Jennie...like what I told Etelle before, it depends on what you believe in and what you want to teach your child. And it is taxing too when you have to prepare your curriculum, own activities etc. And that you have to tailor made it to suit both your child and you.
I teach Kai from all sort of materials and I spent all the time Kai in school sourcing, preparing and also I get up earlier in the morning to prepare the materials, do my own quiet time and exercise, plan my day before I start the day with him.
Etelle...when bb young, start with flash cards (English-Day 1, Chinese-Day 1, Dots- Day 1 to 6 months, Numbers-6months, Colours-10months), reading both English and Chinese books, etc. Yes, parents have to come out of their own. What motivate me on is that Kai is picking up and he is learning and wants more. In fact, I was so surprised that he could read simple books by himself (1 words by 22months, 2-3 by 28months and now into 1- 3sentences on a page) and he can recognise quite a bit of chinese characters and can tell me in English the meaning and what they stand for. He is also doing addition now for maths.
What I have decided for our homeschooling was simple:
1)Character building
2)Teaching of Value - use every opportunity we have to teach sharing, giving, honesty, etc
3)Surviving skills - cooking, baking, cleaning up his own toys, his mess(after his craft lesson), household chores.
4)English, Chinese, Maths, Science
5)Teaching him the verse from the bible, about God.
6)Craftworks
So both Jennie and Etelle, to homeschool, you have to do your own planning, source for your resources, prepare the materials and activities, there is no one package that will cater to your need as which child is different and has different learning style. We can discussed about it as we get along.
And to all ladies,
Wishing you a blessed Chinese New Year!
Will MIA for a while as I need to organise lots of stuff for CNY and also need to backup data, photos of laptop as well as updating my blog, creating Kai's blog, doing compiling Kai's photos into more filmstrip on DVDs for him and preparing materials for our next month HS theme.
Have a great time and enjoy your children. They grow very fast. I also need the time to enjoy my darling boy, he is growing too fast, haahaaa. He is now using his own umbrella, carrying his own school bag and telling me "Mummy, I am a big boy now and I can walk on my own."
Will drop by when time permit.
Just to share what we created for lunch and dinner yesterday,
Lunch - Baked creamy salmon, mixed vegetables pasta with cheddar cheese
Kai and my pizza (The process of how the pizza is made from scratch will be on my blog soon, how kai made the pizza)
Our Roast Beef, Capsicum, Onion and Shiitake Mushroom Pizza
In the midst of making
Before baking
After baking