Looking for info on homeschooling a prek-k grade levels?

Question

I am looking for information on homeschooling my 3 and 4 y/o for the next school year. I need to know what kinds of certification I have to have (if any) and where to buy materials. Are there any restrictions in the state of KY for homeschooling? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I live in Ky also.There are no requirements to home school in this state.You have to submit a letter of intent 2 weeks before the school year starts to the Director of Pupil Population.Go to hslda.com for more info.Good lucky to you and Happy Home Schooling!!

Answer 2

Look, you don't need ANY certificate at all for pre-K schooling. Homeschooling laws only apply to K-12. But as a parent you should do the best you can, as most true learning takes place in the first 5 years of life, before you ever get into public schools!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

There are no restrictions in KY. There are no qualifications. There is no testing. If you want to teach your children, just let your school board know with a letter. You don't have to do that for Pre K or K though. You don't have to start sending letters until the school year when your older child will become 6.

You have to keep an attendance record, just in case they ask to see it, and you have to "school" them 189 days of a calendar year. It doesn't matter what days.

I would keep a portfolio of their work in a folder for every year, just in case they ask to see it.

You can buy materials from www.frankschaffer.com. They have workbooks for all grade levels to 8th.

Good luck!

Answer 5

Don't buy anything! You can find the coolest stuff online, esp for prek!
Look at websites like http://billybear4kids.com/ where you can start with stuff like tracing letters, and when they are accomplished at that, you can print out the next subset. Get ideas from websites that sell school supplies, or market to daycares like http://www.montessorimaterials.org. They'll help you decide what's you want, and give lots of ideas.

Join a local homeschooling group (or even just attend a meeting or two). They often have great coop classes, or have planned field trips.

Your public library is also a great resource....on the drive there we talk about three different things we're curious about, and then find books together on each one. When we get home with them, we draw pictures, write words from the books. My three year old loves to make his own books, and I write the words for him in light pencil, and he traces them with his crayons. We can find all kinds of ideas to fit his interests, and he learns so much because he is interested.

Answer 6

Other posters have explained already that you don't need to notify anyone just yet that you're homeschooling, so I won't go into that.

My 3 year old is enrolled in public preschool (10 hours per week) right now because he has speech delays and Asperger's syndrome, but I plan on homeschooling him in the future as I did for his brothers. I found that the Kumon books, available in the education section at Barnes & Noble or from Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/First-Book-Tracing-Kumon-Workbooks/dp/4774307076/sr=8-1/qid=1164657459/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-9044709-9688015?ie=UTF8&s=books (that's only one link--you can find the rest by poking around from ther) are great. They only cost $6.95 each and are WELL worth it because they last for a long time--they have about 80 pages each. My son LOVES doing his workbooks--I have to insist on puttig them away after a few pages, he'd just as soon sit there for hours and do page after page in them!

A note on the Pasting book--it says that the kids are supposed to cut out the shapes but they're a little difficult for a 3 year old, I cut them out for my son and he does the pasting. He likes the Cutting book, though, and is getting very good with scissors and isn't even 37 months yet.

We have the Tracing, Easy Mazes, Cutting, Pasting, and Coloring books and have great success with all of them. I haven't tried the letters and numbers yet because he isn't ready to write, he gets frustrated writing anything other than his name or "mama"--which is way more than I expect him to do anyway!

Good luck! :)

Answer 7

I live here in Texas, and I'm not sure if it is the same in KY but here pre-kindergarten is not mandatory. If it isn't mandatory, I would just start your child on learning mathematics. Start with the basics, pennies and nickles are usually good working tools. And then work your way up from there. If your trying to teach them to read, they're are lots of computer games and Dr. Suess books work as well![=

Answer 8

Two fun free sites I would recommend are: http://www.iknowthat.com/com and another is http://www.uptoten.com/kids/uptoten-home.html. I don't think you really need much of a formal curriculum for 3 and 4 year olds. I would agree with the other poster about library books also, just a lot of good read alouds would be good, both fiction and nonfiction, picture books which they would enjoy. Most preschool activities are lots of fun activities like playing with bubbles, blocks, puppets, etc. Have fun!

Answer 9

Here are some good curriculums:

http://www.calvertschool.org

http://www.aop.com


Here is a site that has tons of worksheets for almost any age:

http://www.schoolexpress.com/


Thought these sites might be helpful. Hope it works out!

Answer 10

call the school board and ask for reccomedations they may want to keep the child inside look at homeschooling on the interenet