This week flew by so quickly! I have really gotten into the whole home school thing. 
Since November 4Th, we were just doing home bound through the school due to my son’s behavior issues. On Monday we said to heck with fighting the school and pulled our son out completely! All week we have actually been homeschooling and we are loving it! He was flying through the few things I had for him so quickly that I had to add more work. Our cover school says he has to school for at least 4 hours for it to count as a “present” day. Yet, he was knocking it out in about an hour.
We are using lots of different things for our homeschooling, not a specific curriculum. Right now I am using math & language arts printables that I have found on the Internet as I wait for our school books to arrive. I really liked the books he used in the public school for these subjects so I wrote down their ISBN numbers before sending them back and ordered my own. 
The books are:
ISBN: 032803018X
Title: Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley Mathematics: Grade 3
Macmillan; ISBN: 0022443010
“LANGUAGE ARTS TODAY 3 (H)”
For cursive / handwriting we are using printables from The Learning Page and Donna Young
For writing we are using K12′s Writing In Action ISBN #0-8294-1001-5
For spelling & vocab I just give him a pre-test each week on the words the public school says he should know by the end of third grade. I typically give him about 25 of the words and whichever ones he doesn’t know are his words for the week. As I watch him, if he gets a bunch wrong then I may only call 10 words. Mon-write words 3xs each, Tues – look up definition, Wed – put in abc order, Thurs – do a crossword (I make it using Vocabulary Worksheet Factory), Fri – test and pretest for next week’s words.
Social Studies / History – we are doing a study on the 50 states from about.com
Science – right now we are working through a few Discovery Channel School Books. He LOVES them and I am hoping I can find some more before we finish these up. Our current book is The Earthquake File: Shake. ISBN#1-58738-005-6
I also have a set of multiplication flash cards that we run through each day as he seems to be having issues with the multiplication tables. Well, he *was*, but in 2 days he has gone from getting 66/91 to getting 74/91. So, whatever I am doing must be working .
On Tuesday I added in a Dinosaur Unit study to make our days a bit longer. This came from The Learning Page, also. (see link above).
I think that is all… I could have forgotten something but I am not sure.
Oh, also I am hoping to go this weekend to a local bookstore that carries home school curriculum to see if I can find a health / nutrition book I like as well as an Art book.
I think I have given you guys enough info today See you around!
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About Kelli
Don’t worry too much about the hours requirement. Think about the time you are not doing formal schooling that is educational – playing with Legos, listening to music, riding his bike, praying, etc.