I homeschooled my fifth grader this year with a combination of textbooks, curriculum, a home teacher/tutor, and some coop classes. One of the most successful parts was a program that I used as supplementary which was entirely web-based (Time4Learning.com). I'm now wondering about using them as my core curriculum for both language arts and math. I have no questions about the quality or thoroughness of it.
My question is about how much time should a fifth grader spend on the computer every day. If I do Time4Learning.com as core, he'll probably be online for an hour a day.
But I'm also thinking of adding an online writing course (Time4Writing.com). That would be another two hours per week.
We would keep doing our own literature course and history courses which I compose with eclectic materials (we read a lot together, discuss it. We study history this way too plus we include many films. I'd probably keep doing a textbook based science. And so on, thoughts?
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Online homeschooling for a fifth grader
I think the information and web sites will be useful for me.I have to homeschool my son who is in 5th grader because of behavior reasons.Since this is my first time homeschooling my son I need all the help I can get lol.
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T4L for Schooling by: J Penn
I think an hour or two is fine for your son. He doesn't have to do all of it in one sitting either. The Time4Writing will be offline writing as much as online learning.
Have you tried their sister site Vocabulary and Spelling City? It is awesome and it's free. You can even print worksheets for handwriting as well as practice your spelling and learn vocabulary in a fun way.
Heh, I also used Time4Learning.com and had a great year. We supplemented with their writing courses from http://www.time4writing.com plus an indepth reading program and some science and social studies.
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:) by: Anonymous
I think you have a really good plan going :) We use http://www.Time4Learning.com for our 3rd grader and We spend about the same amount of time. We thou school year round so we only do 3 days a week ..Which makes things easier IMO ;) Anyways ,I wish I had more ideas to add .. Good Luck!
