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.
In your area, I am sure there are homeschool coop's or other organizations. Each state's laws vary, so it is best to find someone locally. For the most part when our kids were at elementary level, it was mostly do things with them such as natural history museums. Also find a phonics reading program and get them reading. It is usually pretty easy till you get to Junior High School, at which point we did partially us teaching them and we farmed out to the coop the subjects we were not good at. Keep in mind that normal school is mostly busy work, homeschool is mostly independent study. It is a completely different mind set, you do not, I repeat, do not need to keep them busy from 8AM to 3PM like the school does. Most of the time they only studied a few hours every other day and they came out great. They can think for themselves.