I want to home school my daughter for kindergarten, but i am just not

[mii]

sure where to begin or what she will nee I know she needs to learn her Abc and numbers, I am not sure how to go about teaching her to read and write

[north]

Moonwake...give me a break! My kids are all at least one to two grade levels ahead and they socialize far more than when they were in school. You make it sound like we lock our kids in a room and never take them out anywhere. Get your facts straight before offering criticism. Just by being their mom, I'm more more attuned to and more qualified to fulfill their educational, emotional and social needs.

[HS Mom]

In addition to what Jen, Ozboz, Angel, & Sunrise have to say, I'd also throw in to learn your DD's learning style - and yours. Once you know her learning style, you can choose curriculum to meet it.

The homeschool convention season is coming up. Attend one in your area for not only information sessions, but also for the vendor hall, where you can touch, see, and hear different methods.

I agree with the "What Your X Grader" book series has to say. It's published by the Core Knowlege Foundation and their sequence is wonderful.

You can see the academic standards for your state at your state's board of education site. That is IF you want to follow them. My curriculum, K12, is much more rigorous than our state's standards and it meets or exceeds all 50 states' standards. We've used them for over five years.

Here is a good site for educational standards:

http://www.worldbook.com/wb/Students?curriculum

And the Core Knowledge site:

http://coreknowledge.org/CK/index.htm

There are many phonics and handwriting programs. We used K12's phonics - a two-year (K & 1st) program that's incredible. K12 uses Handwriting Without Tears for writing instruction and it's also wonderful.

http://www.k12.com
http://www.hwtears.com

There are MANY programs/curricula to choose from. If you search through the archived questions here, you'll find good links for HS'ing materials. I know I posted some just in the past couple of days.

We started HS'ing in Kdg, too. My son LOVES it and never wants to go to a B&M school.

PS - don't listen to the naysaying trolls on this forum. They know nothing about HS'ing.

[kath]

Your child needs steps i feel the first step is to allow her to have friends to learn and help with then think about homeschool when she is social

[Daisy]

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[glurpy]

If you are planning on putting her into school for grade 1, best thing to do would be to find out what the expectations are for children entering grade 1. You could talk to your local school or look up your state's standards online.

I would recommend checking into the following resources for teaching reading and writing: Phonics Pathways or Reading Reflex. Reading Reflex requires more preparation on your part than Phonics Pathways, but both are complete programs. As for actually learning to print, there are plenty of workbooks out there. You should still show her on the side how to do it, then let her practice in the workbook or on other paper.

ADDED: Please ignore the comments about socialization, friends and "they have to leave the house sometime". First of all, if you make socialization and friends part of your plan, they will be fine in that area. Society was fine for thousands of years like that. Second, the whole "they have to leave sometime so might as well be K or whatever grade" is faulty logic--we might as well hand our kids over to professionals raising 30 kids the same age at birth!

[Moonwake]

As a former school teacher I recommend that you do not home school your daughter! They get so much from being around the other children that they cannot get by being alone with you! The teachers are professionals and they know how to get the best result for your daughter and if there are any developmental issues they will recognize the problem and you will not. Sending her to school may be tough to see her go off and be with other people but in the long run she will get a better education!