I was even more excited when I went to pay and the total came to $3-I actually asked her to repeat it, I was so surprised. I bet the total price for all 5 books new was almost $100!
I'm sorry if I seem like I'm ranting but for a bargain hunter like me it was like hitting the jackpot, plus we got more material for the homeschool corner.
Savanna really wanted to have a "school" of her own so I took an unused corner of our living room and did a little makeover. How do we have an unused corner in an 800 square foot house you ask? Well it's called IKEA living or as I like say, living simply and not collecting a things you don't need or use.
To start, I took an old whiteboard I had as a child and had Savanna paint the frame as the art project of the day. Since I inherited my Dad's aversion to putting holes in the wall I used 3M Velcro fasteners to put it up and then Mac tacked a dollar store number chart above it. They were all out of the alphabet so maybe next time.
The project I had the most fun with was her bookshelf. I love going out to the barn and seeing what I can make with whatever I find. What I found was a wooden apple crate, a scrap of weathered plywood and some old chair legs. Put them together and I think it turned out great.
So far Savanna has collected a children's atlas, encyclopedia, a book about the human body, an A-Z book of animals, one about pets, a whole Reader's Digest series of question and answer books and some free materials from the government on flags and symbols of Canada. If I can't answer her questions with those books there's always Google! On top of all this she has been given loads of workbooks and an entire K-8 set of mathematics and phonics materials. I think we will be well equipped!
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