KECIRO HOMESCHOOL

Education is a process of learning how to learn. It is a building process. We all learn more efficiently when we use that efficient learning process for ourselves.

The purpose of this website is to share with you my experiences with homeschooling, to help you decide what you should do, and to answer other questions you may have. I am not a professional counselor, and I hope that my past experience and enthusiasm for homeschooling speak for themselves. If you are trying to decide whether to become a homeschool parent, please don’t be afraid to ask lots of questions! I would be happy to answer them.

I chose to homeschool because I believed that my children’s academic deficiencies, as well as other students in my community, speak to a much more serious problem than I had thought. Many parents have similar stories. HESI is a critical tool for assessment and to help target help where it is needed.

The tools within the HESI:

The HESI is a comprehensive tool for parents that must be used together with the parents’ homeschool curriculum. HESI offers parents comprehensive tools for:

And, it includes a “Homeschooling Checklist” and “casters for the Teacher:”

Check out the Books

While many people leave the learning of their children to an outside source (the public school system), parents who homeschool their children do not have to sacrifice their children’s education. In fact, parents who homeschool their children see it as a great way to spend their time with their children. Parents also gain a compelling reason for homeschooling when they see their children struggling in school with academic interests and requests.

The “Checklist” is a key tool for parents that will help make a bad situation far worse. The checklist is a Summary of Needs (not a list of demands), created with the help of educators and submitted to the school district where the child attends. Parents can easily use this “checklist” to make their children educated and engaged as they prepare for kindergarten.

The biggest issue with public schools is the lack of engaged parents. SES is designed to work for parents and teachers working together to make a difference in the lives of their children.

Here are some links to resources:

The Checklist

• Parent’s spent more time with their children as a result of using this curriculum.
• 21st Century skills for learning included Writing, Reading, and math for all children.
• A review of a recent national report showed that reading practices improved for all test subjects except Reading Comprehension.
• In almost every subject, difficulties were identified in two or more areas.
• The most common areas of difficulties were Maths and Verbal Reasoning.
• Many parents and teachers were shocked by the high number of struggling readers who could not understand more complicated material.
• Many struggling readers had extremely high levels of performance in the primary grades, but they were failing in Math and Verbal Reasoning because they had not mastered these skills.
• Many of the children who were performing well in Math and Verbal Reasoning had not mastered the printed form of numbers and only counted with their fingers.
• Parents were astonished at the low number of middle school students who could compare synonymously with older students.
• Almost half of the students who had not mastered the printed form of numeracy could not perform simple quantitative calculations.
• One-third of the students in the secondary grades had not mastered the printed form of numeracy.
• Only 15% of the students in the elementary grades had mastered the printed form of numeracy.
• In our current school system, only 15% of the students have arithmetic literacy of a very adequate standard, and 83% have literacy of a basic or satisfactory level.
• Out of the 15% of students who have basic literacy skills, 71% had not learned sentence repetition, and only 19% could not read a sentence at a conscious level.
• The results of this study show that reading skills are a very important factor in the learning of most of us.
• Although reading is not the only factor that affects our lives, it is the most powerful. The results of this study also show that reading improves throughout the grades level.
• Apart from that, this study has also proven that reading improves the understanding of other subjects too.
• This is the time to take action children! Don’t let the sites that teach incorrect information pass your child.
• We try to bring the best resources for our students. To bring excellent resources and a challenging educational environment for your children.

Educators who are considering homeschooling as an avenue to education have many tools and resources at their disposal to help them make the homeschooling plan work. Typically, at the beginning of the homeschooling program, a great deal of research and communication is required to make sure students will be cared for and comfortable in their new homeschool environment. Then, you have to figure out just what you will do on a day-to-day basis. You have to make decisions on how to spend your time, talents and money. Many parents find that with the first few years of homeschooling they have spent too much money on taking care of their child and the additional expenses that come with homeschooling. As a new homeschooling parent(ren) parent, you may feel overwhelmed and exhausted. Don’t worry. The basics of homeschooling are the foundation to any homeschooling plan.

The “homeschool basics” need to be covered in one place and that place is your state’s home law. In a nutshell, you must protect your legal rights through homeschooling in your new state.

Many parents find the first few years of homeschooling are frustrating and they may decide to just abandon the homeschooling plan all together. In many cases, the parents abandon the homeschooling plan for their own reasons. This realization brings with it a great deal of anxiety and lack of will to homeschool their children. After all, if they decide to homeschool they have to be of age. Many parents find the minimum age for a homeschooling child is five years old. Other parents find that the minimum age for a homeschooling child is seven years old. The vast majority of parents will agree that at the very minimum, children can be homeschooled until the child is around 12 years old.

There are many methods that you can use as a homeschool parent. The basic idea is to be organized and follow the model that is given to you by your church or other providers. You may wish to form a Home Schooling Committee for your church or other organization to help you with this goal. Other homeschool basics include preparing your home for a new way of learning and teaching and finding effective ways to teach your child. These are all things that will help to keep the daily schedules and activities fun and stress free for your child.

Another way to help your child with homeschooling is to be prepared for all of the “homeschool questions”. These questions can come from any school and can make or break your child’s reputation as a unschooled student. Here are a few of the questions parents of unschooling children get asked about their children:

How do you stay motivated?

What type of structure does your church have that you could follow?

How will you teach?

Are unschooling children self taught?

How will you judge them?

Will your child be allowed to teach?

Will you be available to talk to your child?

Have you check-off items for your child?

Are your child’s ideas respected?

Are you willing to try new things with your child?

Are you organized and prepared for any occurrences?

These may seem like significant tasks to do with your children. Remember that the more you commit to homeschooling, the more organized and focused you will be on your child. Remember to keep your financial and religious resources separate from your regular education and schedule planning. The last thing you want is to be trying to manage two completely separate worlds.