PRINTABLE TEACHING MATERIALS

Garden of Praise is an educational website created in 1999 by a veteran classroom teacher with 35 years experience. Our purpose is to provide free online and printable teaching materials. You are free to print material for your own use at home and in the classroom, but you may not reproduce it for profit.

TYPING RESOURCE

Welcome to Dance Mat Typing, an introduction to touch typing for children aged 7 - 11 years.

Each of the 4 levels are divided into 3 stages. Begin at Level 1 and build up your skills gradually through to Level 4.

THE WHITE HOUSE FOR KIDS

Whitehousekids.gov is an educational opportunity for young Americans to learn about the White House and the President through fun and exciting features. This guide gives teachers ideas on how to use the site in the classroom and parents ideas on topics to discuss with their children as they navigate through the site. The themes of reading, making good choices (such as going to school) and dreaming about the future are woven into the site's content through the personification of the President's pets and animals.
Contacting the President
Freedom Timeline
Biographies of the President, Mrs. Bush, the Vice President and Mrs. Cheney
Biographies of the First Family's Pets and Animals
White House Historical ABC's
Presidential Occupations Quiz
White House Dream Team

FBI FOR KIDS

The Kids' Page is designed for children and their parents to learn more about the FBI through age-appropriate games, tips, stories and interactives. We also introduce you to our working dogs and show how FBI special agents and analysts investigate cases.
First, can you help Special Agent Bobby Bureau get in disguise for his undercover assignment? He's depending on you.

To visit click here

OFFICIAL KIDS' PORTAL FOR THE US GOVERNMENT

Find links to government and other kids' sites -- grouped by age and subject. Explore, learn, and have fun!

Popular Links
Games and Activities Careers Presidents State Websites Environment Animals Making Laws U.S. History

Visit kids.gov

AUDIOS FROM HOMESCHOOL CONFERENCES

Here's a link to a website that's full of audios from homeschool conferences. They are free to listen to online, but you must purchase if you are going to download them. There is a variety of topics so hopefully something for everyone.

Click here to listen

HORSES

4-H Horse Farm has many categories of information about horses. They also have movies to watch.

Some of the activities:

• match parts of a horse
• click on different names of colors of horses to see what it looks like
• information about a horse farm - costs, concerns, typical day, etc.
• trivia questions
• different breeds with descriptions

and much more...

THE TEACHER'S CORNER

Find the following at theteacherscorner.net:

• lesson plans
• thematic units
• seasonal items
• bulletin boards
• teacher resources
• printable worksheets
• the teacher's lounge
• book nook

FREE WORKSHEETS

Welcome to tlsbooks.com, where you'll find a variety of free printable worksheets for home and school use. Tlsbooks offers numerous worksheets to supplement your early childhood education program, home day care, elementary school classroom or home-school. Parents love using our free worksheets to help their child gain valuable readiness skills or to reinforce material they may already be learning in school.

MAKE YOUR OWN CROSSWORD PUZZLES

Crossword Puzzles!
Make a free crossword puzzle
Printable crossword puzzles

FREE UNIT STUDIES

Homeschool Share (HSS) is a on-line cooperative effort of several homeschooling moms to provide free but quality literature-based unit studies and resources.

CURRICULUM REVIEW SITE

The purpose of this site is to provide a community where homeschoolers can read reviews and discuss curriculum and other issues that relate to homeschooling. Because all of the content of this site is created by Homeschooling parents, a unique perspective is obtained. This perspective is invaluable to other homeschoolers when it comes time to make curriculum choices or solve problems in thier homeschools.

Click here to read reviews

CHRISTIAN MOVIE REVIEWS

Click here for Christian Movie Reviews

Reviews are listed alphabetically including genre, rating and moral rating (based on review). Reviews include occurences of: Violence, Profanity, and Sex/Nudity and will often tie in scripture if applicable to the film.

WONDERFUL PRINTABLES, FILE FOLDER GAMES, MORE...

Shelley Lovett creates learning activities for early childhood educators. She originally created this site with the child care professional in mind... but it really is for anyone who works with children on a daily basis - whether that is in the role of a child care provider - parent - or teacher - we should all be proud of the work that we do! This site features printable hands-on learning activities for pre-k and kindergarten children. There are file folder games ... flip books ... matching games... learning sheets ... craft projects... flash learning pages... teaching ideas and more!

Click here to visit childcareland.com

50 STATES

Anything and everything you ever wanted to know about the 50 states is at 50states.com. Listed by state with active links in categories such as state bird, flower, song, famous people, political, libraries, state parks, state tree and many, many more.

MATH WORKSHEET GENERATOR

With The Math Worksheet Site you can create an endless supply of printable math worksheets. The intuitive interface gives you the ability to easily customize each worksheet to target your student's specific needs. Every worksheet is created when you request it, so they are different every time.

This way you can add the practice that your student needs to a curriculum you already like, or you can be freed from the constraints of a workbook or textbook that gives either too much or too little practice if you would rather direct the studies yourself.

These worksheets are provided in PDF format. For those who have a slow internet connection or an older computer, we also provide these worksheets as printable web pages.

CHRISTIAN HYMNS & GOSPEL SONGS

This site has over 7,000 Christ­ian hymns & Gos­pel songs from ma­ny de­nom­in­a­tions. You’ll find lyr­ics, scores, MI­DI files, pic­tures, his­to­ry, & more. To use the site ef­fect­ive­ly, you’ll need speak­ers, a sound card & a brows­er that sup­ports Ja­va­Script & XHTML, & can play MI­DI files.

cyberhymnal.org

PATRIOTIC SONGS LINKS

Click here to link to Patriotic Songs

FREE HORSE UNIT STUDY

Click here for a free horse unit study including printables, coloring sheets and more...

FREE CREATION BASED DINOSAUR UNIT STUDY

Click here for everything you need for a creation based dinosaur unit study.

Includes printables, book lists, weblinks and more...

FREE BIBLE COLORING PAGES

Found at heartofwisdom.com

Old Testament coloring pages
New Testament coloring pages

Last year I let my kids color these while I read the story.

CELEBRITIES READING STORIES ONLINE

Visit Storyline Online an on-line streaming video program featuring Screen Actors Guild members reading children's books aloud! Each book includes accompanying activities and lesson ideas.

WEEKLY SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS

Visit krampf.com to see free science videos and an experiment of the week. You can also sign up here to have the experiments emailed to you. I have done this and it is ONLY one a week. It helps me remember to do science.

Some of the experiments are:

•How can you make flowers change their color?•Why don't you put a tomato in the refrigerator?•How can you easily tell if an egg is raw or cooked?

FAMILY FRIENDLY MOVIES

This site has great family friendly movies and activity packs to go with some of them. A homeschooling mom's dream! The site allows you to search by value, age and title. Their mission statement is as follows:

What We Do
We produce and distribute uplifting and entertaining motion pictures that are suitable for all ages and strengthen positive values while containing no profanity, vulgarity, sexual content or graphic violence.

Why We Do It
We believe that all people, especially children, are affected and influenced by the entertainment they view. We believe millions of families feel helpless against the harmful influences of the media and yearn for excellent entertainment that supports their family values and provides a positive influence for the viewer. We are committed to providing that quality entertainment.

How We Do It
We help caring people understand and accept that their financial support will make the difference — that it is the only way to enable the production of more quality family films.

Visit them at familytv.com

PURPOSE OF THIS BLOG

I created HOMESCHOOL CATA-BLOG to arrange, categorize and share all the wonderful homeschooling resources I come across. They will be categorized by age and subject at this point. If you come across resources that you would like to share please let me know.

A catalog is defined as "any list or record", hence CATA-BLOG. It was hubby's clever idea.

Homeschooling is hard, but we are not in this alone!

Mission Blog Tour hosted by Angela at Becoming Me, head over there to read hers and many others or join in.