11 of the best homeschool websites that offer free curriculum or supplements! We’ve tested each of them through the years.
With computers, smartphones, and tablets being so prevalent in our homes, there are a plethora of homeschooling websites that we can rely on for help in our academic journey.
Whether you are looking for a stand-alone curriculum or something to supplement your current studies, there is so much to choose from.
I have found some of the best online homeschool sites that I have either used in the past or am currently using in our homeschool. I hope you find something useful in this list that will make your homeschool experience a little richer as well as a little easier.
Best Homeschool Websites
Here are eleven of the best homeschool websites that we use (or used to use) on an almost-daily basis! We’ve outgrown some of these sites (like Book Adventures), but they served us well when my kids were young!
Whether you’re looking for a full-time online course to you use in your homeschool or you’re looking for websites to supplement what you’re already using, these sites are just what you’re looking for.
From online books to full courses and lapbooks to printables, be sure to check out all of these educational websites to see how you can incorporate them on a daily basis or just as needed. You could even check out some online courses since there are such a wide range of courses on offer! They’re sure to save you time and money in your homeschool journey!
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Heritage History
I love Heritage History! This site is a wonderful place to explore all branches of history – Ancient History, Biblical History, World History, and American History. They have a broad spectrum of history curricula that is for purchase.
I have purchased several of their curriculum CD’s, but we also utilize the free online version often. When you visit their site, click on the “library” button on the top menu bar. This will take you to a list of all of the ebooks they offer.
When you click on individual titles, you will have the option to read each of the books online instead of purchasing them. They offer books for young readers all the way through high school. As I plan each history unit, I browse the Heritage History site to see what living books I can assign for my daughter to read.
Friday Freewrite at Brave Writer
Emma is a wonderful writer. She loves to write stories, and she is currently working on a short novel of her own. Each Friday, Brave Writer publishes a “Friday Freewrite” picture prompt on their blog. Em loves to write stories based on their pictures and the accompanying prompt.
These prompts are helpful when she gets writer’s block and can’t think of anything new to write about. It might be a great way to get your reluctant writer excited, as well.
Quizlet
Quizlet! I have been using this site for about ten years now. This is my all-time favorite site for reviewing vocabulary and so much more.
Students and teachers can create flashcard sets for all of their vocabulary words, memory work, history dates, and so on. The flash cards can then be used to play review games.
I create sets for everything – vocabulary, Latin, science, history timeline information, etc.
Productive Homeschooling
I like to utilize notebooking pages for various subjects like science, history, and fine arts. Productive Homeschooling is the first place I go when I’m looking for free notebooking pages. Whether I’m looking for something specific – a notebooking page on birds or Thomas Jefferson – or I need a general notebooking page for note-taking/narration, I can always find a something that will work for us on this site.
They have great prices on their notebooking pages and lifetime memberships. If you aren’t in the market for a new purchase, however, there is more than enough of their free pages to utilize in your homeschool.
Homeschool Share
When my kids were younger, we did lapbooks more all the time. My favorite place to find free lapbooks and unit studies was Homeschool Share. The free lapbooks and unit studies on the site are divided into levels as well as divided by subject. There are so many to choose from, you could certainly plan an entire year of study just from the choices offered here.
I spent hours and hours printing, cutting, and assembling their lapbooks when my kids were in the younger grades.
Ambleside Online
Ambleside Online is a free Charlotte Mason homeschool curriculum site. They have a literature-based program for ages K-12. Most of the books suggested in this curriculum are available for free online. This is the first site I visit when I’m creating my reading lists each year.
All-in-One Homeschool
I just discovered All-in-One Homeschool last summer, and I love it. I utilized it as a supplement for our history studies quite a bit last year. I have not researched all of the grades and all of the links, but I have been pleasantly surprised by what I’ve seen in the sections we’ve used.
A few years ago, we used their Zoology lessons for 7th grade science, because the science we started the year with wasn’t a great fit.
From the site: “This site holds preschool (getting ready 1), kindergarten (getting ready 2), and first through eighth. Grade levels include all of the English, math, computer and logic. I have also finished three years of all of the other subjects. These are called “program years.” Year 4’s theme is modern history, physics, and chemistry. Year 1’s theme is ancient history and biology. Year 2 has early American history and zoology for the theme. Year 3 should be ready in 2014 with earth science and geography and cultures as the theme.”
Book Adventure
It’s been a while since I used Book Adventure, but in the past, we used it weekly. If you’ve ever had a child in public school, you’ll notice that this is similar to the Accelerated Reader program. Children can read a book, take a quiz, and earn prizes at Book Adventure. I like how this program tests for reading comprehension. You have the option to use their prizes or set your own. There are so many books for you to choose from.
Classics for Kids
We love Classics for Kids. There are about 100 composers to choose from. You can search by name, musical period, and region. When you click on the composer’s name, you are taken to their show site. Most of the shows have several episodes which consist of biographical information, information about their lives and music, and you can hear their music. Often, there are activity sheets that my daughter enjoys working on while she listens to the show. We love this as a supplement to our composer studies.
Hodgepodge
Emma is our resident artist. She loves to create, craft, paint, draw, and sketch. One of her favorite places to visit for free tutorials is Hodgepodge. She loves the free chalk pastel tutorials. There are more than 50 chalk pastel tutorials on the site covering a multitude of subjects. If your kids get through those, she has much more for sale, as well.
Helpful Resources
Now that you’ve discovered some new favorite homeschool sites, how will you keep track of them? I like to use a planner in my homeschool. This customizable homeschool planner contains 13 fully customizable files and 11 PFD’s that are sure to help you stay organized.
Here’s another great digital homeschool planner to help get your homeschool organized. The pages are fully editable so you can customize them to fit your family’s needs. You can edit the pages before you print them or print them and fill them out by hand.
Your turn:
What is your favorite homeschool website that’s free? I’d love to check it out!
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This is a wonderful list, Tara. I use some of these already but was not aware of the Wordly Wise and clicked right over to check it out. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any part of the site that was accessible for free. The ‘online’ version required a $15 yearly subscription. 🙁
If you click on the link that is in the post, you’ll see a box on the right side of the page that says “students” and “educators.” When you click on “students,” you’re taken to a new screen where you can click on the book you are using. From there, you can choose word lists and review games for each book. All of that is free.
Thank you for sharing these sites!
We currently use Quizlet and All in One Homeschool. I had never heard of the others and am checking them out now. Already LOVE the Book Adventure website. Thanks so much for putting together this list!!!
Yay! I’m glad you figured it out. And, thank you for sharing the steps you took in case someone else needs them.
Thank you for sharing this great list of resources! I need to get into notebooking I think.. I’ll have to check these out. Thanks!
Another good free one we use almost every day is XtraMath.com. Simple, basic math drills. My kids get a new game when they finish each section, +, -, X, or /.
We love Hodgepodge too!
I’ll have to check out a few of the others 🙂
Awesome! I’ll have to check that out!
Thanks for sharing! Super excited to check all of them out for my son who’s in pre-k! Will definitely share to other home schoolers on my Facebook page, Homeschooling 101.
I just found Quizlet this year and we love it! Many of these others I have never heard of before and will have to take some time to look at. Thanks for providing an easy place to find them all! And thanks, too, for linking up at Frugal Friday! 🙂
Great list. This is our first year homeschooling. I love seeing/finding new free websites.
my children are way past the home-schooling stage but I know that resources like this are invaluable so thanks for sharing them with us at our #OverTheMoon link up ~ Leanne 🙂
What a great list, thanks so much for sharing!
Ooh, thank you! I’m always looking for more free homeschooling resources! As homeschoolers we often have to be very frugal with finding resources, so free is our favorite word around this house, lol. I’m definitely pinning this to keep handy for lesson planning.
What an wonderful list of homeschool freebie sites! We have used many of them in the past, and will be trying out a couple of them on the list. It is amazing how many free resources there are around the internet, if you just know where they are. I hope you have a blessed week.
This is a great list! We don’t homeschool but during the summer I like to find resources to prevent summer slide. These will be great! Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday!
I use Mobymax a lot for math, vocab and writing. Its a free site that has a placement test to dial your child in to just the right level to progress from, offers a lesson, drills and tests that lesson, automatically grades it, and passes them on to the next lesson when that one is mastered. The writing setup offers an easy grading rubrick.
I’ve also recently discovered Spelling City for spelling words (another free site). For the summer time we also got a lot of math out of the site prodigymath. It features a pokemon style roleplaying game where the kids play a hero and collect pets to fight for them with a placement test system to make sure they are drilling math facts they need to know and moves on up when they seem to master a concept.
Wonderful List!! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Snickerdoodle Sunday! Pinned and tweeted to share.
~Laurie
Thanks for the list!
I totally needed this list! Thanks for sharing on Meetup Monday!
I’m not sure I’ve heard of even half of these; so excited to have some new sites to check out. I’m pinning this so I don’t forget either.
What a great round up! I have never heard of many of these! Thank you for sharing this list on the Art of Home-Making Mondays at Strangers & Pilgrims on Earth! 🙂
I have used All-in-one Homeschooling, Notebooking Pages and Homeschool Share for some topics that we cover. I’ll have to check out these other ones!
Thanks for sharing at Manic Monday!
Thanks for the reminder about the Freewrite on Bravewriter. My friend loves it! I’d heard of Ambleside, but many of the others were new to me.
We’re thinking about homeschooling. I can’t wait to check out these sites. Thanks for sharing!
Good morning! Just a little note to let you know that this article has been FEATURED today on the Art of Home-Making Mondays at Strangers & Pilgrims on Earth! Thank you for joining us and have a wonderful week!
Thanks for sharing these sites. I use a few of them myself. Thanks for linking up to the Homestead Blog Hop last week!
What a great list! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much! I look forward to linking up again soon.
Great list! We also use spellingcity.com for spelling games and worksheetworks.com to make my own handwriting practice sheets. Guesthollow.com has a lot of neat stuff! I have not used khanacademy.org, but have heard a lot of good things. My kids love multiplication.com for practicing math facts.
https://www.engageny.org/common-core-curriculum
This one has common core for language arts and mathematics. It is one that a local school district here uses.
We use Khan Academy for math but they have lots of other subjects. The creator, Sol Khan, did a TEDTalk where he explains how the Academy started and how people are using it.
Thanks so much for sharing your list of resources. It was a great reminder of some of the sites I had forgotten about using in our homeschool. I am excited in using them again!
Oh my word! I’m so glad I stumbled onto your post from Small Victory Sunday. I will be a new homeschooling mom in the fall, and I am SO overwhelmed! Thanks so much for such amazing resources. I am definitely repinning this one!!
Wow! This is a unique list of what appears to be some amazing homeschool sites I’ve never heard of before. I LIKE! I have a long list of sites that I enjoy using, but I can’t say that I have an absolute FAVORITE resource, but like you, NotebookPages.com has quickly become one of my favorites.
Did not go through all the comments, but KhanAcademy.com is awesome! Not only is it for math but they have partner content on all kinds of subjects. Free for all.