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

~ Mary Porter Kenyon (Author)

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

Product Description

Author Mary Kenyon believes the best things in your children's education are not the same as the expensive things. She explains:

* the basics of simple home schooling
* how to decide what is really needed
* how to find or create materials and opportunities for less money
* how to organzie the whole household for a tight grip on the purse strings.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 127 pages
• Publisher: Gazelle Publications (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.com Sales Rank: #1,457,303 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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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

By	C. Buzek (Akron, Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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

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.