What do you think?
Rate this book
Getting Started Homeschooling: Everything You Need to Know About Legal Requirements, Curricula, Testing, Types of Homeschooling, Learning Styles, Socialization and Making It Fun for Everyone
Yes, you can homeschool! And better yet, you can create the perfect homeschool for yourself and your children.
Whether you're thinking of homeschooling your preschooler or pulling your older child out of school, this helpful guide was written to give you the tools to create the perfect home learning environment for your family.
You'll learn about:
Legal Matters
What to Buy When You Start Homeschooling (and what not to!)
Finding Your Child's Learning Style
Deschooling
Types of Homeschooling (including School-at-Home, Montessori, Project-Based, Classical, Literature-Based, Waldorf, Unschooling, Radical Unschooling, Reggio Emilia, Charlotte Mason, Unit Studies, Public School at Home, and Thomas Jefferson Homeschooling)
Homeschooling Your Toddler or Preschooler
The Best Resources and Curricula for Hands-on Learners, Visual Learners and Auditory Learners
Testing
Socialization
Helpful Resources
Making it Fun – For All of You
Find out...
The difference between Waldorf and Montessori homeschools
What deschooling is and why it matters
The best curricula for visual, auditory and hands-on learners
The best tests to use for required testing
100 Ways homeschoolers can get socialization
How to put more joy in your homeschooling
and much more!
With links to over 70 free homeschool programs and curricula for math, science, social studies, foreign language, art, reading, writing and more.
Written by a veteran homeschool mother of five with nearly 20 years of home education experience, this helpful book will give you the information and support to start your homeschool journey off right.
Whether you're thinking of homeschooling your preschooler or pulling your older child out of school, this helpful guide was written to give you the tools to create the perfect home learning environment for your family.
You'll learn about:
Legal Matters
What to Buy When You Start Homeschooling (and what not to!)
Finding Your Child's Learning Style
Deschooling
Types of Homeschooling (including School-at-Home, Montessori, Project-Based, Classical, Literature-Based, Waldorf, Unschooling, Radical Unschooling, Reggio Emilia, Charlotte Mason, Unit Studies, Public School at Home, and Thomas Jefferson Homeschooling)
Homeschooling Your Toddler or Preschooler
The Best Resources and Curricula for Hands-on Learners, Visual Learners and Auditory Learners
Testing
Socialization
Helpful Resources
Making it Fun – For All of You
Find out...
The difference between Waldorf and Montessori homeschools
What deschooling is and why it matters
The best curricula for visual, auditory and hands-on learners
The best tests to use for required testing
100 Ways homeschoolers can get socialization
How to put more joy in your homeschooling
and much more!
With links to over 70 free homeschool programs and curricula for math, science, social studies, foreign language, art, reading, writing and more.
Written by a veteran homeschool mother of five with nearly 20 years of home education experience, this helpful book will give you the information and support to start your homeschool journey off right.
100 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 1, 2018
4 people are currently reading
75 people want to read
About the author
Alicia Bayer
10 books253 followersAlicia Bayer lives in Minnesota with her husband and five children. Her writing has been widely published in books, magazines, literary journals, newsletters and online at sites such as Huffington Post, Peggy O'Mara and Pathways to Family Wellness.
She maintained national columns on the topics of homeschooling, parenting and sustainable living for six years and has maintained the nonprofit website, A Magical Childhood, for over 20 years, in addition to a number of blogs and websites on topics of sustainable living, homeschooling and other passions.
She has published the free nonprofit nature magazine Wild Kids Magazine online for six years.
She is the author of nine books:
NEW— Flower Girls (Feminist Floral Poems and artwork)
A is for Acorns (a foraging alphabet book, illustrated by Toria Bayer)
Poems from Under a Toadstool (children's nature-based poetry, illustrated by Rhiannon Bayer)
A Magical Homeschool: Nature Studies (52 Wonderful Ways to Use Nature Studies in Every Season to Teach Science, Math, Art and More)
Elderberries: The Beginner's Guide to Foraging, Preserving and Using Elderberries for Health Remedies, Recipes, Drinks and More
Acorn Foraging: Everything You Need to Know to Harvest One of Autumn’s Best Wild Edible Foods, with Recipes, Photographs and Step-By-Step Instructions
Getting Started Homeschooling: Everything You Need to Know About Legal Requirements, Curricula, Testing, Types of Homeschooling, Learning Styles, Socialization and Making It Fun for Everyone
Crazy Broken Thing (Poems from the Attic, Book One)
Slut Shamed (Inappropriate Feminist Poems, Poems from the Attic, book two)
More books on these topics and others are coming soon.
She maintained national columns on the topics of homeschooling, parenting and sustainable living for six years and has maintained the nonprofit website, A Magical Childhood, for over 20 years, in addition to a number of blogs and websites on topics of sustainable living, homeschooling and other passions.
She has published the free nonprofit nature magazine Wild Kids Magazine online for six years.
She is the author of nine books:
NEW— Flower Girls (Feminist Floral Poems and artwork)
A is for Acorns (a foraging alphabet book, illustrated by Toria Bayer)
Poems from Under a Toadstool (children's nature-based poetry, illustrated by Rhiannon Bayer)
A Magical Homeschool: Nature Studies (52 Wonderful Ways to Use Nature Studies in Every Season to Teach Science, Math, Art and More)
Elderberries: The Beginner's Guide to Foraging, Preserving and Using Elderberries for Health Remedies, Recipes, Drinks and More
Acorn Foraging: Everything You Need to Know to Harvest One of Autumn’s Best Wild Edible Foods, with Recipes, Photographs and Step-By-Step Instructions
Getting Started Homeschooling: Everything You Need to Know About Legal Requirements, Curricula, Testing, Types of Homeschooling, Learning Styles, Socialization and Making It Fun for Everyone
Crazy Broken Thing (Poems from the Attic, Book One)
Slut Shamed (Inappropriate Feminist Poems, Poems from the Attic, book two)
More books on these topics and others are coming soon.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
August 9, 2018
Thank You For This Book!
I have 6 kids and have been pondering about homeschooling for sometime. After reading this book I am excited about giving homeschooling a try! The author shared so much valuable information. Therefore I am truly grateful!
I have 6 kids and have been pondering about homeschooling for sometime. After reading this book I am excited about giving homeschooling a try! The author shared so much valuable information. Therefore I am truly grateful!
March 20, 2025
I met Alicia in an attachment parenting homeschool group just over 2 decades ago. Throughout the years she provided all the information to the members of our group that she’s distilled into this book
So many how-to homeschool books over complicated things. I appreciated how she distills everything down to their essence. How she makes you realize that if you just got out of your own way, homeschooling is easy. Trust yourself and your children and above all else, encourage them to follow their passions
So many how-to homeschool books over complicated things. I appreciated how she distills everything down to their essence. How she makes you realize that if you just got out of your own way, homeschooling is easy. Trust yourself and your children and above all else, encourage them to follow their passions
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews