I’ve finally fixed the bug on the forums (I just haven’t uploaded the fix) and have also gotten my new links directory working, so over the weekend, I plan to buckle down and enter my 1000+ links in the link directory. It’s a Yahoo!-style link directory just for homeschoolers of all kinds, working parents, work from home folks, and single parents. I was considering just doing a StumbleUpon or Del.icio.us account instead for ease of use, but those aren’t as comprehensive or descriptive and aren’t easily ordered either. This software I’ve installed is easily customizable and checks dead links with one click, so I’m very happy with it and hopefully people will find it useful.

There are so many things I’d like to blog about, but as always, “free time” is a scarce commodity around here. I really do intend to stick to my New Year’s resolution of blogging 3 or more times per week beginning today, so brace yourselves.

In the meantime, here is a huge list of free homeschooling curriculum resources, geared mostly but not exclusively for lapbooking and paper crafts, courtesy of Diana from the Lapbooking Yahoo! group. I should say, MOST of them are free, and all of the ones that aren’t, are very low cost.

• 16-fold book from 1 piece of Paper
• Animal Classification Unit Study
• Animated Animal Notebook
• Childcare Land Free Resources
• Early Childhood Printables
• Everything Clip Art
• HS Launch Lapbooking Shapes & Mini Units
• HomeschoolShare
  
• HomeschoolHelperOnline
• LapbookLessons
• Great Bible Lapbooks – NOT FREE but inexpensive and beautiful
• Homeschooling Magazine: Unit Studies, Lapbooks, so much more
• Homeschooling on a Shoestring – Lapbooks
• Kid Zone
• Lapbook Lessons Forums
• Social Network for Lapbookers
• Lapbook Samples
• Lapbook Shapes and Templates
• Lapbooking How To’s and Themes
• An Introduction to Lapbooking
• Making Books – Free Projects
• EduPlace Free Monthly Theme
• NotebookingPages.com
• NotebookLearning
• PaperToys
• Read Write Think- Make Flipbooks online & print out
• Lapbooking vs Notebooking and Combined
• Themes at Step by Step
• US History Virginia SOL’s History
• Vicki Blackwell – Making Books

This weekend was my birthday, so my family and I had a day out at the beach. Those of you blanketed in snow right now can comfort yourselves with the thought that, come hurricane season, you’ll be glad you’re not here!

11 pictures! click to embiggen.

January on the Beach