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• LDS Prophets - Let your child complete pages about each prophet (100 pgs).

• LDS Notebooking pages from the Book of Mormon.

• The Friend magazine online in full color (.pdf files)

• All-in-one collection of coloring pages from The Friend magazine.

• Articles of Faith Activities (memorization helps, games)

• Handy Chart of Useful Latin Phrases

• A 19th Century Education For Free! Free links to antique readers and spellers, and other children's books online.

• A2 - Accelerated Achievement - Homeschool CD with 800 books!

• Read transcript of President Bush's 9/11 speeches (9/11/06 | 9/11/-01)

• Free Resource Page - Free online resources for homeschoolers.

• World Family Policy Center, sponsored by BYU.  To provide balanced, pro-family input and effectively education on moral, religious and other value-based issues.

• Homeschool Diner: Articles, curriculum ideas, helpful suggestions and links to online resources.

• An Old-Fashioned Education - Visit this impressive website for hundreds of links to online out of print books, organized into K-12 graded curriculum.

• Wars and Rumors of Wars from a Restoration Perspective

• Cooking and Management for Large Families

• BlogSpot:  A growing collection of LDS Homeschool Blogs.

• Watch Your Language (recommended books for studying the history of the English language), by David Crystal.

• Reading list of books on the Constitution, by Robert Bork.

• Honorary Unsubscribe recognizes the unknown, the forgotten and the obscure people who had an impact on our lives.  Very interesting short biographies.

• Studies for Young LDS Scholars

• Poetry: Prophet of the Restoration

• Reed Benson's dissertation "The Making of a Homeschool".

• How Beautiful to Live in These Times and Be Prepared!

• This Final Glorious Gospel Dispensation, Bruce R. McConkie

• Home, The Place to Save Society, Spencer W. Kimball

• The Lord Expects His Saints to Follow the Commandments

• Play Conference Jeopardy!  October 2005

• How Old is the Earth?  LDS Resources

• However Long and Hard the Road, by Jeffrey Holland

• The Empty Soup Bowl Dinner (service project)

• The Web Runs on Love, Not Greed

• Book of Mormon Make-up Work for Seminary

• New Testament Make-up Work for Seminary

• FOCUS - Foundation of Christians United in Service.

• Introduction to the Great Books and to a Liberal Education
  (with LDS references)

• Nostalgia Books - A website to help you locate books that are long-lost but most precious childhood memories.

• Speech Teach - A web site for parents and professionals supporting children with speech difficulties.  Ideas for teaching games and skill development resources to use at home.  Helpful links.

• Visit the website of Super Duper, Inc. to find hundreds of speech therapy items. 

• The American Story:  Why Failing to Teach History is Bad for Democracy, by John Fund, writing for the Wall Street Journal.

• BeSmart - a website sponsored by the Church CES department.  Guides students in preparation for college admissions.

• Statements on education from Presidents of the Church.

• Remember the Witness: Reflections on the Recent
  National LDS Homeschool Conference, by Doreen Blanding.

• Roots of Freedom - resources to aid you in celebrating Constitution Day.

• Book of Mormon Discovery (study program for younger children, based on the church BoM scripture reader)

• Browse the publications library of the National LDS Homeschool Association.

• Read about Terri's Fight for Life

• To Those who Teach in Troubled Times, by Boyd K. Packer

• Educational Dilemma, by Jack Monnett.  Scriptural admonitions and statements from living prophets are continual reminders to seize a wide variety of educational opportunities. All educational offerings, however, are not of equal value.

• A Tribute to Our Noble Language, by Jenn Young (teen writer)

• Exceedingly Fine, by Dorothy Jenson

• Collection of Love Poems -- wonderfully fun to browse, useful at times.

• Let Us Set in Order Our Own House, by Marion G. Romney.  Exhortations to parents to avoid the evils of the world and teach their children righteousness.

• Hands, by Thomas S. Monson.  Beautiful meanings of the word "hands."

• Need ideas and an outline for planning a homeschool conference?

• Online Writing Resources - extensive links, online study and application.

• New Testament Supplemental Readings - selected articles.

• Teaching the "How and Why" of Prayer - inspired counsel from our leaders.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Thinking -- at your fingertips.

• Scripture Mastery - No more guessing.  Match the scriptures with their clues.

• The Miracle of Ghana.  No greater example of faith, missionary work, and determination to live the gospel exists than the story of the thousands of members of the Church in Ghana.  Learning and teaching this story will change your life forever.

• National Intelligence Council:  Center of strategic thinking within the US Government, reporting to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and providing the President and senior policymakers with analyses of foreign policy issues that have been reviewed and coordinated throughout the Intelligence Community. 

• 2004 Consumer Action Handbook. Use this free 180-page guide from the Federal Consumer Information Center to address consumer problems and complaints. Protect your privacy and yourself from fraud. Lists consumer contacts at hundreds of companies, trade associations, government agencies, and consumer organizations.

• George Washington's Rules of Civility.

• Stand to Reason - dedicated to building righteous Ambassadors.  Chock full of great commentary and opinion pieces.

• Thanksgiving Message from School of Abraham

• America at the Crossroads:  Impacting the 21st Century.  Teaches personal responsibility as a Christian and as a citizen.  Interactive.

• Mighty in Spirit:  In Touch Ministries.  Learn about the heroes of the Bible.

• Becoming a Master Student

• Links to organizations that defend marriage

• How Does Legalizing Same Sex Marriage Hurt Marriage, Children and Society?

• Photo Essay Who has the right stuff to be president?  More photos.

• Wall Street Journal free online section, www.opinionjournal.com.  Conservative viewpoints, reliably articulated with precision.  Sign up for Best of the Web.

• Now Is the Time:  We must do what we can to win this war.  A heart-felt essay by Peggy Noonan.  Peggy exemplifies what it means to be a statesman and patriot today.

• A tribute to our soldiers in combat.

• Presidential Prayer Team.  Join others in prayer to preserve our country.

• Call to stand up for righteousness and decency amid a decaying world.

• For kids:  Become a Junior Secret Service Agent.  Receive a badge and certificate for completing the program.

• For Kids:  Comprehensive site on US Presidents and presidential resources.

• Defend Marriage:  A Message from Richard Wilkins

• All Entertainment All the Time by Mark Edmunson.  Excerpted from Why Read?

• GospeLink.com:  The world's largest LDS electronic reference library, on the web!

• Illinois Loop.  The Illinois Loop website is dedicated to identifying in detail the many academic problems of the Illinois public schools.  A poster website for reasons to homeschool.

• School of Abraham New Testament Study Resources.  Choose between a 30- or 90-day reading plan, participate in our supplemental readings, master the New Testament scriptures.

• Homeschool Comic Relief

• www.moneyopolis.com  This is a neat web site for kids to play and learn about money and finances.

• www.thehomeschoolmom.com Lots of information as well as free resources are available at this site. 
• Accredited High School Diploma  (click on the High School Handbook link)   Students who are capable may earn high school credits at any age, and they may earn as many as they like to build their high school transcript.  Also see www.bostonschool.org.
• http://www.amblesideonline.com  At Ambleside, there is a completely free Charlotte Mason program for grades 1-6.  Many of the recommended books are online and the rest are readily available at your library.
• Free Online Classes  Some of these college-level online classes have lecture notes, some have interesting subject-related links to explore, and others are outlines of a course of study for which the required text and materials would need to be obtained.  Have an adventure. 
• The Teaching Company. Enjoy the best instructors from the Who's Who lists for high school and university levels.
• Distance Learning recommendations from Johns Hopkins Center for Academically Talented Youth.
• Ancient History Supplemental Resources created by Michelle Duker.
• Survey homeschool conferences from across the nation and select your favorite speakers, buy the CD or tape.
• Lecture:  "Acres of Diamonds"  Russell H. Conwell, founder of Temple University.
• Teach Kids About Money....Or You'll Pay For It!  We teach our kids many subjects, some of which they will never use again once they have graduated from high school. Money is the one subject we can teach that will be used or misused every day for the rest of our child's life.
• Nobel Prize Winners Who Do Not Like School.  Read for yourself and see.

• BYU Distance Learning Courses grades 7 -12.  Most courses graded by Speedback.
• Unconditional Love:  A Column for Harried Parents by Linda Silverman.
• Giftedness:  How to understand and help your gifted child.
• Trusted educational resources on the web.  Compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
• Are your children spending too much time on the computer?   Enuff Pc is the computer and internet timer that gives your children back to you.  Presented by School of Abraham Press.
• Orson Scott Card wrote an article on media bias for the Wall Street Journal. Could be used as an introduction to the topic. Conservative viewpoint.
• Enjoy a couple of poems written by Langston Hughes.  These poems speak to the heart.
• Some day, when you have a lot of time, visit Mormon Momma, a frankly- spoken website edited by a homeschool "momma".  You might be surprised at the openness you'll find.
• Visit Bill Smith's Unofficial Roundtable for well-organized scouting helps.
• Some easy recipes to use with the "Chef Chez Moi" program sponsored by School of Abraham. 
• Looking for service project ideas?  This collection of ideas for community service will keep you busy.  When you've gone through that list, here's another one.
• For those "I need a hug moments:"  Enjoy a very special song,  Keeping Sheep.
• Time for our annual reading of "The Baby is the Lesson".
• Gospel Doctrine Online Class.  Complete lecture notes on all four years of scripture study.  Extensive use of supplemental resources.  This is great for students or parents who serve in auxiliaries and cannot attend class.  See also the Gospel Doctrine Forum at the same site.
• Scripture Mastery Verses.  All 100 verses for your students to memorize.
• To go with your great list of seminary scriptures, Scripture Memory Games to enlighten and entertain.
• Sing the Scriptures.  You guessed it -- scripture mastery put to music.  The website has audio links so you can preview the toe-tappin' sound.  Great for those audio-visual learners!
• Neumann Institute Sunday School Lessons.  Catch up on your scripture studies.
• Gospel Doctrine Supplement.  Increase your understanding of the scriptures with weekly Gospel Doctrine Supplements from renowned Hebrew scholar and literary analyst Avraham Gileadi.
• Math Games 1st-6th Grade Online
• Language Arts, Social Studies and Science
• Cradles of Eminence: Childhoods of More Than 700 Famous Men and Women The favorite classic edition, with additional biographies.
• Character and the Destiny of Free Government.  This is an outstanding 13 page essay for discussion with older students.
• Video:  Siege of Western Civilization.   Produced by a former CIA agent, this 42 minute video exposes the continuing assault on the very underpinnings of Western civilization, and discusses what we can do.
• Church Music website.  Download a free MP3 version of the hymns, including the children's songs, with and without words. Also multiple other music resources.