The HomeSchool Group

i have been homeschooling my kids since november. i realized it is very expensive to do this. i thought about enrolling them back into public but an online charter school. it is free but they will be back in the system again and i don’t really want that. help please!

i was looking in to it and had some questions.
1. i am not christian. this is a christian program and i am an atheist. i was wondering how much is religious based. is it so religious based that the curriculum is different than a public school’s curriculum? i am an atheist only because that was the way i was brought up, i didn’t chose not to believe in god. i am very open to all religions and i was actually considering this religion based program because i never had the chance to go to CCD or church like all the other kids at school. i thought this program might enlighten me more than if it were non-religion specific.
2. for basic subjects (english, ss, math, and science) how long (about) did it take to finish each course? did the course provide enough curriculum to take up the whole school year? or was it more quarterly and you needed to take more than one course to finish the year?
3. on the site, when you go into the “home school curriculum” you select the grade and than it shows each subject. for example under math there are 3 different curriculum you can chose frome. do you have to take all of them by the end of the year? or do you just chose one to do for the entire year?
4. how did you do physical education?
5. (lastly) How much do you need a parent to help? like, is it manditory that there is a parent supervising, or is it just that if the kid needs help the parent should step in and help them understand it more?
i know this was so long and im sorry. but thanks for any info!

Let’s be honest: When people here the term “homeschooling”, one of the first images that pops into their mind is a backwards, old-fashioned, inadequate form of education. However, it is true that for centuries, children have been taught at home by their parents. This practice is in no way a new phenomenon and has helped produce many of history’s greatest movers and shakers! In contemporary American society, homeschooling has received a reputation for being a poor way to educate children. This reputation, which is limited in perspective, is neither fair nor accurate.

The education that homeschoolers receive is often more dimensional and diverse than the standard means of education received in a typical classroom. One of the greatest aspects of a homeschool curriculum is its flexibility. Learning a lesson about the Impressionist Art period? Pack a lunch in a bag and the family in the car, and head to the museum to see actual work by the artists you are learning about. Learning about the wonder of birds in your science lesson? Grab a pair of binoculars and head outside. These are both incredibly valuable experiences.

In addition, there are many great homeschooling resources that exist for parents interested in taking charge of their children’s education. Many of these programs are developed by professional educators and are accredited programs that are recognized as valid education curriculums. Students are encouraged to think for themselves and take ownership of their learning experience.

Some people might say that this information sounds good in theory and on paper, but when it comes down to it, how do homeschool students perform compared to students from the public school? The answer to this question would surprise many! “A 1997 study by Dr. Brian Ray of the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) found that home educated students excelled on nationally-normed standardized achievement exams. On average, homeschoolers outperformed their public school peers by 30 to 37 percentile points across all subjects.”

Finding a program with high standards and that fits the needs of you and your child is important, but as you can see, choosing to homeschool your children would in no way impair them for a bright future.

The apparent purpose of the Midlink Magazine sight is to be an outlet for students, ages eight to eighteen, to submit and review art and writing. It is an award-winning magazine that is nonprofit It is sponsored by North Carolina State University and the University of Central Florida.
Its bullets include newest articles, table of contents, web honor roll, search strategies, cool schools, teacher tools, archives, our mission, and who we are The editors of Midlink are very successful teachers, grades K-12, who have produced this website as they say, “by students, for students-ages 8-18.”
The content of the site appeals to all teachers of grades K- 12 because of excellent accuracy and utility. When one clicks on teacher tools, for example, findings include clickable topics such as: Helping students cope with terrorism, grant money and funding hotline, and resources for educational leaders and policy makers, and collaborative learning.
The site is very user friendly and includes a variety of graphics that are cute and clickable. Another example would be under teacher tools, whereby you can search a variety of topics including: rubrics, graphic organizers, teaching resources, copyright guidelines for web publishing, and much more.
Many of these resources can be used to manage web activities, publish web projects, and evaluate your classroom activities. As a teacher, I am also allowed to suggest a site for the editors to review If they believe my site is focused enough, they may choose to include it in their links directory.
I found the accuracy and utility of the site to be in-depth and user friendly. I would recommend it to my friends and colleagues.
The ease of navigation and the overall appeal of the site are good I would rate it a seven out often on a scale of one to ten. My only suggestion is that sometimes the clickable teacher planning resources are way at the bottom of the page, and one has to go through a few uninteresting or corny graphics to find them.
I know I tend to want to click on artwork and pictures, and sometimes on this site, I feel that the graphics are in the way instead of helping.
Navigation is very effortless, as the left hand side of the website is a different color and bullets are focused with great headings to identify them This site, however, does not have a search box, and that would have been helpful, because grade level information could have been more easily obtained.
The overall appeal of the site receives a five out of ten, because the graphics are out of date (cartoon characters sitting at computers, etc.) and it lacks a modern professional appeal
There are a variety of ways that I would utilize the site and promote it to my friends and colleagues One, I would recommend it as a source for grants and projects, because under the section entitled teacher grants there are hundreds of links to grants for everything one can imagine.
Two, there is a link to this website which includes a teacher planning section with lesson plans, teaching ideas, online student activities, and web links available in these specific categories:
* Language
* Rhetoric
* Literary Genres
* American Literature
* World Literature
I was very impressed with this list, because I can utilize the resources on a daily basis in the classroom by downloading the articles, studying them, and then implementing them in my classroom
Overall, this website would be geared, I believe, toward the middle school student and to all teachers who desire to learn more about teaching to the middle and high school student.
There are tons of articles on the teaching of English, Math, Social Studies, Science and Art. There are quite a few elementary level articles, but far more middle and high school.
Students at the middle school age would love this site, and I would recommend it to my nephew Gabriel because he loves to draw and write, and I’m sure he would be most grateful to be recognized on the website as a published student “web” author! I am most certain everyone else’s son or daughter would enjoy this recognition as well!

a very inexpensive school might be exceptable also.