poetic story. They also feature everyday children from local communities interacting and learning with Ms. Maria. COOL SCHOOL WITH MS. MARIA is a program that offers children ages 3-8 an opportunity to learn while at the same time providing entertainment that will captivate their attention.
  • HomespunTapes
    Music lessons for the whole family. All instruments. Gospel, Folk, Bluegrass, Celtic and more. For a complete listing or catalog, visit the website or call (800)-33-TAPES.
  • Simply Music
    A simple piano teaching method that comes with videos, student books, and audio-cassettes. (800)-746-7597
  • The Guitar Foundation
    A guitar course - on line, which is highly accelerated. All concepts are made easy to understand. Fully animated! High tech finger exercises are incorporated to build strength and independence into each finger. Upon completion of each lesson, the participant receives an e-mail with a professional set of notes, and an assignment to work on. They recommend children to be at least 10 years old.

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    • Davidsons Music
      Complete Piano Course in 6 levels: Preparatory Level, Level 1 through Level 5 - beginners through advanced. INcludes six books and eight audio cassettes. This course can be used with an electronic keyboard. All music, text, and illustrations help reimforce Christian values.

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    Physical Education

    • StinkyShoe
      Stinky Shoe and Coach Laroo invite you to learn the fundamentals of baseball and soccer. Presented in video form. (888)-880-KIDS.

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      Driver's Education

      • DRIVEREDINABOX
        Driver Ed in a Box® offers a number of features to help you in training your teenager or student to become a collision-free driver. Both the complete course and the behind-the-wheel only version have been developed by Mr. Patrick L. Barrett, and designed to give parents the tools and training aids needed for the student to form collision-free driving habits. All features of the course are designed to fit together seamlessly creating a logical, frustration-free experience for both parent and teen. The completion certificate isued upon the completion of the complete course may be useful for car insurance discounts. Talk to your insurance agent. (800)-562-6405.


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        • Teaching Plans
          Offers a complete traditional program, including lesson, plans for K-12. (800)-301-5432 Ex. code 00

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        • ABEKA
          K-12 textbook studies in all subjects. (877)-223-5226.
        • A.C.E
          K-12 workbooks in all subjects. (800)-925-7777.
        • Alpha Omega
          K-12 textbook studies in all subjects. (800)-622-3070.
        • Christian Novel Studies
          Discover America -- the complete (except math) two-year literature-based program that can be used to teach 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade. Six eleven-week studies form a two-year program that includes: history, reading, writing, Bible, grammar, art, spelling, science, health, music, hands on activities, time line figures, geography, and answer key.
        • Bob Jones University Press
          K-12 textbook studies in all subjects. (800)-845 5731.
        • Cornerstone Curriculum
          K-6 textbook studies in all subjects with a twist to traditional subject teaching. (972)-235-5749.
        • Christian Light Curriculum provides a Mennonite workbook program for K-12 in all subjects. (540)-434-0750, PO Box 1212-J Harrisonburg, VA 22801
        • Covenant Home
          Great flexibility in selecting your homeschooling materials in all subjects for K-12. (800)-578-2421.
        • Rod & Staff Publishers offers a Mennonite-based traditional textbook program for K-12. (606)-522-4348
        • Son Light Curriculum
          K-12 literature-based curriculum from a variety of publishers for you to choose from. (303) 730-6292.
        • Weaver
          An integrated unit study program designed to teach multi-grade levels at the same time. (800)-334-3834

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        WEBSITES


        • ABC School Supply
          Offers infant - 6 grade a large variety of educational toys, supplies, arts & crafts, games, furniture and more! (800)-669-4222
        • Edheads Activities
          Explore and identify over 50 different Simple Machines, from the super simple to the hideously hard!
        • Home Schooling HQ
          Everything Home Schooling, from Abeka Home School to Wisconsin Home Schooling.
        • INEW Logo Image
          The INEW website provides a large mathematics database which is useful for practicing and sharpening various skills for students in grades K-6. You will find over 500 core math skills with millions of variations, a fun and helpful demonstration to get you started,as well as a brief overview that highlights their mission, benefits and service.
        • Interactive Math Tutor.
          Click on the "Home School" link and sign up free for downloads of mathematics worksheets and solutions for Elementary Math, Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry.
        • JMG
          The Junior Mater Gardener® Program's mission is to engage children in novel, "hands-on" group and individual learning experiences that promote a love of gardening, develop an appreciation for the environment, and cultivate the mind. JMG inspires youths to be of service to others through service learning.
        • SFSKids
          The coolest interactive music site! Learn about the different "families" of instruments in the orchestra, hear them over the internet, and create your own music.
        • SmartScience
          Fully interactive web based labs that make learning fun! (310)-937-3438
        • Worms Got worms? Worm bins and worms. Fun! (616)-327-0108
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        • Unschooling.com
        • Wild Quest
          An innovative, non-profit, experiential program dedicated to bringing you the educational experience of a lifetime...on a fantastic travel-study trip.

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