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ok, so as a spin-off of the rainbow resource thread, what is on your homeschool wishlist? I know I have a running list (at rainbow, amazon, oriental trading, etc) and would love a thread where we can share our ideas. I don't have time to post everything right now (NAK!!) but will get back to this thread in a bit!

 

What have you been wanting to get for your homeschool?

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Well, I could list my 300-item wishlist on Amazon, but that would be too much. :) Lots of books, puzzles and games.

 

A smaller wishlist on Rainbow, about $75 worth and I need to double that before I order to qualify for free shipping. Mostly ETC and little gadgets like country flags, bare books, Tunza cards...

 

A color laser all-in-one printer was on my wishlist for my birthday next month, but DH got my present early!

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I am lusting for the NEST Animated Hero videos. Our library doesn't carry them, I can't justify the cost, and I don't know anyone who has them well enough to borrow them.

 

We have all 50ish NEST DVD's - I splurged on them a few years ago. The cost was over $1200 Canadian, but they are one of the best investments we have ever made. My children watch them over and over and they have learned so much from them.

 

My wishlist has 'Teaching the Classics' at the top.

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My wish list:

 

Elsa Beskow's books that I don't have

D'Aulaire books that I don't have

a sunny classroom with lots of wall space:tongue_smilie:

The Complete Book of __________ series of books

Quite a few Hands of a Child lapbooks

Some really obscure Waldorf books that I can't even interlibrary loan to look at.

paper dolls for historical periods that we don't have

 

Stockmar watercolor paints

Stockmar stick crayons (a full set)

wool roving--carded and washed but not necessarily dyed

 

Otherwise we are pretty happy with what we have. It would be nice if things were all in cute matching patterns (red and purple) but we do OK with our cheap refurbished stuff.:001_smile:

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My true wishlist that I really want but can't afford right now:

Teaching the Classics

A new printer

A Mac laptop

A Kindle

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Laminator

 

My real wishlist for next year that is a work in progress:

Sally Clarkson's Educating the Wholehearted Child (new version to be released later this year!)

Tons of history and science read alouds

EvanMoor history and literature pockets

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Color laser/printer/scanner/copier/photo printer.... not happening anytime soon.

 

ETA: How could I forget a new laptop. I have a PowerBook that is over 7 years old. S l o w but works. I want an iPad and a MacBook Pro. :D

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It would be faster for me to list what isn't on my wishlist!

 

I can list a few, though:

The Well-Educated Mind

Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics by Liping Ma

You Wouldn't Want to Live in a Medieval Castle, and other books in the You Wouldn't Want series

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Tops Get A Grip workstation

Homeschool in the Woods Artists and Composers activity packs

Kamana for Kids

HST

A new camera

Lots of art supplies (including Lyra pencils, a variety of paints, papers, etc.)

Mathematicians are People Too

Variety of lab supplies

Lots of Yesterday's Classics books

K'nex or Legos Education simple machine sets

Teaching the Classics

Math manipulatives--mus, cuisenaire, abacus

Waldorf alphabet cards

 

sigh.....no wonder I ran out of money:001_smile: I'm pretty sure there is more I've written down somewhere, but I don't even want to know right now.....

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A personal assistant.:001_smile:

That's my dream-12 hours/day Mon-Fri.

 

Oh, well if it's going to be like that, can I have a personal massage therapist? Or at least one that comes in twice a day? Pretty please?

 

I'll take the personal assistant too. I REALLY need someone to take over all that paperwork.

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A MAID!!!!

 

OK, reality check... I do plan on buying...

 

Atelier Art

Phonetic Zoo

New violin for dd

More of those yummy binders from Staples

The rest of the TOG books for the year

 

Back to dream land...

 

A professional organizer to take on my "sort of" converted garage. I just can't seem to face it.

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The most $$ ones:

- A good number of the Teaching Company's courses

- The New Oxford Annotated Bible

- Writing With A Thesis

- The History of Rock N Roll (DVD)

- The Complete Shakespeare

- Gombrich's Story of Art

- The American History Cookbook

 

 

Took 2 of these (oxford annotated and complete shakespeare) to the goodwill just last week! I'd have sent um' your way :glare:

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

 

 

 

 

I scored this at a used book sale this year......are you ready.......for $5!!!! It is brand spanking new. Was by far one of the best feelings I have had this year about a purchase. LOL

 

 

As for my wishlist:

 

Laminator

New printer w/ Continuous Ink system

about a dozen Jingo games

cube shelving with baskets

about a dozen Progeny Press lit guides on CD

the other 3 years of TOG Redesign

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I scored this at a used book sale this year......are you ready.......for $5!!!! It is brand spanking new. Was by far one of the best feelings I have had this year about a purchase. LOL

 

 

 

Are you kidding me? I am greeeeeennnn with envy! Lucky! I keep hoping I'm going to come across one on my many trips to used book stores and such. That's awesome!

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