At what age do homeschooling courses and curriculum's begin are there any for 3and 4 year olds?

Question

Barry, I agree and I do teach her. I have babied her to much for reasons that I wont go in to but I need to start working to get her ready for school or home school. I still am undecided if I will teach her at home or send her to public school.

Answer 1

I think if you begin your child`s homeschooling at 3 or 4 years old , you as the parent should initiate teaching your own basic moral belief principles , and not leave the very beginning of his / her education to anyone else !

Answer 2

my daughter is almost three and she loves www.starfall.com

at this age, i don't use a curric for her. she likes to listen when my older child is reading aloud. Just read a lot for fun, try and learn shapes, colors, counting and the ABC's. I would not push it at this age.

Abeka has a art cirruc that is good, we bought it to start next year. right now she is coloring in color books and practicing tracing lines. She likes sticker books too.

Answer 3

Montessori and Reggio Emilia are two that come to mind as appropriate for that age level.

If you were to do a search for homeschool preschool, more would come up.

Answer 4

I really like to keep things informal at that age.  They learn so much through play, helping with household chores and errands, and being involved in their parents day.  Other than that, take weekly or biweekly trips to the library and read, read, read.

If your child is interested, you may want to try some Kumon workbooks.  Those can be found at Barnes and Noble or Amazon and they are fun.

Rod and Staff has some great preschool workbooks that I use with my 3 yo daughter (she asks to do them).  

http://www.rodandstaffbooks.com

There are also some great preschool activities here:

http://www.successful-homeschooling.com/...

Don't feel pressured to do too much at this age, though.  Many parents push their little ones too soon.

Answer 5

In some homeschool co-ops, there are courses for preschoolers.

As for curriculums, I really think they are a waste of money for children that age... it's best to use the time to help them explore their world, do hands-on things, introduce concepts: colors, numbers, letters, shapes, size, comparison, contrasting, naming things, manipulating things, using eductional programing, doing lots of things involving art and music and imagination... you can always pick up some inexpensive workbooks at a dime store or book store chain for preschoolers that have different activities if you want your child to begin sitting down and doing book work, but I'd keep it very minimal, maybe 20 minutes 3 or 4 times per week.

You could probably find a lot of library books for activities to do with kids that age.

Answer 6

There are some, the ones I've seen are through A Beka and Sonlight.

From what I've seen, the one from A Beka tends to be a bit heavy on writing skills; if your child is good with this, they may like it.  If not, please don't feel like you need to push it - many children aren't developmentally ready to write at this age.

The Sonlight program is good; another option is using unit studies and lapbooks from places like http://www.handsofachild.com/shop/ and http://www.homeschoolshare.com/.  These both have excellent preschool/PreK units.

Before Five in a Row and Five in a Row are excellent - they are literature based unit studies.  Both of the above sites have units and lapbooks to go along with B4FIAR and FIAR books.

Hope that helps!

Answer 7

i don't think the child would offically be "homeschooled" if you start at that age. be you should teach your kids stuff at that age regardless. get them a heads up when real school starts but don't have them on a schedule for homeschool that young

Answer 8

I don't know if your a Christian or not so this may or may not help you.  There is one curriculum that could be used for preschool or Kindergarten which is called My Father's World.  It has a lot of hands on projects and other fun things.  

Someone mentioned Starfall.com which is really good too and free!!  You could order stuff from there but you could also just print out stuff for free too.  This sight is basically Phonic but both my boy's loved it and learned a lot from there!

Also like everyone else as said don't worry about too much formal learning till they are a bit older.  Play is really how they learn the best.  I hope this helps.

Answer 9

I highly recommend Before Five in a Row.   Other then that, just counting with them, colouring the alphabet, etc. is enough for that age really.

That being said, I personally wouldn't start doing anything more then reading with them, taking walks and discovering the world together until they are 5 or 6 but that's just me.

Answer 10

"The Well Trained Mind" suggests beginners reading and basic maths. It's a worthwhile book to read. Really, if you watch your child, you will see when to introduce new material. You've been doing it thus far, so continue that way. Kids this age don't need to be doing anything academic, but can if they seem interested. Don't push it, or you'll put them off. I don't think it's worth buying too many special resources for this age group. The library will provide almost anything you might need. At this age you want them to become interested in learning, more than you need them to really learn it.

Answer 11

There is no age limit for the homeschooling, just start when he was responding.If you think there is a specific curriculum or any one said about it , then defnitely it is not homeschooling. The curriculam should be framed instantly depending on region, parents wisdom, age, child's intelligence, living locality and general conditions.