Ready for homeschooling week?
Don’t forget the Country Crock and Green Mountain coffee giveaways! And the winner of the book Maman’s Homesick Pie is commenter #23 Chavonne. Email me your address, Chavonne, and I will get the book headed your direction!
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This week’s giveaways are all about homeschooling! Where do you buy your homeschooling supplies? If I set out to buy a used book, I’ll often start by checking amazon or ebay. But when I’m buying a consumable book brand new, I usually buy it either at Curriculum Cottage (a homeschooling curriculum store in my area) or at Timberdoodle. I’ve been customers at both of these places for years and have been really pleased with the assistance and service they offer.
Today I am delighted to be offering you a $25 Timberdoodle gift certificate. You can enter the drawing to win this gift certificate in two ways. (And no, you don’t HAVE to be a homeschooler!) For your first entry, leave a comment here and tell me where you usually get educational goodies for your kids, whether they be books or board games or flash cards or whatever. The second way that you can enter is to ‘follow’ my blog either on Networked Blogs or via Feedburner and leave a second comment mentioning that you have done so.
Tomorrow I am planning a post describing an average day of homeschooling at my house, and later in the week I have more book giveaways planned. Happy homeschooling!
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Should have asked before, Mary, you have probably mentioned but could you refresh us all, what style of teaching and materials do you use with teaching a number of children? Do you have a schedule for each day you follow? A required number of hours a day, week? Do you have a planner for what you hope to cover each week, month, school year?
A fun game that would incorporate well into homeschooling is FUNGLISH. And a place to check for materials is the Mensa website or catalogue for those over-achievers in your life.
I usually buy at the used booksales, beg or borrow. I buy our saxon math books from christian book distributors.
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From Timberdoodle, Amazon, Christian Book Distributor and some of your suggestions….:)
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I follow on networked blogs and love TIMBERDOODLE
cbd, walmart, target, and my new curriculum is Heart of Dakota, so I ordered from there. I love this curriculum! I have never ordered from timberdoodle so I would love to try it out!
For now, I do most of my shopping on Amazon, although I have just recently discovered some of these other sites like Timberdoodle.
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We go to the Learning Palace, Amazon, and CBD for most of our needs.
What a great give away! We love Timberdoodle and all that they offer! They are the first booth I visit at our homeschool convention
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We find a lot of readers and school books from our local used bookstore. We just received a box from Christian Book Distributor’s today. I also use Amazon quite a bit. This year we added a few geography books from Sonlight and My Father’s World. One new favorite is Rod and Staff. The only “curriculum” we use is their preschool workbooks, but have really enjoyed their Little Jewel series and readers for the olders as well.
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I get my stuff from Nest, BJU Press, Sonlight, Amazon and Ebay. Thanks.
We usually get stuff from Amazon.com and abeka book.
Now I’d have to say Amazon. When the baby gets older I might get some stuff from Rainbow Resources. My mom ordered from them and I like looking at all the resources in their catalog.
I’m just starting to homeschool our youngest again. She’s pre K/K age. I generally use Amazon. I also picked up things at our local homeschool conference. I have used Timberdoodle in the past. I like the Kumon workbooks they carry.
I buy most books through Amazon or Heart of Dakota.
I’ve never even heard of Timberdoodle! I love Amazon, and have been able to get a lot of wonderful goodies there at fair prices for my preschool-aged girls.
My kiddos are still quite young, so we play a lot of file folder games and use a lot of curricula ideas from the Mailbox Books website (theeducationcenter.com).
Wow! So far, we’ve mostly been using things we find around the house or at secondhand stores. Since our child is only 17 months old, it’s a little tricky for us to find supplies designed especially for her! However, I really like the items suggested in the core sets and while the whole core set is rather out of reach for us, there are a few items I think we could use in addition to what we already have. Thank you for the information!
I usually buy my books and workbooks from Amazon (I LOVE Amazon!) or a few smaller catalogs like Behrman House (for Jewish stuff). I try my local used book store, too, but my older kids like workbooks, so we usually have to get them somewhere else.
I get most of my supplies from ross’s and marshals and christianbooks.com
I think I order most of our stuff through Amazon and Christian Books, but I like a trip to Lakeshore Learning and often find puzzles and fun math stuff at a great local toy store.
And I am a subscriber via feed burner (Oh, and I forgot to mention Rod and Staff! Love them too)
I buy from Sonlight, Amazon, Ebay, Christian Book Distributors, garage sales, and thrift stores. We also use the library and the internet as resources.
I use the Sonlight reading list (and then go to the library!) and get materials from Catholic Heritage Curriculum.
I buy a lot of our new homeschooling materials from the Rainbow Resource catalog, for used materials I like to shop on ebay.
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I like to purchase curriculum through amazon.com or Homeschool classifieds.
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I got a bunch of stuff from amazon this year.
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I get most of my educational products from Amazon.com.
My usual is still wherever I see a good teaching tool and good price, amazon, dollar store, yard sales, school sales. I recently ordered from timberdoodle and am loving it!! My Father’s world has good stuff. I love to learn myself and teach my kids!
My kids are little and my homeschooling friends give me most of what I need but I also buy a lot of manipulatives at the dollar store!
I get stuff just about everywhere – this year I did rainbow resource, sacred heart books and gifts, amazon, borders, hobby lobby, michaels, target, walmart and probably a few more places I can’t think of right now. I’ve never ordered from Timberdoodle, but I do drool over their catalog!
I tend to get most of everything I use for homeschooling for the internet (freebies), but when I do need to purchase something, I always look on eBay first!
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Neither a homeschooler, nor a mom, but an aunt who loves to give educational gifts to my nieces. I always have my radar up at thrift stores … and have found amazing homeschooling deals for my nieces there (Saxon hardcover for $1-!). Used on amazon is a favorite as well. And links to money-saving blogs also alerts me to some amazing deals. (My second comment re feedburner) is above. Sorry I got out of order.
We usually make our purchases through Christian Book Distributors or Amazon. This year we were blessed with several families loaning us materials that we needed. Thanks for hosting a great giveaway!
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I have been homeschooling for 12 years. I like Timberdoodle, especially because the Timberdoodle people write great reviews themselves for their catalog….not just canned copy from the publishers! Love that! My absolute favorite curriculum source is Notgrass for highschoolers. I’m their biggest fan!
I get most of my homeschool “stuff” from Rainbow Resources or Amazon.
I get almost all my stuff from Sonlight.
I belong to an incredible homeschool support group (over 200 families)and we can buy, sell or share supplies via a yahoo group. This provides a way to cushion the cost of curriculum for large families, unload heavy bookshelves of outgrown books and supplies and bless those that may need a book or item they cannot afford.
I mostly use Amazon, though I’ve found a few books on paperbackswap.com. I also love to go to used curriculum sales in our area to see what I can find!