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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would like to homeschool my daughter in a year when she reaches kindergarten. I feel very overwhelmed in terms of preparing for this endeavor. What did/does homeschooling your kindergartener look like? Where do I go for educational materials? How was your experience?[/quote]

Why are you homeschooling?  You'll get better answers with more context. [/quote]

OP here. I'm considering it because the public schools where I live are bad and I don't want to move. Good private schools are expensive so I'd like to take a stab at homeschooling. I like the idea of self directed learning, but can't afford private schools that encourage this.[/quote]

What does "bad" mean? Have you crossed the threshold of the school? Visited classrooms? If not, you're making a pretty significant decision that will impact your kid with minimal information.

A HUGE part of kindergarten is learning through play with peers. Learning is a highly social endeavor. Based on what you've written, it sounds like your kid will just be doing worksheets with you.

If you think kindergarten is easy because the content is easy, you have no idea. There's real pedagogy involved. Are you prepared to facilitate your child's learning around number sense? [b]Can you speak with confidence around the development of her understanding of subitizing and cardinality? Do you even know what those terms mean?[/b] Are you ready for all of this?
https://vimeo.com/210115211[/quote]

NP. This has to be the most pretentious and ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I'm literally trying not to laugh. And that video reeks of someone trying to feel important by making a video to teach people about something that's totally ridiculous just for the sake of teaching it. It looks like a school project.

My just-turned-4-year-old has excellent number sense. He can add, subtract, talk about different shapes and what makes them different from other shapes in terms of numbers, work with a number line, understands which number is greater than the other, etc etc etc. I somehow taught him all of that without ever having been exposed to the word 'subitizing'. I hate to break it to you, but teaching kindergarten-level mathematics (or even well beyond that) isn't rocket science.[/quote]

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