What were your biggest struggles while homeschooling your kindergartner?

Question

What were your biggest struggles while homeschooling your kindergartner?

Answer 1

Telling them the were not the smartest one in their class.

Answer 2

Kindergarten was easy... my biggest struggles came when my daughter was ready to learn algebra.

Answer 3

I didn't formally homeschool my kids as kindergartners. We played educational games and had fun, counted things we found and just learned about letters and numbers through real life, science through books and nature walks and social studies through field trips and looking at maps together and all that. Kindergarten was great.

Answer 4

I don't know yet my oldest is in well average grade level 6Th and she didn't start homeschooling tell half Way through her 4th grade year. My youngest is in preschool which I am doing at home but that's easy and fun. My hubby and I are still debating on putting her in public school for the first year or two.

Answer 5

I'm very new to homeschooling also, but here's my answer.  The hardest thing for me is getting organized.  Figuring out a "curriculum" isn't very easy for someone like me who has very little imagination...I have found some very good books though.  Konos Curriculum by Carole Thaxton and Jessica Hulcy is completely jam packed with ideas for grades K-8; and What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know Edited by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. gives me a general idea of where we should be by the end of the year (also helps family members not get overly frantic that we're going this route!)...speaking of which, family members who do not understand (nor want to understand) homeschooling can suddenly turn out to be the last person you want to see or hear from.

Answer 6

No struggles, because at that age we learned much, if not all by play.

We used games, M&M, Hersey's, and Twizzler math books; tasty too.

Shaving cream on the countertops is loads of fun to practice writing in; easy to clean up too.

We read many good books including history, and science booklets about anything, and everything aloud, they got interested in reading, so we taught them how to read.

Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons, it took less than 60/65.

We bought a complete curriculum work book ($5.00 to $10.00 at Sam's) to do "school", and added books, and subjects as time went on.

By the traditional second/third grade level we looked for a foundational curriculum, and found it in Christian Liberty Press, and Saxon Math.

Over time we have used many other sources though, too many :)

We did try the formal, classical, and structured methods, and soon realized that relaxed, and unschooling was the ticket to success, and fueled their love for learning; no dread, or tears.

And if they, or you are having an off day, go to the park, swim, bike, hike, or visit a museum together; tomorrow is another day.

Have several day's like that? re-evaluate your materials, make adjustments if needed to both the materials, and the schedule.

Answer 7

sorry i am not able to understand