Rainbow

I always find it interesting to see what others order for the year. I just put a big order in and wanted to share, incase anyone is interested. If not, feel free to delete this post.
Part of our school day on Friday was looking through our Rainbow catalog to get some cool ideas of what we wanted to study this year. Caleb said: physics, more about the great outdoors, Maine history and geography. Lundi said: how money works (economics), geology, horses, more Shakespeare and writing.
Harrison said: rocks and crystals, more ETC, microscope observation and dogs. Lauren said: nature, more ETC, babies (don't need to order anything for this one) and crystals.
With this in mind, here is what I ordered:

• Cartoon Guide to Physics
• Exploring Physics
• Physics and the World Around You
• Explode The Code (x5)
• Spectrum Phonics
• Shakespeare for Young Readers
• Any Child Can Write
• Writing Warm-Up
• Pet Tornado
• Geology By Design
• Cave Book
• Rocks and Fossils
• Break Your Own Geodes (x2)
• Glow in the Dark Geodes
• Smithsonian Crystal Growing Kit
• Sticky Stones
• Fossil Collection
• Pocket Full of Pinecones
• Knot Tying Game
• Oh, Wilderness
• Spotters Guide to Birds of Prey
• Spotters Guide to the Night Sky
• Spotters Guide to Rocks and Minerals
• Spotters Guide to the Weather
• The Way Babies Were Made (not for Lauren)
• Where Do Babies Come From? (not for Lauren, either)
• Engineering the City
• Historical Who-Dun-Its
• The Smithsonian Guide to Horses
• A.O.P Switched on Schoolhouse /Maine
• Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

All I have left to get are our regular consumables (math, grammar, history and writing) and we are......good. to. go!

KKS

Book It - Free Pizza

For anyone who is not familiar with the Pizza Hut Book It Program, it's a wonderful way to encourage reading for children in grades K-6. They have certain reading requirements for each month (a 6 month long program starting in October). Every month in which they complete the requirements, they receive a certificate for a free personal pan pizza! As long as your child loves pizza it's great fun and motivation (not that they all need motivation, but what's a little reward anyway)!

There is a pre-school program, but you cannot do it from your home as it's designed as a classroom only program. I'm going to look into if we can do it with a group of pre-school aged kids through home school... though you can't do it individually. It only runs 8 weeks and starts in March.

You can do it individually for your K-6 grade child. Just got to the link below and sign up to get your materials mailed directly to your house! Remember, it starts in October... so sign up right away!

Also, under the teacher link, there are things to help - printouts and so on. Check it out... sign up... and I'll let you know if there is a way to do the pre-school group if we get them together!

PIZZA HUT BOOK IT PROGRAM

This is the one....

OK....here is my favorite assignment sheet. I love how it has all the subjects listed, then also room to add your own. I have used it with multiple kids, I just keep them in a binder behind a tab with their name. I also put a copy in their binder so they can work independently.
http://www.geocities.com/gpielstick/Homeschooling_Forms.html
KKS