Learning Abled Kids - Helping you find success Homeschooling your child with Learning Disabilities

One of the biggest issues new homeschool parents have is planning and management of their students' academic program. If you are purchasing a pre-planned or comprehensive curriculum, the package often comes with a schedule. If, however, you want to use a variety of sources and need to lay out your child's lesson plans, it is beneficial to have a form you can use to plan out which assignments your child will do each day.

After using a variety of planning forms, I've created my own form. The form is in a Word Document format, and is modifiable to suit your own needs. This form is a useful tool for you to use in beginning to lay out your own child's schoolwork and is available as a free download here.

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Another issue for home schooling is cost of curriculum materials. In order to get my teaching materials at a discount, I purchase some items through eBay . While it can be frustrating to have to wait and bid on items, it is a cost-effective way to obtain curriculum, particularly some of the more expensive programs. Programs I've obtained through eBay include Switched on Schoolhouse, Chalkdust Algebra, Apologia Science, etc. eBay can be a great resource, but always be sure the seller has a great rating (98% or above is my threshold) with several completed sales under his or her belt.

eBay has recently instituted a policy that prohibits the sale of ANY "Teacher's Edition" or Teacher's Manual, therefore they have severely limited their usefulness as a supplier of homeschool curriculum. The policy is their means of "policeing" public school children/parents to keep them from buying materials that may provide answers to assignments. I have written eBay to express how bad I think this policy is, but so far the homeschool community has not affected any return to the old way of doing business. Thus, I am currently "boycotting" eBay.

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