Homeschooling Elementary School

The homeschooling of elementary school children is particularly delicious. Its is easy but at least compared to the complexity of dealing with teenagers.

In elementary school, students have a great deal of natural enthusiasm which is easy to leverage. Of course, they need some supervision and cannot show the independence and initiative that they will later on.

In elementary school, there are some fantastic educational resources online that can be used to set up off site study.  For science which includes language arts and math skill development and building:

• Kindergarten Science Curriculum
• 1st Grade Science Curriculum
• 2nd Grade Science Curriculum
• Review for 3rd-5th Grade Science 
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For instance, the topics in one area of physical science, Force and Motion, include:

• Location and Perspective
• Motion
• Force
• Magnets
• Simple Machines

Each of these are presented using an instructional model known as the 5Es: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate.

Other fantastic educational online materials for K-5 are:

Time4Learning.com
Time4Writing.com
VocabularySpellingCity.com
LearningGamesforKids.com