Homeschooling in Accra: The Cardwens

We're 6months into homeschooling and still stocking up our library. I know this is not much, but I'm totally excited because it's just the start. Stocking up a home library can be a very expensive project so we are doing a combination of approaches as we go along: buying already used books from some friends. Buying from the Ghana Book Trust. We also buy from EPP Bookshops- they do a great job stocking children's books by Ghanaian / African writers. And of course our curriculum comes with on average 12-15 additional reading books each year. We also get to borrow books from the Accra library which offers an opportunity to borrow about 30+ books per year for as little as ghs35! Not bad at all huh?  Hopefully in the short term, we'll open our library to the other children in the neighbourhood who'd otherwise not have access to a library. We have heard great things about a few other places which we are yet to visit. We'll share our exp...

Shipping our curriculum books from the US to Accra can be an expensive project. Our first experience was nog great. It cost us over $300 to bring in our first set of books by air.  No! We're not doing that again. A friend introduced us to regular shipping. Typically this takes about 7weeks and it's much cheaper.  We are 75% through this year's curriculum and thought its a great time to start shopping for next year's curriculum (if we're going to be shipping by sea). And there we are. Some of our books finally arrived, and it cost us $50! Still waiting for a few more to arrive  in the coming weeks. Grade 3, K5 & K4!!! Loving every bit of this homeschooling journey with our cubs. Thank you Jesus! #homeschoolingInAccra #ghanaHomeschool #AbekaHomeschoolingInAccra #AbekaAcademy