#Book #Review ~ Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a #Homeschool #Curriculum from Preschool Through High School

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Book Description

Publication Date: November 14, 2000

Finally, homeschoolers have a comprehensive guide to designing a homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts. , Rebecca Rupp presents a structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through high school. Based on the traditional pre-K through 12th-grade structure, Home Learning Year by Year features:

The integral subjects to be covered within each grade
Standards for knowledge that should be acquired by your child at each level
Recommended books to use as texts for every subject
Guidelines for the importance of each topic: which knowledge is essential and which is best for more expansive study based on your child's personal interests
Suggestions for how to sensitively approach less academic subjects, such as sex education and physical fitness

From the Inside Flap

Finally, homeschoolers have a comprehensive guide to designing a homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts. , Rebecca Rupp presents a structured plan to ensure that your children will learn what they need to know when they need to know it, from preschool through high school. Based on the traditional pre-K through 12th-grade structure, Home Learning Year by Year features:The integral subjects to be covered within each grade
Standards for knowledge that should be acquired by your child at each level
Recommended books to use as texts for every subject
Guidelines for the importance of each topic: which knowledge is essential and which is best for more expansive study based on your child's personal interests
Suggestions for how to sensitively approach less academic subjects, such as sex education and physical fitness

About the Author

Rebecca Rupp, Ph.D., has homeschooled her three sons for more than ten years. The author of The Complete Home Learning Sourcebook, Getting Started on Home Learning, and Committed to Memory: How We Remember and Why We Forget, Rupp writes a monthly column for Home Education Magazine and produces and hosts a local homeschool television program. She lives in Shaftsbury, Vermont.

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1 edition (November 14, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609805851
• ISBN-13: 978-0609805855

My Review:
When I started homeschooling, my older children had already survived several years of private schools. Except my youngest. Being that he was going into kindergarten, I knew how important it was to make sure I did everything right. If not, the basics wouldn't be there to be built upon as he learned.

I was looking for something that outlines what every child should know. Of course, we have added to the basic "need to know" concepts because of personal preferences, but this book was fabulous.

This isn't one of those books that have to be read page by page, front to back. This is brilliantly written so that you can find what you need, read it and move on. Absolutely great reference and everything was easy to find. (Tip: I use colored paperclips on the side of the page to help mark important pages that I may want to reference more than once or twice. I color code the clips for the grade level the information pertains to since I have multiple children homeschooling.)

Not only were there core requirements on what concepts should be mastered at each grade level - there were also suggestions on books and teaching tools to assist in meeting those goals.

5/5