I actually agree with all of you. I just have a few things working against me. First, I am pulling her out of public in which she has full LA, math, science, Chinese, Computer, PE, Library, Guidance, Art, and Music. She is there all day, long day and I think it is too much. And neither her father nor I are happy about the Terc Investigations Math curriculum our county uses for elementary ed and the lack of phonics instruction in LA and that isn't going to change as she moves forward in the grades in public school which is why we think pulling her now is better than waiting.
At the same time I've got a mother and a sister who are career public ed people and think I am a loon to pull her out and homeschool. I keep hearing SOLs and so on and worry that I need her to "keep up" in case we put her back in public in the future. I'm stressed about all of this, I am new to homeschooling and didn't plan on homeschooling to be honest, but the overcrowding (her K class has 26 kids!) and the long day are really not good for her and I want her out of there.
But at the same time I feel like I need to offer/provide the same kind of instruction at home to make it more "legitimate". Dealing with the disapproval from close family members is way harder than I anticipated. I am certainly NOT one to push academics -we hardly did any preschool for her at all and just did a lot of playing, baking, gardening, crafts, reading and so on. (We actually used a Waldorf preK curriculum called Little Acorn Learning for her). I am just not sure what is typical for this age in a homeschool environment and what sort of curriculum plan is reasonable in a classical homeschool setting.
Thanks everyone for your thoughts!