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Originally Posted by karemore  I would start with the library. If you are going to HS, the library is going to be your new best friend. Check out a whole stack of books and browse through them. Some you will know right away aren't for you.
The other place you can browse is at a bookstore like Barnes & Noble.
Once the decision is made you don't really need to own any of these books.
I like Linda Dobson's books. Right now I have "The first year of homeschooling your child" from the library, and I have her " homeschooling the early years" on it's way from interlibrary loan.
I also have the Rupp book " Home learning year by year" from the library.
What helped me was to just embrace the label eclectic from the start and not worry about all the "methods".
Have fun, this is an exciting journey!
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I respectfully disagree.
We "made the decision" a while ago -- and are working a easy slow pre-K program.
I have read WTM, re-read it and now fell i need to read parts of it again. the same with a couple of John Holt books.
a lot of the Classical Education talks about a child learning more if they have hooks to hang it on -- thus the repeating of materal each 4 years -- well i clearly see that in my life. The first time i read WTM or some of the other books it was so new i was amazed and loved some of it, but the details didn't sink in. I think there is much to be learned by re-reading the books that are "good fits". And you may encounter a sitation a year in, or 4 year in, that you kinda remember being addressed int eh books but it didn't "sink in" because att eh time you didn't see it as relvant to your life (addressing SN of a child, for example). You can go back and read it again and again.
I am by no means suggesting you buy them all -- as much as i would love too
-- but i check them all out ILL and the ones i feel relvant and soild i do buy.
some are encourageing and give you ideas .. but may not contain anything you feel you need to look back at or have as a future resource.
but i don't agree with a blanket statment that you don't need to own any of these books once you choose to HS.
HappiLeigh -- is the isse with teh whole lib system? or one lib? or one person?
for example: we are rural -- 45 minutes outside Des Moines. for "our local lib" I could apply that title to any of 4 SMALL libs that are all 15 to 20 minutes from here. Des Moines also has a Lib "system" (6 libs i think in Des Moines). the 4 here in teh little twons are "independant" and the 6 in DM are a "system". I call the one "home" that i do because we love teh Lib, she is a family friend and most of our freinds go there too. I can't get anything there locally -- everything has to be ILL which she is great about for us. I know that if we tried to use the lib system in DM -- while a ton of books are tehre and we'd rarely need ILL -- it is too big, no one knows you and frankly when you are there no one wants to help you. BTDT too many times with just one child in tow, have no intrest in trying it now (i do have a DM card and can get stuff there if i want).
so I guess my point is -- what is the issue -- and how can you work around it? I avoid the DM big impersonal system (wich a ton better selection) that is a 45 minutes drive by going to the little one room Lib that is 20 minutes from us and where we have become personal freinds with the director, and we jsut use ILL all tha time.
Aimee
- Reflections on the Homeschooling Life. They all have input from many other homeschoolers.
Lillian
That would make it so much easier! That's pretty much what everyone was doing when I began, except that they didn't even call it anything. There were also plenty of "unschoolers," but they didn't bother with labels either. - Lillian
