Like so many others, Flowers in the Attic was the first bigg'un I read :laugh: I thought the story of four kids locked in an attic was romantic and adventurous; I totally missed the incest subtext :laugh: Tells you how ready for it I really was!

We've got 1000+ children's books, and right now they're wherever we have room for them! Which means generally haphazard and random piles everywhere. We need more bookshelves in ds's room, but for some reason we're having trouble finding shelves that are durable and solid and will hold up for a few years (there's no Ikea near here, and it would cost $300 to have shelves drop-shipped).

Math Latin Science Literature

This was part of the reason that we pulled our son out of his private school. There were other reasons as well, but this was a big one.

No longer free, but a great book at 3.99! We just started talking about the skeletal system for science this week, so this will be a good addition.

We like 'em! Our biggest hit was snakes, the biggest flop was Great Artists. We've only used lap books from The Hands of a Child, but so far, they're awesome! He puts them together, but I print them on colored paper that I got from the office supply store. We did snakes as a sole study, but we tried the art one in combination with our regular curric which became a problem. If I redo that one, we'll do it as a sole study thing.

Heck yes! I would absolutely count it!

We kind of fell into it, and it worked for us so well, we decided to keep going. I know most of the homeschoolers here do it for religious reasons, but we're secular homeschoolers.

BA in biological anthropology, MA in English, PhD in Medieval literature and languages. The husbeast has BA,MA, and PhD in bioanthropology.

I'm not sure that it can be fixed without an entire gutting and starting again from the ground up, which includes a whole new way of looking at education on the part of teachers, students, and parents. I'm just not sure it can be done.

Magic Treehouse and then Super Diaper Baby/Captain Underpants

Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet, about a boy who gets turned into a Muppet. Origami Yoda Bad Kitty Bunnicula and its sequels

We're starting Percy Jackson this week, and I'm thinking about the Mysterious Benedict Society as well. Right now, the Spousebeast and ds are doing H.G. Wells' The Time Machine.

We're having a ball! Latin is a hit, math is fun, and he's over the moon about his science this year. Geography and history aren't as fun as he'd like, but they're tolerable. Today, we're going down to the river to do a plot study and have a little picnic. I must admit I'm surprised about the Latin. I love languages and I really love Latin myself, but I thought he'd hate it. Instead, he's pushing me to do more and more with him, and he's really understanding it. We'll have to see if he can keep up the momentum, but so far it's the surprise favorite subject.

We pulled ds from school in January with no issues, although it was a private school.

Yay! Mine declared today that he loves Latin, and that school this year was more interesting and more fun than it was last year. This is huge for us; usually he's an indifferent student, at best.

The pencil case my ds refuses to give up is a Perry. We've had it for awhile now. Perry is essential.

With $50K? Find something like Semester at Sea for young folks, or do our own version of it!

I've never had problems with the shipping from RR, and I don't even live in their zone! I do try to upgrade to UPS shipping because it's more reliable here than our postal carrier, but I've always gotten stuff in a timely manner.

Hits: Song School Latin-- This is the one I expected to be a miss, but he loves it! T4L Language Arts Mixed: Beast Academy-- He reads the book, spends some time sobbing over the problems, suddenly goes, "Oh! I get it!" and rips through the remainder of the problems with no problem. He just gets it into his head that it's too hard for him, and then the light clicks. Weirdest thing I've ever seen, tbh.

They're slow at sending out emails. Many times, I've gotten an email that an item has shipped the same day that it's due to be delivered! I don't care so much, but I get how others do. Try the live chat-- I've always had good luck getting a hold of them that way.

Oooh, for me it was: Little House The Anne books and the Emily books The Westing Game Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Jane Eyre Island of the Blue Dolphins, but much more especially the sequel, Zia

I don't deep clean as often as I probably should, and we're pretty untidy anyway, but things are generally picked up and there's nothing *dirty* around. Outsourcing takes more money than I have, and honestly, as long as things are not dirty, I can live with a little clutter and untidiness.

Oooh, I got the green minifig case to store our dry-erase markers! I didn't even know they had pencil sharpeners...::stalks the Staples store::...

All I ever need is to stock up on markers and colored pencils. What I buy, however, is a great deal more than that... :Angel_anim: I love school supplies!