I’m a Day behind on the 10 Days of Homeschooling Fr First Year Families. We should be on Day 4 but David was home yesterday. Our family spent the day together. This morning I will be posting Day 4 and 5 for 10 Days of Homeschooling For First Year Families.
In 10 Days of Homeschooling For First Year Families Day 4 we will be covering websites you can use to teach your children. The websites can be used in addition to workbooks or places of books.
Preschool and Toddlers:
Reading and Math for children 2 to 8
- Uppercase and lowercase letter recognition
- Phonics
- Rhyming words and word families
- More than 450 books and beginning readers
- Sentence structure
- Parts of speech
- Recognizing and counting numbers 1–120
- The base ten system
- Place value
- Addition and subtraction
- Names and attributes of 2D and 3D shapes
- Length, time, and money measurement
PBS Kids is similar to sprout online but has different cartoon friends to play. The games are high quality, and the learning possibilities are endless. However, PBS has advice for parents such as healthy recipes and parting tips. Does your child have a birthday coming up?
PBS Kids has excellent ideas for party themes to go with your kiddos favorite cartoon characters. This site is excellent for parents and kids alike!
www.starfall.com a free alternative to ABC Mouse
Starfall was a website which recommended to me by a Charlies school and teacher. Charlie loves the phonics! Starfall focuses on ABC’S and helping kids learn to read. Starfall does however have mathematics and songs as well.
Starfall Education Foundation is a publicly supported charity. This site is free but does have upgraded options that you can pay for. We have used the free resources on the site and have enjoyed it very much.
ABCya has one of the best kid gaming environments online. ABCya lets you pick your child’s grade level, ranging from kindergarten all the way to grade 5. Many different types of online kid games are available to choose from and they are all educational. ABCya has been featured in major media outlets including The New York Times, Scholastic, Parents, USA Today and many more.
Funbrain is another excellent website like ABC mouse that lets your children learn as they play. Funbrain has many different game genres such as Math Baseball, Word Raider and Pig Pile.
They all teach your kids a different subject such as math, reading and more. If you’re looking for free sites like ABC mouse, you’re going to love Funbrain and your kids will too!
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Seussville is the online playground of Dr. Seuss. Just as you would expect, this site has tons of Dr. Seuss books online, kid’s games, activities and more. If your children love Dr. Seuss, they will absolutely love spending time on Seussville.
This kid gaming site is entirely free to use and will keep them entertained. Check out Seussville if you’re looking for the best sites like ABC mouse online!
I hope you enjoyed learning about these websites. I’m sure there are many more websites Charlie and I should check into and I would like to ask you if there are websites you use I missed would you leave me a comment. I will get them added as soon as possible.
Also, I will be back and adding websites for other Grades soon. If you know of websites for Kindergarten through High School leave me a link to them so I can make sure I cover each grade.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
