Homeschooling with Minimal Cost

We decided to homeschool and I'll admit I went a little wild. I wanted everything at the teacher store. I bought texts workbooks at used book stores, Target, Office Max and more. I got write on/ wipe of cards for various skills, (writing letters, money, addition, subtraction, color words, animal words and more). I bought my daughter a desk. My brother in law gave her a computer her cousin outgrew. We spent way too much on educational games computer, card and board. But with in weeks the books were piled on a shelf, the games were in the closet and the wipe off cards had acquired permanent drawings that had nothing to do with their original activities. The desk and the computer were gathering dust. Most of the computer games had too many fingerprints to work, or had been stepped on and broken.

It has been said time and time again, to check out your library and use the internet. The majority of the curriculum I actually used were downloaded for free from the internet or from books in the library.

My local library frowns on homeschoolers. I'll write about it someday, but not right now. But nearly all libraries will have useful books if you can broaden your mind to find uses for what you find. Whatever subject your child is interested in can be researched and used to form a viable curriculum.

As to the internet, it takes time, sometimes too much time, to find curriculum on the internet. Not because it is hard to find, (though it sometimes is), but because often there is so much out there and they so helpfully link to other sites. While the link may not have what I want right now but it has so many things that can be useful later. And those sites have links, which have links, and look it's 4 a.m.. I have over 650 MB of curriculum on my hard drive and that's just the last year or so.