Some of my favorite catalogs that I've enjoyed:
Sonlight-obviously for it's awesome books
Winter Promise-gorgeous catalog, nice curriculum, was a serious contender for us
Veritas Press-just has some nice books/supplies
Love to Learn-again just some great books
My favorite curriculum guide:
100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum by Cathy Duffy
This was, and is, indispensable to me. I like the website as well. You can get some good feedback from people who have tried different things but you can also find much that just doesn't apply to you.
A couple of my favorite websites for supplements:
http://www.currclick.com/index.php
http://www.roadstoeverywhere.com/sonlight3.htm
I'm tryi
ng to get everything organized and ready to go. If you are like me you are juggling lots of activities and numerous calendars. I came across an idea from Microsoft for creating a backdoor bulletin board for handling all the calendars. I never really used the templates before but I ended up making one for monthly dinners, one for grocery list, and one for a school calendar.
I have been getting my front room prepared. We have always called it a reading room. It is really a formal dining room but I just will never use anything like that so it has been a sitting room with a book shelf.
This area houses our curriculum for the year. All the Sonlight books, math, language arts, science, etc. I covered a bulletin board with fabric and added our daily/weekly general schedules. The presidents are from a $1
place mat from Wal-mart. A great buy! I also got US and World maps. These are awesome because they are covered in plastic and so can be written with white board markers and erased. Easier to carry around than Sonlight's markable map and markers.
A friend gave me the cart which I thought was perfect to hold all our basic supplies: pens, pencils, crayons, scissors, tape, etc.
A small garage sale table holds our music and CD player inside. I also pulled some movies from our collection which I think supplement our learning.
On top we have our maps and globe.
The painting above is one of my father-in-law.
The shelf to the left of the couch holds all of our art and science supplies.
Our bookshelf hold what else, books! Yes, I know, clever, right? Basically, it shelves all our supplemental or just plain fun books, puzzles, and a few games. The bins on the left house math manipulatives. I'm not sure how much I'm going to use them, but I am prepared. The crates on the right hold stuff for lap books (if we ever do them) plus all kinds of paper, cardstock, and stickers.
So, we are all set to go. Some of you know we have actually already started. I will let you know how our adventure is going soon.
This was, and is, indispensable to me. I like the website as well. You can get some good feedback from people who have tried different things but you can also find much that just doesn't apply to you.
A couple of my favorite websites for supplements:
http://www.currclick.com/index.php
http://www.roadstoeverywhere.com/sonlight3.htm
I'm tryi
ng to get everything organized and ready to go. If you are like me you are juggling lots of activities and numerous calendars. I came across an idea from Microsoft for creating a backdoor bulletin board for handling all the calendars. I never really used the templates before but I ended up making one for monthly dinners, one for grocery list, and one for a school calendar.I have been getting my front room prepared. We have always called it a reading room. It is really a formal dining room but I just will never use anything like that so it has been a sitting room with a book shelf.
This area houses our curriculum for the year. All the Sonlight books, math, language arts, science, etc. I covered a bulletin board with fabric and added our daily/weekly general schedules. The presidents are from a $1
place mat from Wal-mart. A great buy! I also got US and World maps. These are awesome because they are covered in plastic and so can be written with white board markers and erased. Easier to carry around than Sonlight's markable map and markers.A friend gave me the cart which I thought was perfect to hold all our basic supplies: pens, pencils, crayons, scissors, tape, etc.
A small garage sale table holds our music and CD player inside. I also pulled some movies from our collection which I think supplement our learning.On top we have our maps and globe.
The painting above is one of my father-in-law.
The shelf to the left of the couch holds all of our art and science supplies.
Our bookshelf hold what else, books! Yes, I know, clever, right? Basically, it shelves all our supplemental or just plain fun books, puzzles, and a few games. The bins on the left house math manipulatives. I'm not sure how much I'm going to use them, but I am prepared. The crates on the right hold stuff for lap books (if we ever do them) plus all kinds of paper, cardstock, and stickers.
So, we are all set to go. Some of you know we have actually already started. I will let you know how our adventure is going soon.
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