Question by juniper: What are the legal requirements for home schooling grade school age kids?
If I decide to home-school one or more of my children, what legal requirements do I have to meet in Illinois? One child is in 5th grade, the other would be in kindergarten next year. The reason would be the lack of quality education and quality teachers available where we live.
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Answer by hsmomlovinit Here are the laws and regs for Illinois: http://hslda.org/laws/analysis/Illinois.pdf
Homeschools in IL are considered to be private schools; as long as you are educating your daughter according to her ability, and you keep appropriate records, you should be fine.
According to child experts, the formative years are very critical to the child's growth and development. This stage is when a child's value is formed as well as his morals and foundation of the child's character is starting to develop. Why this stage is crucial? During this stage, the child's brain is like a sponge where it absorbs everything around him or her.
As a parent, it is very important to guide the child from the places that the kids go to, to the food they eat, the information received by the kid and the people they talk to. For this particular reason, homeschooling is preferred by most parents. Since parents stand as teachers, they get to customize the lectures and the teaching approach. Homeschooling protects children from violence and school related accidents.
When planning for your home based education curriculum, the first thing to do is set a list of objective and expectations from the child. Make a list of your child's interests. Assess your child's learning needs especially his or her habits and communication skills. You can list down of the things that you think your child need and incorporate what your child likes. Make learning simple. Example, when teaching your child mathematics, together you can count toys and building blocks. Make sure that the approach of teaching is interactive in a child friendly environment.
To serve as guide, there are curriculum online that you can download or purchase. It will help you to ensure that you are following your discussions well and not randomly. Through this, you avoid repetitive discussions.
The internet is a great source for free and paid educational materials for you to use in teaching. Some of these are discounted, on sale or even free. However, it is recommended to review the materials first or to read forum posts regarding the teaching materials before buying or downloading to save time and money. Make sure that the materials and documents are legitimate, updated and fits your home school program for your child.
The following websites offer good home school education services online. Here, you can find materials, curriculums and visual aids to help you conduct home school education a success:
1. Letshomeschool.Com
2. Abchomepreschool.Com
3. Splashesfromtheriver.Com
4. The Back Pack Proudly - sells new and second hand text books, curriculum packages, science videos, worksheets and writing guides
5. UsedHomeSchoolBooks.Com
6. Best Homeschool Buys - sells second hand home school books
7. Educational Accents Book Store
It will be great if you'll find a child friendly curriculum with colorful and interactive packages. The same principle applies when searching for educational toys and board games. You can also look for or create your own self - review and monitoring sheets to evaluate you and your child's academic performance. Bulk orders are also cheaper. Patiently browse your credible websites that provides discounts or offer sales on various items. Whatever material or curriculum you want to use, be sure that it fits your children's academic needs. Guide your child well and be sensitive to your child's needs.
Question by Bob j: How do home school kids get graded and how do they take tests and do they get report cards and if yes how?
I'm curious.Can par rents grade their kids that they are teaching,or is there a home school teacher that grades them.Are all their tests open book?I'm really curious. I'm talking about grade school and high school.
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Answer by Shiori_hime If your parents are teaching you, then generally they are also the ones grading you (unless you're using an online course, correspondence course, or you're talking about the standardized tests that have to be returned to a specific place for grading). How families structure testing is almost entirely up to them, and in places where no testing is required by the state many homeschooling families choose not to test at all because they see it as an artificial and fairly useless way of measuring knowledge. For families who do test (either because they want to or because the law says they must) whether or not a test is open-book is usually up to them. I have never heard of homeschoolers getting report cards, though I suppose some families might do it and it might be on option with online or correspondence programs. But I think most homeschooling families look at report cards as pretty useless measures of learning and prefer to base their assessments of their children's learning off of more concrete things, like whether or not Jimmy can read a book and whether or not Sarah can figure out how much carpet she would need to buy if she wanted wall-to-wall carpeting in her room.
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