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Question: Does anyone have any experience with moving their kids (K5 & 2nd) from Christian to a homeschool style school.

When I was told by my childs teacher that he wasn't being taught his math facts in class (had to review (I say teach) at home) because there wasn't enough time I was shocked. And then on two ocassions my 6 yr old was told to put his hand down to class related questions, I realized I needed to look around for a setting that could provide him attention when it was needed. Found a small church (I mean small). Classes are shared, i.e., K5/1st, 2nd/3rd ... up to 12th. They use the popluar rated Abeka program and deem themselves a homeschool. Just not sure if this would be a good move. My K4 son is already starting to read and the 1st grader made the honor roll. Both are taught at higher grade levels. The school academic program I feel is good, but I want to be sure they are given an opportunity to take in, comprehend, all that is being taught. It seems the emphasis is on completing the curriculum for the school year and therefore moving faster than the kids can keep up. No room for review.

Answer: Go with the church school - although if they are doing all the teaching I'm not sure how they qualify as a homeschool. If they are ahead of their grade level at their current school, what's stopping them from being ahead in the church one?

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Question: Does anyone use ABC Home Preschool curriculum?

https://www.abchomepreschool.com/products.php?category_id=14

Or what resources do you use. My son is almost 2 so I would like to start him out with the preschool stuff. Workbooks, flashcards, anything, I need a good resource for Christian Homeschool Curriculum

Answer: Never heard of it. You might want to check on http://www.homeschoolreviews.com to get reviews on curriculum from a wide variety of homeschoolers.

Personally, we didn't use "curriculum" with our children at age 2. It isn't really necessary. Instead, we went to the library a lot, for storytimes and to check out books. I read to mine a lot, from a wide variety of materials (stories, poems, nonfiction books on all sorts of subjects including history, stories of people in other countries, books about careers, books about shapes or colors or animals, etc.)--sometimes I picked several books on one topic for a theme of the week, but mostly I let them pick some books and I picked several more to make sure we had a wide variety. I pointed out letters to them wherever we went. Got magnetic letters and put them on the fridge and we played with them. Sang the alphabet song with them. Counted things all around us. Watched videos such as the Leapfrog series (great for teaching letters and then more advanced phonics and reading). Went on lots of nature walks--and made sure to stop and watch nature--even if it meant watching a worm crawl along or looking for tadpoles in puddles--and played a lot outside, in the yard or at parks. We colored, painted, played with clay, glued things--these are not only fun, but will also build the small motor muscle control needed to learn to write. Planted seeds and watched them grow.

Most two year olds aren't ready to sit still for long to do lessons. And they'll learn so much more from doing things, being read to a lot, etc.

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