I am anti-textbook. Well, not really. I use them throughout my children’s schooling for math, and for reading up until 6th grade. But for most other subjects I feel you can do better without textbooks. I started home-schooling in 1990 with my oldest child (my only daughter). She was in first grade. It only took…
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How to Home-School: Unit Studies
This post is the third in a six-part series on “Teaching Methods.” Unit studies is a teaching method that has two particular advantages: It allows you to cover a number of different subjects while focusing on a particular topic, and It allows you to teach those subjects over a broad range of ages and/or grades. …