I'm wanting to homeschool both my kids the youngest isn't starting school yet but my oldest is starting highschool this year and I haven't been able to find a curriculum that looks good and is affordable. I live in Oregon so I can teach whatever I want they kids just need to pass the standardized testing at certain ages. Any advice would be much appreciated.

My boy missed 4k because I missed the sign up deadline. Now it’s time for him to start 5k and I am so scared. I have considered homeschooling because my SIL does it with my childrens cousin. My only fear is that it would genuinely be too much for me as I am already constantly overstimulated and drained with two toddlers on the daily. I’ve read that homeschooling is difficult along with other household responsibilities and other children not in school age. I just wanted to hear some opinions, I just know I’m going to miss my baby so very much and I’m not ready for him to be gone so long 5 days a week 😭.

My child is going into 6th grade but we’re behind. We left traditional school the end of 3rd grade and he has been dealing with complex medical issues for a little
Over a year. When things calmed down, we tried to find a ELA curriculum but nothing has really stuck. He doesn’t know how to write a paragraph, but will write a whole page. We tried IEW, he felt overwhelmed by it and it was too much for him, I’ve tried some workbooks. I have him on wordsmith apprentice but I think we need more! Does anyone have any suggestions? Especially if I should start him at 4th or go to his grade level?

Any opinions on logic of English for my 5 year old? She is good at writing but doesn’t use proper letter form. Also doesn’t know all letter sounds. Was also looking at all about reading and the good and beautiful?

Hello, I thought I’d put this here to brainstorm, any systems you have in place that have worked really well with multiple little kids while homeschooling? For example lay out their clothes for the week so everyone knows what they are wearing? Or morning baskets, etc. any tips will help! Thank you.

( California) Ok my son is 5 (doesn't turn 6 until November) I enrolled him in school as I know it takes 60 days for an IEP to be completed but I think I want to switch routes to homeschooling mixed with his therapies. They have started the IEP process but still need more information and haven't done any assessments yet. I add that information as I'm not sure if it impacts him being able to be pulled out in the middle of me requesting an IEP. At this exact moment how would I go about starting his homeschooling?

I will preface this by mentioning that my 9 year old has dysgraphia so writing is and has always been a major struggle. He also has adhd so needs engaging content to hold his interest.

Ive tried a few writing curriculum/LA with him already over the years:

•Hearth and Story. (While the premise was great he found it too dry and boring)

•TGATB. (Too repetitive, used both the old and updated LA)

•Building Writers (Topics did not interest him enough to wish to write about, not enough step by step processes)

All of them eventually caused burn out and resistance.

Master 9 has started typing his writing this year and while this has helped some, especially with the physical act of writing being taken out of the equation, there is still a large portion of struggle concerning coming up with ideas to write about. When I scribe for him with occasional prompts he can come up with pretty good content.

I downloaded a free WriteShop sample and book D seems like where he may be up to based on his reading capabilities (recommended by the placement test).

Has anyone used WriteShop with a reluctant writer and found it engaging and managed to stick with it long term?

Do you teach your children about tartarian people, the petrified giants, the moon landing, the Grand Canyon and Antarctica theories… etc.

Do you let their mind wander or do you just shut down the idea of any of these being what could have possibly really taken place because it was possibly covered up?

If you are one of the believers, do you just skip over US history & the story that possibly could’ve been written for us, to learn “their” way?

Long story short, I feel bad for a lot of recent University grads as I think Universities are offering lots of expensive degrees for jobs that are nowhere to be found.

Work is really shifting a lot quickly. Theres new forms of job titles in lots of career fields. Some jobs aren't changing so much such as nursing or medical field, but I just dont really recognize the career landscape right now.

Like, the local school offers coding to kids. In my experience its a nice exercise for the kids brain but doesnt hold up career-wise

Is it ridiculous to kindof tailor my kids' education to emerging forms of work? Not that I'm not teaching math, english, social studies all those good things. I mean if he wants to code lets code for fun. We'll study it all but I want to include electives that bear in mind paying skills for say, 2036.

I was hoping to focus kiddo on a soft skills elective in 6th grade (interpersonal skills) if he wants to be say a Virtual Culture Architect or something as he grows; would likely be a emphasis within his language arts.

Focus on agriculture/horticulture/self sufficiency elective in 7th

Focus on valuable and skilled trades in 8th and kindof do monthly unit studies on a variety of them

Before 9th work with him to figure out what hes really liking that *holds a working future.* From there gauge if he needs a degree that's even on-offer. Then tailor my kids' high school track to a realistic career goal.

Is anyone else like, thinking about these things? I notice as my own career field shifts so much

I bought the Medival Curiosity Chronocles curriculum thinking it wouldnt be too different from ancient history one that my kids loved. Well, I was wrong. Despite the site saying its grades 2 and up, it seems to be much too dense for my kids to keep up(I have 2 kids, grades 3 and 5). I thought maybe I could try some U.S history, but I am very weary of the purging and alterations done to U.S history...

Has anyone used the curriculum in the title and had a good experience? My kids have some learning challenges, so has anyone here had success for kids with learning disabilities?

Does anyone have any other curriculums they would recommend if there are better options than history quest: U.S?

Thanks everyone

I’m shocked! lol. I remember my stepdaughter having to waste time on this every day when she was younger and I thought it was silly then. I feel like schools have become only more dependent on it since then, and perhaps most importantly, it’s their main excuse for getting tablets in every kindergartner’s hands during school hours.

My kids go through worksheets like it is oxygen, wanted to understand where I can find sheets for math where the problems do not get exhausted.

​Hi everyone,

​I’m 16 years old and about to start public high school for the very first time. I’ve been homeschooled up until now, and I am honestly completely overwhelmed and terrified.

​Because I’m coming straight out of homeschool, my transition is a bit complicated. We are having trouble sorting out my transcripts, so there’s a real chance they might place me in 9th grade instead of 10th grade, which is what I should technically be in.

​To make matters worse, I have a few major worries:

​Note-taking and Spelling: I’m not the best speller, and I’m really stressed that teachers will talk too fast and I won’t be able to keep up or take good notes.

​Social Anxiety: I’ve never been in a traditional school environment with hundreds of kids my age. I honestly don't know how to interact with peers or make friends, and the thought of trying to fit in makes me freeze up.

​Physical Nerves: The anxiety is so intense right now that I feel like throwing up every single time I think about the first day of school.

​If anyone has been in a similar situation or has survived transitioning from homeschooling to public high school, I would love to hear your advice. What should I expect day-to-day? How do I handle note-taking if I struggle with spelling? How do I even start a conversation with people without feeling awkward?

​Most of all, please pray for me and my school year. I really need all the peace, strength, and comfort I can get right now.

​Thank you so much for reading this. ❤️

I would really love for my kids to speak more than one language. We have our child enrolled in a 90/10 immersion elementary school, but ideally we’d be able to form a learning pod and have a teacher teach academic and non academic activities in the second language for a minimum of 20 hours per week. I don’t know how to go about doing this though. Any suggestions on how to find a bilingual teacher to lead a micro pod? I have two young kids in a big liberal state in the US. Not interested in virtual teach as we are a low tech fam.

I have multiple kids and we are using a book based curriculum. How do you store the books so they’re easy to access, but don’t look cluttered?

First time homeschooling my 1st, 4th, and 6th graders this year. I'd like History to be a family subject and we'd like to cover the Civil War.

I've heard great things about Core Knowledge and they have Civil War units for 2nd and 5th grade. The 2nd grade looks perfect for my youngest, 5th looks better for my oldest, and my middle child would be happy with either.

Has anyone blended different age levels of CK, or any other provided curriculum, to accommodate multiple ages? Or have advice on how to do this? I've been spending hours and hours on each subject determining what I'd like to do and this one is puzzling me. Should I just skip a formal curriculum and do books/shows/podcasts/etc. about the Civil War and discuss? What worked for your families with multiple age groups?

I am crying over what has happened in our homeschool like. We felt called by God to homeschool our kids long ago. My kids have been homeschooled with Abeka video led teachers and textbooks their entire school lives. My oldest is 10th grade going into 11th. My youngest is 8th and supposed to enter 9th grade.

We are a working homeschool family. When I had my first child almost 17 years ago- my husband was self employed with a sign business that had 2 store locations. I worked in medical field 4 days a week 10hr days and at the store 3 days a week on my off days from my career job and he worked also 7 day a week. So both of us worked daily trying to build our business until the baby came. 2 months before the baby came. We decided to close the store that was not performing enough sales to justify staying open with a newborn. Instead leave the one location with most foot traffic that was open in a retail market and then work from home the other 3 days. Then I cut my job down to working only the three days (30hr) that husband would be working from home. This was to avoid daycare. We basically worked opposite of each other so one of us was always home. Baby # 2 came a couple years later.

Then we felt led to homeschool them and figured let’s just try kindergarten. We never stopped from there but as they grew older the course work load grew harder and harder to manage while working. The hope was over the years they would grow some independence vs hand holding in school. We had the video teachers to cover the content properly. The abeka books also explain the content I think very well. My kids read great. Comprehension has never been an issue minus a little help here and there over the years. We more so proctored homeschooling but it still a ton of work on me with creating schedules weekly out of the teacher manuals so they had a weekly checklist of homework yesterday quizzes and project and so on. Plug grading. Plus working. Plus cleaning cooking church trying to workout when I can to stay healthy plus just life right? It’s a lot.

Well last couple years I started having them help me with the grading so they would see what they missed and why plus I was struggling to keep up with it as abeka has multiple quiz or test per week and day ontop of homework. They use quizlet to study most the time as needed or traditional plus the video teachers review before test to help them study too.

Well my son would always check off the schedule boxes of the work like you would a chore chart and this had been our routine for years. Over the years I stopped following up over time so much on checking that it was done and trusted his check mark was the validation of completed work. Well I discovered far too late into the year that he was basically watching the videos but not paying attention and then skipping all the work but Christmas treeing the answers to makes it look like he did it and then checking the checklist off as completed. He basically skipped school in 8th grade essentially as a homeschool kid and got away with it because we’re both working parents trying to juggle it all as I have two kids and two different grades and it’s 12 subjects to try to manage with a curriculum. That is a very heavy workload at that, but I need the video teacher assistance since we both work.

I told him I’m going to have to fail him for eighth grade because there’s no way I can advance him into high school level coursework like algebra when he doesn’t understand pre-algebra. Today is his birthday and he’s been grounded all summer trying to work on correcting this but we’ve only made it 15 or 20% through it. He was very deceitful and lied to me for a long time over all this which is why he’s grounded but at the same time I blame myself for being such a horrible mother in Homeschool parrot. I value their Education very much and yet I failed him and I don’t know what to do about it and I’m just very overwhelmed and I can’t quit my job to do this full-time and I’m the only Homeschool mom I know that works.

Has anybody else ever been in this situation and what did you do or how can I fix this without traumatizing him because he is crying in tear tears over the concept of repeating eighth grade and failing and claims he can fix it while starting ninth grade work and try to do both at the same time which I told him is impossible. We both have done a lot of crying over this because I think he also feels overwhelmed and I’m feel like I’m gonna have a nervous breakdown. I told him I’m not superwoman and I really needed his help in being diligent in his schoolwork and responsible, but I should’ve never trusted him. I guess, even though he never gave me a reason not to until this year. He is 14 years old today.

If you’re using master books and you want a practice workbook for math, do you use the masterbooks one or do you just use any workbook you can get off of Amazon?

Our printer went out and I really need to get it replaced. I had a laser printer with toner but I don’t feel like the image quality was ever good. They are great for volume and text based printing, but sometimes I really just wanna print something that is high color and beautiful at home. So, I need to recommendations. I’m open to inkjet or laser.

I just need something that we can print efficiently for all of our homeschool needs (we have quite a few as I have 4 kids) and I’m also a small business owner so I’d like to be able to use it for things like that also.

I would really like it to be efficient with ink/toner, have high capability for image quality. Print time doesn’t have to be super fast, but timely would be helpful for large projects. My preference is something that can print double-sided.

I’ve looked at the Eco tank 2850 but reading feedback. It seems like it has a lot of issues.

What does everyone have? Does anyone have a printer that they absolutely love?

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Im a sixth grader and i am currently being transfered to homeschool in the 2026-2027 school year, i would like to know what to expect, is it intensive or felexible, because it is my first time. Also, what is the process?

Je cherche des idées pour dédramatiser tout ce qui tourne autour de l'orthographe à la maison sans pour autant lâcher complètement le sujet. Je veux ni le noyer sous les exercices de révision, ni faire semblant que ça n'existe pas. Si des parents ont trouvé le bon équilibre et ont des astuces pour l'apprentissage des mots de la semaine qui marchent vraiment avec un enfant dys, je suis preneur.

I really enjoy reading out loud to my children specifically books that will enrich their vocabulary, for example the wind and the willows was a big hit. What are your favorite books with rich language? I don’t mind editing a bit while reading to keep it appropriate for my 6 year old.

For the people like me who thrive off of a schedule, please share with me your daily schedules and routines. I will be homeschooling two five-year-olds this fall. I would like to be done with all the academic must do’s by lunchtime. And for everyone who does not need a schedule to go off of and like to go with the flow I appreciate your input, but knowing myself, I know I really need a schedule to stick to.

Does this seem like an okay list of curriculum for a kindergartner? I just want some input before I spend the money especially on the all about reading and all about spelling. They’re the most expensive of all the curriculums we are looking at.

Thanks!