[Diva Betsy Ross]

I suggest this site for a cirriculum fair in a box to get a good look at many different cirriculums at one time. YOu get samples to use so you can see what best fit your style and needs.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

ooops that would be www.3moms.com

[mrs tiggywinkle]

ping

[jgrubbs]

Homeschooling BUMP!!

[mrs tiggywinkle]

We'll be starting our 8th year home educating.

www.elijahco.com is a good source for not only curriculum but for suggestions, guidance and encouragement.

[CanisMajor2002]

www.k12.com is a popular site for homeschooling and other resources.

[evolved_rage]

We've looked at http://www.k12.com

Bill Bennett's association...well..

Seemed promising...

[mrs tiggywinkle]

www.hslda.org

Home School Legal Defense Association

[Jalapeno]

It is that time of the year again to decided if you are going to send your child off to public school, or if you are going to take the leap and homeschool.

Not to be controversial, but there is another alternative, namely private/parochial.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Free spirit publishing is a great source for children who have been labeled by the school district. ADD, ADHD slow. There are a bunch of books to offer you support and show your your child is more than likely gifted, instead of defective. Homeschooling is great for these kids. There is a bunch of on-line support for this situation as well.

[Paul Ross]

I suggest this site for a cirriculum fair...

A'hem, I assume you meant curriculum?? :-)

[samiam1972]

I am struggling with the decision of whether or not to homeschool. I am a former elementary teacher and have no desire to go back! It was a terrible experience! My son will begin Kindergarten at the Catholic school across the street and he's really looking forward to it. One of my concerns is that he's really smart for his age. He's been reading for 2 years now. I've seen the little alphabet workbooks that they use in his class and he is going to be so bored!! It's only half day so I thought I might try homeschooling in the afternoon to see if I can do it. We're trying to move and it would be fairly easy to make the switch from there. I've begun reading books on homeschooling and have seen several websites that are very helpful. I just don't know where to begin. How do I know what curriculum is best? Which one is most affordable? Are there any all-in-one kits or should I shop around for each individual subject? He's beginning Kindergarten but I really believe he's at least on a 1st grade level in most areas. I guess I'm a little afraid to take that leap. My husband would support me if I choose to do it but doesn't really care one way or the other. I doubt he will be much help. My parents would be fine with it but my mother-in-law will throw a crying fit! How do you deal with those attitudes? I'm just crazy enough to believe that this thread on freerepublic is a "sign from God" pushing me in that direction!!

Any info anyone wants to provide would be much appreciated! Thank you so much!!

[ladylib]

Classical home schooling:

http://www.welltrainedmind.com/

[ladylib]

Classical home schooling website with parent discussion boards:

http://www.welltrainedmind.com/

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

[ladylib]

Sorry for the double post.

[Carolina]

Classical Christian Homeschooling

[MasonGal]

We will be starting our 12th year of homeschooling in a few weeks. (Yikes - I can't believe it!!) - It is been such a blessing for our family. Our oldest son will be junior in college - (Transylvania University in Lexington, KY). Then, we have a son who will be a junior in high school and our youngest son - a 6th grader.

We are Catholic homeschoolers--using a "boxed" curriculum - Seton - for most of those years - throwing in some other eclectic-types of methods here and there. Also - the boys have taken "cottage-school" classes outside of the home for a number of years. Some of the classes they have taken outside are Latin, Classical Studies, Chemistry, Logic, and Rhetoric - just to name a few. We are blessed in this area to have a "cottage school" which offers an outstanding Classical Curriculum.

As far as "socialization" goes - well-- our sons have been very involved in many extracurricular activites. To name a few - baseball, tennis, orchestra, scouts, Catholic Youth Groups, KY Youth Right to Life, and several others.No problem in that area--definitely.

Again - it has been a wonderful blessing to be able to homeschool our three sons!!

[SpookBrat]

1-- You ask for, and get, a copier instead of a diamond tennis bracelet for your wedding anniversary.

2-- Your favorite Christmas gift was a gift certificate to a book store.

3-- Your kids think that reading history is best accomplished while lying on the floor with their head resting on the side of their patient dog.

4-- The principal can give the teacher a pat on the behind and it’s not harassment.

5-- Your kids will actually talk to grown ups at a family gathering and are actually patient with kids half their age.

6-- Your husband can walk in at the end of a long day and tell how the science experiment went just by looking at the house.

7-- Your neighbors think you are insane!

8-- You can take the time to look at a tiny spider on a log.

9-- You can listen to your child’s favorite hilarious passage from Hank the cowdog 47 times.

10-- Your daughter, who is practically a vegetarian, is begging her dad to shoot some starlings so she can pluck them and clean them up to make a “blackbird” pie just like the Ingalls family.

11-- Your kids learn new vocabulary from their extensive collection of Calvin & Hobbes books.

12-- Your formal dining room now has a computer, copy machine and many book shelves and there are educational posters and maps all over the walls.

13-- You have meal worms growing in a container ...on purpose.

14-- You’re almost afraid to put your hand in your purse because you not sure if your 6yo has put something that’s alive (or possibly not alive, but once was) to take home to view under the microscope.

15-- Talking out loud to yourself is a parent/teacher conference.

16-- You have a line item in your budget for overdue book fines.

17-- You take off for a teacher in-service day because the principal needs clean underwear.

18-- You have to add the words: “homeschool, homeschooler, and homeschooling” to your computer’s spell checker so it will stop marking them as wrong.

19--Your house in on the Parade of Homes List - for educational merchandisers.

20--You can’t make it through a movie without pointing out all the historical anachronisms.

21--You step on math manipulatives in your pre-dawn stumble to the bathroom.

22--Your children refer to the neighborhood kids as “government school inmates.” Bahahahaha.....I love this one.

23--You can’t make it through the grocery produce department without asking your pre-schooler the name and color of every eggplant, tomato and carrot.

24--You can’t put your produce in the cart without asking your older student to estimate its weight and verify accuracy.

25--Your closet contains more than three jumpers -

26--When visiting a strange town you see a parking lot full of mini-vans and station wagons and wonder if it’s a homeschooling conference.

27--Your friends don’t want to help you move because you have so many books.

28--Your school clothes have more holes in the knees than your play clothes.

29-- You live in a one-house schoolroom.

[Carolina]

A good source for used textbooks and packaged curriculum materials: The Back Pack.

This is run by a homeschooling family and are very friendly and helpful. Their inventory runs from Christian to secular institutional textbooks.

[Spiff]

The greatest thing, after deciding to homeschool our kids, that my wife and I have done is to start our kids on the satellite curriculum called HomeSat offered by Bob Jones University.