Home School Curriculum

The Curriculum

This expense can be huge or negligible depending on how you go about it; I asked several homeschooling families how much they spend on curriculum, and they quoted me everything from $0 to thousands of dollars. The families that pay nothing for the curriculum do have to put in extra work, however. One of my friends said that her mother paid almost nothing to homeschool her three children by customizing units of study herself based on her children’s interests. For example, if they were interested in airplanes, the children would read about the science of airplanes, write a story about planes, read autobiographies of pilots, and draw pictures of planes. On the flip side, families who paid in the thousands bought expensive standardized homeschooling packages that required a lot less preparation by the parents, but also were not as customized.