The Best Way to Make Homeschool Preparations

01/16/23 • 21 min

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E yi so means see you soon in Fon and is from the country of Benin Republic.

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Grown Folks Talking About Homeschool Preparations

The three best ways to make homeschool preparations are:

Review your state laws
Assess your child's academic needs
Create a plan and gather your materials

Where can you go to learn what your state's homeschool requirements are?

One organization that has laid out the requirements completely by the state is the homeschool legal defense association. Visit their website at hslda.org/legal and click on your state on the digital map. When I homeschooled, I met with my state homeschool review board twice a year, once in the fall and again in the spring. Then I shared my daughters' homeschool portfolio, showing each child receiving regular and thorough education.

Assess your child's academic needs

Evaluate how your child/children learn best. Consider using a learning styles assessment to identify their primary learning style.

Remember, people don't have just one learning style. They have several, so try to present a way to learn different materials using all three methods, which are visual, auditory, and kinesthetic or tactile learning. During the early years of homeschooling, I often daughter new information by singing (playing educational music CDs), creating models, projects, or doing experiments. I also encouraged my children to learn by playing games like a bean bag toss to practice spelling new words.

Create a plan and gather the materials

My advice is simple before you buy a complete curriculum, try it out first.

Try different curriculums to see what your child likes and dislikes. Of course, you want to give your child only work that he or she likes, but you should consider how they work best so that you can avoid meltdowns. Review what children in your state should be learning based on their ages or grades. Next, write out or type up your weekly objectives. This will give you a frame,e work to stay focused and make sure your child is thriving. Read reviews, and talk to others who may have used the curriculum.

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E yi so means see you soon in Fon and is from the country of Benin Republic.

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Grown Folks Talking About Homeschool Preparations

The three best ways to make homeschool preparations are:

Review your state laws
Assess your child's academic needs
Create a plan and gather your materials

Where can you go to learn what your state's homeschool requirements are?

Assess your child's academic needs

Evaluate how your child/children learn best. Consider using a learning styles assessment to identify their primary learning style.

Create a plan and gather the materials

My advice is simple before you buy a complete curriculum, try it out first.

Connect with Elle

Tweetable quote: "Remember, just because you start with a curriculum doesn't mean you have to stick with it, if it's not a good fit." - Elle Cole

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During this episode we will share and discuss Stacey Woodson's homeschooling journey and how being a dietician and an author influences her parenting and family relationships.

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Grown Folks Talking About Growing Nutritious Foods and Educated Kids

Our guest, Stacey Woodson, MS, RD, LDN is a dietitian-nutritionist and entrepreneur. She is a counselor, speaker, and author on the topics of nutrition and wellness.

She loves teaching children about healthy eating and introducing them to new foods. She also has a passion for representing and affirming children of color which inspired her to start a clothing line named Melanated Magic Tees. Stacey enjoys gardening, foraging, yoga, and spending time in nature. Her Delicious and Nutritious children's book series empowers children with the knowledge to make nourishing food choices and become adventurous eaters. The series was inspired by and loosely based on her children. Stacey lives in Philadelphia, PA with her husband, three children, and her cat.

Inside this episode you can look forward to hearing about:

How Stacey got started homeschooling.
How she approaches educating her children..
What it's like being an author and a homeschool mom.
Ways she incorporates nutrition and healthy living into her homeschooling.
Exploring how words matter and ways to frame nutrition in ways that are less polarizing.

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Tweetable quote: "If you can read and do basic math you can learn how to do anything." - Stacey Woodson, MS, RD, LDN

Resources to help teach your children about gardening and nutritious foods

UNICEF has a great list for parents to jump start better eating habits.
See What Grows has some great suggestions on how to get kids excited about growing food.
OurSpace has a lot of great educational opportunities for families who are interested in gardening and survival skills.
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Elle 0:09

Elle and Miriam are two black homeschooling moms embarking on a self-defining journey. Listen in on conversations that will encourage you to be your authentic self while uplifting your spirit and motivating your inherent potential. They're defining what culture is for their families and want you to do the same. Bring your children along so they can meet the cleverly cultured kids. They're all for teaching the babies while they're young, adapting to the challenges of parenting, homeschooling, and being willing to learn the lessons that the children have to offer. It's all about uplifting one another and reclaiming your innate greatness.

Elle Cole 1:12

It's now time for the word of the episode.

Elle Cole 1:17

WORD OF THE EPISODE

Keh means "to demonstrate" or "to teach" in Mende.

Elle Cole 1:36

Hello, everybody. Welcome to another CleverlyChanging Podcast. I am one of your hosts I will call, and today we are talking about our second homeschool tip. Yes, we are getting back to the basics for those of you who are interested in learning more about homeschooling and teaching your children. Again, this podcast isn't just for homeschoolers but also for people who want to supplement their child's education. So today, we are talking about Tip number two, lesson plans. Now, if you're not a teacher, no worries. We are going to walk you through how to create a lesson plan and how to make it work for you. So first, I want to share that a lesson plan is important. If you want to organize and prepare information, it keeps you on track and focused. When creating a lesson plan, identify your subject, then research the concept your child needs to learn. So when I was homeschooling, I had to often reteach myself different subjects. So if it had been years since I had seen some of the math problems that I needed to teach to my kids. It wasn't a big worry. It just meant I had to utilize different resources so that I could refresh my memory. One of the tools I use to do that was YouTube, they have great tutorials where people will work out the problems, and you can practice. Also, if you are a bit hesitant about some subjects and you feel like, they are outside of my scope. No worries, you don't have to do it all personally. You can hire tutors, tap into your village, your resources, your support system, and even classes online. So there are multiple ways to ensure your child or children are getting a solid education.

Elle Cole 3:48

for preschoolers, I feel like preschool and elementary school many of us can handle those areas fairly well on our own. And we should probably go back to thinking about the learning cells. And there are three learning styles I talked about last year. The first was auditory, the second visual, and the third kinesthetic or tactile. And when I was teaching my preschoolers, I often went to the library and got CDs or videos to reinforce those lessons. Kids learn so well through song. So even if you're not a singer, it doesn't mean that your kids don't have to have an opportunity to be exposed to new music, expose them, teach them, and sing with them, but you can also get CDs to sing along, especially if that's not your wheelhouse.

Elle Cole 4:53

The other thing I encourage you to do is use apps like we are living in a wonderful day.

Elle Cole 5:00

technology age where we have different resources at our disposal. And one of those resources is being able to type into apps. The...