At Homeschool

    Our homeschool journey began when my eldest daughter, who was then turning 7, graduated from PREP. The graduation was held at a church, which would be holding a homeschooling seminar two weeks after. At that time, I was so overwhelmed by the sky-rocketing tuition fees of private schools around our village. I was looking for alternatives, homeschooling caught my attention so I attended the seminar. I was fascinated by what I've discovered and from then on, I started homeschooling my 3 daughters age 7, 5 and 2.    Different families homeschool for different reasons. Our main reason is to give our children the best education at a price we can afford. We can't afford to send them to a private school , and the nearest public school is far from where we used to live. We were convinced that it's the best education that we can give our children. What are the other reasons?   We homeschool because we can. We have the time, knowledge and resources.We can homeschool o...

For the past two years, our homeschool experience with the kids mainly revolved on free online materials as well as the books that we got through a local bookstore. For our grade 1 child, we bought a cornucopia of Grade 1 books in Math, Science, Filipino and English. The testing materials revolved on tests made from a combination of materials that we got online and some that were created by my wife. Read : Why We Wanted to Homeschool Our Children (Soon) We didn’t rely on any umbrella school for our initial home-school experience and the results were less than satisfying. Though we worked hard and tried to provide materials to them, it was a very time demanding and exhausting experience. On the positive side, even our four year old child can now read. Since we made it a point to not have a television inside the house, our children have also developed a certain love for books. In fact, they’re now overly enthusiastic with them. The only downside is that they prefer ...