Questions and Answers
After calling around to some of the preschools in our area, I have decided to try home schooling to prep my son for kindergarten. Although I would honestly prefer to have him in a real school environment, it is unfortunately NOT an option for our family.
My question now is: How do I find the "best" at-home preschool kit and curriculum? Is there some place that these programs are rated by professionals and parents? They all have testimonials on their web pages, but I'd rather have some non-biased opinions and ratings.
You know, I believe your son will really learn *a lot* more by being at home with you, rather than in a "real" school environment. You can teach him better than anyone else because you know him better than anyone else…………he is YOUR child. It will be one-on-one instruction – you can't beat that! And you can make it fun and hands-on for him! : )
If you find that you enjoy teaching him for preschool, you might want to consider continuing and homeschool him all the way to graduation.
Here are several places where you can read reviews of curriculum. -
And here is a link about choosing curriculum. -
For my 9yr old who's in 4th grade. So, I'm looking for an online curriculum for a to-be 5th grader. Around maybe $1500 or less yearly. Any positive suggestions? Thanks!!!
Selecting a Christian education. A couple of things come to mind. First is that most Christians are more comfortable with their own church than they might be with others, so it's not always a one size fits all affair for everyone. Second would be: If you have a church you attend, talk to it's leadership. I'm sure they are either aware of programs they could recommend, or ask and find out for you. If you do not attend a church, go to one you are comfortable with to ask about it, even if you do not attend.
Also talk to your local School Board to find out everything you need to know about home schooling… Requirements for your County and State. They probably have useful information packets they could give you, and could tell you if the curriculum you would like to work with meets state guidelines. No point in buying into a program which doesn't meet their requirements, and fairly easy to check with them.
I have an exceptional child who doesn't fit teh mold of brik and morder school. I've been told to try private homeschool, where she can be excelerated at her own rate. She gets all a's and scored a perfect on il's standardized test. Perfect in math and exceeds expectations in everythign else. But they won't put her in excelerated classes because they say she isn't motivated. She is bored even her teachers say whe is very elevated and would benifit from private virtual school.
So how do I come up with 7,000 to 10,000 a year for schooling?
She has been accepted to several university programs but doesn't qualify for a pell grant becasue she is a middle school student.
Are there tax exemptions? Grants? Groups that help? Federal Funds?
Thanks for your help in advance.
It’s possible to home-school for practically free using only library materials, but generally you’ll want to spend a little money. You can make your own curriculum. My advice for saving money is:
1. Check out the laws for your state on the Home School Legal Defense Association website, so you can find out if the government will have any requirements for you. If so, it’s extremely important to follow them exactly, because some people who haven’t have lost custody of their children or been threatened with it. If registration with the state is optional, do NOT do it, because it can invite interference.
2. Ask your clergyman if the church can help you in any way, such as giving you used books, offering Bible study, etc.
3. Have your own computer, printer, & internet connection, if you don’t already. (In financial straits, you could get by fine with no internet connection after getting started.) This makes it easy to find information, free downloadable materials, free worksheets to print out, inexpensive used books to order if you decide to order any.
4. Take advantage of many things offered at the library. Any book you won’t need very long, you should check out from it rather than buy. There are also educational computer programs there, classical CDs for music appreciation, often classes for arts & crafts, some even have programs especially for the home-schooled. Library used-book sales are good places especially to find reference books, such as atlases & encyclopedias, inexpensively.
5. The 2 best websites to find free downloadable e-books are Google Books (pick Free Google E-Books) & Internet Archive (pick Text). Just search for the subject you need in either & you’ll find dozens to 100s of books.
6. There is a free geography-quiz computer program, Seterra, which is fun, & a free website, Khan Academy, which has tutorials & quizzing in every kind of math or science you can imagine, also finance, history, & SAT-prep. Both of these are immensely helpful.
7. The most education a child can get in the shortest time in reading literature is in classics. Book lists are John Senior’s Good Books list & a comprehensive list called Great Books and Classics, both on the internet. I recommend staying away from the modernist & post-modernist books (Marx, Nietschze, Dewey, & most of those published since the end of the 19th c.) because they tend to confuse & disturb children.
8. If you can afford to buy a few schoolbooks, the most value you can get is in reprints of the Blue-Backed Speller, the New England Primer (both from the Patriotic Textbook Series), a traditional arithmetic set such as Ray’s Arithmetic, & a traditional reading set, such as McGuffey or Sanders Readers. The 1st 2 go from the alphabet to 8th gr., with moral lessons, prayers, etc. The arithmetic goes from counting to calculating compound interest & extracting cube roots in 4 books. The reading books go from a 1st-gr. Alphabet primer to the 5th Reader which is generally college to grad. Sch. Level. You can get all these for less than you’d spend for many curriculum packages for only 1 yr. Still, these can be found on the sites in #5. Add a Bible, handwriting worksheets to trace, a Latin primer, a grammar primer, & a logic primer, (all free to download also if you like) & you’d have a 1st-rate K–8 curriculum, something better than almost any private school in the world uses.
9. If you need some more structure than this, try the book, The Latin-Centered Curriculum & the site “Classical Christian Homeschooling: Classical Education at Home,” but you may want to do some substituting of items to save more money.
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