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Hello, my name is Chien. I'm looking for books for home schooling. Could you give me some suggests what books to read. Thank you.

Hi Chien.

I'm a homeschooler myself and as such I can point you to a number of books on homeschooling.

If you go to the following link GRs has nearly 300 books which you could look at for homeschooling. If you need something else, feel free to PM me.

http://www.goodreads.com/search?offer...

Thanks for the URL, I'm looking at it. If you can please let me borrow some books, I will contact you in advance. Thank you.

Hi Chien. :) I was home schooled from the age of eleven, and this curriculum worked very well for me. (I was able to earn my GED at the age of seventeen with honors in all subjects.) It's even self-taught, which is great if you're busy.

http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/

Thank you!

No problem! I hope you find something that works well for you. :)

I was homeschooled on and off. I was also able to teach this in a public school. It's called Saxon Math. For someone who hates math, this was wonderful!! The lessons were made to incorporate what you will always learn.. like algebra and geometry. Of course it's basic in the early years but by the time you're in 7th grade math, it is challenging and uses the same pattern they taught from the beginning. Also check in your area when you can take your GED. Some states in the US won't allow early testing. Others let you take it when you are 14. I also loved Prentice Hall books for science. Good luck homeschooling!

http://saxonhomeschool.hmhco.com

Thanks Samm, I'll notice that.

Samm wrote: "I was homeschooled on and off. I was also able to teach this in a public school. It's called Saxon Math. For someone who hates math, this was wonderful!! The lessons were made to incorporate wh..."

The Robinson Curriculum uses Saxon mathbooks! I loved those, too. They were the reason I actually got good at it! :)

Chien, my fiance was homeschooled for a number of years. What kind of books are you looking for? She said her mother used Saxon curriculum for math(I see others here have mentioned it), but pretty much everything else, they pieced together their own curriculum.

Apparently a lot of the books have a particular bias that her mother did not wish to impart, especially science or world history books. It's a good thing my fiance likes reading textbooks for fun(ugh) because her mom was so disappointed in the offerings that she would either select specific chapters from several books, that had the perspective she wanted, or she would make her children read ALL of ALL the textbooks, and present a critical analysis comparing all of them. I think I did a spittake when I heard that. That sounds painful. I really hope you can find an easier way...

For US history, my lady says the "A history of US" series is pretty thorough. I've linked the author,Joy Hakim, here because there's several books in the series. She also said the series Lies My Teacher Told Me was good for a different perspective. There's a few authors who write those.

She also mentioned enjoying using This Day In History as a jumping point for research. There's somewhat of a random element to it, so they'd read it in the morning, and spend a bit of time looking up the events discussed. I assume this information is more easily available online nowadays. She described it as a GIANT reference book.

Mythology is a great one as well, but if your children are younger, you may find D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths, or any of the other books in that series more appropriate.

She also mentioned using games a lot, to spur research(She'd play it with her sister, and then help her sister look up any unknown answers). She says Aristoplay is a pretty reliable company for that.

I hope that has some good information for you. Unfortunately, my lady's parents played it a lot by ear. Her dad was an engineer, so he designed and built a lot of stuff to use to teach them physics and science stuff. They borrowed textbooks from other homeschooling families, and lived at the library, for the rest of it. I asked her what to recommend to you, and I think I only caught a third of it, since there were so many divergent titles and series'.

OK Nicolas. Thank you, you and your fiance.