Latest Orders of Homeschool Materials

Here is a combined list of my latest three orders of homeschool materials from Amazon.ca, Amazon.com, and Christianbook.com.

This post is unlikely to be helpful to you as it is certainly incomplete. During the next month or two, I will collect the titles of ALL the materials my children will be using in each grade and post them under the appropriate homeschooling grades and subjects topics in the far right sidebar.

Since we already have an extensive home library for grades 9 and under, I need to mostly concentrate on collecting materials for my oldest child. I am very thankful for hand-me-down clothes. Hand-me-down books are even better!

Disclaimer: I should say that I have not examined all of the following books, so after receiving them, I may decide they are not appropriate.

Grade 2

(We already have a ton of literature for this level. I plan to post the complete list later. The idea here was to throw in a few “girl” books, and some other books we didn’t have. The complete list of grade two materials will be here http://parentingfreedom.com/grade2.)

The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread ~ Kate Dicamillo CDN$ 8.15
Princess Academy ~ Shannon Hale CDN$ 8.95
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle ~ Betty MacDonald $5.99
Matilda ~Roald Dahl $6.99
Madeleine Takes Command ~ Ethel C. Brill $9.99
Junie B. Jones First Boxed Set Ever! ~ Barbara Park CDN$ 17.49
Gooney Bird Greene ~ Lois Lowry CDN$ 7.43
Mr. Popper’s Penguins ~ Richard Atwater CDN$ 7.99
Indian in the Cupboard ~ Lynne Reid Banks CDN$ 8.99
Rufus M. ~ Eleanor Estes CDN$ 7.00
The Egypt Game ~ Zilpha Keatley Snyder CDN$ 9.29
Easy Grammar Grade 2 Workbook ~ Wanda Phillips $11.99
The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name ~ Sally Lloyd-Jones $12.99
60 Bible Verses That Rock The World 3 CD Set $15.99
Addition Songs CD
Multiplication Songs CD
Division Songs CD

Grade 5

(We already have a ton of literature for this level. I plan to post the complete list later. The complete list of grade five materials will be here http://parentingfreedom.com/grade5.)

Rowan and the Travelers 2 ~ Emily Rodda CDN$ 7.99
Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystal 3 ~ Emily Rodda CDN$ 7.50
Rowan and the Zebak 4 ~ Emily Rodda CDN$ 7.99
Rowan and the Ice Creepers 5 ~ Emily Rodda CDN$ 7.99
The Witch of Blackbird Pond ~ Elizabeth George Speare CDN$ 8.36
Old Yeller ~ Fred Gipson CDN$7.50
Show Me Thy Ways, Grade 5 Textbook ~ Gertrude Hoeksema $16.99
Show Me Thy Ways, Grade 6 Textbook ~ Gertrude Hoeksema $16.99
Vocabulary from Classical Roots Book A (Grade 7) ~ Norma Fifer $9.99
Easy Grammar Grade 5 Workbook 2007 ~ Wanda Phillips $12.99
States And Capital Songs CD ~ Kathy Troxel $12.95

Grade 10

(Unfortunately, the Veritas Press Grade 10 Omnibus will not be ready for this year, so I have to come up with my own literature list. The following is incomplete. They are not necessarily appropriate either, until we examine them. The complete list of grade ten materials will be here http://parentingfreedom.com/grade10.)

Penguin Classics Crucible ~ Christopher Bigsby CDN$ 15.00
Penguin Classics Grapes Of Wrath ~ John Steinbeck, Robert Demott CDN$ 15.33
Flowers for Algernon ~ Daniel Keyes CDN$ 8.99
Only The Names Remain: The Cherokees and The Trail of Tears ~ Alex W Bealer CDN$ 9.99
The Dark Frigate ~ Charles Boardman Hawes CDN$ 12.59
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman ~ Richard Feynman CDN$ 14.60
Tomorrow Series #1: Tomorrow, When the War Began ~ John Marsden CDN$ 10.79
The Giver ~ Lois Lowry CDN$ 8.36
The Broken Blade ~ William Durbin CDN$ 7.43
The Golden Compass ~ Philip Pullman CDN$ 9.29
Unnatural Death ~ Dorothy L Sayers CDN$ 9.99
Lord Peter : The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories ~ Dorothy L. Sayers $10.88
2001 Space Odyssey ~ Arthur Clarke CDN$ 9.89
A Canticle for Leibowitz ~ Walter Miller CDN$ 9.29
Summer of the Monkeys ~ Wilson Rawls CDN$ 8.36
The King’s Fifth ~ Scott O’Dell CDN$ 7.95
Three Men in a Boat ~ Jerome K. Jerome CDN$ 5.62
C.S. Lewis Space Trilogy ~ C.S. Lewis $29.99
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems: Dover Thrift Editions ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge $1.19
In Search of Honor ~ Donna Hess $6.29
Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery ~ Eric Metaxas $10.99
Ivanhoe ~ Walter Scott, Graham Tulloch $7.99
The Law ~ Frederic Bastiat $9.99
Fallen Angels ~ Walter Dean Myers $6.99
Ideas Have Consequences ~ Richard M. Weaver $13.50
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot ~ Russell Kirk CDN$ 17.61
Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works ~ Newt Gingrich CDN$ 18.02
America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It ~ Mark Steyn CDN$ 13.51
America: The Last Best Hope Volumes I & II ~ William J. Bennett $31.49
100 Best-Loved Poems ~ Philip Smith CDN$ 1.75
The Student’s Hume: A History of England from the Earliest Times to the Revolution in 1688 ~ David Hume CDN$ 35.43
What Color Is Your Parachute For Teens ~ Richard Bolles CDN$ 14.24
Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist ~ John Piper CDN$ 14.59
Rosetta Stone V3 French Level 3 Personal Edition CDN$ 259.00
Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary ~ Oxford CDN$ 40.92
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Volumes 1-2 ~ Richard P. Feynman CDN$ 50.09
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Volumes 3-4 ~ From Crystal Structure to Magnetism and Electrical and Magnetic Behavior ~ Richard P. Feynman CDN$ 50.09
The Feynman Lectures on Physics ~ Richard Phillips Feynman $63.69
Vocabulary from Classical Roots Book E (Grade 11) ~ Norma Fifer $9.99
100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know ~ American Heritage Dictionaries Editors $4.99
High School Essay Intensive: SAT Preparation & College Application Essay Strategies (4 DVDs & CD-Rom) $79.00
Secrets of Great Communicators: Simple, Powerful Strategies for Reaching the Heart of Your Audience, Teaching Kit ~ Jeff Myers $47.99
Lifepac Electives: Essentials of Communication, Complete Set $27.96
Home Study Kit ~ Saxon Calculus, Second Edition $55.49

For grade 9 this spring: How Should We Then Live?, DVD ~ Francis Schaeffer $49.99

I ordered these two Canadian workbook sets from ADS.
Grade 5 - School of Tomorrow (ACE) Canadian Social Studies Complete Set $72
Grade 10 - ADS Canadian Social Studies (History and Government) Complete Set $57

In addition to those mentioned in previous posts (see Homeschooling Academics), my oldest will also be studying these Canadian history books in grade 10:
Canada A National History ~ Margaret Conrad, Alvin Finkel
Readings in Canadian History Post-Confederation ~ R. Douglas Francis, Donald B. Smith
Canada - A Nation ~ Lower & Chafe

This is the Physics book that follows Saxon Calculus that my oldest will be using in grade 10. I ordered it from a used book dealer.
The Mechanical Universe Introduction to Mechanics and Heat (1985) ~ Olenick, Apostol, Goodstein

I picked up some books at Costco.
Grade 5 - The Spiderwick Chronicles (Books 1-5)
Grade 9 - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens ~ Sean Covey

I want to get this DVD set from IEW.
IEW Advanced Communication Series $60

Another wish would be the Latin 2 and 3 from Rosetta Stone.

Once we finally get the new 2008-09 Veritas Press catalog, I will make the last order. Then I will organize the lists together properly.

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