Package-palooza '06

The buying frenzy has begun!

Of course Ssgt Eccentric would say his bank statements claim it never ended. That would be a gross exaggeration.
Don't you dare believe anything that spews out of that man's lying mouth.


Well maybe not quite a gross exaggeration, exactly.

More like...

um...

minor?


Okay, okay, he'd be pretty close to the truth.


Okay, he'd be RIGHT.

Are you happy now?

Are you?!! ARE YOU?!!!?!!!




Whoo-hoo, my bipolar swing is finally heading back towards the middle, what a relief. Excuse my breakdown. Back to your regularly scheduled post.



He would surely have attempted to put an end to it once and for all had he been anywhere near to the same continent as his bank account this past year.

But he wasn't.
If there is an upside to war, the uncensored curriculum buying free-for-all is it. It's pretty darn-near impossible to replace a living, breathing husband with an orgy of online shopping, but that doesn't stop me from trying. and trying. and trying.


So, anyway, here are some of my pending deliveries for the month of June...I'll post reviews next month for all my loyal, nonexistant readers.

Artistic Persuits K-3
and coordinating art supplies

Spelling Power
2 spelling power notebooks
This one we really did need.

Walter Canis Inflatus : Water the Farting Dog in Latin
An elitist and highbrow introduction to reading the Latin classics we couldn't live without, I thought. I think Ssgt Eccentric would agree, how could he not? I don't normally allow that sort of mind-rot garbage reading in English (capt undershorts and his ilk springs to mind) but this was way too amusing to miss. The eccentric children are going to love this one.

Latin for Children level A curriculum package that includes book, teacher guide, dvds, activity book, Cds and a history reader

Latina Christiana I teacher's guide and CD
I got a great price on this used, so I got it even though I loathe the southern-accented Cds. We really liked Prima Latina, except for the aforementioned CD, so even though I had already ordered LfC I am thinking of using both, but just skipping the LC workbook and doing excersizes orally or on the markerboard.

A boxed set of 6 prehistoric coloring books and 6 coordinating story tapes to go with them
A prehistoric colorable wall timeline

Children of the Universe
This is a book about the montessori cosmic education curriculum that I am going to tweak and eccentricize to suit my evolving (pun intended) plan for a year of pre-history for ds.

I also ordered a bunch of books and activities to go along with this theme, which is sort of like a SOTW approach to prehistory only technically it is science. Am I confusing you yet? Well, I don't have it all fleshed out yet (hense this book) but basically what we are going to do is cover everything that scientists (and other people) think happened before SOTW 1 chronologically from the beginning of time. Start with the big bang (and genesis and other creation myths) and proceed through evolution. As we hit upon interesting topics we will pull in other books and resources (kits, science experiments, coloring pages etc). The way I figure it we should cover the following topics in roughly this order (a lot depends on our spine which is still TBD, but I am leaning towards the sharing nature with children series Born with a Bang, From Lava to Life and Mammals who Morph, but I haven't seen these in person yet. I am also considering the Usborne Prehistoric World ).

Creation

The Universe

The Solar System
--gravity, day/night cycles, etc

The Earth
--earth science, volcanoes, geology

Life on Earth
--the basics of evolutionary thought
--life science as we encounter them
-----for example, when we learn about one-celled life from our spine, we read about protozoa and bacteria and then we can use our microscope and bacteria farm. Later on we learn about the first creatures of the sea, then amphibians, then reptiles (DINOSAURS!), ad nauseum. We will probably spend several months on the dinosaurs alone. Then prehistoric mammals, and eventually we will hit upon human evolution, and learn about prehistoric humans.