I Am a Home Schooler [School & Library Binding]

Julie Voetberg (Author), Taasha Owens (Illustrator, Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1995 | Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up

Describes the experiences of an eight-year-old girl who is taught by her mother on their farm in Washington State.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 1-3?Nine-year-old Teigen tells what it's like to be a home schooler. She describes her daily routine?prayers and working on specific subjects in the morning; helping her mother with chores or baby-sitting in the afternoon; music and art; nature study; field trips; and a weekly cooperative day at a local church facility where home schoolers meet to have gym, science, and history classes and time to socialize. She also describes some days when everything goes wrong and classes are canceled due to family emergencies. Teigen and her home-schooled friends all appear to be white, and the book's tone is so upbeat that readers may wonder why anyone goes to regular schools. The one-page afterword for parents gives a simplified overview of the home-schooling process. Although this title is limited in scope, there is little else available for this age group on the topic. The hand-tinted photographs show a pleasant family and a serious Teigen, who seems to thoroughly enjoy her lifestyle.?Rosanne Cerny, Queens Borough Public Library, NY
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Gr. 2^-4. The only wrong note here is the hand-tinted photographs, which give an unattractive, yellowish cast to the book's nine-year-old narrator, Teigen, and to her family. Otherwise, this is an informative, nicely handled introduction to home schooling that smoothly blends routine aspects of learning at home with some of the reasons families select to home school. In an unpretentious narrative, Teigen talks about her family's school routine, her tutors, textbooks, field trips, and get-togethers with kids in public schools. Teigen's mom is presented as the primary teacher, but her dad is shown as also being involved; so are her younger sisters (two of whom aren't school age), who occasionally disrupt things but also sometimes take part in the learning activities. A book that demystifies and highlights the advantages of an educational option that is gaining popularity, with additional perspectives on home schooling presented in an interesting afterword. Stephanie Zvirin

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• School & Library Binding: 32 pages
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co (April 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807534412
• ISBN-13: 978-0807534410
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,103,497 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an enlightening book about a controversial subject!, August 13, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: I Am a Home Schooler (Paperback)

A refreshing, insightful look at a day in the life of a homeschooler. The photography enhanced the lively style (and country life) of author, Julie Voetberg and her children. These are fortunate children, whose education includes the discovery of owl pellets (small blobs of bone and fur that the owl burps up after eating an animal) along a country path--the trail leading on to the library for books and science videos about owls. Fortunate children, indeed

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My son loves this book, July 1, 2005

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Classical Mom (The Left Coast) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Am a Home Schooler (School & Library Binding)

We found this at the library and it is the only one of it's kind I have ever seen. There are many books about going to school and preschool written for children but so far this is the only one I've found just for homeschoolers.

As we read this book my son kept piping in with "Hey, I do that." Although we know many homeschooling families and many of his friends are homeschooled, for some reason reading this in a book really excited him.

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh, that's what I am, January 2, 2012

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A. Webb (Lake Charles, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Am a Home Schooler (School & Library Binding)

My 5 year old daughter has recently began to wonder why she isn't in school with all the other children she sees playing outside when we drive by our local elementary school. She has puzzled by the fact that many of the children who went to story time at the library are not there this year because they are in school. She has not understood my explanation that we homeschool. I am not sure why as I have homeschooled for over fifteen years, but there is an eleven year gap between her and her older sibling. I suppose that is why she did not understand. This book seemed to answer her questions and give her a peace about homeschooling. I am glad that I found this book to give her that. It filled a need for our family. I recommend it to others who have curious homeschool children or even those with children who know someone who has made this choice, to explain the differences.