Saturday, hundreds of people met in College Station for the Kaleidoscope Expo 2010.

It's a program that lets homeschooling parents network as well as find curriculum and activities for their kids.

"The idea is to bring information together for home school families in one place so they can help plan upcoming curriculum for the school year, we have things like art classes, math classes, Tae Kwon Do, choir, band, we also have curriculum for math, Spanish, different foreign languages," said Darlene Barnes, who coordinated the Kaleidoscope 2010 Expo.

Barnes home schooled all three of her daughters who are now grown.

"First of all we wanted the freedom to teach our children about the Lord, we thought it was very important to us, some other things were the particular learning styles of our children, the ability to plan the curriculum for the child. Our youngest one was way far ahead in math and behind in reading, so I was able to let her do 5th grade math and first grade reading when she was in first grade," Barnes said.

Saturday's event was a one stop shop of information for homeschooling Parents like Glynda Bricker.

"It's is a great place just to get to see the great curriculum they offer, get to touch it hands on stuff and talk to people, ask questions, get encouragement, some of the parents will give us ideas on what they're doing. This has worked, it hasn't worked," said Glynda Bricker of College Station.

Bricker has homeschooled seven of her kids.

"Homeschooling gives students the chance to meet a lot of different people of different ages, they get to interact with a lot of people at different levels," Bricker said.

"The parents have to be able to facilitate the learning, not actually teach every detail that there kids have to learn," Barnes added.

Barnes tells us one of the biggest misconceptions still out there is, homeschool kids have trouble learning social skills and are isolated.

"As you can see here, there are lots of people who homeschool, we probably have 700 to 800 families in the Brazos Valley who homeschool. The burden does fall on the parents, there's no way around that it is the parents responsibility that their kids are educated well and socialized well," Dalene Barnes said.

An education with many families now opting to turn their living rooms, into classrooms.

The Texas Home School Coalition Association estimates more than 300,000 Texas children are homeschooled and Texas leads the nation in number of homeschooled families.

For more information about homeschooling you can contact Dalene Barnes at info@triumphhomeschool.org