Home Education Recourses

Although I’ve looked at homeschooling for about 3 years, I’ve spent at least 6-8 months doing intensive research on homeschooling before I finally adhered to my husband’s pleas to homeschool and took the plunge with our youngest in August last year due to learning problems at school.

I’ve done quite a bit of surfing lately and found many useful sites for homeschooling assistance. My head is still spinning from information overload…

I must, quite honestly, admit that all the info available made for loads of reading & at times was quite overwhelming. I was bookmarking pages & later found that I couldn’t remember why I bookmarked certain pages. Hence I decided to add these to my blog with descriptions in order to help me find material again at a later stage.

Since research is so time consuming, I thought I’d also share the great links I found, in order to save some other "newbie" mom the time I spent finding it…

Support Groups

• Legal defence fund for home educating families.

• has so much to offer all South African homeschoolers in every province, including …membership, community forums, chats, great articles, links to great websites, links to forums, events calendars (that we can add to!) and more.

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• HomeSchooling SA @ Yahoo Groups Homeschooling in South  Africa

• HS Kitchen Table @ Yahoo Groups Practical Support for South  African Homeschoolers

• Tuisonderwys @ Yahoo Groups Gesprekgroep oor tuisonderwys in Suid-Afrika.

• CIEatHome @ YahooGroups A Group for South African Homeschoolers preparing for the Cambridge International Examinations privately or through a curriculum provider. Membership is open to both students and parents current or past. The aim is to link with one another for support & to share information, resources & experiences relating to CIE while homeschooling.

• HomeSchool SA is a friendly supportive group where homeschool families can gather to discuss anything related to homeschooling in South Africa. It is particularly designed to assist and encourage new homeschool families by providing information and links to curricula and homeschool methods, as well as support. Those new and old to homeschool, are welcome to post their questions and suggestions.

• SA Homeschool Curriculum South African Homeschoolers – Buy and Sell Used Homeschool Curriculum here! List your posts as WANTED or FOR SALE and when listing items, give a price excl. postage and the condition of the item. You then contact the seller directly and organise the purchase, payment and postage.

• Christian Home Education and Homeschooling Resource. This site offers home education information, articles, resource and suggested reading to Christian homeschoolers in the United Kingdom, Australia and South Africa.

• Facebook

  • HomeschoolHUB
  • Homeschooling in South Africa
  • Christian Homeschooling in South Africa
  • Homeschool Lapbooks
  • Lapbook Lessons
  • Lapbooking for Learning
  • Homeschool Kamp
  • Robotics Association of South Africa
  • Free Homeschooling 101
  • Homeschool for Free

• The premier online community for homeschool moms! Find encouragement and support for the journey! Forum, reviews, chat, groups & more.

2.   Organisers, Planners, Schedulers, etc.

3.   Informative Pages & Blogs

4.   Learning Styles

5.   Brain Dominance

6.   Left Handed Learners

7.   Building a Solid Foundation

8.   Home Educating a Struggling Learner

9.   Unschooling

10. Curricula

11. Tutors, Co-ops & Other Group Activities

12. Grades 8 – 12 / Matric

13. Matric Support

14. eLearning

15. Free Educational Games & Software

16. Android Apps for Home Education

16. iPad Apps for Home Education

17. Teaching Aids

• Teacher Resources
• Worksheets, Games etc.
• Manipulates
• Educational Toys & Games
• Software
• Kid Safe Internet Browsers
  • Zoodles A safe Kid Mode for every device. We help your children find the age appropriate games that make learning fun. Ad blocking, Educational Subjects & Character Blocking.
  • KidZui Internet for Kids Get the FREE Kids Browser stuffed with fun curated by hundreds of parents & teachers. KidZui gives kids the freedom to explore the Internet safely. * Millions of kid-friendly YouTube videos, online games, and websites * All pre-screened and approved by editorial staff, teachers, and parents * Weekly activity reports keep you in touch with your child’s evolving interests.

Both of these offer free basic features as well as a membership option that offers additional features.

• Tutors, Co-Ops & Other Group Activities

18. Book Stores

19. Extra Curricular Activities

20. Field Trip Venues

Free Recourse Pages

Blogs & Pages

PS:

Here’s a for your internet explorer to help you quickly find homeschooling Blogs, Community, Top Sites, Freebies and Feeds. It offers

• 100 Top Homeschooling Sites
• Popular homeschooling blogs
• Built in Google search engine
• Searches by specific categories helpful to moms and homeschoolers
• One click access to homeschool communities and forums
• Post to your Facebook from the toolbar
• RSS feeds
• Email notifier that manages all your email accounts
• Tools such as the weather forecast, To Do list and a radio player
• Pop up blocker
• And more…

This post features on the South African Carnival of Homeschool Bloggers where South African home schoolers share experiences, ideas, philosophies and much more.  You can join the carnival too by heading to the South African Carnival of Homeschool Bloggers sign up page.   In the meantime, head to SACH Carnival #8 – Co-ops and Support Groups for this week’s carnival.  We hope you enjoy the carnival as much as we have!

Please visit this page frequently as I will be posting regular updates as I find more resources.