• Feb. 2, 2007
Burning Plastic...

If you noticed the distinct smell of melting plastic…that was my debit card going up in flames!  We ordered *all of our curriculum today.  We are expecting shipments from 16 different venders!  The grumpy mail lady is going to love us the next couple of weeks.

 It was so nice to be able to order everything after planning for months.  I made a couple of changes.  I decided to hold off on Rosetta Stone.  I have been hearing a lot of good things about the Elementary Spanish program from United Streaming.  Dish Network also offers the Elementary Spanish for only the price of the workbooks…so we are going to give it a try when they start their new schedule this fall.  If it does not work, then we will go with RS. 

 I also decided to go ahead and order Phonetic Zoo from IEW.  Spelling has had me pulling out my hair for the past couple of years.  I thought Abeka was ridiculously hard, but nothing else jumped out at me as being any better.  I decided to take a chance and try PZ because it sounds like the kids really get the words down by time they finish the list.  I also like that she (Chaney) can do it mostly on her own, freeing up my time to do other things with them instead of trolling the internet looking for spelling words every week.  I really hope it is worth the money…because if The Man ever figures out that I spent $99 on a spelling program, he may start to pay a bit more attention to what I am buying.

 I had originally planned on getting most of the reference books for Biblioplan from the library, however, I ended up going nuts at Alibris and Amazon buying all of them.  Most are coming from used booksellers.  We will still get the readers/read alouds from the library, but I wanted the girls to be able to go back to the reference books anytime they wanted…not just while we were studying that particular subject. 

 Now I have to figure out where I am going to put over 60 new reference,  text and literature books!

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