Homeschooling is a rewarding endeavor, filled with joys and challenges. We explore homeschooling in Pennsylvania and give you the tools you need to make your homeschooling journey exciting, fun, and successful for you and your family.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. |
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- Igor Stravinsky |
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Choosing Your Home School Curriculum |
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Vicki Lewis |
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Find out what subjects are usually taught at your child’s grade level. List the subjects you have decided to teach in their order of importance to you. Curriculum review manuals are helpful in bringing awareness to what is available in each subject area.
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I Am What I Am |
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Anne E. Ohman |
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A mother of an exceptional child discusses why homeschooling is the right choice for their family. A personal look at the joys of learning and growing together through an unschooling philosophy of life. |
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Math Lessons and Worksheets |
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Enchanted Learning |
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Math worksheets covering topics including: early math, arithmetic, simple patterns, sorting, number bingo, number and math dominoes, square root wheel, printable graph paper, logic puzzles, and measurements. |
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How to Develop Social Skills Without Socialization |
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Megan Zechman |
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The homeschooling community is wide and diverse, yet there is one question that almost every parent has been asked during the years they school their children at home. “What about socialization?”
We are led to believe that if we don’t put our children in public school, they will be missing out. They will become social misfits. Homeschooling means they will be stuck inside all day, having no opportunity for socialization. But true socialization comes from interacting with the world around them and having the freedom to explore and make true friendships. |
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Homeschooling Grows in the Black Community |
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Michael Smith |
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The best research on homeschooling indicates the total number of children who are homeschooled is 1.5 to 2 million, and that number is growing by 10 to 15 percent per year. But not everyone recognizes the academic and social success of homeschoolers and some criticize the movement as being white and elitist. While it's true that the large majority of homeschool children are white, the number of black homeschoolers is growing rapidly. Brian Ray, president of the National Home Education Research Institute, estimates that there are 30,000 to 50,000 black children being homeschooled today. Others estimate that black homeschoolers make up 5 percent of the total homeschool population. Most importantly black homeschool movement is growing at a faster rate than the general homeschool population.
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