Home Learning Year by Year Makes Starting Homeschooling Easier!

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This time of year, a lot of people start thinking about pulling their kids out of traditional school and homeschooling. Today I have a book that can help you sort out what woould be involved!

Synopsis:

 Homeschooling can be a tremendous gift to your children—a personalized educational experience tailored to each kid’s interests, abilities, and learning styles. But what to teach, and when, and how? Especially for first-time homeschoolers, the prospect of tackling an annual curriculum can be daunting. In Home Learning Year by Year, Rebecca Rupp presents comprehensive plans from preschool through high school, covering integral subjects for each grade, with lists of topics commonly presented at each level, recommended resource and reading lists, and suggestions for creative alternative options and approaches. Included, along with all the educational basics, are techniques and resources for teaching everything from philosophy to engineering, as well as suggestions for dealing with such sensitive topics as sex education.

Now revised throughout with all-new updates featuring the most effective and up-to-date methods and reading guides to homeschool your child at all ages, Home Learning Year by Year continues to be the definitive book for the homeschooling parent.

Review:

This is the second edition of this book and it has been updated to how online lessons can make homeschooling SO much easier for older kids. It's a good starter book- it gives you an idea of what traditionally is covered year by year in schools, and what the authpr's family chose to cover. Your kids may be better with a different timeline. You get the basics of starting and record keeping as well. But having said that, if you have any special issues that need to be addressed, like dyslexia or add, this is the the end-all resource for you, for teaching at home. Having homeschooled for 4 years now, I can see how this is a good guideline for traditional learners at home. But if you have kids who don't think along traditional lines, you may want to just use it as a reource, versus a 'bible'. There are many good ideas in it, so even veteran homeschoolers might learn a thing or two!

About the Author:

Rebecca Rupp and her husband, Randy, homeschooled their three sons from preschool through high school, and all grew up to be creative, kindhearted people with large vocabularies. Rebecca has published over 300 articles in national magazines and nearly two dozen books, both for children and adults. She maintains an educational resources blog and lives on Lake Champlain in northern Vermont.