Searching For Free Homeschooling Material

Having decided to oversee your child’s education at home, the first consideration is that how to get inexpensive home schooling material. This includes many kinds of items: books, illustrated publications for children, games that teach about realities, audio and video material, etc. With a working Internet at home, teaching via computer is the latest means of home schooling your kid.

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Beginning Homeschooling

by Ann Bowers

It’s September (or any month you decide to begin homeschooling) and you’ve researched curriculum, decided on your educational philosophy, started collecting ideas, prepared a place in your home that will serve as a schoolroom, and convinced your children that home schooling will be FUN! But, where do you start, on the first day and in the first week?

The First Steps In Reading For Homeschoolers

Teaching the Non-Reader to Read
By Ann Bowers

The child who is a non-reader may be age 3, 5, 7, or even 10. My husband, at the age of 10 in 1957, could barely read. Why? Because he had been taught by the “see and say” method of reading. Children were given little readers, told the words, and expected to remember them, without any means of “cracking the code.” After learning about 100-200 words, the children would get confused by words that looked alike (they and them, for instance) and their reading progress stopped. In 5^th grade, my husband’s teacher, Mrs. Wasciepinez, (whom he remembers to this day) taught her students phonics and they learned to read. Today, John is a university graduate and software engineer.

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Is it Legal to Homeschool?

by Ann Bowers

Is home schooling legal?

In the United States, home schooling is legal in all states, but laws vary from state to state. It is also legal to home school in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Japan, South Africa, and some other countries.

What is the law regarding home schooling?

Homeschooling: Where do I start?

by Ann Bowers

Each family must decide how they want to approach home schooling. Whatever approach you take, you will be successful. You children will learn quickly and thoroughly because of the personal attention and teaching techniques geared to each one’s learning style. Your children will acquire knowledge, develop academic skills, and learn your family’s religious and moral values.

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Teachers Survival Guide Part 1

by Jennifer Cartwright

You have survived the first day of school and all the rest there after. Hopefully, it has gotten easier as you have gotten to know your students and their parents. You have a daily routine and developed some systems to make things work more smoothly in your classroom. As the school year wears on, you will find that you will need to fine tune your systems. Here are five ideas that should help you this year and for the rest of your teaching career.

Homework Tips - Part 1

by Karen Sibal

It was a warm, Friday evening and I was sitting with my girlfriends at the local coffee shop savouring one last, carefree latté before the start of another school year. Indeed, the summer had flown by and it was going to be a challenge to get the kids back into the school routine, which also meant a renewed focus on homework.

Some Reasons for Home Schooling

by Jennifer Cartwright

Many parents are choosing to home school their children for a variety of reasons ranging from dissatisfaction with a particular individual in the school system to religious reasons. It is important for a parent to understand his or her specific reason for choosing home schooling and to be aware of the work involved in home schooling. It is not a choice to be made lightly or in the heat of the moment. This article will explore rationales for a decision to home school and look at the ramifications of the choice to home school.

Reading Opportunities Everywhere - Part 1

by Kerri Charette

Reading Opportunities are Everywhere
I was at the grocery store one day and noticed two items on my list that I did not place there. My large chain supermarket does not stock pee and poop, at least not that I know of. Coincidentally, the night before five-year-old Matt had drawn a poop and pee pizza with extra onions. I think I know who the culprit was.

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Homeschooling: What Is It? Who Does It and Why?

by Ann Bowers

Ah! The thought of home schooling has crossed your mind. Has your child had a difficult year at school? Is your child finding it hard to deal with aggressive children at school? Does your family have the opportunity to travel¸ if the children were not in school? Perhaps you’d prefer to school your children at home because of your religious beliefs or cultural values. Families make the decision to home school for many reasons and they often continue to do so because they have more freedom and because of the good effects on the children.

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The Section of our site is dedicated to children's education. Here you will find resources on learning including: music, homeschooling, reading and writing tips, back to school planning, information for teachers and educators, and much much more. The main categories for this section is on the right hand site. To navigate to other parts of our site click on the links at the top of this page or on the bottom.