How Do I Get Started Homeschooling?

Please click through to this post (which has working links to the topics mentioned below):

How to Start Homeschooling

and visit this newer post as well: How Do I Start to Homeschool?! Help!

These posts all exist, but we’ve moved from Parents.com (we were under the Parents umbrella for 3 years)… and I don’t have the links up and running! 🙂 Hope to get them together sometime soon! You can also use the SEARCH button to look for any of the post titles below.

~Liesl

I frequently get asked, “How do I get started homeschooling?”  This past summer I wrote a very long series to try to answer some of the questions that might come up–including the baffling dilemma… “How do I know *what* to teach the kids?” and “How do I find homeschool curriculums?”  I have tried to gather all these posts and link them in one place so you can pick and choose the topics/questions you might have.  If you have any other questions I might not have addressed in this series, feel free to leave me a note over on our Homeschool Den Facebook page and I’ll try to answer them.

Getting Started with Homeschooling. And answering some basic questions about homeschooling:

• How to Start Homeschooling
• What are Some of the Benefits and Challenges of Homeschooling?
• Creating Daily Homeschool Procedures and Routines
• How and Why Did We Get Started Homeschooling?
• How many homeschoolers are there in the USA?
• Advice to New Homeschoolers
• 11-year Old Shares Her Thoughts About Homeschooling
• How Long Will We Keep Homeschooling? (Homeschooling Through High School)
• Back to (Home)School Shopping List
•  What Happens in a Homeschool Day — Our Week or 2 in Review (K, Gr. 3, Gr. 5) — A glimpse into our homeschool (last November) that helps give you a flavor of what our homeschool routine looks like.
• How to Get Started Homeschooling with Unit Studies
• What About the Social Aspects of Homeschooling? – This post includes a long list of activities homeschooled kids can get involved in.
• Homeschool Questions Answered: Why do people homeschool?
• Homeschool Encouragment: To Homeschool You Need…
• Time and the Busy Parent

• How Do You Know What to Teach the Kids: Finding a Homeschool Curriculum
• Homeschool Planning and Schedules: From the Big Picture down to the Daily Schedule – Science and History Checklist of units my kids will study ages 4-12

• Homeschool Science Curriculum Options
• Creating a Homeschool Science Curriculum – Elementary
• Creating a Homeschool Science Curriculum – Ages 4-6
• Science Activities for Ages 4-6
• Preschool Science at Home – A post with links to dozens of our hands-on science activities (ages 3-6 or so)

• Choosing or Creating a History Curriculum
• Hands On Geography Activities for Ages 4-10

• Finding a Language Arts Curriculum (writing, grammar)
• Writing Workshop: What We’re Doing for Writing this Fall (2014)
• Creating a Homeschool Writing Workshop — This is the first in a long series (of about 10 or 12 posts) about how our homeschool writing workshop works.

Math:

• Math Curriculums & Going Beyond the Text – This post includes 15+ ideas for making math engaging and fun!
• Math Worksheets, Game Boards, Lapbook and More – Various worksheets and resources I’ve made for my kids that include themes (that my kids like) such as Pokemon, Pete the Cat, etc.
• PreAlgebra Curriculums and Resources

• Long List of Free Homeschool and Teaching Resources