for homeschoolers using Alpha Omega Curriculum?
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I used the Alpha Omega Curriculum for awhile when I home schooled. It covers so much, but my kids got bored with the workbooks. I tried to liven it up with hands on activities. you can homeschool anywhere. just check out the local laws to make sure you are in compliance. If you feel strongly about homeschooling, don't let others opinions get you down. You have to do what you feel is best. It should be no problem for your nephew to get into University. Just keep good records. The system you are enrolling him in may keep records for you to be used as a transcript. It may cost extra but might be worth it. Homeschooling can be done at your pace so you can achieve alot quickly. There is soo much curriculum out there and book to help you along the way. Check the web you'll be amazed at all there is. Good Luck and Don't give up!! Homeschooling is very rewarding!
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A Beka is a really great curriculum. my family used it, and when i eventually when back to school my junior year i was way ahead of my classmates. plus they have so many different ways to use their curriculum. i really encourage you to check it out.
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Community Colleges are a good options for some classes.  If you're looking for at home curriculum, try Apologia Science, Saxon Math (goes up to calc I believe) and Excellence in Writing with Andrew Puduwa (it is geared toward a little younger age group, but if you son is at all lacking the mechanics of writing it is a great program). Also, check out the book "A Thomas Jefferson Education."  You can find it at www.gwc.edu in the bookstore section. It is a must read!
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Hello,\nMy name is Donna. I home schooled our daughter for 10 years. She graduated home schooling a year ago. I now have a website just for home schoolers. With free lesson plans for any age. Unit studies, free curriculum and more.\nPlease come by for a visit\nDonna\nhttp://groups.msn.com/toolsforhomeschoolingandunitstudy
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There's not much to pay for really!  Depending on what state you are in, you can probably do it for almost free!  A library card, internet access, some paper and pencils are just about all you need!\nI'm homeschooling my three children for almost nothing.  My 8 year old is doing the most focused work, so I'll tell you what I do with him. \n\nWriting: a $9 workbook from Wal Mart called "The Complete Book of Handwriting."  This goes from age 5-10 or something like that.  For older kids, they don't need much, just practice. \n\nReading: Whatever library books he's interested in.  We started off with a phonics program from A Beka, but you can find phonics curriculums free online if you look hard enough.  A Beka has a book called "A Handbook for Reading" that you can get for about $12, that teaches all the phonics sounds. \n\nHistory, Science, Social Studies:  Look at the WorldBook encyclopedia Scope and Sequence website.  They'll have a list of what should be learned at each grade level.  Then you can go to the library and find REAL books about those topics. You can look for science and history projects online for your topic. You can watch movies and educational tv shows about your topic.  \n\nMath:  For math, we use workbooks from Wal Mart. "The Complete Book of Math- Grades 5-6" is what my 8 year old son is using right now.  They're cheap (about $9 a piece), and cover everything that needs to be covered.  If your child needs extra practice in something, you can look online and find free worksheets.  Example:  My son needed help with long division.  I did a search for "long division free worksheets" and found a lot of them that I downloaded and printed out for him. \n\nI've educated my son for about $40 per year!   It's a lot cheaper than most people think.  Of course you could go out and buy an expensive $500 curriculum, but it probably wouldn't work for your child, as most homeschoolers tend to realize that the all in one curriculums just aren't for them.  Try it the really cheap way that I just described and I'm sure you and your children will love it!\n\nIf you need any more help, please email me!! I love helping people with these things!
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I agree, and the school issues you mention are one of many reasons I plan to homeschool.\n\nscary link.
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I did a search for \n\nMy Father's World homeschool curriculum\n\nand got this: \nhttp://www.mfwbooks.com/
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The Autonomous Learner Model is very good, if you want an adaptable spiral curriculum.\n\nhttp://www.alpspublishing.com/\nhttp://www.kisser.net.au/pdeo/peac/page8.html\n\nChildren with superior or gifted-range skills need compressed and accelerated curriculum, reduction of boredom by replacement of skill drill with independent work focusing on higher-order Bloom's taxonomy skills, and metacognitive strategy instruction.
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Try http://www.k12.com\nThis one is expensive, but very high quality. I use it with one of my homeschooled children. Much of the curriclum is delivered directly via the online school and the lesson planning/scheduling tools are fantastic! The parent is still the primary instructor.\n\nIf the main reason you are looking into online homeschooling is that you wish to have a teacher do the teaching, you have a broader array of options than just online curriculum. Abeka has a video-based homeschool version of its curriculum. The students watch the videoa of real classroom teachers. With yet another option the student sends thier work in to the teacher for grading and all student records are maintained by the school. \n\nHere are some additional video or computer-based curriculums and supplements:\n\nVideotext Algebra. This series of video modules will take the student from introductory algebra through algebra II. The series has been donated to our homeschool lending library, but we have not used it personally.\n\nDIVE CD-ROMs for Saxon Algebra and for several of the major science curriculums. We have used the DIVE supplement to the Saxon Advanced Mathematics textbook. It provides a computerized whiteboard demonstration of a teacher working through the example problems. It does not give the whiteboard solutions to every problem in the text. There is a new video curriculum out that works out every problem's solution, but I have not been able to remember the name of it. Some internet research might turn it up for you.\n\nCybered - Most of the science courses are offered from midle school level to high school. We have several of these and have used their online subscription service while they had it. These are excellent!\n\nSwitched On Schoolhouse. This one is a complete curriculum with all the instruction, record keeping, and testing being done via computer. I used a trila of this many years ago. It looked pretty good.\n\nThe Institute for Excellence in Writing now has a DVD version of their composition curriculum. We used the teacher led version for our writing co-op a few years ago and it was wonderful. I have not seen the DVD version, but it is taught by Dr. Padewa himself. It should be excellent. One of the students who graduated from our co-op using the teacher led version won a state level composition contest and my son scored in the top 94th percentile in rhetoric on his ACT test. It is really good.\n\nThere are many new online high schools now that I have not researched. Includeing several run by major universities. A bit of research should turn up several of them. I have a few links in 'My Favorites' that I saved a while back. You can start here:\nhttp://www.highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm\nhttp://www.homeschoolersofmaine.org/high_school_&_beyond.htm#Free%20Online%20Courses\nhttp://www.cis.upenn.edu/~brada/homeschooling.html
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The best depends on your child...no one can tell you what's best for your family!!! Read All Kinds of Minds, figure out what kind of learners they are. You would choose totally different curriculum for a child who is a visual learner than for a child who is a kinesthetic learner. \n\nRemember that kids in first grade tend to be more hands-on learners anyway, and keep in  mind that just because a child is in a certain grade, that doesn't mean that it's the age of curriculum you should buy. If your 8th grader is behind, you need to start where their knowledge ends, or you create a lot of frustration.\n\nFirst thought is to check local bookstores, Barnes and Noble and Borders both have an extensive homeschooling section. also check out Mardel's Christian bookstore. While much of their curriculum is Christian based, they also have much that is not. You can look through it and see if you like it, and it's easy to return.\n\nAsk your local homeschooling group if they have a curriculum fair coming up...that's an opportunity to really peruse the different ones and get your hands on (there's nothing worse than buying a curriculum and opening and seeing that it's not what you expected...unless it's buying the curriculum and it doesn't work for your child anyway!)\n\nOur town also has a curriculum exchange, so you can go to a bookstore setting, and you get credit for what you bring in, and as well the books/items are much cheaper than new.\n\nAlso see if you have a yahoo hs'ing group in your area, on ours lots of people pass stuff on for free, or will let you borrow it to see if it works.\n\nOne thing more, if your 8th grader has been miserable in school, you might look into deschooling so that he/she can catch their breath, and recapture their love of learning. Google it and you'll find lots.\n\nM
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I wasn't aware this was available online. Is there a homeschooling group in your area that would have resources? Otherwise you may need to go to the local high school or community college to take the tests.
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Try taking the advice given here. Be prepared to march down to the school a lot to try to get this taken care of. Your grandkids CAN learn! Then, if none of that works, consider homeschooling, or have the parents consider homeschooling, whichever is more appropriate. Like some of these teachers said, they are trained to educate regular student, not special children. I know a boy with FAS and a myriad of other diagnoses, and when he was eight years old, he snuck out of a locked campus and was halfway home before his grandma was called and told he was missing. He had walked about five miles. Homeschooling gives you the advantage of knowing your grandson's individual problems. There are so many different types of problems going on in a special ed class, that I don't blame the teacher for being overwhelmed. Most special ed kids excel once they start being taught at home because they are in an environment they know, with loving caregivers who understand the complexities of their own disorders, and are able to work at their own pace. There's no distractions like there are in a classroom. It just seems to work. There are several place you can turn to to learn about homeschooling kids with special needs. Check yahoo groups, there's a lot. I'm on HS-Plus, and it's a really good group. Lots of different disorders being dealt with, FAE/FAS is a big one, so you'd get lots of help. I homeschool my autistic pre-schooler, and will be homeschooling my 'normal' little one, and any others that come along. Contact me if you'd like, I'd be more than happy to talk to you some more.
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I think it is the program for introducing the basics of Christianity to those interested. \n\nThe Alpha Course originated in the United Kingdom at Holy Trinity Brompton Church — an Anglican church in London — through curates Nicky Gumbel and Sandy Millar. The earliest versions go as far back as 1977. Gumbel began teaching the current version in 1990. He acknowledges that it is always open to revision.The Alpha Course is an array of videos, audiocassettes, books, booklets, testimonials and leader’s videos and guidebooks.\n\nIf you want to join it, here are some tips,\n\n1 Aim to attend an Alpha conference\nNicky Gumbel has said ‘Running Alpha without attending a conference, is like driving a car without taking any lessons.’ \n\nChurches that have not attended a conference often make the mistakes listed below. If you have not yet attended a conference we would strongly encourage you to come to one of the conferences listed in Conferences. We have found that those churches whose course leaders have attended a conference have experienced a far higher degree of success with their courses.\n\n2 Think about your team carefully\nIf you get the right people leading and helping on the course you will often get three times more people actually attending the course. The right leaders and helpers are those satisfying this simple test: ‘If I had a friend who was not a Christian, would I be happy to put my friend in that person’s group?’ Into that test is rolled a number of other factors: are they confident, positive, outgoing people who naturally relate to those outside the church?\n\n3 Stay in training\nTraining the team is absolutely essential. Every member should attend the team training sessions before each course. This helps to refresh their memories and to build unity in your team. We also recommend the team reads the books Searching Issues and Telling Others. \n\n4 Follow the recipe\nAlpha is tried and tested. It has been running for more than 20 years. Every ingredient is there for a very important reason. Those churches that leave out an ingredient such as the meal or some other aspect of the course diminish the impact of the course.\n\n5 Don't forget the weekend away\nA day with talks on the person and work of the Holy Spirit works very well. A weekend works far far better. Churches that have cut this out have often been disappointed with the outcome of their course. If you need help with the weekend or day away, contact your Alpha adviser who can give advice or even arrange for a team to come and help you.\n\n6 Plan the talks\nThe ideal is a live speaker doing the talks well. It is very hard to sustain a course where the talks have been done badly. The videos provide a safety net and are often the best solution, especially with smaller groups.\n\n7 Keep Alpha rolling\nAlpha is not a quick-fix solution to church growth. It is a long-term strategy which, when run well over an extended period, leads to a constant stream of new people. It should be run as a rolling programme three times a year. This is important to keep the momentum going.
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Here are a few places to get you started -\n\nPACKAGED CURRICULUM:\nA Beka Homeschool: http://www.abeka.org/\nBob Jones Univ. Press: http://www.bjupress.com/services/bjhomesat/\nAlpha Omega (Switched-On Schoolhouse and LifePacs): http://www.aop.com/home/\nSonlight: http://www.sonlight.com/\n\nONLINE SCHOOLS:\nA Beka Academy: http://www.abeka.org/\nBob Jones HomeSat: http://www.bjupress.com/services/bjhomesat/\nk12.com: http://www.k12.com/\nPenn Foster: http://www.pennfoster.edu/diploma/index.html\nRobinson Curriculum: http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/\n\nI have very limited experience with these sources, so I can't recommend any of them.  I'm just throwing them out for you to research.  Best wishes!\n\nAnd as for testing, we go through Bob Jones Univ. Press and use the ITBS (Iowa Test of Basic Skills).  They also offer the SAT (Stanford Achievement Test, not the college one).
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my son is homeschooled but i use the arkansas virtual high school which is based on the arkansas school curriculum.
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djranton--I HOME-SCHOOLED MY DAUGHTER, AT OUR HOME--THROUGH PENSACOLA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE--EXCELLENT VIDEO SCHOOLING;  MY DAUGHTER SAID IT WAS ALMOST LIKE THE TEACHER WAS THERE, WITH THE VIDEOS; SHE GRADUATED FROM H.S. & NOW HAS GRADUATED FROM INDIANA STATE, WITH A 3.99 GPA & HAS HER BSN IN NRSG, --WORKS AT RUSH IN CHACAGO & WAITING FOR HER INTERNSHIP ACCEPTANCE, FOR HER MASTER'S I BELEIVE!