Home School Online

Some things are certain:  taxes, death, and the steady growth of new homeschoolers.   To help these refugees from the school system,  there’s lots of tools and documents.  Here’s a new page called How to Homeschool that  talks about how to explore homeschooling.

Countless families have chosen to start homeschooling their children for a great variety of reasons. Time4learning recognizes one common goal of homeschooling parents: they want to help shape the best future for their children.

If you are unfamiliar with homeschooling, it can be a little frightening and you may feel a little discouraged. You are not alone! Many home educators who make the decision to administer their children’s education have similar qualms at the beginning and endless questions about how to home school.

Time4Learning has a dynamic group of homeschooling families. We have pooled our resources to provide you with a “How to Home School Guide for New Homeschooling Families,” which will give you a foundation as you embark on your homeschooling journey.

I just found an amazing site that is being developed: HomeschoolLiterature.com.   It’s dedicated to creating a directory of books about homeschoolers. Here’s what I think is so interesting, it’s not about books about how to homeschool, it’s a directory of literature (short stories and novels, maybe poems) in which homeschoolers are key characters.

Don’t you want your kids having these books on their reading lists?  Please pass it on, the site is new and still being developed. I know they need help finding all the books and getting them reviewed. They are also building lesson plans to help study them.  Here’s a list of what they’ve found so far:

Addie McCormick and the Computer Pirate (Addie Mccormick Adventures, Book 6) by Leanne Lucas

Mary has done it again.  She is one of my most favorite homeschool columnists. I  highly recommend this column about Getting The MOST Out Of Your State Homeschool Convention !

Here’s a teaser of her thoughts on homeschool curriculum fairs and conventions: 

Two weeks ago Florida had it’s big FPEA Convention. It is the largest (population wise) in the United States. I look forward to this event all year long. I have to tell you though that I was a bit of a rebel the first nine years I homeschooled. I didn’t go because I felt like I could use that money to buy more curriculum and couldn’t justify the expense of the annual convention. I had no idea what I was missing out on. It is so much more than curriculum…, SO MUCH MORE!