Here are some ideas for homeschooling when you have a tight budget:

1. You can share the load with other parents and Co-op together (with little or no fee) getting a tutor or one of the other parents more gifted in a subject than you may be.

2. Use the Library. For many years, we would use the catalog of our favorite literature curriculum and look up the published date of each book then read them in chronological order.

3. Many websites such as The Doucette Library's Children's Literature Index, SparkNotes, Lesson Planet and Writing Help at RSCC to name just a few - will aid and often replace costly textbooks.

These are just a few of the many things we have used to keep the cost of our homeschooling budget low when those times of trying to live on one income became lean!

Blessings to your family!

Donna Miller

HOMESCHOOL HEART