please help..need advice from someone that is homeschooling someone else!!?

Question

i am homeschooling my sister and i was wondering if you know of a FREE website for homeschool work that i can print off. i need all subjects and have already tried edhelper.com.......anyone got any advice? how do you get the work for your student?

Answer 1

I have used this site a few times for extra work for my girls.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/

It has instructional pages as well.

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/index.shtml


I will add more after I look in my favorites.

I don't know what age your sister is, but you could have her write or recite things to you as well. When you have her read a book about dogs, have her do a report on it or recite what she learned to you and you record it. Things like that.

We use several different resources to teach our girls. I use A beka for Language arts, Apologia for science, Math U See for Math. All these sites are on line, but they are not free. You can somethings get curriculum from the Public Schools, but it will be secular. I have used it for Math and Spelling in the past.

Good luck!

Answer 2

You sister is in 9th grade, right? Okay, here's how to go about it:

First of all, you need to figure out what it is that you want her to do. If she's not behind academically, consider just looking at your state/provincial learning objectives for now. Find out what it is that she would be learning in school and take that as your starting point.

Then you start looking for resources. You will find no websites online (other than schools to register with) that will provide you all the work your sister is supposed to do. If that's what you want--that somebody provides you everything--you should see if there's a free online program where you live. Otherwise, you are going to have to make specific searches for worksheets you might like. But to be honest, worksheets are only a small part of the picture. You need books. Once you know what she is going to study, go to the library and get books. You might have to get more than one text, but the library has a ton of stuff.

At the grade 9 level, most of her LA should be about reading and writing--you don't need worksheets for that (although perhaps the odd grammar worksheet or proofreading worksheet might not be bad). For science, she needs books of some sort--again, the library can supply these. For math, the library will probably not have a grade 9 text, although they may have grade 9 tutorial texts and they will definitely have things for people who are brushing up on their math skills. You start off with one of these, take it back when you need to and pick another one. For history/geography, that can be research-based. There's a ton of books and info to be found online.

A grade 9 student's work should not be worksheet based.

Answer 3

Check to see if your local library has a copy of Grace Llewellyn's book, "The Teenage Liberation Handbook". She explains how to "unschool" high school, meaning you have no set curriculum and your sister can help plan her own studies by learning about things that interest her. This can all be done for free (or at least really cheap!)

Worksheets for a high schooler seem too elementary. Try the Socratic method (read and discuss). By high school, students should be able to discuss the things they are studying and give valid arguments for their cases.

Answer 4

I agree with the point that trying to pull engaging and enriching studies (all of them) from the computer for a 9th grader is not enough.
If you were an experienced homeschooler with a strong network of friends and mentors, and if you had researched and understand free homeschooling or homeschooling on a shoestring, and if you had access to other sources of inexpensive materials besides the computer, then you may be able to get "a lot" of work for her. But expecting to be able to type in "free printable 9th grade curriculum" in to google and find a decent program for your sister, is just not reasonable.
My experience in homeschooling others is limited to teaching in homeschool co-ops and leading classes in my home.
But I do have experience in putting together my own curriculum for my children without buying a a prepackaged program and without using a lot of text books.
The advice to check out what other 9th graders (you did say 9th grade in a previous question didn't you? if not insert the correct grade level) in your area public schools are learning.
Then write down what you want her to learn.
For example, here's what my 9th grader is studying this year:

History: world history from prehistoric times to the 17th century
algebra 1
English 1: composition and literature classics
Science: biology 1 with virtual labs
electives:
Health education
PE (an actual book course)
World Geography (10th grade level elective)

for a total of 6 credit hours.

Do you see how difficult it would be for me to find free printable worksheets to adequately cover those materials?
My suggestion to you is to visit www.hslda.org
that website will not only explain homeschooling to you, it will also give you information about finding homeschool groups in your area that can direct you properly.
They are also a ministry outreach and they have textbook help for those that qualify.
It is admirable that you want to help your sister in this way, but you need to expand your thinking about homeschooling and get the proper help and some quality materials for her to study.
You do not need to spend a fortune. You can pick up materials for next to nothing, but you are going to have to get connected with other homeschoolers around you.

edit to add: I'm really not trying to be mean here, and I'm not trying to say my way is any better than any other way. What I'm trying to do is to get you to see that homeschooling is much more than printing off a handful of worksheets each day. It is about really learning, whether you choose distance ed, or umbrella schools, or classical education or unschooling.
but you have to have an understanding of what you are doing, what you want to do and how to go about achieving it.
there is more to learning than filling out "busy work" worksheets. Now, most parents I know utilize the internet in amazing ways, it is a wonderful tool, but there is so much more to it than hunting down worksheets.
Your sister will be bored with doing 2nd grade work like that. My daughter hates worksheets, but she loves reading novels, and working virtual labs, and analyzing plays, and studuying maps, and writing reports, and researching topics and yes, (I can hear the gasps) reading text books.
So, please, take the advice of those on this forum and look in to homeschooling and what it means.
two good websites (in addition to hslda) are"
"homeschooling.gomilpitas.com" and
"homeschool.com"

Answer 5

These are all natural questions and emotions for brand spanking new homeschoolers. If you are now not getting any reaction out of your regional organization, check out your state organization. Or, uncover out in which the regional organization meets for park days or aid occasions and simply pass consult with and ask your questions there. OR... uncover one other organization. I can not depend what number of extraordinary companies our regional discipline has (no less than one for each and every of the neighboring cities and 2 fundamental companies for our town, together with countless different smaller town-broad/discipline-broad companies headquartered on academic philosophy or curiosity, equivalent to chess membership, and so forth.). Yes, you'll be able to take your baby out within the center of the institution 12 months (it is YOUR baby!) No, you should not ask the regional institution for aid, as they're, extra most commonly than now not, uninformed (or worse, misinformed) concerning your state's homeschool legislation. There are plenty of assets for curriculum (suggestions as good as locations to buy), BUT do not begin but. Once you are taking your youngsters out of institution, supply them a while to get used to being at residence (this would be a couple of weeks to a couple of months, relying on how lengthy they have been in institution). Give them time to regulate to being residence with you and construct your courting with them FIRST. Once you might have re-based the connection, the transition into homeschooling is MUCH less difficult. You can ask others for curriculum suggestions, HOWEVER... each baby, each household, each homeschool is extraordinary, so even a "suitable" software won't paintings to your baby/household/philosophy. If you'll be able to, ask to borrow a duplicate of the extent your baby might be in and honestly use it for a month or to be able to see whether it is fairly what you wish and if it fairly works together with your educating variety, your baby's finding out variety and your "institution's" philosophy. You do not have got to be devout to homeschool - there are increasingly non-sectarian curricula to be had each 12 months (even though utilizing a devout-headquartered curriculum will have its advantages). BTW - Y!A is NOT the high-quality position to get know-how or encouragement approximately homeschooling. There are too many misinformed and downright unpleasant humans on right here. Your high-quality guess is to uncover one other (extra responsive) regional organization.

Answer 6

Try Miss Maggie's site Old Fashioned Education. She has everything planned out and goes up to High School and it's free. I have used this with my little girl.

Answer 7

www.homeschoolmath.net/worksheets/

http://www.homeschoolingadventures.com/worksheets.html

http://www.theoleyschool.com/worksheets.html

www.schoolexpress.com

www.allthingshomeschool.com

http://www.worthyseek.com/search/Homeschool-worksheets

try your library, too, they have lots of worksheet books that you could make copies from.