Yay! �Resolution! � Don't think you have to teach every subject every day, far from it, and don't think you have to finish a lesson plan to get something out of it and make progress. �If you work on addition for a week then don't get back to it for a month there will still be more addition to learn when you get back to it. �
I don't know if you can buy from amazon in Africa. �Look at great and popular nonfiction books or high quality books. �Look through the reviews, especially the one and two star reviews and if some says something valid and recommends another book, look at that one before you make a choice. �Look at books in the young adult range because you're looking for stuff for the kids to grow into. �You'll only �want to keep it if you yourself enjoyed reading it. �I only have two bookshelves. �(and I store board games & science projects there too). � Storage space is precious and valuable when you're making a book collection just to be used in a few years from now. �
A lot of skills you can learn how to teach browsing forums and YouTube and then just talk about it, show them with a pencil and paper, or show them the videos on you tube that explain them. �I hardly have curriculum on my bookshelf. �I have a few workbooks (we were doing handwriting w/o tears 2nd grade, kumon telling time, one page a day. �Then we were tracing American maps from one nation fifty states, one a day. �Now we're visiting family.�
I have a microscope and slides and a chemistry set that's just for pouring water back and forth for now and a box full of electronic science stuff, all collections i'm building for my kids to grow into but I let my son play make believe with it now under supervision.
A whiteboard and a bulk supply of dry erase markers is the most used item in the house. By the kids more than me. �Supervise the return of the markers when finished. �
We weren't homeschooling or unschooling we were pre-schooling. �He'll start going to school in August. �They say unschooling is just parenting like you would in the afterschool hours. �Since I plan on afterschooling, continuing lessons like we have been around school hours, then for us homeschooling was apparently unschooling. �LoL <>
