Should You Buy Homeschool Books Or Make Your Own?

By: Kayley Kenzie

Believe it or not, you don't have to spend a ton of money on either homeschool curriculum or homeschool books. If you just take the time to do some research, you'll discover many resources that will help you create your own curriculum without leaving you broke.

In my opinion, it is better to create your own curriculum because you can quickly change or adapt a lesson to fit the needs of your child. If you find something at the last minute that works better for you and your child, you can incorporate it very easily.

We get together as a family to choose literature for the semester. We make it a goal to try and finish five to seven books in each semester. We don't go out of our way to buy specialized homeschool books for vocabulary or spelling. We just use the literature we've chosen for this.

Just as an example, my kids will keep notebooks where they write down words and definitions they're working on. These same words will be their spelling words for the following week.

For our history lessons, we focus on the time period of the literature we are reading. We then implement science lessons by researching the scientific discoveries of each time period.

By tailoring our homeschooling lessons this way, we often end up having great discussions at mealtime.

When you approach learning this way, you have the flexibility to make adjustments according to your child's interest: You can study a work of literature in-depth, or you can just cover the basic facts. Unlike the hard rules of homeschool books, you can freely make changes when you create your own curriculum.

However, we do use homeschool books for studying math. But we try to turn the ordinary math worksheets into something more engaging that will help children apply math skills with everyday life situations. For example, we do a lot of cooking when we're working with fractions.

One of the key factors to creating your own curriculum is to understand your child's interests and needs. Creating your own curriculum can help your child in ways that a public education couldn't.

There is no need to spend a lot of money on homeschool books. You can use great literature as building blocks to create curriculum that fits your family's needs.

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