• Be sure he is taking the required classes he needs to get into college
• Make sure his GPA stays good
• Participates in extracurricular activities that look good on a college application 

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One of the main advantages to teaching a child at home is the fact that you can use many different creative outlets in doing so. While your child’s peers are tucked away in the “traditional” classroom setting, you and your children can be out engaging in activities in different areas of your community learning all sorts of new and exciting things. Here, you will learn about unique learning adventures for homeschoolers that can be pursued by you and your family.

Math

There are many exciting adventures that can be participated in when it comes to teaching your child math. One of the easiest and most effective learning adventures for homeschoolers is going to the grocery store with you. Of course, you can take your child other places to teach important math concepts as well. You could take a trip to McDonald's for a Happy Meal, the toy store, or a local pet store to purchase supplies for your pet. The important thing is that the student is introduced to the concept of money. You may also want to integrate the fact that tax is charged on certain items, and the importance of making wise financial choices.

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by Angie Shiflett

As a homeschool parent, I firmly stand behind the opinion that reading to your child has numerous benefits. This opinion is backed by years of research and studies done by professionals in the area. Conclusive evidence indicates that the benefits of reading to your homeschooled child extend far beyond the reaches of simply increasing the effectiveness of pre-reading development. Here, I will share with you many of the benefits that have been established when a parent opens up the lines of communication with their children through the written word.

One of the first, and most obvious, benefits associated with reading to your homeschooled child is that it helps to enhance their cognitive and communication skills. These skills are absolutely essential life skills that each and every person must obtain and develop throughout their life in order to succeed. If the right amount of time is spent reading quality material to your child, you will soon see that they develop in other areas of their education. Reading sparks creativity, artistic inclination, and many more important areas of development.

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Reading is one of the most empowering tools that you can give to your child. Reading allows a child to experience magical new places, interesting new characters, and encourages them to be creative and implement the use of their imagination. In addition to this, reading provides children with the resources that they need to succeed as adults as well. Pre-reading development is the first stage to reading. Here, you will learn some important strategies to pre-reading development for homeschoolers.

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Our eyes are attracted to colorful things. Color gives life to paintings, drawings, photographs and television. If everything were in black and white there wouldn’t be much to characterize what we see. Here are five great suggestions for teaching your children about colors:
 

1. Teach colors through flash cards. Flash cards contain pictures of items in various colors. For example, if it was a picture of a bear it would be brown. The colors are shown as they would be in the real world. You wouldn’t want a card that shows a yellow sky or a red tree. The colors on a flash card are very bright so this is a good place to start. Say each color and let the child repeat after you.

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by Angie Shiflett

As a homeschool parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that my children have a high level of emotional intellect. Emotional intelligence is a basic form of intellect that deals with the part of life that is naturally emotional in one way or another. There are many different aspects of emotional intellect. One good example is the ability to appropriately handle interpersonal dealings and relationships in an effective manner. In the homeschool classroom, it is important that the emotional intellect of the child is enhanced.

The first method that you can use to teach emotional intellect in the homeschool classroom is to display a high level of emotional intellect yourself. You may be wondering exactly how to do this, right? Well, that is the easy part. One of the main components of emotional intellect is the process of being aware and comfortable of your own emotions and/or feelings. This includes knowing the way that we truly feel about things, and being able to effectively manage those emotions.

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