Homeschooling Virginia Requirements
2008
Homeschooling Generals?
I am a mother of 2 and have been thinking about homeschooling. My daughter is the oldest, she is almost 2, and my son is 5mths old. I just want to know how you get started in home schooling and if there was a site on state requirements. I live in Virginia, if anyone could help that would be awesome. My kids are young, so if I got a head start on getting the requirements for homeschooling the kids. Thank you so much.
Any websites could help, maybe even personal experiences.
Thanks Preacher, but I wanted to know the requirements for teaching home school.
To find out the legal requirements contact http://www.hslda.com
Look for the side bar on the site that says something like “your state” and click on it.
For support groups type in your search box “homeschool” the name or your county, and the name of your state (no need for any punctuation or the word “and” in between.) Then press “search” and you are on your way.
As far as how to get started, just start reading out loud to your kids now. Read classics and contemporary children’s books. Give them Play-dough to play with. Take them outside and talk about what you see.
There is a yahoo group I belong to that has homeschoolers from around the world exchanging ideas and experiences. Its a Christian group, if that is okay with you then check it out
Support4homeschool@yahoogroups.com
check out http://rainbowresource.com for resources.
Also look at the question someone asked about homeschooling a Kindergartner, there is a whole list of websites to check out there, many of those sights would appeal to you soon, and some would continue to be useful all the way through High School.
I homeschool my three children, and I could share a boat load of stories with you! Feel free to contact me if you want to hear them, my profile allows you to e-mail me. Just click on the picture next to my name and that will take you to my public profile where there is the option to e-mail.
One website that is really neat for young ones is
http://www.starfall.com
I got bored later so I decided to add this list instead of just telling you to look at my other answer.
http://www.handwritingforkids.com
http://www.enchantedlearning.com
http://www.abcteach.com
http://www.homeschooldiscount.com
http://www.sonlight.com
http://www.abeka.com
http://www.homeschoolstockroom.com
http://www.rocksolidinc.com
http://www.christianbook.com
http://www.earlychildhoodlinks.com
http://www.kn.att.com
http://www.first-school.ws
http://www.wxdude.com
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/star
http://about.com/education
http://www.freeworksheets.com
http://teacher.scholastic.com
http://www.mathsisfun.com
http://www.coolmath.com
http://www.dltk-kids.com
http://www.auntlee.com
http://www.funbrain.com
http://www.brainpopjr.com
http://www.iknowthat.com
http://kidsites.com
http://www.spelltime.com
http://www.eclectichomeschool.org
http://www.rainbowresource.com
http://www.donnayoung.org
http://alphaphonics.com
http://www.triviumpursuit.com
http://themathworksheetsite.com
http://startwrite.com
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