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Recently, my arhitecturally-focused child discovered these books by Lester Walker. Each step is outlined for how to design a house, including suggestions for using cardboard models. He now spends time each week building these models and considering how to create what he would like.
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I think that when families ask me how to homeschool, this is the kind of answer they are looking for. An overview of several methods, tips on what to focus on, and a plan for how to get it all done. My son felt empowered to learn the basics.
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Happily for us, Lester Walker has written other books, focused specifically on teaching children more. In this one, Housebuilding for Children, he guides construction of a tree house, a wood frame house, a junk-yard house, a post-and-beam house, a glass house, and a kit-of-parts house, all of which can be easily built by seven to twelve-year-olds.
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In reality, there are actually are books like this about homeschooling, but they don’t seem very helpful for homeschoolers because there are so many variables. The age of the children, the experience of the parent, and the educational goals can create widely different outputs.
I love seeing such well done how-to books! Very inspiring.