Free Accredited Homeschool Program

Want a traditional education, just not at your local school?

There are so many people who are seeking alternatives to traditional public school but can’t seem to find and options. Accredited home school programs could be just the option you are looking for. An accredited home school program is a home school program that is equivalent to public school education.

Connections Academy is one of these accredited home school programs and is FREE. It is a public charter school online that teaches kids the same skills they would be getting at a traditional public school, only better. Kids are placed into different courses such as Art, math, history, and much more; and they are assigned an instructor who is a certified teacher. They have daily assignments do and weekly projects. They are required to submit their work online to their teacher in order to earn credit. With great programs and wonderful books, you child will learn and achieve at a better rate than kids their own age in public school.

Parents and teachers correspond through end of the term packets that they are required to mail as well as through weekly Parent teacher Conferences. The teachers offer great feedback and are there to work one on one with students that might need extra help.

This is a great solution if you are wanting to home school but don’t have the time. Your child will be getting an education that you can feel good about.

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When you think of homeschooled High Schoolers the first question that comes most peoples minds is “How do you graduate?” Many students take the GED and go on to college at age 16. Our two oldest already have and the younger ones are preping for early college as well. By the time their public school friends are graduating they already have two years of college under their belts. Yep, we’re proud parents.

GED stands for General Education Development and is a series of tests that test that you have the knowledge to graduate. It is now accepted as an alternative to a High school Diploma by most Colleges. It just takes a few requirements and some simple steps.

Age Requirement- First off Oregon State law says you must be at least 16 to take the GED. State laws may be different where you live so the first step would be to call your local high school or community college and ask if they know the required age. You can also look it up online. There is a waiver obtainable as well in some states, so the first step would be figuring out age requirement.

ID- You are also going to need some form of state issued ID. This can be a driver’s license, permit, or ID card as long as it is issued from your states DMV.

Study- Just with any other test it is important to study. The GED consists of: 2 Language arts tests- one multiple choice and one an essay, 1 math test, 1 science test, 1 reading, and 1 in Social studies. All of the tests except for the Essay are multiple choice. You don’t need to attend classes to take these tests, you can study for them right at home. Your local library has books contain practice sheets and step by step lessons to help prepare you for the GED. The best ones I have found are the ones published by Steck-Vaughn and McGraw-Hill. They are even available in Spanish. Just make sure you get the most recent publication, there are some older publications that are confusing and not reliable for preparing to take the GED.

Location- Most community colleges offer the GED test. The cost is around $100.00 for all the tests, but it does vary between states and testing centers. You have about an hour and a half to take each test.

Just like graduating from High School it is not always easy to get your diploma from home, but with preparation anyone can do it. Just call around, research, study, but most importantly relax. You will do fine.

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Private school is so expensive and homeschool costs a lot of many too right? Wrong. Homeschooling your child can cost you $0 if you take advantage of the resources all around you.

One of the biggest things that turn people away from homeschool is the curriculum, they think it is too expensive, complicated, or to time consuming. Homeschooling can be easy and money saving, plus your child will receive an education you know you can trust and it can all start at your local library. The library is full of textbooks and people don’t even know about it. I am not just talking about the history type books we all have had to bring home for reports, I am talking about actual step by step guides to many subjects your child needs to learn, including: Math, science, writing, and much more. All you have to do is go online to your library’s online catalog and type the subject into the search box. One book that I found that was really helpful was Painless Algebra, this teaches Algebra in a more simple way so that it can be understood with out making your brain hurt.

The greatest advantage to this type of homeschooling is that you can make the lesson plan fit into the way your child learns. For example, I am a writer, I enjoy writing and I learn better when I write things down. So when I was homeschooled my parents had me turn in my work as essays. Since I was writing reports I was learning the information. For my brother he likes art so he does a lot of art classes and art type work submissions. We all process information differently and with homeschooling you can adapt it to the way your child learns. If you think your child will learn less this way you are wrong. Just like public school students, homeschool students are required to take a benchmark test. They score the homeschoolers based on the performance of the average public student. When I took the test in the 8th grade, after 3 years of this style homeschooling, I outscored the public students greatly. Plus both my sister and I were able to graduate at 16 with this program. The truth is in the number, you can homeschool your child for free and it works.

by Jessica Kidd

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When you are home-schooling a young child it can be hard to keep there attention. Unlike older children who can self study, younger children need something that grabs their attention, something like their favorite Disney characters. That’s right the studio that has brought us all of our families movie classics now has worksheets that can teach your child at home.

These printable worksheets have characters such as Disney Princesses, the characters from Cars, TinkerBell, a Bugs Life, and much more. They can learn Math with Ariel or Time telling with Simba. Kids will actually get excited about learning. Plus it is something that Mom and Dad can feel good about.

These are free worksheets that can be downloaded off of the site Disney Printing Magic. It is a big file so it will take a while to upload. It is suggested to use a computer with a faster connection.

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