Use this website with Beverley Paine's Getting Started with Home Schooling - Practical Considerations to help you develop your own educational curriculum to suit your family situation, beliefs and lifestyle. The checklists can help you identify your children's current educational skill level in each subject area, as well as find any 'gaps' in their learning, plan what they need to cover or keep track of what has been learned.

Home educators use a wide variety of approaches and methods. It will take time to find the 'right' way for you and your family. The first couple of years will include experimenting with different methods and materials - all homeschoolers go through this 'settling in' stage. All methods work to balance children's natural ability to learn with organised learning activities that challenge and promote growth and development. The homeschool curriculum aims to be holistic. It should also be responsive to the learning needs and styles of the individual learner. The information on this site has been accumulated over two decades of homeschooling experience as well as from Beverley's ongoing interest in how children learn and how parents and teachers can continue to aid that process.

Curriculum Index

As you can appreciate this website is continuously under development... It's our aim to add pages on a regular basis in all curriculum areas: check back frequently. Feedback and comments welcome. We hope you enjoy the articles and activities and find the links and recommended resources useful.

Over the next year we will be working our way through each subject area and writing fresh, new content which will also be reproduced in a reasonably priced handy reference booklet from our Practical Homeschooling Series.

New This Month...

• Every Homeschool Needs to Sing
• Five In A Row - Guided Literature Based Unit Studies
• How to Find Suitable Books for Your Children to Read
• Why Homeschoolers Need to Learn to Translate Everyday Activities into Educational Jargon
• Understanding Educational Jargon
• Beginning to Home Educate Children with Learning Disabilities
• Using John Saxon's Maths Books
• Give your Homeschool the Bible Centred Edge!
• How We Tackled Learning Another Language at Home

Homeschooling Approaches

Different homeschooling philosophies describe how to homeschool and influence what materials and teaching strategies you will use to teach your child. Before choosing an approach, take time to observe and learn your child's learning style and decide your primary goals for your child's education.You may like a particular approach but it might not suit your child! It's okay to use different approaches for different children, or to blend or overlap approaches - whatever works best for your and your family is the right approach for you.

• Unschooling
• Natural Learning, Living Simply
• The Trivium: Classical Homeschooling
• Eclectic Homeschooling
• Charolette Mason Homeschooling
• Montessori Homeschooling
• Bible-based, Discipleship and Identity forming Homeschooling
• The Moore Homeschooling Approach
• The Reggio Emelia Approach
• School-At-Home Homeschooling
• Distance Education
• Unit Studies
• Unschooling
• Waldorf Homeschooling
• Enki Education
• Mini-schools and Resource Centred Learning

There are hundreds of articles and links on this website and we've done our best to sort them into headings to help you find what you are looking for, but please make use of our SEARCH function. Scroll down the page to see all the categories... and remember, we keep adding new ones so don't assume you know what's there because you've been here before! Every week we add new articles so please bookmark this site, or subscribe to our free newsletter so you don't miss out on the latest additions.

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Always Learnign Books

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