how do i start homeschooling?

Answer 1

I would suggest you take a look at the A to Z Homeschooling website for help http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/index.htm

Good Luck!!!

Answer 2

The laws varry state to state as will what a child may need or want to learn depending on their age. Here are some great homeschooling books avalible at any bookstore or library that will answer most all your questions. Also search the web, your area may have a homeschooling group which supplies information, classes, field trips, activities, and more.

Homeschooling Handbook - Mary Griffith.
The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom - Mary Griffith
Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School - Rebecca Rupp
Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense - David Guterson
Homeschooling Our Children Unschooling Ourselves - Alison McKee
Homeschooling High School: Planning Ahead for College Admission - Jeanne Gowen Dennis


Here are some good websites:
www.nhen.org
www.montessori.edu/homeschooling.html
www.homeschoolingonashoestring.com
www.eho.org
http://familyeducation.com/channel/0,2916,58,00.html
http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com
http://progressive-homeschool.blogspot.com

there are good stores to get supplies to depending on your area (like in our area a great place is the learning shop.)

Answer 3

I really like this website
www.oklahomahomeschool.com.
It really starts at the beginning, and walks you through the steps. They have a ton of resources. For state laws check out www.hslda.org, or www.nheld.com
Here's the index for example:
quote
First, learn all you can about homeschooling (Homeschool books, magazines, newsletters, and support groups.)
Plan your school year.
Supplies Needed
Organize your homeschool for success.
Assessment/Testing
Removing Your Child From School
When Should I Homeschool and How long should I teach each day?
How do I know my child is learning everything he needs to know?
Choosing Curriculum

Answer 4

Some of the stuff ABOVE is quite good for getting you started.

I have, however, some theoretical problems with packages. They basically reflect the same ciriculum as the public schools replacing you as the supervisor.

Now, I'm not a big fan of teachers in primary and secondary schools, but this mentality goes beyond my views and seems to be condeming all teachers and all schools, but NOT the information.

Now that's where a good teacher can change things. A good teacher might reach outside the ciriculum and bring in things not normally used that might excite the student.

That's what homeschooling is suppossed to be. Not your mother grading your math paper that you were roted by some program, but your mother giving you something to do that uses math to acheive a result. Like their taxes or like a physics project or like computer programming.

To program a computer you HAVE to master Algebra.

This is thinking outside the box.

First, computer programming makes good money.

Second, you have to learn to master a form of grammar and syntax, a new language, perfectly or it won't work

Third, you have to used applied math to do things, including a lot of variables, trigonomic routines, boolean operators and logic tables.

Fouth, you have to develope good langauge and communications skills to make a program that others can use, work with and move through flawlessly

Fifth, you may also be called upon to develope graphic arts skills.

All you have to do to programm is generally buy a package of Visual BASIC 6.0 Professional or Enterprise off E-Bay for $30 to $50 used.

Then learn and work it.

Now, you do this half a day and do the "text book is a box" routine half a day and you have an alternative education program going.

There are also nice stuff you can buy at places like Radio Shack, Wal MArt, Edmunds scientific.

Things for electronics, optics, astronomy, biology, microscopes.

Kits to make radios. Weather stations to learn meteroology. Telescopes to see the planets and moon. Optics to learn how to make telescopes, microscopes.

http://scientificsonline.com/Default.asp?bhcd2=1171820375

Field trips, kids always loved them at schools. Anyone who is within 300 miles of Chicago should go to the Museum of Science and Industry and Adler Planetarium and the Aquarium, plus the Art Museum.

Anyone close to NYC should go to the Museums there.

The idea behind homeschooling should be MORE than anything SCHOOL ever offers.

Also you should try and get homeschoolers into things like Little Leage, Softball, gynmastics or something like that to help with socialization, PE and competitive situations. Instead of putting them in the play room at the Health Club, get them a membership and have them work out.

Finally the Parent needs to be fully into the whole thing, not just an arm chair voyer. If you're just an arm chair voyer, might as well let them go to school and have the teacher play baby sitter.

My mother sent me to electronics school when I was 12 and she made ME teach HER the course every evening. I had to sit down and TEACH her what I learned and she got a note book and paper and she wrote it down and ASKED questions when she got confused and I had to answer them or go to my instructors and get an answer for me and her.

At the age of 7 my mother taught me touch typing WITHOUT EVER TOUCHING the keyboard.

She ROTED the QWERTY system into my head by rows, hands and fingers.

What is bottom row, little finger of left hand (z).

We did this for half an hour to an hour before I went to bed.

She did it until I started being ORNARY and going to the quote marks, apostrophy and Exclaimation point (top row, little finger, left hand SHIFT KEY DOWN)

That got me an A in typing 1 when I took it in middle school.

Oh, and buy a langauge course. ITalian, French, German, Japandese, Spanish. Tapes and a book.

BOTH of you learn it.

Speak it over dinner.

Don't FEED your kids unless they LEARN to ASK FOR something in that LANGUAGE (Well, we can MODIFY that a little you can always give them SPINACH unless they learn to ask for Jello).

Just say "No comprendo" until they learn how to ask for it in Spanish (and then put Brussel Sprouts on their plate).

I was in a private school for half a year and we learned Spanish in the 5th grade (they learned French in the 4th Grade prior to my arrival) and THAT got me an A in the first 10 weeks of Spanish 1 in Middle School.

Answer 5

Are you the parent or the student?

I always recommend connecting with a regional support group. They will explain all the laws where you live. You can check them out at http://www.hslda.org but reading the laws and talking with people who live under them can be rather different.

Answer 6

First, choose your program. I like the American School and Penn Foster. Then, enroll in the school. You're books and teaching aids will be sent to you, and you send your homework into the school.

Answer 7

you want to be home-schooled? you want to become a home schooling tutor or you want to home school your own children? all these will need different things, but talk to a school about it, no idea if you want to become a tutor

Answer 8

well..if u live in florida...i wouldnt recomend to use florida virtual school.....they take 4ever to get u started..

Answer 9

get the book