Day-by-day Musings on Intentional Parenting
If you want to homeschool independently, meaning you don’t want to enroll in a homeschool provider, you can do so by purchasing your own curriculum or do a DIY curriculum by researching through the internet and creating what you think is best for your children.
As a guide, you can get curriculum guides from DepEd’s website. Curriculum Guides for K to 12 is readily available and is segregated by subjects.
When I started thinking about homeschooling 7 years ago, I checked the internet and found tons of resources that talks about homeschooling preschool and elementary grade students. I didn’t feel alone and I knew it was easy to find materials that would help me in homeschooling my kids.
Now that my children have grown and we have homeschooled for 6 years, I still find myself looking around the net to find resources that would help me choose the best curriculum, teaching methods and references that could help homeschooling my middle school students.
It’s not as easy to find resources because for some reason, there are less homeschool mom bloggers who share about middle school and high school. So, I am sharing with you some of the resources I’ve found for homeschooling in middle school and high school.
Homeschooling High School by TheHomeSchoolMom
Teaching godly virtues at home is one of our goals in homeschooling. Though character is not something one can easily teach but awareness of these virtues is important so that our children will know these virtues.
Here are some tools you can use to teach these godly virtues.
Achieving True Success: How to Build Character as a Family. This is a book which can be used by the whole family. It is available from Amazon or Learning Plus bookstore in Pasig City.
Focus on the Family’s Kids of Integrity A great website with free PDF files that focuses on each virtue.
Confession’s of a Homeschooler’s Bible Printables. There are several character studies which you can easily download and print for your child.
We Choose Virtues. There is a homeschool kit that includes parenting cards and downloadable PDF files. It is best fit for 4-8 years old.
The Book of Virtues from William J. Bennett. This is a book about different virtues and there is a FREE unit study on The Book of Virtues from Shiver Academy.
If your child is not very fond of Math, you can try looking for living math books like the Sir Cumference picture book series.
Math concepts are explained in an illustrated story format. Different math characters have exciting adventures including Sir Cumference, Lady Di of Ameter and their son Radius. The titles in this series:
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table
Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone
Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi
Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland
Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter
The drawings are drawn using soft painting and time of the events happen during the time of the Kings and the Knights. Indeed, this is truly a different and fun way to learn about Math concepts!
Hi, I'm Chris! I am a follower of Christ, a wife and a mom to 2 homeschooled kids. Join me in my journey to intentional parenting! [Read More...]
