Has anyone home-schooled for free using free on line resources? I mean, without purchasing a set curriculum?

Question

This is my 2nd year homeschooling and I have 2 2nd graders and a first grader. I have done online school (virtual academy) and done the purchased curriculum thing and I really want to go a different route. Please only answer if you have actually gone this route. Thanks!

Answer 1

well online is much easier.. try funschool.com.. it is so fun and is great!! try it!

Answer 2

I homeschool my son and done so for the past 7 years or so.  I have never bought a cirriculum and have never done online schooling.  He takes math, spelling, geography, history, language arts, and science.  I find things on the internet from various homeschooling sites.  Many of them have forms that you can print off.  Search the internet using such things as "free homeschool history printables" or "free homsechool spelling printables" (whatever class you are interested in getting work from).  There are TONS of free things out there that pertain to homeschooling.  All you have to do is have the time and patience to search for them.

Answer 3

I homeschool 3 kids and I hardly spend any money. We research alot from the internet. But our saving grace is the public library. The kids and I discuss what they want to learn (outside of your basic math, spelling and english) and we check out as many books we can find on that subject. We read, read, read!!! The kids stay interested and learn at the same time.

Answer 4

I have a friend who has just started homeschooling and she has bought a curriculum and also has a tutor (but she's 14 so she needs someone whith a degree to teach her harder stuff).

I think you really do have to buy a curriculum as anyone can put anything they like on the internet and you also know that you're on track with a curriculum.

Answer 5

I home schooled my oldest daughter and did not have to pay anything. The local school system provided all the books and curriculum and I only had to show them her progress once a month and she had to take test through them at end of year.

Answer 6

I homeschool my daughter for little to no money (other than inital purchases, supplies and field trips). We DO NOT follow a set curriculum and the only 'curriculum' I bought was a set of Ray's Arithmetic, set of McGuffey Readers and a McGuffey Speller, other than that I either buy second hand books, get it from the library, yard sales, thrift stores, freecycle,craigslist (org not com), or download from websites like www.Kaboose.com, www.OldFashionedEducation.com and other sites.

To find it for FREE you just have to look, explore and fiddle with your google bar...my daughter wants to be a Palentologist (dinosaurs) when she grows up and I found websites that I can download from regarding that subject just by typing 'Free Dinosaur Stuff'.

In our house FREE or CHEAP are the homeschool route for us. Prepackaged cost too much $$$$ and you still need extra supplies just to do the work.