{"id":1673,"date":"2011-07-24T19:38:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T19:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2011-07-24T19:38:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T19:38:52","slug":"what-i-ordered-for-this-years-home-schooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/24\/what-i-ordered-for-this-years-home-schooling\/","title":{"rendered":"What I ordered for this year&#8217;s home schooling&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HomesteadEmporium\">facebook page<\/a> we were discussing homeschooling and what people use. Since I mentioned I put in my order for this year&#8217;s schooling, I said I would share some more info here on the blog.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.smugmug.com\/photos\/567984426_9wGb6-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"450\" \/><\/div>\n<div>What I purchase each year can be quite random. We&#8217;ve been schooling for fifteen years, so there&#8217;s a lot of things I already have.<\/div>\n<div>Here in British Columbia, Canada we are given a few choices for homeschooling. We can &#8220;enroll&#8221; our children, and they basically do the same thing at home, that the public schools are doing AT school. With this choice you are supplied with a budget and\/or the text books etc. needed for each subject. Your child is also provided with teachers for each subect. Basically, it is public school at home.<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"IMGP9090 by paw5kids, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paw5kids\/2186249177\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2228\/2186249177_1e1a61cc46.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP9090\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Another option is to &#8220;register&#8221; your child, which is what we do. If you register, you are\u00a0allotted 120.00- 150.00 per child to help you with the costs of curriculum etc..<br \/>\nEach year I choose to use these funds for books and other book-like activities, such as homeschool curriculum, science project kits, art kits, readers and\/or novels. I also purchase things such as math\u00a0manipulatives, or even foreign language lessons. Over the 12 years we have lived in BC, we have accumulated quite a library, both for my husband &amp; I as the teachers, and for our children as the students.<\/div>\n<div><strong>This years order:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Building Spelling Skills<\/strong> (for all three of the younger girls)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Audubon First Field Guide<\/strong> &#8211; Rock &amp; Minerals<\/li>\n<li><strong>Audubon First Field Guide<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Birds<\/li>\n<li><strong>Attracting Birds<\/strong><em>(Shaylay LOVES birds, so this is mainly for her but we all learn what she learns)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>10 Days To Multiplication Mastery<\/strong> Teacher Edition &amp; Workbooks <em>(for all three, to strengthen their multiplication)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Write a Super Sentence<\/strong>&#8211;<em> (I like these &#8216;extra&#8217; workbooks to help the girls master anything I feel we need some extra work on.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Adobe Photoshop CS3<\/strong>: The Official Training <strong>Workbook<\/strong> from Adobe Systems [With CDROM] ( Classroom in a Book (Adobe)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Solar Cooking Science &#8211; Kit<\/strong>&#8211; <em>(I remember doing this in school and loved it, I think the girls will as well. I&#8217;m sure we could make this on our own, but our lives are so busy sometimes it&#8217;s simply easier to get&#8217;er done if we order the kit)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Jumbo Cookbook<\/strong>&#8211;<em>\u00a0(the girls ALL love cooking. No worries we miss out on Home Ec in this house!)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Penne a la Shaylah by paw5kids, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paw5kids\/1474536491\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1435\/1474536491_835c0bb247.jpg\" alt=\"Penne a la Shaylah\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Signing<\/strong> &#8211; How to Speak with Your Hands (ASL)- <em>(I learned some sign language as a teen and feel it&#8217;s a very important language for our children to learn. I&#8217;m excited to get this book! The older version is the same one I used!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The\u00a0Jumbo Book of Space<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Science Vocabulary Readers<\/strong> <em>(these are for all the girls, but mainly Elsa. Her reading is not up to &#8216;snuff&#8217; yet, so I thought it&#8217;d be a nice change to get some science readers this year)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Earth<\/li>\n<li>The Moon<\/li>\n<li>Horse Life Cycle<\/li>\n<li>Beautiful Birds<\/li>\n<li>The Solar System<\/li>\n<li>The Planets<\/li>\n<li>Stars and Constellations<\/li>\n<li>The Sun<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"IMGP9106 by paw5kids, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paw5kids\/2186272539\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2321\/2186272539_8e4484d44d.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP9106\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Awesome Amphibians<\/li>\n<li>Tornadoes!<\/li>\n<li>Lightning!<\/li>\n<li>Frog Life Cycle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"IMGP8825 by paw5kids, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paw5kids\/2468739652\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3017\/2468739652_2c6cf8a9cb.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP8825\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chick Life Cycle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.smugmug.com\/photos\/998967993_mpGWM-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"450\" \/><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Your Brain<\/li>\n<li>Hurricanes!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"fish eggs by paw5kids, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paw5kids\/1358432631\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1381\/1358432631_cf31268f7e.jpg\" alt=\"fish eggs\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Considering God&#8217;s Creation<\/strong> Teacher&#8217;s Manual- <em>(we have been using this science curriculum for many years. I used it with the older two, and now with the younger three. It&#8217;s is Christian based, but very comprehensive. I&#8217;m ordering the teachers manual because my old copy has become so worn!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>KLUTZ &#8211; Backyard Stars<\/strong>&#8211; <em>(even Alesia, our eldest, will love these books. We all enjoy learning about the night skies! I expect when we move to the Prairies we&#8217;ll learn all that much more!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Space Exploration Experiment Kit<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>Besides what I&#8217;ve ordered, we will continue to use the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cadroncreek.com\/Merchant2\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=CCCC&amp;Product_Code=Pioneer_001\">Prairie Primer<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>This past year we made it through Little House in the Big Woods and started on the next book near the end of the year.<\/div>\n<div>We will also continue with <strong><a href=\"History of the Horse\">History of the Horse<\/a><\/strong>. We made it through Justin Morgan Had a Horse, and just loved it. Of course it&#8217;s very fitting for this family of horse lovers\/owners.<\/div>\n<div>I know I&#8217;m missing other things we use, I have a very wide range of stuff I draw from right here at home. With house selling the last few years, a lot of it remains packed and every fall I go through the boxes and pull out what interests us that year. We add in anything and everything we feel like studying along the way as well. This fall I&#8217;ll add in some things about Saskatchewan and the prairies as we prepare to move there. Hopefully that will also be a part of our learning this year. A move to the prairies. My husband leaves in one week and we really don&#8217;t want our family to be split up for very long. In the meantime, we&#8217;ll be here learning as much as we can before we go.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/homesteademporium.smugmug.com\/photos\/1001274293_SYWvJ-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"450\" \/><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;ve used many many books &amp; curriculum over the years geared towards homeschoolers. We&#8217;ve done the full gamut. Everything from full boxed curriculum such as<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aophomeschooling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> LifePacs from Alpha Omega<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abeka.com\/HomeSchool\/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" target=\"_blank\">Abeka<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/fiarhq.com\/fiveinarow.info\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Five in a Row<\/a> <em>(one of my favorite all time curriculum!), <\/em>to many, many individual subjects\/books\/curriculum. We&#8217;ve also used MANY unit studies over the years. SO many! Too numerous to mention, and I still have them all (packed up of course, ha!).\u00a0If my children decide to homeschool their children, they&#8217;ll have a full library of homeschooling materials at their full disposal!<\/div>\n<div><em>If you have any questions, feel free to ask!\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the facebook page we were discussing homeschooling and what people use. 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