Home Schooling from Scratch: Simple Living, Super Learning [Paperback]

Mary Porter Kenyon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 25, 1996

Parents learn what they really need, how to find or create materials and opportunities for less money, and how to organize their household for economical, happy learning.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Mary Kenyon meets a unique need on the part of anyone giving serious consideration to the prospects of homeschooling. Home Schooling From Scratch: Simple Living - Super Learning offers information and encouragement for home school families who have limited financial resources and covers deciding what and how to teach at home, books and supplies, where to find support, low cost educational activities, organizing to economize, a home-based business, many innovative, practical ways to save money, and (perhaps most importantly) where to get what you need from a large list of resources. Home Schooling From Scratch is "must" reading for everyone on a tight budget and wanting to do a successful job of educating and preparing their children for their eventual adult responsibilities. Gazelle Publications is also the publisher of The Home School Manual ($24. 95) which is also available in a "Windows" computer version ($16). -- Midwest Book Review

This book ". . . explains how both experienced and beginning homeschoolers can save a fortune on educational materials." -- Money Matters

About the Author

Mary Kenyon is home schooling mother of six. She and her husband, Dave, and the kids live in Iowa. She has contributed articles to Tightwad Gazette, Eat Well for $40 a Week, Home Education, Backwoods Home, and others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 127 pages
• Publisher: Gazelle Publications; no edition stated edition (March 25, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0930192354
• ISBN-13: 978-0930192358
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,499,346 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great resource book for the beginner to veteran., October 25, 1998

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C. Buzek (Akron, Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Home Schooling from Scratch: Simple Living, Super Learning (Paperback)

As a home education consultant with 9 years personal homeschooling experience, this book is a great resource and addition to your home library. Mary explains the "how-to's" about homeschooling from A-Z. Every topic is covered from locating textbooks to organization and a great chapter about "Where to find what you need!" I'd highly recommend this book for the beginner and the veteran. I wish I had had this book when I was homeschooling my own children.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Misleading Title, April 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Home Schooling from Scratch: Simple Living, Super Learning (Paperback)

As a mother looking for starting-out info about homeschooling, I thought "Home Schooling from Scratch" would be a good place to start. What I found, instead, is a book dealing specifically with the issue of how homeschooling families can live frugally. It's probably a good book if that's what you're looking for, but the title did not give me any clue that this is what it's about.