{"id":6348,"date":"2018-06-06T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/blog\/?p=6348"},"modified":"2018-06-06T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T14:00:12","slug":"books-as-a-gateway-for-homeschool-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/books-as-a-gateway-for-homeschool-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Books as a Gateway for Homeschool Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever set out to explore a new place? An old building or fort? Perhaps a garden or park? There&#8217;s a sense of adventure as you set forth to conquer a new domain. Books can serve as just such a gateway to new domains for your homeschool students. If you are blessed with children who love to read, do all that you can to feed their habit.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Inexpensive Ways to Access More Books<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Library Subscription<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joining a library is the obvious choice. The monthly subscription to a well stocked library can be just the thing for your bookworm homeschool student. However, if your little bookworm has a tendency to run through books like termites run through wood, you may have to find another library soon. This could be a problem logistically speaking if you live too far away from the library. Also physical books can be damaged and fines may have to be paid.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Kindle App<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One way to ensure that your homeschool student will always have books to read is to get them a Kindle and add a Kindle Unlimited subscription to it. This way your child has access to literally millions of books, in all genres at the most affordable rates possible. Get a yearly subscription and you can use the books to supplement your own educational resources as well. Since you are allowed to borrow ten books at a time, you can distribute the rights to the ten books equally among the homeschool students. Do remember to reserve two for yourself as the homeschool teacher!<\/p>\n<p><em>The Homeschool Book Swap<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another way to ensure a steady supply of books for your homeschool students is to sign up for a homeschool book swap program. You can give away five books a week and receive five new ones in their place. This works out well if you have another homeschool family with children whose ages are similar to your own homeschool students. A number of families also add on a toy swap to this chapter. A good way to have a fresh new supply of toys for toddlers who tire of the same old ones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever set out to explore a new place? An old building or fort? Perhaps a garden or park? There&#8217;s a sense of adventure as you set forth to conquer a new domain. Books can serve as just such a gateway to new domains for your homeschool students. If you are blessed with children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homeschool-science-curriculum-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}