Hi all - just to put it out there - DH is 100% NOT on board with homeschooling at the outset. Of course this may change if the situation requires but we do have access to reasonably good education options if we can work out how to approach it.... He has concerns about the "social" aspects of it all - and he is unwilling to do any/read any research, meet anyone or be open minded about it at all. Not a battle I'm going to win. However if things go pear shaped at school, I know he'd be open to the idea of it, then.
Also DD is desperate to go to school, while personally I think she is in for a rude shock she does need to experience it first hand or we'll never get any peace! Personally I have very negative feelings towards school, some of which may not be entirely rational, so I'm prepared to wait until proven right on this.
HK - you are dead on with the literacy, we are having the difficulty that seems quite common of her not wanting to to push herself because it's "too hard" mind you she knows all her letters, can write legibly if copying and can sound out words like Scotland, popcorn etc. She just doesn't seem willing/able to make the jump to fluent reading. She is gifted visual spacially and auditorily (is that a word) so we can try lots of approaches but she is def a do it myself girl and doesn't want any input from me. She currently does reading eggs, and does quite well with it, but as soon as she has a book in her hands she doesn't want to know.
Being as she's 4 I'm aware that I can leave it, and I am really worried that pressuring her will turn her off reading, however I do see the importance of getting her up to speed.
As I said in my OP she is currently having a major leap in her knowledge so I'm hoping the literacy will come too. She's such a perfectionist!
