Easy Homeschooling Techniques (3rd Edition) Your Guide to the Lowcost, Timesaving, Highquality Method

by Lorraine Curry

Book Overview

Offers a resource for home schooling the time-saving and low-cost way. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970996527
• ISBN13: 9780970996527
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: God's GardEner
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

I finally defined a vision for our homeschool!

After researching homeschooling for 11 years and actively doing so for 5, I am STILL reaping so much from this book. I read it through once and then re-read it making the suggested lists and checklists and all I can say is WOW! I WISH I had read this book first!! I checked out "Easy Homeschooling Companion" from my library a year ago but I was still in the "I-need-to-know-WHICH-curriculum-to-choose" mindset so I didn't get anything out of it (I'm going to get it again...I bet I missed out on a LOT!) I have always felt the lead to design our own curriculum and have had "How to Create a Low-Cost/No-Cost Curriculum" and ALL of the Design-A-Study books for many years but have never been able to "put it all together" with a plan...so I kept searching for THE curriculum for us. I knew there wouldn't be a "perfect" program but I figured the changes should be minor to warrant the continued use/purchase of said program. Unfortunately, the changes were always wholesale so we dropped it. But now, since reading this book I have been able to define my vision for our home education journey...I can finally SEE an "overall" plan for our homeschool as God has been leading! Even in your book there are things we probably won't focus on; but I have gained SO much from seeing your overall plan based on your goals for your family. I can see how we can now focus our daily journey to have our homeschool as my husband and I first envisioned. I took your advice and didn't buy any ("more" in my case :-) curriculum until I finished your book. I did finally buy a program I believe with minor modification will help us reach our goals. But unlike before, when I made this purchase, I have a MUCH better idea of what types of materials will help us reach our goals...because I have my goals written down! I've read before about setting goals but the way you lead the reader in the SPECIFICS is unmatched! I LOVE your use of checklists and have begun using this listing technique all through our home and lives. I have THOUROUGHLY enjoyed and learned SO much from reading this book. I used to recommend Gayle Graham's "How to Homeschool" as THE homeschool book to purchase first or if you could only have one. I will now move that down a notch and recommend "Easy Homeschooling Techniques" as THAT book.

Easy Homeschooling Techniques is a keeper!

A practical information book on the basics needed to start home schooling your children. With Christian references & historical information this personal & personable text covers every aspect from preparing your home to starting a business.What are your qualifications to be a home school teacher? Very simple: you need to love your children; have time for them each & every day; have strong beliefs that are not being taught in public schools; have doubts about the quality of public education; you must be able to read & write & you must be committed to completing the study courses.I enjoyed the stories of her movable classrooms; how combining subjects opened up a whole new world & how heirlooms & elders can teach more about history than any pages in a book.Easy Homeschooling Techniques is a thorough resource for parents wishing to teach their own children with a complete Course of Study; chapter by chapter Endnotes & a solid Resources section. Do give it a go, I think you will find it eminently useful in your home schooling efforts. Do check out my eInterview with this forthright author, business woman & teacher!

For parents who aspire to teach their children at home

Lorraine Curry's Easy Homeschooling Techniques: Your Guide To The Low Cost, Time Saving, High Quality Method is the ideal "how to" introduction and manual for parents who aspire to teach their children at home. Curry shows how to make sense of education methods, lay a good informational foundation, start up the easy way, plan for success, make order in the home, set achievable goals, provide a high school level quality curriculum, provide homeschooling even when employed. All pertinent issues for homeschooling are carefully addressed including phonics, drawing, organizing and cleaning, choosing literature, school planning, state studies, teaching the Bible, keeping high school credits, teaching homemaking, even career planning. Easy Homeschooling Techniques is highly recommended for its accessibility and is designed specifically for the non-specialist general reader wanting to educate their child at home and is enhanced with a course of study, excerpts from vintage books, a resource section, and invaluable "Authors and Poets" booklists.

Finally! Real Help!

I have had the priveledge of being in communication with the author of this book off and on for over a year. I have determined that she lives what she has written in her book. She has written this book in such an "easy" to follow, "easy" to understand fashion. It is literally a step by step "how-to" manual. She has even included symbols throughout the book which makes finding topics easier to find when you want to refer back to them. For example, anything she suggests you put in your personal notebook has a fountain pen symbol by it throughout the book. This was great for me because it takes me too long to find things again when I refer back to them. It is a time saver. So if you don't need another time consuming book to read, this one "reads fast" and has helps to make referring back to it easy and time saving. The book it aptly titled...Easy Homeschooling. I wish I had read it years ago before I began schooling. I'm excited about the results I'm seeing in my own homeschool as a result of following Lorraine Curry's methods recommended in her book. I have read, highlighted, pondered and researched her ideas scripturally. It is the most balanced, and inexpensive approach to schooling I've read about yet. If you're frustrated, burned out, broke and generally feeling out of control and loaded down with too much stuff, this book will teach you how to clean out what you don't need, keep what you do, and streamline your homeschool so you have time to "have a life" beyond school.

Easy Homeschooling Techniques

This is a must have for all homeschooling parents. It takes the best of all styles of schooling and combines them into a better, less expensive homeschool experience. It is easy to read and has wonderful advice for new and old homeschool teachers. With all the books being written about homeschooling, this is one that you will want to keep forever.