Want an Online Home School Program?

Why should you consider searching for a online home school program?

Why do you not just make up your own curriculum?

You may think you know a great deal and that you could share all this amazing knowledge in a broad and balanced way. And I have no doubt with a lot of effort and referring to the strict rules governing your country or state, I am confident you can.

However as each country has its own laws, it is important that your children are learning the same topics as the children in school.

The reason for this is simple – should your child ever return to the conventional schooling system, they will be expected to know certain facts. It is more than likely your students, with their personal teacher will have studied each topic in wonderful detail and in a far more creative way.

How does this online home school program works? – you register and then your child learns their lessons by using lots of brightly coloured flash cards. For each question, the computer tracks their responses. It allows the parent to log in and see if a child is correct. At the moment it is best for a child and parent to work together as there are few checks on how honest a student is being with being correct or not. These are currently being worked on and resolved.

The site is based on covering the questions students will find in standard tests – so if your child knows all the answers, then they can move onto a different topic. The computer remembers where they left their last lessons, and so if you log out and log in again the computer will simply continue where you left off.

The site was clear and easy to use and well laid out. If you wish to make some money from home, you can also go to the site and help create more flash cards in any area you have knowledge of. The details of payment and expectations are all on the site.

Charlotte Mason was a British educator who believed that education was about more than training for a job, passing an exam, or getting into the right college. She said education was an atmosphere, a discipline, and a life; it was about finding out who we were and how we fit into the world of human beings and into the universe God created.

This online home school program is rather religious based, with a weekly reading of the bible. It does however also have a long book list for each year group and has a list of activities for each week of the year set out in a curriculum. It also has links to lots of free books, so that a child can read all the books they want.

I found that buying a personal digital assistant (PDA) would help your child tremendously, as then the free e-books can be directly downloaded onto the computer and read wherever you want. I use to use mine all the time for this purpose.

It is worth considering combining these courses with other material you can find on the Internet to make sure your child has a broad balance of the different subjects. The original owner found that a child could work with maths for about ½ hour in one sitting, before their concentration started to waver.

The frequently asked questions section was well though out and it did answer a lot of my questions. I would still have added other curriculum ideas to it, to make sure that my child had the maximum exposure to the modern ideas of maths and science as well as the classical view.

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