From the first day your child enters this world and hears the sound of your voice, they begin their foundation for understanding the language and becoming a reader.
Homeschooling With A Packaged Curriculum
Once the decision is made to homeschool, the next major issue is which curriculum or methodology to use. While there are pros and cons for every option, this article will focus on homeschooling with a packaged curriculum.
How Do I Find The Best Homeschool Curriculum?
Being a parent is a huge and very important job! You provide your children loving care for their physical needs as well as their emotional and spiritual needs. You are the one they look to for love, help, care and concern. You fix boo-boo’s, read stories and chase away scary closet monsters at night. You play games, tell stories, and if you are like a lot of parents, you prepare and then send your children to school.
Developing Your Lesson Plans
As a homeschooling parent you are acutely aware of how important it is to have daily plans and be organized. Everyone has their own methods and tactics. And most of these plans certainly werent perfect right out of the gate and have evolved over time.
Homeschooling Can You Really Do This?
When it comes to the curriculum, schoolteachers are largely bound by a prescribed program and schedule. As a homeschooling parent you dont have to work within the time constraints or the class sizes. And you certainly wont get called into the office because you spent too much time on one subject.
How To Schedule Your Homeschooling Day, And Have Time To Spare
When creating a homeschooling schedule, areas of instruction, student age, and family schedule should all be taken into consideration. These three things should be integrated to come up with a schedule that will benefit children and adults alike. There is no need, however, to redesign the wheel. Use tools available to you to come up with a schedule that meets your needs.
The first step in creating a homeschooling schedule is to develop a mission statement. Take a few hours…
It’s Not Back to School for Everyone
Parents new to homeschooling call on a Homeschooling Consultant to help them plan curriculum, meet state requirements, and plan extra-curricular activities.
Reading Activity For Kindergarten
A natural progression in your reading activities with your children is that after you read them to a passage from the story; have them paraphrase the story back to you.
8 Ways To Focus Your Child On Learning Starting Right Now!
1. Dress for Success
As tempting as it may be in the homeschool setting to roll out of bed, pour a bowl of cereal, and begin instruction in your bathrobe, it is important that you dress for success. Your children need to know the importance of the education they are receiving. There is no quicker way to give your at-home classroom an aura of respect, than by dressing the part. Clothing does not have to be formal, but it can’t be sloppy either. Similarly, your students sho…