New to Homeschooling?
These are some homeschooling 101 and parenting resources that I've found most useful myself. Hopefully, you will too!
Why Homeschool?
Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
Homeschooling: Just Starting Out
A to Z Home's Cool - a well-spring of homeschooling info, curated by Ann Zeise.
Homeschool Abbreviations - you'll come across lots of acronyms and abbreviations when researching homeschooling. This Well Trained Mind forums page should help too.
Homeschool Association of CA - "the" place to go to for CA families who plan to homeschool.
CA Home-Study Charter Schools - if you want a little more hand-holding, a virtual charter may be your answer.
Private School Affidavit - declare yourself a private school...how-to-file instructions from the Homefires website.
Deschooling - if your kids really need to decompress from school those first few weeks or months.
Approaches, Curriculum and Other Suggestions
Ambleside Online - free Charlotte Mason Method, literature-based curriculum (religious but can be modified for secular homeschoolers).
An Old Fashioned Education - free, complete curriculum using resources from yesteryears (religious).
Growing Without Schooling - information and research on unschooling, as espoused by John Holt
Homeschool Diner - everything from homeschooling basics to curriculum ideas to managing special situations.
Jon's Homeschool Resources - more ideas and research for you!
Penny Gardner - some wonderful ideas here for the Charlotte Mason Method.
SecularCM - more ideas for using the Charlotte Mason Method.
Standardized Testing Resources - keeping track of learning, achievement tests, etc.
The Secular Homeschool Community - online support for secular homeschoolers
The Well-Trained Mind - Susan Wise Bauer and her mom, Jessie Wise's classical education model
Gifted Homeschooling
Davidson Institute - articles on parenting the gifted child.
Differentiation Through Curriculum Compacting - how to differentiate and accelerate for gifted children.
Early College Entrance - ideas for kids who are ready for the challenge early
Early College Readiness checklist
Finding Mentors - The Gift of Mentoring article
GHF: Favorite Things - some suggested learning resources.
Gifted Kid? - where to start.
Hoagies' - homeschooling the gifted. Look around; this site is a nirvana for parenting gifted kids!
Uniquely Gifted - resources for gifted kids with special needs
Homeschooling Through High School and College
Record-keeping - some of the ways that I organize our learning samples and keep records for the future.
hs2coll Yahoo Group
homeschool2college Yahoo Group
Homeschool Through High School? - Simple Homeschooling article
HSLDA article and page on evaluating high school credits
Other Interesting Homeschooling Pages
Learning Beyond Schooling - I was very pleasantly surprised to stumble upon this site one day. It's about homeschooling (and unschooling) in Malaysia (my home country).
