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Jennifer Kaufeld. Homeschooling For Dummies
Homeschooling For Dummies® To view this book's Cheat Sheet, simply go to www.dummies.com and search for “Homeschooling For Dummies Cheat Sheet” in the Search box. Table of Contents
List of Tables
Guide
Pages
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Heading to Homeschooling
Answering the Big Questions
Getting to This Point
Knowing Not to Know It All
Affording It
Hanging in There
Signing up for the long haul
Staying at home forever
Breaking the News to Mom
Addressing Socialization, the Hot Homeschooling Buzzword
Social outlets
Socialization
Presenting the Issue of the Year
THEY WON’T FIND ONLY 25-YEAR-OLDS ON THE JOB
Taking the Leap
Realizing That Anger Is Not Enough
Ensuring educational excellence
Meeting your child’s special needs
Retaining religious convictions
Accommodating family lifestyle
Determining What’s Best for Your Family
Creating Solutions for Special Situations
Working around your job
Dealing with special learners
One on one
Continuing therapy
Beginning the Journey
Choosing the perfect time of year
Deciding at what age to begin
Assigning homework
WITNESSING YOUR CHILD’S PROGRESS
Making homeschooling more than school at home
Using the extra time
WHEN YOU WANT TO CALL THE TAXI
Complying with Uncle Sam
Conducting Yourself (Yes, Ma’am) in Accordance with State Law
Locating Your State’s Law
Counting Out the School Days
Calling a Truce: Interacting with Your Local School
First: Know your law
Second: Make sure your ducks are in a row
Third: Know your law
Pulling Them Out and Starting from Scratch
Making Those First Days Count
De-stressing the children
Easing into coursework
Rebuilding Your Family Unit
Setting your schedule
Working together
Dad’s or Mom’s role in your homeschool
Starting from the Very Beginning
Teaching in small blocks
Using the objects you own
Drawing on Your Strengths and Filling in the Gaps
Speaking to your strengths
Teaching them what you don’t know
Tackling Kids of Any Age
Teaching Your Toddler While You Change Your Baby
Juggling Primers, Preschoolers, and Diapers
Surviving Life with a Toddler
Teaching with a toddler
Teaching your toddler
Covering the Preschool Basics
Teaching with a preschooler
Teaching your preschooler
Covering the Elementary Years
Setting Out with Elementary Students
Learning through Language Arts: Reading and Grammar
It’s as easy as A, B, C
IS IT WORTH THE WAIT?
Beyond the basics
Going on to the heavy hitters
Eating Your Way through Math
Going beyond “Our Community Helpers”
Firing Up the Bunson Burner
EVIDENCE-BASED AND NEUTRAL AND INTELLIGENT DESIGN, OH MY!
Timing Is Everything
When timing is off
While you wait
WHEN THEY DON’T FIT INTO THE BOX
Handling Junior High
Beginning in the Middle
LOCATING CURRICULUM OPTIONS
Keeping Track of It All
Putting Grades to the Test
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ADD DEPTH
Help! I Have a High Schooler
Starting at the Eleventh Hour (or Eleventh Grade)
Switching before the Last Bell
Deciding your academic approach
Changing courses midstream (or at winter break)
Dancing the High School Subject Tango
COPING WITHOUT COLLEGE
Language arts
Math
Science
History and social studies
Languages
Driver education
Electives
Art
Computing
Home economics
Music
Speech
Other electives
Planning for the Tidy Transcript
Check your state’s requirements
Start at the end and work backwards
Choosing courses that count
Prepping for College
ACTing on Your InSATiable Desire for Standardized Tests
SAT
ACT
DO I NEED TO TAKE THE GED?
Completing Twelfth Grade Doesn’t Mean It’s Over
Spreading Their Wings and Earning Their Keep
Continuing to college
Marching in the military
COLLEGE ACCREDITATION. IT MATTERS
Studying at a trade/vocational school
Entering the workforce
Working for someone else
Starting a business
Strapping on the Tool Belt
Continuing Homeschool through College
Staying at home
Finding a suitable program
LOOKING DOWN THE ROAD
Choosing Your Cornerstone: Basic Curriculum Options
Orbiting as a Satellite School under the Umbrella
PSPING IT
Riding the Satellite
Opting for a Complete Curriculum across the Distance
Pinpointing a Program
Elementary through junior high and beyond
High schools
Matching Your Needs with Their Offerings
Does Classical Education Mean Teaching Vivaldi?
Classifying It Classical
Trying the trivium
Grammar stage
Logic stage
Rhetoric stage
Forming the foundation with literature
Assembling Your Classical Curriculum Components
Language arts
Reading
Writing
Spelling
Math
Science
History
Geography
Art
Music
Latin
Foreign language
CERTIFIED CLASSICALLY CRAZED
Gathering More Information
BUT MOM, I DON'TWANT TO LEARN LATIN!
Reading Real Living Books with Charlotte
Calling Charlotte Mason
Leaping through living books
Nuzzling up to nature studies
Putting Together Your Package
Language arts
Whole books and living books
Narration as a tool
Copywork and dictation
Grammar
Math
Nature science
Nature walks
Nature notebooks
History
Geography
Art
Music
Foreign language
LIVING THE CHARLOTTE MASON LIFESTYLE
Mining the Montessori Method
Exploring at Their Own Pace
Guiding your children
Combining academics and life
Setting Up Your Space
Walking through the Day
Mathematics
Language arts
Practical Life
Sensorial
Culture
MAKING YOUR LIFESTYLE MONTESSORI
Wandering through Nature with Waldorf
Working Together with Head, Hands, and Heart
Enjoying the outdoors
Making things by hand
Flowing with the day
Locating a Waldorf-Style Curriculum
Picking favorites
Opting for similar goals
WALDORF’S RELIGIOUS UNDERPINNINGS
Teaching Them What They Want to Learn
Unveiling the Integrated Unit Study
All unit studies, all the time
Locating unit studies
Build Your Library
Magic Forest Academy, Stage 2
Torchlight
Making them last
GETTING SIDETRACKED
Changing Pace with Unit Studies
WAXING AND WANING
Focusing on Project-Based Learning
Short- and long-term projects
Designing a project to suit the learner
Designing Unit Studies
Subject-ing yourself to this?
Digging for topics
Calling all units …
LET THEIR INTERESTS GUIDE YOU
Unschooling: A Walk on the Relaxed Side
Raising Eyebrows and Suspicions
Fitting the Bill
Learning through the Course of a Day
Filling Your Home with Unschooling Tools
Books
Games
Software
Technological and building toys
Videos
Recording Their Progress
EEK! SO I’M TEACHING THEM NOTHING?
Hitting the Road with Worldschooling
Roadschooling versus Worldschooling
Engaging the environmentally curious
Following your dreams full or part time
Planning is everything
Choosing Your Academic Approach
Ditching the books … or not?
Living on and off the ’net
DANCING THE ROADSCHOOL RV TANGO
Charting Your Own Academic Course Eclectically
Knowing Whether Your Kid’s Kinesthetic
Pulling from Different Publishers
Starting with what you know
Pulling from the stacks
Math
Language arts
Science
Social studies and geography
History
Electives: Music and art
Writing a Curriculum from Scratch: The Diehard Approach
IF YOU'RE NOT USING MY CURRICULUM, YOU'RE CLUELESS!
Special Concerns for Special Students
Considering Yourself Capable
FUELING FUTURE HOMESCHOOLING
Guiding the Gifted
Taking different paths
Rounding up gifted education resources
Teaching the Medically Fragile
Getting the Goods You Need
Special equipment and services
Individualized Education Program
AHHHHHHCHOOO! ALLERGIES
Information
INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION
Nailing Down the Details
Defining Your School Space
Making Room for Chalk
Setting aside the optimal amount of space
Buying too far in advance increases storage needs
Deciding between the Den, the Dining Room, or the Whole Darn Place
Gathering around the kitchen table
Setting aside a special room
THE PERILS OF YOUR OWN PLACE
LEGO bricks in the living room and homework in the hall
LET YOUR NEEDS DETERMINE YOUR SPACE
Cutting the Costs and Searching for Stuff
Slashing Curriculum Prices
Choosing an inexpensive curriculum
Finding free, the least expensive of all
Locating used curriculum
Writing your own curriculum
Sourcing Your Curriculum
Looking at your local store
Avoiding the malls: Ordering via Internet or mailbox
Attending a Homeschool Conference
Hearing It from the Horse’s Mouth
Tapping the Fountain of Fellow Homeschoolers
Borrowing books long term
Buying as a group
Asking for the Discount
Breaking Out the Library Card
Understanding Copyright: What Is Fair Educational Use?
FIND THOSE BOOKS FOR PENNIES!
Teaching Your Traditions
Christian Curriculum
Publishing all-in-one, Protestant style
Science and other individual courses
Adding Bible to the day
LDS curriculum choices
Roman Catholic curriculum options
Jewish Resources
Islamic Resources
Pagan Resources
African American Resources
Native American Resources
DOING A LITTLE, DOING A LOT
Turning Chaos into Organization
Tracking Your Week with a Planner
DISPLAYING GENIUS
Seeking the Paperless Society
Thirty Days Hath September …
Scheduling for Sanity
Keeping Your School Spotless
Feeling the Burnout
Making the Grade
Deciding Whether to Keep Grades
Writing the tests to make the grades that you record in the house that Jack built
Figuring the grade
Tracking Those Unit Studies
Keeping a State-Required Portfolio
Testing Standardized’s Validity
HOW DO I KNOW WHAT THEY'RE LEARNING IF I DON'T KEEP GRADES?
Plugging in Your Schoolroom
Schooling at Home … But Online
Coursing through the Internet
’Net-ting Resources
Touring the World without Leaving Your Desk
Enhancing Your Subjects with Electronic Errata
Connecting with Like-Minded Souls
Finding Homeschoolers Online Who Share Your Passions
Facebooking your way to friends
Finding the best blogs
Pointing toward podcasts
Networking Isn’t Just for Computer Geeks
Associating and Consorting
Praying for Guidance
Getting Together for Socialization
CURLING UP WITH A FRIEND IN PRINT
TEAM: Together, Everyone Achieves More
Gathering informally
Formalizing your group
Finding a large co-op
Dissecting a large co-op
HOME(SCHOOL)-MADE
Making Your Year Sing with Extras
Adding Spice with Special Classes
Making Time for the Extras
Bringing Out Their Inner Artists
Music
Music appreciation
Music performance
Art
Art appreciation
Art creation
Go Ahead — Be Dramatic
Speech and debate
Toastmasters International
Reader’s Theater
Drama
Puppetry
Mime
Theater games
Skits
Formal plays
Homeschool groups
Taking Some Laps
Cooking Up a Storm
International cuisine
Food science
Bantering about Birds and Bees
Parlez-vous Greek?
SPEAKING IN THE LINGUA FRANCA
Cleaning the House and Calling It Schoolwork
ARRANGE YOUR WEEK AROUND AN ARTS DAY
Making It Adventurous with Activities and Groups
Dirtying Your Hands with a Project
Dissecting an owl pellet
Playing amateur archaeologist
Creating a garden
Building a train layout
Burying yourself in papier-mâché
Assembling a model
Pretending It’s Le Louvre
Getting Past Bugs Bunny
Volunteering Builds Compassion
Packing Up the Minivan
AVOID TEXTBOOK BOREDOM
Seeing the Sights or Staying at Home
Finding an Organization That Helps You Grow
Thinking about Playing or Playing to Think?
Ante Up
Thrilling the Engineer’s Heart
VIEWING THE WORLD THROUGH CREATIVE EYES
The Part of Tens
Ten Educational Games That Enhance Your School Day
Anti-Monopoly
Evolution
Forbidden Island/Desert
The Garden Game
How Do You See the World?
Into the Forest
Krypto
Periodic
Spell Smashers
Wingspan
Ten Common Homeschool Fears
My child will never make friends if I homeschool
I don’t know enough to teach my child
My child will miss out on socialization
I will buy the wrong curriculum
My child will learn less at home than he does at school
I’ll never have free time again
My child may not be learning at the right pace
I won’t be able to do it all
After I start, I have to do this forever
I’m not keeping the right (or enough) records on my child’s progress
Appendixes
Homeschooling Curriculum and Resources
Abeka
Artes Latinae
Behrman House
Brave Writer
California Homeschool Network Records and Resource Guide
Christian Book Distributors
Cricket Media Magazines
The Critical Thinking Co
Great Books Academy
Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
Mary Frances Books
MindWare
MisterArt
National Black Home Educators
Pandia Press
S&S Worldwide
Studies Weekly
Scotch Thermal Laminator
SEA Books and More
Teachers Pay Teachers
State-by-State Homeschool Associations
Speaking the Language: Educational and Homeschooling Terms
2E
accelerated learning
advanced placement (AP) course
auditory learner
CLEP exam
consumable
correlated to state standards
distance learning
dual credit
educational game
elective
fine arts
grade level
inclusive
intent to homeschool
kinesthetic learner
lesson plan
living books
low for grade level
neutral science
online education
PSP (Private School Satellite Program)
real books
reproducible black line masters
standardized test
teacher’s guide/teacher edition
transcript
visual learner
Index. Numerics
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
About the Author
Dedication
Author’s Acknowledgments
WILEY END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
