[Wordsmith]

This would be wonderful, and my wife and I would be able to participate much more so a few months from now. We're working on buying our first home, relocating from western Massachusetts to the Upper Valley of New Hampshire. My wife is the primary teacher, but I'm involved as well.

Our homeschooling approach has been pretty eclectic, as we have never followed any one curriculum and have never been deeply involved with any homeschooling support groups (most of the homeschoolers in our area being staunch leftists). But we've gotten two of our three boys (ages 10, 7, 3) to read and do math above grade level. We expose them to as wide a variety of science, literature, and history/civics as we are able. And the pastor of the church we'll be attending after our relocation is a homeschooler, as are several of the parishoners.

We've also tried to draw on our being a bi-racial couple with different backgrounds and interests in a positive way, for instance one weekend caring for our horses and tromping around the New Hampshire woods and the next weekend visiting their grandmother in Newark and taking a trip to the Museum of Natural History in NYC. The boys also are getting lessons in small business economics by helping with our home-based online sales business. Never a dull moment in the world of homeschooling!

[homeschool mama]

Sounds like you have an enriching environment to draw from, Wordsmith!

This is going to be a positive series of threads...I can just tell. :o)

[Born in a Rage]

Hi Wordsmith! I and my family just moved to southwestern NH in March. We used to live in AZ and the homeschooling laws were much better there. The only thing we had to do was send in a letter of intent. In NH we have to write up the subjects, scope and sequence of what we will be teaching and send it in along with the notification letter as well as have the kids 'progress' evaluated at the end of the year or have them tested. BIG difference. Anyway, welcome to New Hampshire!