Do you have any home schooling tips for me?

Question

my little girl just turned 4 and I will be home schooling her this year! What's the one thing you could tell me that would help me better teach or guide my daughter! Thank-you for all your tips, anything you can tell me about homeschooling would be great! ☺

Answer 1

http://homeschooling.about.com/

Answer 2

Hi!

I have been homeschooled for a year now except I am doing it online it is like regular school except no going to school and no kids you have the teachers subjects a library and it is very neat. Homeschooling her by yourself would be a bad idea because of the fact that she is four and she might not sit there and do it with you so my suggestion is that you enroll her in a homeschool online and make sure to give her stuff like little treats (ex. M&Ms,stuff she likes foodwise) and tell her if she does her work then she can have that treat and once she starts doing her work then you can sllooowly take away the treats!!!  

Answer 3

I have homeschooled for 12 years now and one thing I can tell you for that age is this:  Read aloud to her constantly.  Point out letters and say their sounds (not their names).  Even if you have to read the same books 100 times, as long as she shows interest, read, read and read some more.  Make your home a language rich environment, have reading materials available to her at all times.  I don't know if you are going to be using an actual curriculum or not, but you really don't need one at that age (if you haven't already purchased).  Make the absolute maximum use of your library.  Don't just check out storybooks either, check out books on the natural world (bugs, butterflies, flowers, volcanoes, etc....)  She will start to develop interest in things scientific if it is something she can get her hands on and experiment with. Next to reading is games.  Show her a globe, point out the continents and oceans, make a game of learning them.  Get books on animals that live on the different continents, discuss the weather there.  Make any kind of learning activity a game for her, counting, sorting, grouping, classifying, all pre-math skills can be done with stuff around the house, and making a game of it will keep her interest much longer than any old workbook.  Amazingly, you will learn soooo much right along with her!

This is learning at it's best.  BTW, did I mention reading?    :)

Answer 4

This article has some simple, cost-effective field trip ideas: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article...

She also has several other home school topics.  

Answer 5

Just take it one day at a time. Don't stress to much that just makes it worse. Go with the flow and do what works best for her.

Hope this helps!

Answer 6

Don't buy into the notion that your homeschool has to look anything like a public or private school classroom...it doesn't.  You've actually been homeschooling her all along, so let it come naturally :)

Answer 7

Here's a blog that has some great tips. http://www.homeschoolsecrets.blogspot.co...

And I'd read the book called For the Children's Sake

It is a wonderful book!

Best of Luck!

Jana

http://www.purehomeschooling.com/

Answer 8

Do not listen to negative things people tell you(eg. She will never have any social skills.) Also, get her in as many activities as possible.

Answer 9

Hello. I know this might help you ease the pain. I am also a home schooled student since 7th grade, and now I'm about to graduate from home-school and I use ACE (stands for Accelerated Christian Education). You can use it anywhere and everywhere you want, and your kids may love it because they have all these really, really interesting stuff such as cartoon strips that teaches them good conducts and Christian principles. It works for me since i grew up in a third world country and now I'm here in the U.S. Of course i have to learn so many things in here, but ACE helped me to go through those struggles, especially in english,but now at 17 i have finished almost 2 years of my college. you can go to their website and feel free to tour the site.