The easiest thing to do is purchase a pre made curriculum like Alpha Omega or Bob Jones.
It takes you and your child step by step and you can do as much or as little as you want.
Dont try to be like school. Make a schedule but be flexible and dont stress about how much you get done. You can do an entire days curriculum in about 3 hours every day.
Everything is a learning experience so dont limit yourself to just teaching out of the books. We dod all sorts of things like camping where we walked in the woods and talked about plant life.
Its intimidating at first. Your bighest challenge will be getting your little one to see you as teacher and not mom. Kids can manipulate mom. You have to make sure they know they cant manipulate the teacher. Its harder than you think.
I homeschooled 2. One just graduated college and the other is graduating high school this year. Im always available to help should you have questions.
Our comments are almost identical. The point you make about the student seeing you as “teacher” and not “parent” is interesting. I actively avoided that with our 5th-grader, because I’m not a teacher, and he knows it. Instead, I encouraged him to find the approaches he wanted to follow, but to produce a plan and commit to it for two weeks at a time, after which, we could evaluate and fine tune.
There is a big maturity gap between 1st and 5th grades, so this approach may not work for the especially young or less-motivated. But it’s also important that they don’t become confused about whom they are talking to, teacher or parent. It’s really just you.
The easiest thing to do is purchase a pre made curriculum like Alpha Omega or Bob Jones.
It takes you and your child step by step and you can do as much or as little as you want.
Dont try to be like school. Make a schedule but be flexible and dont stress about how much you get done. You can do an entire days curriculum in about 3 hours every day.
Everything is a learning experience so dont limit yourself to just teaching out of the books. We dod all sorts of things like camping where we walked in the woods and talked about plant life.
Its intimidating at first. Your bighest challenge will be getting your little one to see you as teacher and not mom. Kids can manipulate mom. You have to make sure they know they cant manipulate the teacher. Its harder than you think.
I homeschooled 2. One just graduated college and the other is graduating high school this year. Im always available to help should you have questions.
Our comments are almost identical. The point you make about the student seeing you as “teacher” and not “parent” is interesting. I actively avoided that with our 5th-grader, because I’m not a teacher, and he knows it. Instead, I encouraged him to find the approaches he wanted to follow, but to produce a plan and commit to it for two weeks at a time, after which, we could evaluate and fine tune.
There is a big maturity gap between 1st and 5th grades, so this approach may not work for the especially young or less-motivated. But it’s also important that they don’t become confused about whom they are talking to, teacher or parent. It’s really just you.