My wife and I have talked about homeschooling our daughter. She is finishing kindergarten now. Currently goes to a private Christian school that we do like and is doing extremely well.
At first my wife was against it cause she thought she wouldn’t be able to do it and all of the typical negative thinking for it. Now she is really wanting to do it and is researching all different homeschool curriculums. My question is in regards to curriculums. Is there an actual beat curriculum? Is it a pick and choose from different ones? Is it a “don’t worry too much about curriculum” and more if a self pacing? I’ve just seen so many things about different approaches.
So if any out there that have homeschooled or are currently doing so could just give different pointers or tips for a family that is wanting to do it, I would greatly appreciate it.
When I first started homeschooling 22 years ago, I was overwhelmed with all the curriculum choices and wanted to make sure I didn't miss any subjects. We used Sonlight Curriculum pre-k thru 3rd grade, because I liked the detailed teacher's guides. (I found great prices on used sets on ebay or individual books on Amazon and filled in missing books, science kits, and disposable workbooks from Sonlight's website.) After a few years of homeschooling and understanding individual learning styles, I became comfortable enough to piece together subjects from different sources and write my own teacher guides by determining how many pages or lessons needed to be completed each day or week to finish that school year. It's important to be flexible, and not feel like you need to follow gov't school calendars or school times. If it takes 2 hours to figure out math that day, and only 10 min of spelling, then so what. Or you have an appointment on Tues and want to make up missed lessons on Sat, so what. You have the freedom to do what works for you. I like materials from christianbook.com, homesciencetools.com, timberdoodle.com. Years ago, we had a house fire and lost everything. We temporarily used allinonehomeschool.com website for free while living in a hotel, then camper for several months with 5 kids.