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Rebooting Our Homeschool Experience

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 ...