![]() | 100 Top Picks For Homeschool Curriculum: Choosing The Right Curriculum And Approach For Your Child's Learning Style by Cathy Duffy
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $11.00 The best part about homeschooling is the ability to match your child's learning style with the appropriate teaching method. This book provides excellent reviews of the pre-fab curricula available.
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![]() | Homeschool Your Child for Free: More Than 1,200 Smart, Effective, and Practical Resources for Home Education on the Internet and Beyond by LauraMaery Gold
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $2.79 The secret to homeschooling without breaking the bank? Take advantage of the plethora of materials available online. This book will lead you to them!
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![]() | Help for the Harried Homeschooler: A Practical Guide to Balancing Your Child's Education with the Rest of Your Life by Christine Field
Buy new: $11.19 / Used from: $3.99 Keep homeschool fun for both parents and kids by learning to let go of the small things. You'll reap big rewards!
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![]() | The Organized Homeschooler by Vicki Caruana
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $2.93 This really should be alternately titled: "How To Find Your Books Without Having To Look Through Your Laundry."
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![]() | Help! I'm Married to a Homeschooling Mom: Showing Dads How to Meet the Needs of Their Homeschooling Wives by Todd Wilson
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.71 For those homeschooling in the Christian tradition, this "Support Manual" for men married to homeschooling women should be required reading. Hey, I made my husband read it twice!
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![]() | The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12 by Linda Dobson
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $8.99 Kids learn through play, and this book provides you with a wealth (over 500) of games and activities to incorporate in your homeschooling day.
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![]() | First Grade Success: Everything You Need to Know to Help Your Child Learn by Amy James
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $10.13 I don't know about "everything," but this book certainly covers a wealth of information on ages and stages, along with games, activities and concepts your child needs to be successful.
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![]() | Second Grade Success: Everything You Need to Know to Help Your Child Learn by Amy James
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $6.94 Hundreds of activities and checklists to ensure your child is learning age-appropriate information.
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![]() | The Three R's by Ruth Beechick
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $7.94 A tiny volume, and yet the best teaching guide I've found!
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![]() | How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.00 The key ingredient to successful homeschooling: parent-child communication! This excellent book teaches exactly what it says. I consider it my #1 reference book!
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![]() | Home Education Magazine
Buy new: $32.00 For EVERY homeschooler, regardless of religion or ideology. I just wish it came out more often!
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![]() | Scholastic Success With Maps Workbook Grade 2 (Grades 2) by Linda W. Beech
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $2.78 A workbook that helps your child understand map and directional basics in short, simple lessons.
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![]() | I Love the USA
Buy new: $8.35 / Used from: $3.49 Learn cultural geography with this game that lets you solve mysteries and add up "stickers" while exploring the U.S.A.
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![]() | Spanish for Children (Language for Children Series) by Catherine Bruzzone
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $6.13 Give your kids the chance to learn a foreign language while they're young. You'll be opening a whole new world to them today, and equipping them to travel the real world when they're grown.
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![]() | Read and Understand Science, Grades 1-2
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $12.95 Hands-on and perfectly age-appropriate. Science is fun!
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![]() | The Everything Kids' Science Experiments Book: Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure Gravity-Challenge the World Around You! (Everything Kids Series) by Tom Robinson
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $3.20 The activities are such a blast (no pun intended) your child won't know they're learning!
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![]() | Janice VanCleave's Science Through the Ages (Vancleave, Janice Pratt. Janice Vancleave Science for Every Kid Series.) by Janice VanCleave
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $5.00 Science + History = Phenomenal!
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![]() | History Pockets: Life in Plymouth Colony, Grades 1-3 by Jill S. Norris
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $6.95 Hands-on activities about early American history!
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![]() | Revolutionary War On Wednesday (Magic Tree House 22, paper) by Mary Pope Osborne
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 The "Magic Tree House" series by author Mary Pope Osborne is a fantastic way to incorporate reading time with learning about history. Take turns reading aloud with your kids. Who says learning history has to be dull?
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![]() | . . . If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Ann McGovern's "If You..." series is a fun way to learn how people dressed, behaved, spoke and lived and much, much more!
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![]() | The Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events (Timetables of History) by Bernard Grun
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $10.75 I use this to reacquaint myself with major events before planning my kids' lessons.
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![]() | The Usborne Internet-linked Encyclopedia of World History (Internet-linked) by Fiona Chandler
Buy new: $25.66 / Used from: $23.42 Chronologically arranged and visually exciting. Our family loves this book as well as the internet-linked sites!
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![]() | History Pockets: Ancient Civilizations, Grades 1-3 by Jill Norris
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.50 Using this book, your kids make their own "books" about each major historical era. Fun!
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![]() | Ancient China (Treasure Chest) by Jenny Liu
Buy new: $21.51 / Used from: $13.15 Treasure Chests are filled with fun! I purchase these as a "reward" whenever we end our study of a specific country or era and my son looks forward to opening them every time!
This chest, which nicely complements any history lesson about China, contains activities (e.g., i-Ching) and games that give a hands-on learning experience.
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![]() | Lift The Lid On Mummies (Lift the Lid) by Jacqueline Dineen
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $1.14 Sure, you can explain mummies and canopic jars but why not let your child enjoy the chance to "eviscerate" a clay mummy and use canopic jars at home?
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![]() | The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child; Volume 1: Ancient Times (Story of the World: History for the Classical Child) by S. Wise Bauer
Buy used from: $9.96 Considered by some to be the finest history curricula available, I nevertheless found this material to be on the dry side.
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![]() | Ancient Times: From the Earliest Nomads to the Last Roman Emperor (The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Vol. 1) - Activity Book
Buy used from: $14.59 The activity book to accompany the text, this volume contains coloring pages, recipes, word-finds, puzzles and other ways to bring history alive in your child's mind.
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![]() | Math 1: Homeschool Kit (Homeschool Math Grade 1) by Nancy Larson
Buy new: $86.82 / Used from: $102.02 Everything -- I mean EVERYTHING -- your kid needs to learn math!
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![]() | Math Blaster: Master the Basics
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $20.95 You won't believe how fun math can be until you play Math Blaster! I sometimes sit and play this game after my kids are done with it for the day. Yes, it's THAT much fun!
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![]() | Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters (Bright Ideas for Learning) by MaryAnn F. Kohl
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $10.95 Each lesson focuses on a particular artist, providing biographical information and an art activity. Round out the lesson by studying maps of the artist's birthplace, then look up more biographical information online.
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![]() | Webster's New World Children's Dictionary by Michael E. Agnes
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $4.40 "Mommy, what does 'erudite' mean?" Provide your kids with this dictionary, and watch them smile when you say "Go look it up!"
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![]() | Grammar, A Step-By-Step Approach Homework Booklet, Grade 1: A Step-By-Step Approach (Homework Booklets) by Sally Fisk
Buy new: $2.99 / Used from: $0.05 Some homeschoolers don't like workbooks. I'm not one of them. Our family uses workbooks to supplement lessons and to check that our kids actually understand the material being taught. This grammar book is perfectly suited for both tasks.
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![]() | Take It to Your Seat Literacy Centers, Grades 2-3 by Jo Ellen Moore
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $46.75 Easily adapted for homeschool use, these centers make great rainy-day activities, too!
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![]() | Man Bites Dog Card Game
Buy new: $7.98 Keep a dictonary handy for kids to look up unfamiliar words, then reinforce math by having them tally the score!
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![]() | Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder
Buy used from: $0.01 The concepts may be a bit advanced, but this makes an excellent read-aloud that prompts logical discussion and thought.
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![]() | When I Wear My Crown by Lisa Lebowitz
Buy used from: $0.01 I bought this for reading time. Little did I know that the "crown" which comes along with it would prove to be an excellent motivational tool! When my son gets frustrated, I get out the crown and remind him that whenever he wears his crown he's brave, focused and calm. Works like a charm!
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