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

2011 Reading goal

20,000 pages Yep you read that right. Here's how it happened:
At New Years a friend of my posted on Facebook how her goal for last year was to read 20,000 pages and she read 22,000. I thought it was a very interesting goal. I began January with a similar goal of 20,000 pages. I figured that woul dbe easy since I had 11 book club books and plenty of homeschooling books to read and plenty of books to preread for my 6 year old voracious reading habit.
Also I am following a mother's education class by Katrina here I have intended to do it in years past and have done pretty well for parts of the year. This year I wanted to do better and follow through all year.
In Feb I received a kindle for my birthday and this suddenly made the goal easy. Maybe too easy in fact, I may need to increase the page goal for the later half of the year. I haven't finished compiling the list of what I have read, but I'm guessing it will be high. I struggled in January to write down the books I read with the page number in a spread sheet. It just wasn't very conducive to my life. I'm learning I need to simplify things in order to get them done. Thankfully the kindle has done that and now I just need to go through my kindle contents and see what I have read. I'll be posting the listing shortly. In pieces. To keep. it. simple.