getting started homeschooling

Homeschool Reminder!

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Hey friends! I hope that you are as happy as I am that summer is coming to an end!!! For homeschoolers that means no more crowds!!! We get our libraries, museums, parks, and everywhere else back!!! Plus, of course, everything about Fall is awesome!!! 🎃

Just like with the Traditional Back to School year, us homeschoolers also have obligations for the new academic school year.

We are required to send a Notice of Intent to Homeschool to our local School Board of Education along with an Assurance of Home Education, which is due by August 30th of each subsequent year. Here is your gentle reminder to make sure to get yours in! However, if you are new to homeschooling, you are allowed to pull your child from public school at any time, it does not have to be before the school year begins.

I decided to make a new template this year for my Assurance of Home Education. I wanted to keep it simple, but still fun & aestheticially pleasing! This is how I made ours for the 2024-2025 school year!

♡ Reminder: you do not need to go into excessive detail about your curriculum. As long as they are able to see that you have a plan and an approved curriculum, you’ve put enough.

I organized it by Course of Study on the left, and what we’ll be using on the right. These are the subjects required by the State of Ohio. If you are in another check, please check with your homeschool laws to see if you have any other requirements.

♡ I also made a BLANK & EDITABLE version HERE to make things easier for you! Or if you are the kind of person who prefers to write things in by hand, you can download a non-editable copy below to fill in yourself.

📚✏️ Assurance of Homeschool Education ✏️📚Download

HAPPY HOMESCHOOLING!

Until next time ♡ Mama Morozov

Assurance of Home Education + Freebie!!

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We recently had to send in our yearly Intent to Homeschool paperwork & it got me thinking. A year ago, I had literally no idea what I was doing. I met with one of the only other homeschool moms I knew at the time and asked for her help. We sat at her computer and she typed out my Outline of Intended Home Education for me. I had no idea what I was doing, no idea what curriculum I was using yet, no idea what was even going on, to be honest. I remember how exciting, but scary this huge life change was for me!

She typed it up, printed it out for me, and I’m not kidding you I thought there is surely no way a school is going to accept this, but she says it’ll do. So I printed out the legal Intent to Homeschool Document for my state (Ohio), filled it out, and sent these papers out in the mail.

Sure enough, the papers we sent in were accepted! We were free to begin our homeschooling journey.

This year, I made my own Assurance of Home Education using the Canva app & I am SO proud of how it looks that I wanted to share it with you – in case you also have no idea how to make your first one either.

With this being our second year of homeschooling, I also had to send in our completed Yearly Teacher Assesment for Ella & Mia. We used Debbie Heck as our assesor- I highly recommend her. She made the process so easy & stress-free and she is very affordable for large families like mine (some assessors charge per student, she charges per family).

I attached the blank version of the Assurance of Home Education file for you to edit on Canva to suit your own homeschool curriculum below. I hope it makes your new homeschooling process less stressful for you!

☆ GET YOUR FREEBIE HERE!!! ☆Download

Until next time ♡ Mama Morozov