Once your kids begin their educational life outside of the public school, there will be a transition time for them; as there would be a transition time for anyone undergoing change in their life and their routines.
Education & Teaching – Language Acquisition
Child development and home schooling improves comprehension and spelling knowledge to support fluent reading and writing.
Home Schooling Supplies: What To Use
Home Schooling has become such an alternative experience and although some people still find it hard to accept the fact that parents are taking responsibility for their childs education, there is no stopping a parent who is determined to homeschool his child.
The first thing that a first time homeschooling parent would look for is supplies. Its probably one of the first things that a curious parent would ask. All you need to remember if you are looking for supplies is th…
Weighing The Options Of Elementary Home Schooling
Many parents start considering the option of home schooling right around the time their kids are in elementary school. Many experts feel that this is the ideal time to have children explore the options of this alternative education. Students that start to home school at this age also tend to achieve higher academic achievements that children in traditional schools. These students are often three to four grade levels above their peers.
One of the questions parents consideri…
Home-Schooling For Today’s Children
In recent decades, homeschooling, or the traditional practice of educating children within the home as against sending them to a public or private learning institution, is slowly making its way back to the educational mainstream.
This alternative means of elementary and high school education dates back to 1906 in the United States when the Calvert Day School in Baltimore, Maryland offered the “curriculum in a box” partnered with a National Geographic advertisement. Shortl…
Home Schooling Your Children on the Internet
A new addition to education, the internet is now providing the ability for parents to give their child an enhanced curriculum, control over education, and online support. This will all cost much less than private school at an average cost of $900 per year.
Where Can I Find Teaching Materials For Homeschooling?
How do you successfully determine what method of teaching, what lessons to teach and at what speed? Having decided to educate your kids at home for the purpose of giving your children the needed attention they require, do you still follow the school’s standards of what subjects to cover and take up and when? Has keeping with the rules and standards of the school meant hurrying your children through anything by driving them to memorizing certain areas of the subject matter so …
Home-Schooling The Preschool Children
Different children have varying interests and learning needs not to mention attention spans. And so, for parents who are pondering whether homeschooling is for them or otherwise, it is best to do an initial evaluation of what the preschool child’s needs are.
Several online resources provide lesson suggestions for preschoolers. Parents and tutors will most definitely find these materials very much helpful. But of course, consider them only as guides to provide the children’…
Home Schooling: The Advantages And Disadvantages
People new to the idea and concept of homeschooling often have a thousand of questions to raise. Here is some helpful information to guide you in weighing things out:
Some homeschooling advantages:
1. Allow quality time, providing individualized attention and instruction. Homeschooling parents can better understand their children; observe how kids progress, what areas they find difficult and help them out.
2. Children learn in their own pace. At homeschool, children …
Who Said Homeschool Is For Kids Only? It’s For Highschools Too!
They say homeschooling is only for the younger kids in the elementary or lower levels but highschool homeschooling is also a very popular educational choice. Only this time, the decisions are most probably through the convincing power of the students themselves.
Most that do homeschooling are those teenagers who cannot take the pressures at school, especially those of peer pressure and bullying. Others cannot catch up with the lessons and curriculum programs of regular sch…
The ABC’s Of Home School: Deciding To Study At Home
Theres no place like home, says the lovely Dorothy to get out of the wonderful Land of Oz Indeed, for many people, home is the place to be. It is where one sleeps, eats, relaxes and lives. But now, it can also be the place where one can study. This is not just about doing homework or reviewing lessons learned from school, but real, full-time education at home.
Before, studying at home was a luxury available only to the elite and aristocratic families who believed it bes…
Managing Home School Costs
Home schooling is now, more than ever, being considered as a viable alternative to traditional schooling. The reasons for which are diverse ranging from cultural/religious beliefs to economic matters.
The notion that home schooling is much less expensive than sending your child to an educational institution is prevalent, but not necessarily true. Pound for pound, while a home school education is less costly than a private school, it will likely be more expensive than a pub…