Homeschool Santa Fe Resources

Homeschool Organizations:

When considering homeschooling, parents might fear that they will be all on their own. That need not be the case. There are numerous organizations both on and off-line that offer support, advice, and events or get togethers for educational and socialization purposes.

We belong to an organization that gets together at least weekly year round. Parents take turns leading or facilitating learning activities. We sometimes go camping as a group. During the summer most activities are fun and more physical in nature.

Home Learning Community of Santa Fe
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/homelearningcommunityofsantafe/

New Mexico Homeschool Community
http://www.newmexicohomeschoolcommunity.com/

Santa Fe Homeschool Association
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/santafehomeschoolassociation/

Both Santa Fe groups have approximately 150 members. The New Mexico site used to be a yahoo email list but is now a website with forums for discussion. Some famlies choose to be on more than one list so they don't miss anything.

Southwest Home Education - http://www.southwest-home-education.com. This organization hosts the homeschool trip to disneyland and other regional events.

To find other homeschool organizations, just Google the name of your city and state followed by the words homeschool organizations or homeschool information. It is sometimes easier to start at the state level. For example, to find organizations in New Mexico, Google "New Mexico homeschool organizations" without the quotes. If you don't find anything with those words, then try home education, home learning, or make home school two words instead of one.

One of the Best Resources is Free:

Your local library is one of the best available resources for home education. From books, videos, and magazines, to endless research on site and on-line, you can examine practically any subject in depth. And the librarians are more than happy to help.

Many libraries have on-line catalogs so you can find what you want and reserve it before you ever leave home.

We have library cards for Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Pojoaque, and Espanola.

All of them have something unique to offer. They also each have different rules about how long you can have something checked out, how many things you can have checked out at once, and penalties for late returns. So be sure you find those out.

Santa Fe Library

Los Alamos

Pojoaque

Espanola

El Dorado

Albuquerque

Another great library resource is available at Community and other Colleges and Universities. They often allow residents of their town, and sometimes their state, to use the library. Just call and ask.

To find information about any library, just Google the name of your town and state and follow it with the word library. For example, to find the Santa Fe library you would google "Santa Fe New Mexico library" without the quotes.

Visit these links for additional helpful home school resources on this site:

Homeschool Books and other resources

Audiobooks and other audio programs

Homeschool Resources Educational Links - a huge array of resources

Other Resources:

Visit homeschool.com for a vast array of information and tools for home educating your child(ren)

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Need information about a certain topic?

Wikipedia is a great place to begin your research.

Need the definition of a particular word?

Use the drop down arrow and this tool also offers a thesaurus.

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