national curriculum and home ed

[pinkkoala]

are there any teachers or other experienced home ed people who could help with finding out what the children follow at school with the curriculum.

we are teaching dd at home, 5 in dec. but would like to try to follow some of the schools curriculum as she will be going in a couple of years time.

we have heard of the oxford reading tree to help learn to read, but what about other subjects.

also any ideas on how to stop her getting distracted, both our neighbours have pre school children and one side are always calling her name when they are in the garden and the other side does a runner from her mum when she gets in the car and taps on our front door this all causes distractions and i have a hard job getting her interested in her work, i am getting a bit frustrated with it now.

I love Dr Seuss for learning to read - Hop on Pop in particular is great for early reading.

My DS is totally uninterested in writing, so for practice, I've had good luck with mazes and dot-to-dots. It taught him to hold a pencil, and work carefully to produce a neat result. You can get puzzle books in all sorts of topics, from fairies to dinosaurs.

For science, check out the Magic Schoolbus series. Lots of fun.