If you are not interested in the details of our home schooling adventure, you can skip this post. :-)

I think I am finally done shopping for books for homeschooling next year, horray! We decided to purchase the rest of the books rather than checking them out from the library. We realized that if we shopped around and bought used books when we could, we would be spending just slightly more than we would on gas to drive to the library each week - and we would get to keep or sell the books later. I ended up spending slightly less than half the amount it would have cost to order everything new (and many of the books I did end up getting new).

There are actually two missing from this picture, but they have been ordered. Starting from the left, we will have 22 books for reading aloud (about a chapter per day), then we have science and social studies books (several pages from each subject per day), then a storybook Bible (several pages each day), then books for learning to read (starting with just a few lines per day), and finally math (1 worksheet per day). My instructor's guides, which include lesson plans, discussion questions for the books and worksheets for language arts and science, are on the right side where you can't see them.