Homeschooling for under $210

I wrote  a post on how to homeschool for free. I realized if you have these items, it's a lot easier. And for $210 or thereabouts you can get the. You can also spend less if you have them or if you can find them cheaper (from friends etc)Supplies that HELP a lot-
ereader
printer
lots of printer ink and printer paper

If you have any of these supplies you can cut costs. But this is assuming you don't have any of these.


Are these absolutely necessary? No, but since may people have smart phone you can down load the kindle app or other reading apps.  But If I had $210 to start up homeschooling, I would get a cheap old school kindle(not the fire and I would pay for no ads) and a printer and ink for that printer.
This is what I would choose if no one I knew had an old kindle, or I couldn't get one of ebay or craigslist. I loved the keyboard kindle, but they don't make those anymore.

We have a canon MX850 and my folks have an MX 920. I found this awesome deal on the MX450. It doess dupex printing, copying, fax and scanning- plus this one has google cloud and compatible with apple products for printing- allf or $66 Pretty awesome.
I would then buy ink from Simplyink.com or Amazon. At Amazon this is the what fits for ours. And it's pretty cheap for 2 sets of ink for $16
So for $210 I would buy
Printer $66
Printer ink- $15
kindle $100
case of paper- costco $29

Hope that helps you on your homeschooling journey. It realis IS possible to do homeschooling cheaply!

Willow

Homeschooling for free

A friend asked if you can homeschool for free? My response ABSOLUTELY! And here's some different ways:

Supplies that HELP a lot-
ereader
printer
lots of printer ink and printer paper


Are these absolutely necessary? No, but since may people have smart phone you can down load the kindle app or other reading apps. Here's a post on how to get these supplies for $210


If you have an ereader you can get a lot of free books both on Amazon (if it's a kindle ) and on sites like:
http://manybooks.net/
www.gutenberg.org
https://archive.org/details/texts
https://librivox.org/- free audiobooks



There are free  books lists everywhere. Ambleside online, sonlight,  Robinson curriculum , 1000 great reads etc. (google those)
Many of these can be gotten from the library or from the free books sources.  I would figure out what learning style your child is and what style of teacher you are. That will help you determine what you want to learn. It will also ebb and flow as well.

If you are just starting out reading up on deschooling is a really good idea. There's details here:
http://a2zhomeschooling.com/beginning_home_school/deschooling_recovering_from_school/

If you are LDS:
I put together a devotion list with memorization from the scriptures.I'm trying to figureout how to upload it so I will post it soon.
I also really like http://preachmygospelgeneration.blogspot.com/2013/08/introduction.html
for devotional- we do memory at breakfast and directly after do devotional. Also use  the friends or old friends magazines for curriculum as well and the the entire church website has lots of awesome activities.


There are free math and writing worksheets online (we like startwrite.com best, but it's a $25- $40 one time purchase- we have the old verison $25) and it's just fine))
MEP- Mathematics Enhancement program is free- but you do do a lot of printing. It's totally doable to do a free curriculum. There will be some cost in supplies- printing(we print a lot more homeschooling than many others)The website is: http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mep/
www.livingmath.net  also has free math books lists for learnign math thorugh literature.


some other free curriculums include
http://milestonesacademy.com/Site/Welcome.html (LDS)
https://www.amblesideonline.org/
http://oldfashionededucation.com/

It's totally doable! Hope this helps! Let me know if it did :)

Willow