Ways to Homeschool

1. Enroll your child through the local school district. They will give you all the curriculum, at the child's grade level. Your child will meet with a teacher once a week and turn in their work and they take all the required tests.

2. Enroll your child in a charter school that provides all the curriculum. You the parent do more grading, and meet with a teacher less often. Your child takes all the required tests.

3. Enroll your child in a charter school that allows you to pick all your own curriculum. You meet with a teacher once a month. Your child must take all the required tests.

4. Enroll your child through the state as being enrolled in your own private school. You must take attendance (that no one sees). You are able to teach whatever you want. Your child in not required to take any tests (unless you ask for them or if your child wants to go to college).

Last year we choose option 4. We choose to study Folklore Around the World. We read fables, myths, fairy tales, and legends from each of the 6 continents (yes, we know there are 7, but Antarctica isn't inhabited). We had lots of fun.

This year we are doing option 3. I am loving it. My children don't really know the difference because last year everything came out of my pocketbook and this year most things are coming out of Sky Mountain's pocketbook. The beginning of the year tests were simple and the children were surprised when they ended =) We are able to take classes and buy curriculum to use throughout the entire year instead of just borrowing from the library. We are also able to get this (science and foreign language) that we just couldn't afford. Thank you Bridey for giving us the information!