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[quote=Anonymous]Like PP said, the library is a wonderful resource.

There are ways to home school for very little money-- but these are also time-consuming (to echo PP) and mean researching (unless you're an experienced teacher) and creating your own lesson plans.

I do choose for the most part to combine curricula (not a huge investment unless you choose to buy one of the expensive ones-- especially if you buy used, or are able to find what you're looking for on homeschool buyers' coop) with outside language, music, art, and sports classes-- and we'd likely do a few of those even if the kids were in school.

But if you're looking for numbers, for instance I spent about $50 on math curriculum (Singapore math) for the year. I use a free language arts program that I download from Core Knowledge for the most part, augmented with lots of library books and grammar/reading comprehension programs I spent about $75 on. Our science book (Nebels) was $30 on Amazon, and I've probably spent about $100 on things we need for experiments (although he tries to use things most people have already on hand). I choose to do geography without a textbook. I spent maybe $30 on a practice workbook for our foreign language.

So you see, it's not too expensive unless you are giving up one spouse's income to do it. A word of warning: there are TONS and TONS of products out there for homeschoolers. It's easy to spend lots of money, and I found that the less experience I had, the more I felt I had to buy everything in order to make sure I was giving my kids The Best Education. Don't buy anything that doesn't have a good return policy![/quote]

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