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I homeschool my kids, and I found this great idea of making a word wall, you know they would learn something like 7 new words a week, problem is I can't think of any words they don't know. :( My 4 year old got tested and they say she has the vocab of an 11-13 year old) My two year old seems to know just about the same amount of words that the 4 year old does.

This week we are learning the names of all the bones in the human body, next week we will learn all the muscles.

anything else that you guys can think of?

I was thinking of learning all the parts to a car engine, but that might be boring for them (unless we get hands on experience with Daddy's Jeep:eek: although I think he would rather us just leave his car alone)

seriously, I am drawing a blank.

I homeschool my kids, and I found this great idea of making a word wall, you know they would learn something like 7 new words a week, problem is I can't think of any words they don't know. :( My 4 year old got tested and they say she has the vocab of an 11-13 year old) My two year old seems to know just about the same amount of words that the 4 year old does.

This week we are learning the names of all the bones in the human body, next week we will learn all the muscles.

anything else that you guys can think of?

I was thinking of learning all the parts to a car engine, but that might be boring for them (unless we get hands on experience with Daddy's Jeep:eek: although I think he would rather us just leave his car alone)

seriously, I am drawing a blank.

Err... buy an Unabridged English Dictionary and start randomly selecting words. Hightlight those they know so that you won't repeat them.

My 4 year old got tested and they say she has the vocab of an 11-13 year old) My two year old seems to know just about the same amount of words that the 4 year old does.

Nice one.

I suppose you're limiting yourself to only English words:

http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
http://www.oed.com/cgi/display/wotd
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/wordofday/

I suppose you're limiting yourself to only English words:

http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl
http://www.oed.com/cgi/display/wotd
thanks. :)

The 4 year old is learning sign language, spanish, and Klingon on the side, but I don't teach those, she learns them at the co-op.

The 2 year old is learning spanish and is playing around with Latin.

but yeah English.

Err... buy an Unabridged English Dictionary and start randomly selecting words. Hightlight those they know so that you won't repeat them.
good idea. Thanks

Is now the time, then, to start them on a second language?

Multilingualism is a shorter hop from bilingualism than it is to go from unilingualism to bilingualsim. Once you've taught your brain how to think in more than one syntax structure then it becomes easier to repeat that process.

And in today's global economy having the ability to communicate in multiple languages is a ticket to ride a lot of careers currently dominated by Europeans due to their enhanced propensity for multilingual education.


Of course, this assumes that you have the background to be able to teach another language. If you don't, then you might want to consider a foreign language tutor if you can afford one.

Or just hire an illegal alien.... ;)

Is now the time, then, to start them on a second language?

Multilingualism is a shorter hop from bilingualism than it is to go from unilingualism to bilingualsim. Once you've taught your brain how to think in more than one syntax structure then it becomes easier to repeat that process.

And in today's global economy having the ability to communicate in multiple languages is a ticket to ride a lot of careers currently dominated by Europeans due to their enhanced propensity for multilingual education.


Of course, this assumes that you have the background to be able to teach another language. If you don't, then you might want to consider a foreign language tutor if you can afford one.

Or just hire an illegal alien.... ;)

yeah they are both learning multiple languages, the 2 year old really is only "learning" spanish, but she likes to mess with Latin a little too, she says it's fun. I have found people to teach most of it, the 2 year old and I are wading through the Latin by ourselves though, it's interesting to say the least. I seem to be spelling better, since learning some latin. :p

yeah they are both learning multiple languages, the 2 year old really is only "learning" spanish, but she likes to mess with Latin a little too, she says it's fun. I have found people to teach most of it, the 2 year old and I are wading through the Latin by ourselves though, it's interesting to say the least. I seem to be spelling better, since learning some latin. :p
oh man... I can imagine you hitting the Medical Dictionary for drug names as well as illnesses... :cool:

Get your kids to learn Latin. It is extreeeeeeeeeeeeemely helpful. And it sets you up so well to learn new languages thereafter. Since it's more complex than the modern Western European languages, it provides an excellent foundation. Plus, it improves spelling and vocabulary in english. With an ability to read Latin comes an ability to read simple French and Spanish as well. It even helped me with German, oddly enough. As for English words...hmmm...I have a few favorites...sesquipedalian, penultimate, floccinaucinihilipilification, adumbration, splenetic, and many others. And I always love learning new words.

oh man... I can imagine you hitting the Medical Dictionary for drug names as well as illnesses... :cool:

Illnesses tend to be in Greek, and drug names are usually just invented.

Is it just me or are these some scarily inteligent kids? I say they'll be able to take over the known universe by their twenties, and you can live in comfort.

I homeschool my kids, and I found this great idea of making a word wall, you know they would learn something like 7 new words a week, problem is I can't think of any words they don't know. :( My 4 year old got tested and they say she has the vocab of an 11-13 year old) My two year old seems to know just about the same amount of words that the 4 year old does.

This week we are learning the names of all the bones in the human body, next week we will learn all the muscles.

anything else that you guys can think of?

I was thinking of learning all the parts to a car engine, but that might be boring for them (unless we get hands on experience with Daddy's Jeep:eek: although I think he would rather us just leave his car alone)

seriously, I am drawing a blank.
Buy a used lawn mower or gas chainsaw, and teach the parts of an engine that way.

Or you could pick a scientific field, like astronomy (http://cas.sdss.org/dr4/en/) or zooology. Math in general would be another good source of jargon, new words and ideas. Different curves, what they look like, lines, elements of geometry, shapes, etc.

Even just a greek alphabet might be nice, even if you don't use it for reading greek. All the proper names of punctuation marks (how many people know all of them?).

Geography..... Units of measure, all kinds.

Is it just me or are these some scarily inteligent kids?

Take such gushing bragging from parents cum grano salis. No offence.

It's easier for young children to learn new languages than for adults. And while my vocabulary at the age of 4 probably wasn't at the level of an 11-13 year old, it was pretty decent.

did u like, drop those children in a vat of radioactive waste?
they sound freakishly smart

Take such gushing bragging from parents cum grano salis. No offence.


Well, yeah, but I wouldn't say it's impossible...Well....maybe late thirties...

Keep up with the latin it will be very helpful to them later. However, you may want to get them into music (a simple keyboard could do it) and math as well.

All the proper names of punctuation marks (how many people know all of them?).

Let's see...

.period
,comma
:colon
;semicolon
(left parenthesis
)right parenthesis
()parentheses
'apostrophe
[]brackets
{}braces
-hyphen
--dash
""quotation marks
!exclamation point
?question mark
&ampersand
*asterisk
...ellipsis
/solidus

I could go on and on.

did u like, drop those children in a vat of radioactive waste?
they sound freakishly smart
nope. I have no idea what happened to them. People say I talk to them too much, but I don't think so, I have always talked to them and read to them, even when they were newborns. I had a friend's child over once and she said "you talk too much". She came over during dinner time and the kids were in the kitchen with me.

"Tonight we are making enchiladas for dinner, it's Tuesday night, yesterday was Monday, tomorrow will be Wednesday, it's Novemeber, that's the 11th month of the year, we will have Thanksgiving in a few weeks, we will eat turkey.... a turkey is a bird, so is chicken, we are eating chicken enchiladas tonight, the spanish word for chicken is pollo, it's 5:30pm or 17:30 in military time, the recipe calls for the enchiladas to cook for 30 minutes, and it takes me 15 minutes to prepare them for the oven so that's 45 minutes, dinner should be done at what time then?"
"5:30 plus 45, plus an extra 5 for you talking just now, lets see..........*counting on her fingers* maybe........7ish?" (that was the 4 year old)
"good, now the recipe says that we should preheat the oven to 350 degrees, I am going to assume that they mean fahrenheit and not celicus because that would be tooo hot, or Kelvin because that would be too cold........"

yeah it's like that at my house constantly. LOL

I think maybe I do talk too much. :p

Take such gushing bragging from parents cum grano salis. No offence.
none taken, it's good general advice. I hear parents "my kid is a genius" and then I hang out with the kid for a while and I am like "not really, they are hardly average"

but I don't tell the parents that, it's not nice;)

Freakishly intelligent?

Um, actually its not that strange with home-schooled children. Most starter schools start off with basic language instructions, 'Hello. My name is Mrs Smith. I am going to call out your names. When you hear you name, say yes...' as opposed to the more fluid 'Hi, Im Mr Jones, ill be your tutor for this syllabus-Im going to take a quick register now before we start....' This is so as not to miss out children who may have learning difficulties that are hard to spot, and because theres, like, SO many kids. It would take an entire lesson for all thirty-odd kids to get something done at the same level, as the teacher goes round all of them.

If you're home schooling two, its way faster as you can see how they are getting on right in front of you, and set them the next task. As for languages, if you home school your child spends more time around you and your partner, and starts to pick up on adult conversation and grammar, as well as being in constant talk with you, their parent and tutor.

My neices are fourteen and twelve, and baby-talked like most normal kids. Their little sister (now four) has the same vocabulary (age 10-13) as she's been listening to them AND her parents all her life, and has grown up with more adult language.
My mom helped me with my studies when I was very little (mainly English and Math) and Ive lost count of the people who say that, for a twenty-two year old, I talk like a thirty-year old. (flattery? Im unsure...)

So its not strange, its jisy unusual as the majority of children are educated in large numbers at a state./government approved and funded facility.

nope. I have no idea what happened to them. People say I talk to them too much, but I don't think so, I have always talked to them and read to them, even when they were newborns. I had a friend's child over once and she said "you talk too much". She came over during dinner time and the kids were in the kitchen with me.

"Tonight we are making enchiladas for dinner, it's Tuesday night, yesterday was Monday, tomorrow will be Wednesday, it's Novemeber, that's the 11th month of the year, we will have Thanksgiving in a few weeks, we will eat turkey.... a turkey is a bird, so is chicken, we are eating chicken enchiladas tonight, the spanish word for chicken is pollo, it's 5:30pm or 17:30 in military time, the recipe calls for the enchiladas to cook for 30 minutes, and it takes me 15 minutes to prepare them for the oven so that's 45 minutes, dinner should be done at what time then?"
"5:30 plus 45, plus an extra 5 for you talking just now, lets see..........*counting on her fingers* maybe........7ish?" (that was the 4 year old)
"good, now the recipe says that we should preheat the oven to 350 degrees, I am going to assume that they mean farenheight and not celicus because that would be tooo hot, or Kelvin because that would be too cold........"

yeah it's like that at my house constantly. LOL

I think maybe I do talk too much. :p

Keep it up. It's obviously working.

It sucks being the kid that's supposedly a "genius" too. You're brought up being told that you're highly above average. I am above average, but not by much. So much for being "special". IQ in the 130-140 range. Eh, whatever. At least I figured it out before I became one of those "I'm smarter than you" jerks (I know a lot of those). Just smart enough to have slacked off but kept decent grades until...now. AP Calculus is a bitch. :(

It sucks being the kid that's supposedly a "genius" too. You're brought up being told that you're highly above average. I am above average, but not by much. So much for being "special". IQ in the 130-140 range. Eh, whatever. At least I figured it out before I became one of those "I'm smarter than you" jerks (I know a lot of those). Just smart enough to have slacked off but kept decent grades until...now. AP Calculus is a bitch. :(
yeah, I know, I was labeled "gifted" as a child, they put me in all these special classes to "challenge" me, but it ended up being just more work:( the stuff they were teaching us in 6th grade I had learned in 2nd (on my own by reading books:eek: ) I don't want to push my kids into a corner, but they seem to be really interested in learning new things now, so I am trying to keep up with them, I don't want them to get bored, I remember what happened when I got bored and believe me it wasn't pretty.

130-140? Lucky you

I took an online test and scored 129. Rats.

I suppose I can blame that one on my parents-drill me in spelling, correct my grammar, but teach me how to tell the time? I had to wait until I was thirteen before I mastered that one!

The problem with being labelled 'intelligent' and then doing quite well in exams despite you knowing you didnt put much effort in is that, eventually, you will start to wonder what you could have acheived if you'd TRIED. That still pisses me off to this day.:confused:

the sad thing is, when I was put into 'fast track' groups I wasnt challenged at all like they said I would be. It was actually normal to me-no more boredom and I enjoyed it. There wasnt anything I was racking my brains over! I suppose when you're one of two pretty smart-ish kids in a class of over thirty the school does have to consider where its priorities lie.

130-140? Lucky you

I took an online test and scored 129. Rats.

I suppose I can blame that one on my parents-drill me in spelling, correct my grammar, but teach me how to tell the time? I had to wait until I was thirteen before I mastered that one!

The problem with being labelled 'intelligent' and then doing quite well in exams despite you knowing you didnt put much effort in is that, eventually, you will start to wonder what you could have acheived if you'd TRIED. That still pisses me off to this day.:confused:
you know you can take an actual IQ test with mensa (http://www.mensa.org/index0.php)for pretty cheap, those online ones are pretty fishy to say the least.

they have a mental workout (http://www.mensa.org/index0.php?page=12) online that is pretty fun, it will give you an idea of the types of questions on the mensa test. The time I took it I got 26 out of 30, so I think I did okay, esp. considering that my kids were talking to me most of the time too. :p (not that my kids distracting me is a good excuse anyway, but that's my story and I am sticking to it)

I know the boredom...eesh...I sleep most of school...I went to a Montessori school for K-2, learned long division and stuff, but then after that....Zzzzzz


P.S. What about the solidus/virgule? (pun intended)

This is good news Smunkeeville can home school her kids. And she does a good job of it too.

This is good news Smunkeeville can home school her kids. And she does a good job of it too.
thanks;)

I suppose I will have to learn some new stuff just to keep up with them, but learning new stuff is fun so :D

anything else that you guys can think of?mathematical 3d objects, e.g. the platonic solids. You can make them and name them. Octahedron, dodecahedron etc. And let's not forget Parallelepipedon, which is cool just for how it sounds.

mathematical 3d objects, e.g. the platonic solids. You can make them and name them. Octahedron, dodecahedron etc. And let's not forget Parallelepipedon, which is cool just for how it sounds.
wow. that does sound fun. :)

This week we are starting to work on a radio show, it should be done by March, this week's assignments are to figure out the scope of the show, how long it should be, how we are going to be able to use the technology we have on hand to do it, ect.

right now we are trying to decide between doing talk radio or playing music, tomorrow we will figure out how many commercials we need and start to tape them. (I have made up companies and a price schedule, and we are going to find out today how much it will "cost" us to be on the air, tomorrow we will find a balance between ads and air time)

Music?

Suzuki if you want them to be string players, Orff's eurhythmics or Kodaly's method if you want them to be very good sight-readers. Minds like that could benefit from the expressive qualities of music to ensure a balance between right and left brain strengths. Jazz is good for kids like that -- I know I fell in love with it at an early age thanks to my dad's records. Brubeck, Monk, Bird, Miles, Lady Day, Ella, Sarah, Joe Williams, Count Basie. For young kids like yours, S'ville, I'd recommend big-band jazz like Ellington, Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman and the like to start. If they like the fairly simple, yet elegant and swingin' styles there, you can advance them to latter-day big bands like Stan Kenton and Woody Herman. From there, it's a short step to bebop and the complexity that style represents. Perhaps even better would be a chronological take on US popular music from ragtime on through modern popular music. So many kids have no idea where their music came from that it'd be refreshing to know that there were a couple who knew what Dixieland or stride piano was.

Very helpful for further advancement of English vocabulary is a course I took whose book I'd recommend (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0816508992/002-0765442-1880869?v=glance&n=283155), "Etymology Through Latin and Greek Elements."

Music?

Suzuki if you want them to be string players, Orff's eurhythmics or Kodaly's method if you want them to be very good sight-readers. Minds like that could benefit from the expressive qualities of music to ensure a balance between right and left brain strengths. Jazz is good for kids like that -- I know I fell in love with it at an early age thanks to my dad's records. Brubeck, Monk, Bird, Miles, Lady Day, Ella, Sarah, Joe Williams, Count Basie. For young kids like yours, S'ville, I'd recommend big-band jazz like Ellington, Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman and the like to start. If they like the fairly simple, yet elegant and swingin' styles there, you can advance them to latter-day big bands like Stan Kenton and Woody Herman. From there, it's a short step to bebop and the complexity that style represents. Perhaps even better would be a chronological take on US popular music from ragtime on through modern popular music. So many kids have no idea where their music came from that it'd be refreshing to know that there were a couple who knew what Dixieland or stride piano was.

Very helpful for further advancement of English vocabulary is a course I took whose book I'd recommend (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0816508992/002-0765442-1880869?v=glance&n=283155), "Etymology Through Latin and Greek Elements."

thank you. I love music it would be both fun and interesting to do a history of American music, we could learn lots from it.

You do realise all of this learnin' will be pushed out of their ears once the puberty hormones kick in, don't you? :p

You do realise all of this learnin' will be pushed out of their ears once the puberty hormones kick in, don't you? :p
I hope so, I think the only thing that kept my mom sane when I was a teenager was the fact that even though I thought I knew more than she did, that I actually didn't. My big fear is that when they are teens they really will know more than I do. :eek:

I hope so, I think the only thing that kept my mom sane when I was a teenager was the fact that even though I thought I knew more than she did, that I actually didn't. My big fear is that when they are teens they really will know more than I do. :eek:

rofl ... don't worry about that. 12-19 to a human is like the historical Dark Ages. All of that vast knowledge absorbed early gets "forgotten" and is slowly rediscovered starting about age 20.

So no worries. You'll have the same retarded teenagers we'll all have and have been. :D

Your children scare me

I've always heard that the best way to expand vocabluary is to see and use the words in context. I don't know what kind of stuff your kids read, but you're never too young to start on the classics when you're a freaky super-genius :p

Your children scare me

I've always heard that the best way to expand vocabluary is to see and use the words in context. I don't know what kind of stuff your kids read, but you're never too young to start on the classics when you're a freaky super-genius :p
we are reading a lot of Douglas Adams lately, if his work doesn't count as classic I don't know what does.

I see what you are saying though:p

we may start Animal Farm after this, could make for some interesting dinner conversation I think.

If I had children, I would homeschool them. Assuming you don't need to be a qualified teacher or anything (looks like I wouldn't be teaching law).

If I had children, I would homeschool them. Assuming you don't need to be a qualified teacher or anything (looks like I wouldn't be teaching law).
it depends on the state, here you don't have to be, you don't even really have to keep records or test your kids. It makes my style of homeschool easier, basically we figure out a project to work on and I build a curriculum from it. You can't do that in some states.

Here (http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp) is a good website with the state by state laws.

it depends on the state, here you don't have to be, you don't even really have to keep records or test your kids. It makes my style of homeschool easier, basically we figure out a project to work on and I build a curriculum from it. You can't do that in some states.

Here (http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp) is a good website with the state by state laws.

Thanks, but I don't live in America.

Thanks, but I don't live in America.
oh, I assume too much..........sorry.

where do you live?

oh, I assume too much..........sorry.

where do you live?

No need to apologize. Americans do make up the majority of forum users. I, however, live in England.

How about different boozes?

Or maybe parts of a pirate ship and their crew? :D

No need to apologize. Americans do make up the majority of forum users. I, however, live in England.
how popular is homeschooling over there? I know it's gaining popularity here, but have been curious about other areas of the world.

how popular is homeschooling over there? I know it's gaining popularity here, but have been curious about other areas of the world.

I have no idea; I have never looked into it (just a thought I had - I won't actually be having any kids any time soon).

Let's see...
I could go on and on.
How about, @,#,‽, ⁂?

your kids wouldn't be interested in learning about British lit up to the reformation? No? Shakespeare then? Come on...its only 2 papers...10 pages each. They can even live in my cool chair!

I'll even feed them!

and I'm pretty sure my shakespeare prof is too stoned to notice the 19 year old pierced boy has been replaced by a four year old girl.


anyway, maybe you could look at instruments and music, not from the historical point of view, but a technical point...like parts of the orchestra, then names of written symbols (the clefts, staff, etc.), instruments and their sounds, etc.

Or, take the MACOS (man, a course of study) curicculum approach...start at their young ages with something simple, then yearly get more complex...they started with an Inuit tribe, and by 12th grade would have had the students taking international relations (I can find resources if you are interested)

hmm...sorry, when I was 4 I was decapitating my sisters barbies.

Great job, Smunkee! Can I hire you to teach my grandchildren? :D

You might want to try the Thesaurus. When I was little, I use to think it was fun to wade through it by following what I called a "thread." That's where you look up some word you already know, look for a synonym of it that you don't know, look that up, find a synonym of it you don't know ... and so on.

If your kids like words, that would make a kind of neat game. :)

Great job, Smunkee! Can I hire you to teach my grandchildren? :D

You might want to try the Thesaurus. When I was little, I use to think it was fun to wade through it by following what I called a "thread." That's where you look up some word you already know, look for a synonym of it that you don't know, look that up, find a synonym of it you don't know ... and so on.

If your kids like words, that would make a kind of neat game. :)
wow. that does sound fun, and would probably help them with another game we play too.

When we are at stop lights we look at the letters in another cars tag, and we play some games

you can either do the number game where you add, subtract, multiply, or divide the numbers (right now they just add, but my husband and I still play the rest of it, keeps us sharp on our math) also, the girls can try to guess which operation I used on the numbers, so if the tag says ADW 463 and I say my answer is 72 then they would guess "multiply", when they get older I will work on grouping the numbers differently, so instead of 4x6x3, it might be 46x3, then the next step would be to use different operations in the same problem like 4-6+3, then I will start working on order of operations 4-6/3


or you can do one of the letter games, one is where you use the letters to make up something funny, like the letters in a tag might be ADW and you would say "Aardvarks dance weekly"

the other letter game is to pick a letter on the tag and come up with as many words as you can think of that start with that letter, my 4 year old tries to think of as many words that start with a particular letter and that also rhyme.

if you see a tag from another state then you get to try to see how many facts about that state that you know.

We are figuring out a point system for it, and will start keeping score, but right now it's just fun. It sounds like a dumb game, but I played it from ages 9 to now and it's still pretty fun. :D

Smunkee- I have some questions as I have considered homeschooling or private schools for my children. The public schools here are a bit of a joke.

How many hours a day do you spend teaching?
Do you follow a certain curriculum or do you make your own?
Do you have any resources for worksheets/tests?
How do you document or record the progress for your children? I mean does the state require you to submit their test scores? Like a transcript for them so they can have it when applying for college? Or to prove that they are in fact receiving an education so as to not be in trouble with Truancy officials?

Smunkee- I have some questions as I have considered homeschooling or private schools for my children. The public schools here are a bit of a joke.
around here the public and private schools are pretty much a joke, although I have been told that I have "too high of standards", whatever the heck that means.

How many hours a day do you spend teaching?
by state law we have to "be in school" 175 days a year, we usually do "sit down school" for about 3.5 hours a day, but they have homework/projects/ect. that takes up the rest of their day, they basically are learning something all the time. I make lesson plans that block out about 6 hours of work a day, but really they only do what anyone from a traditional school would call work for about 3 hours.
Do you follow a certain curriculum or do you make your own?
because of the way my kids learn best, I make up my own curriculum, next year though I am going to buy some text books, right now everything we do is hands on with the occasional worksheet so I can make sure they are "getting it"

Do you have any resources for worksheets/tests?
I usually make my own to cover specifically what we are doing. I have some links to places where you can print out worksheets for free, although I mostly use those for "down time" where they want to do something extra, but are tired of coloring ect.

http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/

http://www.beginningreading.com/Free%20Workshe.htm

http://www.blackdog.net/games/clock/worksheets/


http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html


I have more, but these are the ones we are working on this week.



How do you document or record the progress for your children?
I have a grade book that is pretty much the same as my friend who teaches 4th grade is, it has places to track her attendance, effort, grades, goals, ect.
I also have an excel spreadsheet that keeps her scores for me so that I have an electronic copy, I back it up on CDRW and keep those (instead of filing away my notes)

I mean does the state require you to submit their test scores?
mine doesn't but I keep track of them anyway, just in case we ever need them, she will get independently tested this May and I will keep the results.

Like a transcript for them so they can have it when applying for college? right now I keep a portfolio of their best work, but when they get older I will probably have to look into the transcript thing a little more if they want to go to an out of state college, in state all they really need is a diploma/ged and act/sat scores.

Or to prove that they are in fact receiving an education so as to not be in trouble with Truancy officials?
not really in my state, but we are one of the more lax in the US. Basically I didn't even really have to notify them that I was homeschooling, and the law says that I have to provide an education that is "comparable to the public school" which basically means I could let them stare at the wall all day and the state couldn't do much.


EDIT: oh I forgot, if you want to know more about your state's laws you can go to http://www.hslda.org/hs/state/default.asp

Thank you for the detailed information Smunkee. I appreciate it. I will look into our state's laws about it. I'm in Georgia, so there's no telling.:rolleyes:


Sounds like you have an excellent program going on. I'm sure your children will be most successful with their education.

Thank you for the detailed information Smunkee. I appreciate it. I will look into our state's laws about it. I'm in Georgia, so there's no telling.:rolleyes:


Sounds like you have an excellent program going on. I'm sure your children will be most successful with their education.
http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp?State=GA

hey, they are strict, you better move to Oklahoma :D you can live next door LOL