Weekly Wrap-Up: Curriculum Purge!

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If you read me regularly, you know that this month I’m all about de-cluttering my house!  This applies to the area of school curriculum too… or should I say especially? 

I don’t know too many of you who DON’T do what I do:  We see something for a good

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De-Cluttering December: The Stuff

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Most of you know that I am going to attempt a major overhaul of my house during the month of December.  The kids and I are on break from school, so it’s the perfect time to gut the house and toss the stuff tidy things up a bit.  The past several months,

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Summer’s here and so are the books

I have ordered so many things now, and the books are coming in a little at a time!  So far I discovered I’ve SOMEHOW ordered TWO copies each of the teacher’s guides for Write Source 2000 and Writer’s Inc.  HOW???  I have no idea.  Don’t even know how to return them.  ARG.  I

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“School” Edition Saxon, One Difference

After being so excited about finding the hardback Saxon math books and things, I did discover one difference which DIDN’T end up saving me any money:  the “homeschool edition” facts practice workbooks  also contain the chapter tests, and the school edition DOES NOT.   The homeschool edition solutions manual contains the solutions for

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Summer Preparations

I can’t think of a single homeschool year that I didn’t spend nearly the entire summer planning for. Some families school through the summer. We did that, a couple of summers. What I found was that when it’s hot outside, and hot inside without air conditioning, school is really the last thing on

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