Home School Curriculum Guide
Learn about your home school curriculum options. Get online contact and study guide information on all major home schooling subject areas.
Home schooling is legal in all fifty states and growing rapidly. This page will help you choose a home school curriculum to fit your family's learning style and needs. Children learn in many different ways, so there are many different kinds of home school curriculum to choose from.
Your home school curriculum will help you to know what your child is learning. Many times you will be learning right along with your child. A good home school curriculum will be interesting for parents and children.Very young children love learning, but as we grow older, we are taught that learning is difficult or boring. Choose a home school curriculum that encourages your children's curiosity and stimulates your own joy of learning.
It's not necessary to follow a one-size-fits-all home school curriculum the way schools do. If your eight-year-old child is not interested in Egypt, for example, you can choose to base your home school curriculum around bugs, big trucks, dinosaurs or anything that catches your child's imagination. Not everyone needs to learn about Egypt in the third grade and it's quite possible that your child's fascination with bugs this week could lead to a desire to know about the scarab beetle pictured in the Pharaoh's Tomb next year or ten years down the road.
If you have just begun to home school, you may be more comfortable with a home school curriculum that follows the school model. In a year or so you may find that you and your child are more confident in designing a home school curriculum that uses less traditional materials and methods. Children - and all of us - learn better and remember longer when we are engaged in activities that have real meaning in our lives. Your child may learn more math skills by building a tree house or baking brownies rather than by spending hours doing pages in a workbook.
Your state or local home school support group may have meetings or fairs where families talk about or bring their favorite home school curriculum. It's helpful to talk to other parents about their experience and why they prefer one home school curriculum over another. You can compare prices and styles and see what material you and your child will enjoy using.
You can adapt your home school curriculum to fit your child's and your family's needs. You may spend a month on a writing project that another child will complete in a week. Some families take a leisurely approach and use a whole calendar year to follow their home school curriculum. Other families may finish all their "schoolwork" in a few months, or take a month off for a family vacation in September, when the beaches are uncrowded and the weather is good.
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