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• Cover
• Introduction
• About This Book
• Foolish Assumptions
• Icons Used in This Book
• Beyond the Book
• Where to Go from Here
• Part 1: Heading to Homeschooling
• Chapter 1: Answering the Big Questions
• Getting to This Point
• Knowing Not to Know It All
• Affording It
• Hanging in There
• Breaking the News to Mom
• Addressing Socialization, the Hot Homeschooling Buzzword
• Presenting the Issue of the Year
• Chapter 2: Taking the Leap
• Realizing That Anger Is Not Enough
• Determining What’s Best for Your Family
• Creating Solutions for Special Situations
• Beginning the Journey
• Chapter 3: Complying with Uncle Sam
• Conducting Yourself (Yes, Ma’am) in Accordance with State Law
• Locating Your State’s Law
• Counting Out the School Days
• Calling a Truce: Interacting with Your Local School
• Chapter 4: Pulling Them Out and Starting from Scratch
• Making Those First Days Count
• Rebuilding Your Family Unit
• Starting from the Very Beginning
• Drawing on Your Strengths and Filling in the Gaps
• Part 2: Tackling Kids of Any Age
• Chapter 5: Teaching Your Toddler While You Change Your Baby
• Juggling Primers, Preschoolers, and Diapers
• Surviving Life with a Toddler
• Covering the Preschool Basics
• Chapter 6: Covering the Elementary Years
• Setting Out with Elementary Students
• Learning through Language Arts: Reading and Grammar
• Eating Your Way through Math
• Going beyond “Our Community Helpers”
• Firing Up the Bunson Burner
• Timing Is Everything
• Chapter 7: Handling Junior High
• Beginning in the Middle
• Keeping Track of It All
• Putting Grades to the Test
• Chapter 8: Help! I Have a High Schooler
• Starting at the Eleventh Hour (or Eleventh Grade)
• Switching before the Last Bell
• Dancing the High School Subject Tango
• Planning for the Tidy Transcript
• Prepping for College
• ACTing on Your InSATiable Desire for Standardized Tests
• Chapter 9: Completing Twelfth Grade Doesn’t Mean It’s Over
• Spreading Their Wings and Earning Their Keep
• Strapping on the Tool Belt
• Continuing Homeschool through College
• Part 3: Choosing Your Cornerstone: Basic Curriculum Options
• Chapter 10: Orbiting as a Satellite School under the Umbrella
• Riding the Satellite
• Opting for a Complete Curriculum across the Distance
• Pinpointing a Program
• Matching Your Needs with Their Offerings
• Chapter 11: Does Classical Education Mean Teaching Vivaldi?
• Classifying It Classical
• Assembling Your Classical Curriculum Components
• Gathering More Information
• Chapter 12: Reading Real Living Books with Charlotte
• Calling Charlotte Mason
• Putting Together Your Package
• Chapter 13: Mining the Montessori Method
• Exploring at Their Own Pace
• Setting Up Your Space
• Walking through the Day
• Chapter 14: Wandering through Nature with Waldorf
• Working Together with Head, Hands, and Heart
• Locating a Waldorf-Style Curriculum
• Chapter 15: Teaching Them What They Want to Learn
• Unveiling the Integrated Unit Study
• Changing Pace with Unit Studies
• Focusing on Project-Based Learning
• Designing Unit Studies
• Chapter 16: Unschooling: A Walk on the Relaxed Side
• Raising Eyebrows and Suspicions
• Fitting the Bill
• Learning through the Course of a Day
• Filling Your Home with Unschooling Tools
• Recording Their Progress
• Chapter 17: Hitting the Road with Worldschooling
• Roadschooling versus Worldschooling
• Choosing Your Academic Approach
• Chapter 18: Charting Your Own Academic Course Eclectically
• Knowing Whether Your Kid’s Kinesthetic
• Pulling from Different Publishers
• Writing a Curriculum from Scratch: The Diehard Approach
• Chapter 19: Special Concerns for Special Students
• Considering Yourself Capable
• Guiding the Gifted
• Teaching the Medically Fragile
• Getting the Goods You Need
• Part 4: Nailing Down the Details
• Chapter 20: Defining Your School Space
• Making Room for Chalk
• Deciding between the Den, the Dining Room, or the Whole Darn Place
• Chapter 21: Cutting the Costs and Searching for Stuff
• Slashing Curriculum Prices
• Sourcing Your Curriculum
• Attending a Homeschool Conference
• Hearing It from the Horse’s Mouth
• Tapping the Fountain of Fellow Homeschoolers
• Asking for the Discount
• Breaking Out the Library Card
• Understanding Copyright: What Is Fair Educational Use?
• Chapter 22: Teaching Your Traditions
• Christian Curriculum
• Jewish Resources
• Islamic Resources
• Pagan Resources
• African American Resources
• Native American Resources
• Chapter 23: Turning Chaos into Organization
• Tracking Your Week with a Planner
• Seeking the Paperless Society
• Thirty Days Hath September …
• Scheduling for Sanity
• Keeping Your School Spotless
• Feeling the Burnout
• Chapter 24: Making the Grade
• Deciding Whether to Keep Grades
• Tracking Those Unit Studies
• Keeping a State-Required Portfolio
• Testing Standardized’s Validity
• Chapter 25: Plugging in Your Schoolroom
• Schooling at Home … But Online
• Coursing through the Internet
• ’Net-ting Resources
• Touring the World without Leaving Your Desk
• Enhancing Your Subjects with Electronic Errata
• Chapter 26: Connecting with Like-Minded Souls
• Finding Homeschoolers Online Who Share Your Passions
• Networking Isn’t Just for Computer Geeks
• Associating and Consorting
• Praying for Guidance
• Getting Together for Socialization
• TEAM: Together, Everyone Achieves More
• Part 5: Making Your Year Sing with Extras
• Chapter 27: Adding Spice with Special Classes
• Making Time for the Extras
• Bringing Out Their Inner Artists
• Go Ahead — Be Dramatic
• Taking Some Laps
• Cooking Up a Storm
• Bantering about Birds and Bees
• Parlez-vous Greek?
• Cleaning the House and Calling It Schoolwork
• Chapter 28: Making It Adventurous with Activities and Groups
• Dirtying Your Hands with a Project
• Pretending It’s Le Louvre
• Getting Past Bugs Bunny
• Volunteering Builds Compassion
• Packing Up the Minivan
• Seeing the Sights or Staying at Home
• Finding an Organization That Helps You Grow
• Thinking about Playing or Playing to Think?
• Ante Up
• Thrilling the Engineer’s Heart
• Part 6: The Part of Tens
• Chapter 29: Ten Educational Games That Enhance Your School Day
• Anti-Monopoly
• Evolution
• Forbidden Island/Desert
• The Garden Game
• How Do You See the World?
• Into the Forest
• Krypto
• Periodic
• Spell Smashers
• Wingspan
• Chapter 30: Ten Common Homeschool Fears
• My child will never make friends if I homeschool.
• I don’t know enough to teach my child.
• My child will miss out on socialization.
• I will buy the wrong curriculum.
• My child will learn less at home than he does at school.
• I’ll never have free time again.
• My child may not be learning at the right pace.
• I won’t be able to do it all.
• After I start, I have to do this forever.
• I’m not keeping the right (or enough) records on my child’s progress.
• Part 7: Appendixes
• Appendix A: Homeschooling Curriculum and Resources
• Appendix B: State-by-State Homeschool Associations
• Appendix C: Speaking the Language: Educational and Homeschooling Terms
• Index
• About the Author
• Connect with Dummies
• End User License Agreement