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Staring at the Library Libraries are a great place to start your homeschool education. Most local libraries are now online and will save you hours of time in searching for books. You can find books on homeschooling, textbooks, great real books for the kids to read, documentary DVDs, and books on tape. With the library catalog online, you don't have to worry about screaming kids as you review books in the aisles. Libraries are great for doing unit studies. Our local libraries now have a policy of only so many books on one subject since homeschool Moms were notorious for scooping up whole shelves of books for their unit studies. With the online catalogs you can easily gather books on the same subject. Don't be afraid to do a quick review of books at the reservation desk and not take all the ones you reserved. Let you child pick a book or two that they are interested in, no matter if it is below or above their reading level. When you are starting homeschool, it's important for the child to want to read and whatever book (within reason) they want to read. My 3rd grader refused to read, so we started with comic books just to get them to read again. They had been so burned at school that they did not want to touch a book. So we started with comic books. Within 3 years, they read the complete works of Shakespeare because they wanted to. No prompting from me, other than having the book on the shelf. We will be adding suggested homeschool books to this page in a couple of weeks. We will also be sending suggested book to the newsletter so if you have not taken a moment to do so, please sign up for our newsletter now.
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