Come Check Out Some Books with Me

Come check out all of these great books on SALE!! Score some for just $5.  We have activity books, survival guides for teens, potty training books, and MORE!!!!

Human Body Preschool Activity Book

Social Skills Workbook for Teens

Anger Management Workbook for Kids

Social Survival Guide for Teens

Anxiety Workbook for Kids

ABC Bug Book for Kids

All About Rocks and Minerals for Kids

Exploring Nature Activity Book

Rocks and Minerals Field Guide

Field Guide All About Bugs

Fascinating Facts About Bugs

Herb and Plant Encyclopedia- disclaimer it's titled "The Green Witch's Herb and Plant Encyclopedia"

Basketball Biographies for Kids

The Story of Taylor Swift

Kindergarten Reading Notebook

Complete Book of Football Trivia

Potty Training in 3 Days

Let's Go to the Potty

My First Book of Baby Signs

My First Book of Emotions for Toddlers

Homeschool/School Curriculum on SALE by Subject

 

The curriculum filters aren't perfect but for the most part the subjects are separated.

Math

Science & Technology

Language Arts

Social Studies

Health

Foreign Languages

Creative Arts/Art

Amazon Homeschool Deals for 8/1/24

 All of the homeschool deals listed in "today's deals" https://amzn.to/3Wsa3jO

Homeschool Discounts for Pre-k-5th grade https://amzn.to/3LLzAiO

Homeschool Discounts for 6th-8th grade https://amzn.to/3A8y4ES

Homeschool Discounts for 9th-12th grade https://amzn.to/3A87coA

These are generated lists.  Sometimes it sticks a curriculum item in the wrong section.

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It's Almost That Time!!!

Can you believe it is almost time for school to start back!! My crews starts back part time in July so it is really, really CLOSE for us;-)  I wanted to do a quick post sharing what curriculum we are using and I would love to hear what everyone else is using!!!!

So let's get started!! I have two boys in 4th this year:-)  One is struggling so we decided not to move him forward to 5th.  The wonderful thing about homeschool is that there is no reason to stress him out!!  I'm going to start with what they are going to be using for the big 4th grade year!!!

Math- Teaching Textbooks, Dad's Worksheets (completely free), FREE Math (completely free)

Language Arts- McRuffy Press

Science- The Lab of Mr. Q Life Science (completely free)

Social Studies- Evan-Moor

As always we will supplement with free worksheets we find throughout the year, unit studies, Teacher's File Box, our monthly co-op classes, etc!!

Alright let me hear what you will be using!!!!

Still Surviving School..But We Are BUSY, BUSY, BUSY!!!

Monday we start Day 22 of school.  I am already ready for Christmas break;-)  We have successfully survived two weeks at co-op and starting back piano lessons. 

This year has been crazy busy, I keep hoping it calms down soon but I don't see it happening.  I won't lie with the boys moving up a grade level getting all their work done is proving to be just as challenging to me as it is them.  They are hanging in there (so am I) but they have no problem letting me know this year is HARD!! We have done some fun things so far like; going inside Norris Dam for a tour, gardening downtown with friends, etc.

We don't usually do school on Friday but they have so far played a super cute math game called math marks the spot and they have begged to do reading eggs and math seeds since they woke up so I finally caved. 

We are also attending a fun field trip later this afternoon:-)  Can't wait to visit the muse for the planetarium show called "Knoxville Skies". 

I hope everyone else is hanging in there and enjoying their year so far!!! I will do better about blogging...maybe...I have my hands full right now lol.

Our 1st Week Back to School 2016-2017

We started back to school last week.  As I type this I just finished printing and prepping our work for our 2nd week.  So that means the good news is.... We SURVIVED the first week back!!! But it was a LONG week.  All in all the boys did a great job.  The easy years are behind us and everyone took a big step up with their curriculum this year.  It is going to be a more intense schedule along with a more intense co-op.  We can do it!! (I think I might be saying that more for my benefit) 

This year for 1st, 3rd, and 4th grade we are using Complete Curriculum a digital downloadable curriculum.  It involves a lot of printing so I am glad I splurged on a printer last year:-)  We don't start co-op until the 2nd week of August but that is going to be here before we know it!! This year they are taking; sign language, geography, art, zoology, lego, and some other fun classes!! They love going to co-op and seeing all their friends.  Typically we do two days a week one week out of the month but this year we are starting a new co-op schedule of one day a week 3 weeks a month.  I am hoping that we have bitten off more then we can chew. 

Our first week involved a lot of review and getting back into the routine of things.  Basically the boys had to come to terms with the fact that they were going to have to suck it up and do school again.  Next week we start off (tomorrow) with a cool, fun glacier demonstration.  I think they are going to love it.

Here is a peek into our first week:-)