Education

I added information about the current political climate about homeschooling, deleted a reference and added some more books that were educational helps. I would also add Saxon Math to the list. These are books that I am using as an adult to expand and review my own math skills.

I had two children and the youngest had hearing problems that were sever enough that they did delay his educational development. Starting at the preschool level he went to a public school speech therapist twice a week, till he was in 3rd grade. He did go to pre-school and part of kinder garden at a public school but when I took him out during Christmas vacation, we decided to keep him out till third grade.

My favorite home schooling books are by Core Knowledge by E. D. Hirsch.
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These books start at the pre-school level (complete with the traditional bedtime stories) and continue to "What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know". These books were great even when the children decided to try out public school since they did not infringe on the school curriculum but still gave the kids an idea of what concepts they would be encountering during each grade

I used the Core Knowledge series (Core Knowledge Foundation)and yearly testing with the "Stanford Achievement Test Series" as the basis of my support. I do have to admit that I also used

• The Magic School Bus
  
• PBS sieries "Wishbone"
  

• a mail order comprehensive curriculum
• YWCA twice a week

The home school group's organized classes in

• science and
• art

• 2 different church homeschool groups and
• 1 non-denominational homeschool group.

What my kids seem to like the most was the software like The Learning company's Reader Rabbit, Treasure Mountain and the Super Solvers.

added 8/16/2009 I found out more about the current Home School situation at Home Education Magazine and though the lawsuit 'was' resolved in 1999 the people involved are still attempting to define what homeschooling is.
I intend to take up this subject on my SF tunes blog and leave Home School blog for the brighter side of Education.