Parents who homeschool preK or Kindergarten!?

Question

Have you or do you (at this time) use the K12 Independance Homeschool curriculum? If so how do you like it and has your child learned well? I want to enroll my daughter but i want to make sure it is good. here is a link to it for anyone that has any input for me..



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Answer 1

I would so like to help you.

Homeschooling young children does not require a curriculum, especially not an expensive rigid one. Check out World Books website, Typical Course of Study and see what is appropriate learning for the age and then teach it.

http://www.worldbook.com/wb/Students?curriculum

Teach it with LOTS of reading. Get books for free from the library or find great used books to start a library of your own from garage sales or second-hand stores.

Teach it with hands-on. Especially things like math and science. Use manipulatives and games for math. For science collect and touch things.

Teach it with games. Make your own games. See Games For Learning for ideas for many home-made games.

http://www.angelfire.com/wi2/GamesForLearning

If you are teaching a young child to read and are not comfortable teaching phonics invest in a phonics program. I just use ABeka's Handbook for Reading to help me with a good order of presenting the material. Then we drill word lists with games, find a few truly phonic readers at the library, and even wrote our own.

Homeschooling young children is such a joy. I am working on the second generation. I homeschooled my own three children and am now working with my grandsons.

Have FUN!
Contact me if I can be of more help to you.

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Answer 2

All the reasons Michelle offered were some of the reasons why we chose not to do K12 also. (We attended the informational meeting which lasted an hour or two and found out about the program which included a free computer btw!) There are also limited slots and we did not enroll early which you should probably do to ensure a placement. There was also a monthly required field trip which they say is to be attended by parent(s) which is segmented by age group something like K-2, 3-5, etc. and my son was not attending anyway but young at the time so I would have had to get a sitter once a month to watch him. (This seems like a strange requirement for homeschoolers with many children btw.)

There is a required daily email to the supervising teacher and once a week or so you mail her/him a sample of your child's work/tests and periodic phone conferences with the teacher. I was worried about the yearly standardized testing also since my child is a special needs child. The pros are that the curriculum is wonderful. I think the program would be good for a beginning homeschooler, but I had done it for 5 years at that point (plus have a teacher degree and taught in the elementary classroom already) so didn't really need the supervision and extra worries.

Answer 3

It isn't available as a low cost option in my state until 3rd grade. But when I recently looked into it I chose not to go with it for my 3rd grader because you have to follow the school year, can't work over the summer and take a vacation in October. And one of the main reasons we are homeschooling is to avoid the TAKS test. It is a terrible test and requires teaching a certain way to do well on it, and I would rather my son learn what he needs to know, not learn how to pass a test. And with K12 we would have had to drive across town and spend a day taking the test next year.

So I am going to keep doing it on my own. I enjoy the freedom and flexibility. I like choosing with my son what we learn and whether or not we want to stay on a subject because we are rellly enjoying it and catch up on something else next week. I would not want to follow someone elses schedule, that doesn't seem like homeschool as much.

Good luck.

Answer 4

So..
There are numerous documented benefits and advantages of teaching children to read early on, and teaching them to reading using phonics and phonemic awareness instructions. It is clear that early language and reading ability development passes great benefits to the child as they progress through school at all grades, and that early language and reading problems can lead to learning problems later on in school.

For a simple, step-by-step program that can help your child learn to read visit this web site: http://readingprogram.toptips.org
Bye Bye

Answer 5

I dont use curriculum, especially at that age.. Its very expensive, and I can accomplishg the same thing for alot less money..

Have you checked out http://www.homeschool.com ? they have articles on homeschooling styles and free lesson plans..I used them alot in my first 2 years of homeschooling

Answer 6

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