Contact your local school district to let them know you'll be homeschooling your child. Some states require that parents of home schooled children teach to the state standards, and require them to take the same assessments as public school students. If this is the case, find out from your home district how many hours your child must receive instruction in specific subjects, including physical education.
Contact the school health office to ensure you're in compliance with any required immunizations -- each state has different requirements, some more than others.
Set up a household with spaces conducive to instruction. Create a space for your child to be creative and another space to work on school work, and keep these spaces separate and distinct. Creative spaces should be quiet and colorful. Instructive spaces should have support and resources available -- posters on the wall that reinforce steps and procedures, books and Internet access.
Develop curriculum for teaching and learning. Locate textbooks for each of the core subjects: reading, writing, mathematics, science and social studies. The local school district might loan them. They can also be purchased independently through a home school consortium or directly from the publishers. Whatever you choose, be sure that the right amount of time is planned for each activity to give sufficient time to each subject with reasonable study time for your child.
Develop another curriculum for physical activities -- they're just as important as academics. Join the YMCA and plan to attend a few times per week. Connect with a playground, a public swimming pool. Plan daily physical activities such as running, fast walking, and bicycling. Even family physical activities can factor into the physical educational requirement.
Connect with another homesteading and home school organization such as Ozark Homestead at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ozark-homestead/. Joining and participating in these groups will enable you and your children to share resources, share new ideas and socialize. These and similar organizations often organize field trips and outings.
Create an attendance record-keeping notebook. While home schooling is a parental right, you may still be held accountable depending on your state's requirements for home school attendance.