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Homeschooling from the beginning doesn’t have to break the bank. Want a puppet to help you tell a story? A favorite stuffed animal works just fine. Need objects to demonstrate how to count, add, or subtract? Anything you have in quantity will work: buttons, pennies, peanuts, or even your child’s massive collection of little rubber ducks.

If you look around your house you probably have almost everything you need to begin homeschooling. You probably have read-aloud books; plenty of toys you can count, categorize, and use as drawing models; and scissors, tape, and construction paper and blank paper for creations. One of the biggest temptations in homeschooling is to fill the house with all the things you could possibly ever need to homeschool with. Trust me, that will happen whether you want it to or not, if you follow homeschooling from pre-K or kindergarten all the way through high school. (My second grader needs access to a microscope? Of course I have a microscope! I’ve already graduated two from high school.) Chapter 21 talks about other ways to keep the costs under control.