Comments on: Give a girl a hand…

By: Crunchy Mama

Crunchy Mama — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:18:06 +0000

We also have a wall mounted dry erase board we built with Mark R Board on the cheap. And we love, love, love our microscope. I also really like having a printer/copier/scanner although I do wish the ink was cheaper.

I’m working our budget and resources for 2010-2011 also. We’ve gotten a great deal out of our art museum’s homeschool workshops, so those will be on the agenda. Plus memberships it and the children’s museum, I think. We do use some curriculum but we also use the heck out of our library and the web.
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By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:35:31 +0000

We are skipping the curriculum this year. I think we have all we need in that department. I added a few books that I know the kids will read again and again like the Cartoon Guide to Genetics and The Physics of Superheroes. Most of my budget goes to books.

We did renew our Science Center membership. I have the inside scoop on a really awesome exhibit they are trying to get. We go a few times a year so it makes it worth it. I am not renewing my zoo membership. We just don’t use it enough. The older kids don’t get anything out of it anymore and the younger ones just don’t care enough about it for me to spend the money.

We are doing a lot of science this summer so we spent some money there. We have a microscope, but I needed specimen jars and a dispay case for Matthew’s project.

I also spent some money on an artist easle, oil paints, canvases, and some other basic art supplies.

Other than that we had all we would need.

By: Karisma

Karisma — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:13:02 +0000

Why “curriculum” duh? I would throw that out! I have always created my own! Even when we were classical homeschoolers (way back when) LOL There are heaps of free teacher sites where you can print out theme work or grade apporpriate stuff if thats what you prefer. Having said that, my first curriculum wowed the homeschool inspector into shut up mode. (Maybe I should go into business? LOL But then that would go against my natural learning beliefs! hehe!) Every now and then the “teacher” in me pokes her head out, I have to stomp on her to shut her up.

Seriously though, we have no budget. I spend quite a lot of money on books and resources. I have been trying to tone that down as we have loads of them now. I was just thinking the other day we need to pass some on to others.

I wish we had a white board. (that has been on our list for a while) We have a small one but a huge one would be useful that I could wheel around the place. I doubt we will get that one in a hurry, no where to put it but we will buy more science kits this year as we need to “blow things up” as the boys put it. Actually, I was thinking more in the lines of a chemistry set .