There are no additional instruction books you will have to buy using these materials.  Everything is self-paced using our videos.  There may be additional expenses in printing off some activities to use with your child.  I use books from our library for the enhanced read-alouds, if you would like to buy these books that would be an additional expense.   You can make your own manipulatives for teaching math, however I do recommend some math manipulatives that may be beneficial for you to buy that you will be use many times to teach different concepts.

These materials are designed to teach you how to teach the different subject materials.  This is not an online course for your child.  It is to teach you what your student needs to learn and how to teach it in a fun and engaging way.  It also shows how to evaluate your students learning to determine how to help them in areas where they may be struggling that way you can have fun teaching your child.  I do recommend some other online materials you could suppliment the tools and techniques provided in these videos but this style is built to have you the parent engage with your child during learning instruction.  Don’t worry, even if you are not a math person, we walk you step by step on how to teach the math concepts so you can do it well!

In the videos I will show you how to teach math, reading and writing as the core subjects.  There is also instructions on how to incorporate some elements of art, history and culture into these activities.  I utilize the national standards to provide guidance on what students need to learn in each grade.  You can rest assure that if you follow the videos that your child will be right in track for 1st grade and if you choose to put them back into a traditional school they will not skip a beat.

The material taught in H4RL videos follow the national learning standards.  There is a lot of confusion in the homeschooling world about what the standards are.  The standards are just a way to make sure all students regardless of what state they live in are learning the same basic content at each grade level.  In fact if, most of the curriculums you buy by large homeschooling companies teach the same thing that the standards do (even if they do not tell you that they do).  The difference with H4RL is that we try to do it in a fun and interactive way and do not focus so much on the testing portion that the public schools do.  The testing portion is what really gives it a bad name, however if you are trying to educate millions of kids then you have to have some way to evaluate if they are making progress and unfortunately, testing was the method that they choose.  We decided to teach these concepts in a fun way, the way that most teachers wish they could in public school but they are forced to teach it a certain way in order to keep pace with the schedules and test deadlines.  With H4RL your child will get a great education in a fun way without all the stress of the testing!

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