Hello I am new here and starting homeschooling very soon
Hello. I am a mom here in Albuquerque. I recently moved from Dallas. My daughter is 4, son is 2 and my baby is 7 months. My daughter will not be turning 5 til next year, and she is probably gonna start kindergarten in the fall this year because she has learned so much already I think she's ready for kinder. I am very new to this although I have quite a few friends who homeschool. It is something I have always wanted to do, and now that we moved back to Abq. my husband really wants us to homeschool. The public schools here are horrible. But it reallhy is more our values we want to instruct them in. I know they will not be sheltered from everything, nor do I want them to be. I just want things to be learned on our terms when we think they are ready not some snotty 2nd grader. LOL I could use all the help I can get. I have no idea where to start with curriculum. Right now I am going to be starting up calender time, and she has a workbook for reading and math. It really great. She knows her ABC's, letter sounds, and how to write all her letters. She isn't perfect, but she picks things up really quickly. I know she is ready to start phonics I just don't even know where to begin. So anyways hello and thanks for any advice.
My children are now grown, but I still tutor, give workshops at home school conventions. and workshops to teachers at local colleges. I get asked a lot of questions like yours, and put together a free web page with most of the common questions at the following link: How To Home School.
P.S. My specialty is phonics and reading.
Welcome to the group! I was just in Albuquerque 2 weeks ago! You have some amazing museums, zoo & botanical gardens with the aquarium. If I lived there I would get a membership with all of the museums & the Biopark & use them every month to help educate my kids! If you haven't yet you need to learn the laws for your state & then figure out your children's learning style! Knowing the learning style is very important when it comes to figuring out how to help them learn the things you want them to learn!
We are using Oak Meadow as our core (science, litetature, art, handwork, activities, health, and social studies, and doing our own LA (Queen) and math (Singapore and Life of Fred).
Every family is different, though...
sounds like you have a good start with her now, at this age, keep doing what you are doing, be sure to check the hs law for new mex, she what age is required to start schooling, etc, in some states its 6 or 7,
do lots of hands on stuff, games, memorization(good time to start that at this age) teach math with manipulatives so she can see that 1 equals 1 thing, the number 2 equals 2 items etc. do lots of arts and crafts, that really helps them with handwriting, read to her and them a lot, play!!! have fun!
Almost finished with first year of homeschool!
- 3weesmom
on May. 8, 2012 at 12:34 AM