For Rhode Island home instruction families
Homeschool with peace of mind.
Pennsole is the warm, simple home base for Rhode Island homeschool families — school committee requests, daily learning, attendance register, and progress records all taken care of, so you can get back to the kitchen-table moments that matter.
Request & instruction plan
Recorded attendance, not invented hours
Your locally agreed progress method
Local approval. Clear records.
Rhode Island’s rules, kept separate.
Home instruction is approved by your local school committee. Pennsole distinguishes the statutory approval points from local renewal and progress-report practices, so you can plan without borrowing another state’s requirements.
- Reading
- Writing
- Geography
- Arithmetic
- U.S. History
- Rhode Island History
- Principles of American Government
Instruction in English; attendance substantially equal to public school; an attendance register; thorough and efficient instruction. Health and PE are common local additions, not listed in § 16-19-2.
Read Rhode Island requirementsA little less paperwork. A little more living.
A Planner for your real homeschool days.
Plan and log learning for each child, rename subjects without losing past work, and keep notes, reading and materials together. Rhode Island’s seven statutory subjects are preset; health and PE are identified as common local additions, not subjects listed in § 16-19-2.
An attendance register, built as you go.
Your logged school days feed a dated register you can download. The law calls for attendance substantially equal to public school; 180 days is a common local benchmark, not a universal hours requirement. Ask your committee how and when it wants the register returned.
From your first request to your next progress report.
Save, edit and copy your request and instruction plan, write a parent-prepared progress report, and prepare careful committee correspondence. These are family templates, not official statewide forms. Choose the progress method actually agreed with your committee.
Keep the school committee paper trail together.
Record when you sent a request, the decision you received, follow-up notes and locally agreed renewal dates — your own paper trail, kept on your committee’s schedule rather than a statewide calendar.
Rhode Island membership
One membership. Your whole family.
$149/year
$12.42/month, billed annually.
- Unlimited children & daily logs
- RI attendance register & PDF
- Saved request & instruction plans
- Progress-report & letter templates
- Optional private portfolio exports
- Committee log & evaluation tracker
The public requirements guide and request generator stay free, with no account needed.