Waldorf/Oak Meadow people- Favorite place to get Main Lesson Books?

[birchbark]

We've done plenty of CM notebooking in the past with loose-leaf paper and binders, but I'm thinking about trying "the real thing" with my first grader this year who will be using Oak Meadow. 

 

And if you prefer binders to MLBs, let me know that too!

[Hunter]

I use loose leaf paper, notebooks and anything else I can get at regular pharmacies, office supply stores, and department stores. I do use a special handwriting paper for some students, when they need it, and I have some.

 

I use regular crayons too. And students who want to draw outlines draw outlines.

 

I've studied a lot of Waldorf. Not nearly as much as some here, but enough to accomplish what I want to accomplish. I learned to take the meat and drop the details. The details smother the meat, in my opinion. Part of Waldorf is simplicity and using your environment. The specialty items have overtaken what is simple and plentiful for MY students.

 

I try really hard not to special order things and instead empower my students to thrive in their current environment, whenever possible.

[plath]

We use a Sketchbook I bought at Joann fabrics :) I'm thinking of buying some MLB from paperscissorstome when we're finished with K, but for now the Sketchbook is working perfectly.

[Melissa B]

I really like Paper, Scissors, Stone.

 

I also use lots of Primary Journals from Walmart. The top half is blank for a picture and the bottom half is lined.  They go on sale during school supply sales.

 

And I pick up regular artist's sketchbooks, usually with the coil-wire binding, for the older girls.

[Aurelia]

I can't remember if I ordered mine from Paper, Scissors, Stone or Oak Meadow. It was one of the two.

[Pen]

Put it together yourself when done on separate paper--quality and type depending on what you are using it for (Watercolor needs something different than pencil, your child's needs and so on)--so that you can get "best work" as the final MLB to be saved.  They can have holes punched and be tied or otherwise put together.  So far as I know, that is usually "the real thing" as to what is done at a Waldorf.  Though I saw that students from my ds's former class last year seemed to just be using spiral bound notebooks for a lot of their work.