My best advice is to buy nothing your first year! Or at least as little as you can get away with!
Your first year is a learning year, and there's a very good chance that whatever you buy will be the wrong thing. Rather than wasting your money, buy nothing/very little. Check books/textbooks out from the library. Borrow from friends. Use the Internet. Figure out what your child needs before you spend a dime.
I followed this advice--by far the best advice anyone gave me about homeschooling!--and I'm absolutely certain that it saved me a bundle of cash!!!
Less is more.
If you absolutely *must* buy, buy only one book in the series, or buy only the workbook and check out the textbook, or choose the curriculum based largely on what's the cheapest. Skimp!
You'll be glad you did!
