SOTW I Extras & Lit Pack?

[Slache]

What extras do I simply need to include?

Also, if I wanted to be incredibly lazy and just buy a literature pack which one would I need?

[hs03842]

Not sure what you mean exactly by extras—are you thinking to match read aloud chapter books with it?  I got the main book, the activity guide and a hard copy Usborne history book. I also try to get some of the recommended books from the activity guide for each section before we get to it or find other on-topic books from the library. Sometimes I can replace a section of the main book with a nonfiction picture book which is a nice shake up. That depends on what you have available at the library. All of that keeps us pretty busy! Magic treehouse has a few books that are set in Volume 1 times, too, if your kids are younger. 

[2_girls_mommy]

I don't know what literature packs are either, sorry. I just tried to get library books for most chapters. It was just part of my routine. Once a week I picked up my reserves from the week before, and sat down with the next week or twos' literature lists from the AG to see what our library carried and to put them on reserve. 

I guess if you consider the Activity Guide an extra, you need that. We had a 3 ring binder for each child to put their maps, coloring sheets, and narrations from each chapter into. I found it easiest to print the student pages for each kid in advance, for the whole year, and have them 3 hole punched and in the binder all at once, ready to go, like a workbook.

Art stapies, standard stuff like crayons, markers, and paint, plus extras like dress up, clay, keeping some recyclables around like toilet paper rolls, styrofoam, show boxes around for art projects. Homeschooling makes you a bit of a hoarder, lol. I don't throw away many fast food plastic containers because I know they'll be used to start seeds for a garden science experiment or as a tray for paint mixing or something. I just have an area where I keep a few of these types of things on hand. 

We never did the tests or the CDs.