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Here are my favorite picks for homeschooling young children including links and prices.\u00a0 As with everything else homeschoolers do, this is what works for us and may not necessarily work for you, but this is where I always recommend that people begin.\u00a0 If you can get things for free at the library, I\u2019ve mentioned that and always recommend that you take a look at books in person before you buy them if you can.\u00a0 If you can\u2019t, most homeschool books are easily resold on ebay.\u00a0 After doing this for 10 years, here\u2019s what I like for the youngest learners.<\/span><\/span> <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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Five in a Row<\/b><\/a> Beginning with Before Five in a Row<\/u><\/a>, this is my favorite resource for preschool and Kindergarten lessons.\u00a0 The premise is simple.\u00a0 You read a classic book to your child every day for five days and teach simply lessons to your little one based upon that book.\u00a0 For example, with the book Madeline<\/u>, you teach your child geography (the location of Paris and France where the story takes place), math (twelve little girls in two straight lines\u2026.how many in each line), biology (where is your appendix and what is it for?), etc.\u00a0 The lessons are all laid out in the book, and the majority of the story books are available through your local library, although you may just want to own them all because they\u2019re that kind of quality literature.\u00a0 Only available at this time from Rainbow Resource<\/a>.\u00a0 Cost for the textbook \u2013 $35.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons<\/b><\/a> Homeschooling parents either seem to love 100 Easy Lessons or they really don\u2019t like it.\u00a0 I\u2019m a fan.\u00a0 I\u2019ve taught 3 of my 4 readers how to read with this book, and the 4th has vision issues and required special efforts and tricks to learn to read.\u00a0 I will make a confession here, I don\u2019t do all the little rhyming and word game side lessons and simply concentrate on the big bold letters.\u00a0 This works, and the kids like it, you just have to not let yourself get bogged down in the extra stuff.\u00a0 Cost for the textbook $12.40.\u00a0 Can often be found for free at your local library if you want to try before you buy.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
The Kids\u2019 Nature Book<\/a> <\/b>Science for 3-7 year olds based upon the world around them.\u00a0 Quick, easy mom-friendly activities based upon the seasons and observing nature such as watching ants at work or fun science experiments such as making sun prints using construction paper, leaves and the sunshine.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to do them all, but if you do even 1\/5 of the activities in this book, you and your kids will learn a lot of basic science.\u00a0 Cost for textbook $10.36\u00a0 Some libraries carry this for a free try before you buy.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Miquon Math<\/a> <\/b>The book series I most often recommend.\u00a0 Miquon is NOT a traditional math program and focuses more on actually training the brain to think mathematically than on teaching a child to memorize math facts.\u00a0 Memorization is not learning, it is regurgitation.\u00a0 These books are a non-traditional approach to learning mathematics, but so worth the time and effort.\u00a0 This is one of the few books for young students where you NEED to buy the teachers manual.\u00a0 Text books are $5 each.\u00a0 You will go through one a semester approximately, but be ready to buy 2 or more at a time because your child will LOVE math and fly through them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Singapore Math<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/u><\/span><\/span><\/span>What if you like a traditional math program?\u00a0 What do you do after Miquon?\u00a0 Singapore!\u00a0 Singapore leads the world with math comprehension among their students.\u00a0 Once you see their math program, you\u2019ll understand why.\u00a0 It is logical, easy to use, and actually teaches the why and how of how math works rather than just repetitive memorization of math facts.\u00a0 This program will take you up through 6th grade easily and my kids all still love math after using Singapore.\u00a0 How many other programs can say the same thing.\u00a0 Learn it, love it, be able to do it.\u00a0 Text book and work book together will run you $17 a semester<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Story of the World <\/b><\/a>The most child-friendly history program I have tried, and in 10 years of homeschooling, I\u2019ve tried a lot of them.\u00a0 The chapters are written like the best of story books, but even more interesting because they are TRUE!\u00a0 This comprehensive world history series puts world events on a time line so that your child learns what was going on in China while the Egyptians built their pyramids, and what the Israelites were up to while Ghengis Khan was conquering the world.\u00a0 I love the feeling of getting the whole picture of human events instead of just bits of western culture.\u00a0 Get it with the activity book and your lesson plans and activities are all planned out for you, the worksheets and color pages are provided, and someone else has already planned the craft to go with the lesson.\u00a0 Yippee!\u00a0 I love when someone else does the hard part for me.\u00a0 Cost for Textbook $13.\u00a0 Cost for Activity book $24.\u00a0 You can even buy the audio book and let your children listen to someone else read the lesson if you need to.\u00a0 Cost of audio book $30\u00a0 (I might even get this to listen to in the car for fun.)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Here are my favorite picks for homeschooling young children including links and prices.\u00a0 As with everything else homeschoolers do, this is what works for us and may not necessarily work for you, but this is where I always recommend that people begin.\u00a0 If you can get things for free at the library, I\u2019ve mentioned that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nHomeschool Books I LOVE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Here are my favorite picks for homeschooling young children including links and prices.  As with everything else homeschoolers do, this is what works\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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