It's Always a Good Day When the Amazon Box Arrives

I love it when the mail carrier actually pulls into our driveway, because that usually means something good is coming. Today it was the Amazon shipment with four books I ordered to add to our resources for the Ancient Mesopotamia unit.













I'm really excited about the Ancient Science book. There are some good projects in there for all of the Ancient Cultures we will be studying. The Boy is really excited about Rostam, because it's a comic. He was so excited, he couldn't wait, and already started reading it.




I move further and further away from 'schooly' with each year. The spelling workbooks got tossed because the more they read, the more they learn to spell. The phonics program got tossed when I skipped through all the worksheets and just pulled out the chapter tests one day and no one had a problem with them, even the ones that were scheduled to be done months in the future. I just see no sense in using them when they aren't needed.



I don't like the term 'living books' but I love the concept, and our shelves are overflowing now with this type of material instead of textbooks.



I kept the things they liked. All of them like Queen Homeschool's cursive writing program because of the artwork. I should do a review of that program soon, because even for secular homeschoolers, their cursive writing program is pretty fabulous.