Oh I hope someone finds it for you.. Those books look great! Here's a bump in hopes someone who knows will see it.

My dd learned them FAST with Audio Memory (Kathy Troxel) States and Capitals songs. Both my kids love to watch this vid too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E2CNZIlVIg

I haven't read all the replies but imho most burn out on Abeka because they try and follow the lesson plans which were written for private Christian schools. Teachers take the material and lesson plans and take or leave pieces and actually teach the material but home users just get overwhelmed and confused. Their spelling works really well for my dd and I haven't found a health program I like better (haven't run into the mental health problems are the result of sin thing yet.. lol) My dd also LOVES all the Abeka readers and has read them for fun reading ever since she learned to read. I personally really like the readers because it is a mix of fiction, non fiction, myths, fairie tales, cultural stories etc. so literature appreciation gets covered effortlessly. If you like the look of their textbooks (and I do :) ), just be relaxed about it.. I would suggest using them as a spine and adding in living books and narration and timeline work. Just ditch all the teacher materials and tests.

Highly recommend Hatfield's Marine Science Center!! Lot's of hand's on. Nodding to all the other suggestions you have gotten also. Have fun!

My pre-k'er is just going to be loosey goosey this year. I gathered a couple of resources and used them to compile a list of learning goals I want him to know by the end of Kinder and I'll just kind of work on them informally.. or maybe next year more formally.. lol My two main things for him to work on this year is Math U See Primer w/ blocks and Reading Eggs. For "science" he'll observe, and maybe have a worksheet/craft, of whatever topic big sissy has for the week. History, Art, Music Bible the same.. PS I am going to go check out those Rod and Staff workbooks though.. I've heard rave reviews from many about them.. Have fun!

This has been our experience with Rosetta Stone Latin American Spanish.. (although I am not a native speaker.. just took years of it. ;) Thankfully, it didn't cost us anything to try it out but my dd9 hated just clicking randomly until she got the right answer when a simple explanation of the concept was all that was needed for her to understand. It might work for some kids but my dd is definitely parts-to-whole and we are trying Spanish for Children this year. We also did Getting Started with Spanish last year to go with the RS and that was great! Immersion might work when you are a baby but once you can think and wonder why? Not so good. lol

I haven't used these.. but have them bookmarked to check out later. http://www.davidkatzmd.com/nutritiondetectives.aspx http://www.nourishinteractive.com/

Bump.. Curious to know as well=D

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Perfect, perfect.. just what I needed for music this next year! Thank you!

I did this idea last year but just stapled her papers for each day.. I started out with a whole week in a binder but spent to much time hole-punching so I just started stapling the days when I put the weeks together. It works GREAT!! May I ask where the music worksheets are from? website or curriculum or?? TIA Lori

Yes to this except for one thing.. Some of us (and our children) need to know WHY. So a mix of the parts to whole type instruction in with the rest would be good.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jellybean-tunes-kids-can-learn/id448230539?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/app/classroom-kinderbach-school/id534998629?mt=8 I was looking at these two.. IDK if there are others.

Sequential Spelling or Spelling Power

Would it work for your ds to do VfCR and then use the free WW online games and stuff for fun?

I love the pop up one! We have also used.. ME on the Map http://www.amazon.com/Map-Dragonfly-Books-Joan-Sweeney/dp/0517885573/ref=pd_cp_b_0 Maps and Globes http://www.amazon.com/Maps-Globes-Reading-Rainbow-Book/dp/0064460495/ref=pd_cp_b_1 and Map Keys http://www.amazon.com/Map-Keys-Rookie-Read-About-Geography/dp/0516277731/ref=pd_cp_b_3 And this one looks fun and I'm off to see if the library has it =D http://www.amazon.com/Follow-That-Map-Mapping-Skills/dp/1554532744/ref=pd_cp_b_2

I think the original post talked about how CA had passed a law that required the new editions of textbooks to be published on their website somewhere .. so I think that it is unique to CA (with the exception of SC? but the textbooks are not on there for SC). I'm not sure even if CA is required to post all new textbooks or if that was just for a time or what. But to your question, I think the original post linked to a page that said something like California List of Gratis Instructional Materials.. so I used variations of that. You could also just google Online science textbooks for Florida or any number of combinations of that.. include the grade or whatever too. It's amazing what will come up sometimes. Good luck and if you find anything interesting... =D

They actually are already in .pdf when you bring them up. So, click on the one you want and wait until it comes up, then if you hover your mouse in the lower right hand corner a little menu bar should pop up and there will be a disk icon. You just click on that and save it where ever you wish. I don't know if there are the Florida versions, I can only bring up the CA and SC ones with a Google search. Sorry :(

The link to South Carolina.. http://macmillanmh.com/instructional_materials/sc/fwo.html These do NOT line up with the CA texts but I thought the test prep workbooks might be good evaluation tools for my dd.

These are free and look cool. Probably could be read on a tablet/iPad if I were more techy. http://www.physicscentral.com/experiment/colormephysics/index.cfm Also, this link has "science adventure" books for upper elementary grade level that could be portable too. http://thunderboltkids.co.za/

I am going to use it this coming year. We did Getting Started with Spanish this year (started halfway through the year to supp the RS).. anyway it was great! But DD9 wants to go back to Latin. We did Song School Latin in 2nd grade and it was a little easy but she loved(s) the songs. I would recommend SSL if they can write a little (all the words are dotted in to trace) maybe 1st, then SSL2 in 2nd and GSWL in 3rd.. then.. well, we haven't got that far but I have all next year to research=D

30% off so each $1 book is just .70 Great deal!!

Yes. I used History Odyssey for SOTW3 with my third grader this year and it worked out better for us because HO is arranged by continent-ish so instead of having a chapter here or ther on AM Hist, it has it arranged all together and you spend several months on it. We also supplemented heavily from the library, watched all the Liberty's Kids episodes, American girl books, If You Were There books, Maestros books, and many others fiction and non.. HO has a booklist and there are the booklists in the SOTW AG also.. HO also includes Evan Moor History Pockets which are always fun so that stretched it a bit more and it sounds like you are not opposed to stretching=D I used History pockets Ancient Civilizations for SOTW1 in 1st too. HO is not for everyone, but it was a really good fit with us because it was bugging us to jump around like that and I wasn't as concerned with keeping in a strict timeline as I was just the time period. lol HO is more about reading and notebooking but if your dc's prefer worksheets etc.. Well, History Pockets are good.. (paper projects with lots of coloring), but for great worksheets, The Complete Book of US History is very inexpensive and just about covers it all, in order.

I don't have time to read all the replies because I had surgery today and should be in bed! However, I highly recommend the book The Untold Story of Milk by Ron Schmid http://www.amazon.com/Untold-Story-Milk-Revised-Updated/dp/0979209528/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1369366738&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=the+untold+sroty+of+milk as well as the Westin A Price site. I personally switched my baby to raw goat milk at 6 months (from a certified grade A dairy) after she developed an allergy to the milk based formula (I was unable to nurse this one and I refuse to do soy) . My other children have had both raw goat and raw cow's milk off and on as I can afford it. My SIL was raised on a dairy and that's all they drank. If you look it up there have actually been "many" (yes, I realize this is subjective to what your personal opinion of "many" is.. but if I remember correctly in my medication addled brain it was almost 150 cases) of people getting sick from PASTEURIZED milk so it is not perfectly safe either. And I had to shake my head last pregnancy when the experts were telling me to not drink raw milk, eat soft cheese or eat deli meat but to eat more fruits and veggies and there were outbreaks of the same dreaded listeriosis from cantaloupe and spinach and what was is? green onions? or some such. So my baby and I weren't very "safe" eating fresh fruits and veggies either!! I think it is a great thing to eat local and the best thing is to know your farmer, ask questions.. I noticed some good ones above as I scanned through. and IMHO, even if you purchased the raw milk and pasteurized it yourself.. your kids (and you) will be better off for having local, FRESH milk that is not homogenized and is grassfed and WHOLE. Good luck in your decision for it is a personal choice. =D BTW, my family drinks a LOT of filtered ice water.

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