If you don't mind me asking. Do you have friends with kids who also do this that your kids can meet up with for social time? Or do you find that sport and normal hanging out with friends on weekends is enough?

We meet up with homeschool friends twice a week. We have a group that anyone who is homeschooling is welcome to join and we meet up every week at different playgrounds or beaches so that the children can play together and the mummas can chat together too. That group has a private facebook group and each time we meet a new homeschooler we just add them to the group and it has been slowly growing. We then have another group of 4 families who homeschool and we meet together once a week to do lessons together. These 4 families have become very close through this process and now we do a lot of family things together also. I have found the homeschool groups to be very beneficial

@@Mariekalake that is amazing. It's great that you have like minded friends and playmates for your kids. Thank you for the response. You seem to have everything sorted and your kids are very lucky 🙂

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I’m moving to nz

Thank-you! I am so glad that you enjoyed it

You are so welcome, I’m glad you found it helpful. Good luck on your homeschool journey 😊

You are so welcome!

I am so glad that you found my video helpful, just check the NSW education department website instead of the WA link I provided and you should be fine 👍🏼 I love simplicity

You're so welcome! Glad that you found it helpful

I am so glad that you have found my content useful. Feel free to ask any questions, I love to help out

I am so glad that you have found this video helpful

Hello 👋 I am so glad that you found that helpful. It can be so confusing some times and I made my channel because I just want to help people on their homeschool journey so I’m glad it is helpful! Good luck on your homeschool journey and feel free to ask me any questions that you may have ❤️

You are welcome 🤗

You are welcome, thank you for watching and supporting my channel😊 I no longer use unit studies but when I was using them I would choose one unit study and do it for the whole term. The unit study would cover all the learning areas and I would just add in a few extra things. We would spend an hour to an hour and a half on the unit study and then add in one or two extra things after completing the unit study each day. The two other things would only take 40 mins to complete so we were doing about 2 to 2 and a half hours of work a day. The type of things I would add would be math (as math was no included in the unit study) and any extra work my children needed so if they needed extra writing practice then I would add that in or if I needed to add in extra Australian history stuff then I would add that in. You do not need to make sure they follow along exactly with the Aus curriculum. I hope that answer was helpful!

@@Mariekalake thanks heaps !

You are so welcome ❤️

Yay for stress levels going down! I have only had one year with a high school kid but I can give it a go, did you have anything specific you wanted to ask about high school? If you chat to Kylie over at The Homeschool Sweet Spot, she has successfully homeschool her high schoolers and she could help you out with any questions kzfaq.info

Welcome to the world of homeschooling! I hope your first year is going well. We do not use a specific program to teach languages. Languages only needs to be taught for grade 3 and 4 here in WA so we only study it when my children reach those grades. We have been learning German as we have German speaking friends and I also know a tiny bit. We checked books out of our local library and used KZfaq channels and found some worksheets online to use as well. If my kids were super keen to really learn to speak another language then I would invest in an online program but they are not too interested so i have not done that

Thank you 🙏🏻 So far we are just loving learning at home, it has taken a few different approaches to find what works best for us and I am happy to say ‘We are onto a good routine” (for now at least) I am also in WA and I was unaware Language was only required for years 3 & 4 so that does make it much easier to navigate. I actually thought it was for years 3-8. ( which is such a great variation in ages and sometimes hard to combine into 1 lesson for all the year groups) I love the kids learning through books so each day is at least a page from a couple different DK books.

i am so glad that you have found the video helpful. Whispering Waters does have a bundle for grade 7&8 as well www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sample-Distance-Learning-Education-Goals-Aus-Curriculum-Year-7-8-Bundle-2684435

@@Mariekalake wonderful thank you!

I’m glad you found this video helpful. It is my understanding that you follow the state curriculum, at this stage it is not compulsory to follow the Australian curriculum in Queensland just yet

kzfaq.info Kylie from The Homeschool Sweet Spot homeschools in Queensland, she may be able to answer any questions you may have

So curriculum is the course of study or the books that I am using to teach my children. For example I am using History Now books to teach my children Australian history. If I am not happy with using these books, so if we are not enjoying them or if they are too easy or too hard or not providing enough information then I will change it and use something else, so I will pick a different curriculum or books to teach Australian History.

Awesome! Thank you!

Teaching of a second language is not required until year 3. The moderator does not need to asses your work, they will just ask you if you taught a second language and what program you used and they may like to look at some progress work. Here is the link to the scope and sequence for all the languages. I hope this helps k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/teaching/curriculum-browser/languages

@@Mariekalake Thank you! Obviously very new to all of this haha

I have a playlist that has videos about Australian history, geography, government etc which you may find helpful kzfaq.info/sun/PL7QeH3xGpZzjwM6_ZkzpXepcXTk2WTxRv

I am not nervous about the lower grades in high school, maybe for year 9 and 10 but I will cross that bridge when I come to it! If I was super nervous about the high school years I would use an online program, that way I know that it is aligned with the Australian curriculum and he will be doing everything that he needs to do to get into further education. We are just taking one year at a time 😊

Hi, the bundle is from the last version of the curriculum (8.4) and the author of the bundle is going to be updating it but I’m not sure when that will be available

One suggestion is you could just use the books that she is already using in class at the moment. You might find that she comes home with a whole bunch of workbooks that she has been using at school so you could just continue with those. Another option is to try The Good and the Beautiful. They have free language arts programs (which will also include some art and geography) they have free maths programs and they also offer a free science unit which is the marine biology one I believe. You can download all of those for free and print them off at home. I will link them for you. It gives you a free curriculum while you settle into homeschooling. Good luck😊

Here is a link to the language arts and math programs. just take the assessment to see what level your daughter will be in. If you click on the levels you will see where you can receive a free downloads of the books www.goodandbeautiful.com/pre-k-8-curriculum/language-arts/www.goodandbeautiful.com/pre-k-8-curriculum/math/

Here is the link to the free Science unit study www.goodandbeautiful.com/products/marine-biology/

Wow thank you so much! Greatly appreciated xx

I do not think the Education Department minds if parents work and homeschool their children as long as they are meeting all of the education requirements

I have a copy of a blank copy of the scope and sequence on my blog. i have included the link below. You can download it and edit it yourself 😊mariekalake.com/2022/03/26/how-i-plan-our-homeschool-curriculum-for-the-year/

I am in Perth ☺️

@@Mariekalake aww yay NOR or SOR

Hi there, Im unsure of your question? Do you need help with year 10 homeschool resources?

Hello 😀 are you in Western Australia? If you are then you do not have to register for kindy (you can still do kindy at home of course but you don’t have to officially register) You only have to register when they are starting pre primary so when they are 6/7 years old. The amount of time to register is anyones guess at the moment as they are very busy as many new people are registering to homeschool due to this season of Covid times. But all you need to do is contact the education department for your district saying that you wish to register, they will send you out paperwork to fill out and send back. After they have received your paperwork they will send you a letter of approval. After that a moderator from the department will email you and set up a time to meet with you to go over the education plan you have put together for your children. You don’t have to wait to for letter of approval or moderator visit to begin homeschooling, you just start straight away. As soon as you have called the education department you can start (this is for WA of course)

I just posted a video showing what I am using in 2022 to tach Australian history, hope you find it helpful kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oZqRgdxo262voWw.html

Im sorry but I am not sure what you mean?