I think the first thing that striking about the KG curriculum in the Waldorf philosophy is the absence of any 'academic' work. There are no workbooks, textbooks or even read aloud books. Instead the curriculum is filled with stories to tell, songs to sing, music to listen to, crafts to do, and toys to play with.

It's that time of the year again! I place our curriculum and homeschool orders just before school starts and again in the winter. There's no better way to brighten your school with these rich colored supplies! The wool felt our favorite go-to supply for many of the homeschool projects we do.

Grab a cup of coffee or hot chocolate because this is a massive curriculum haul! You won't find a curriculum haul quite like this, I promise. Curriculum for our homeschool is any material we use to enhance our homeschool experience from literature to hands-on materials.

Hands down the most beautiful homeschool supplies are the ones you'll find at Waldorf suppliers. Not only are the items fairly unique to most academic settings, the colors and materials are breathtaking. You can't help but smile when you see them, and using them will make your heart sing.

This may look like a big homeschool haul but compared to my previous homeschool hauls, I call this a medium sized one. I'm purchasing items mostly for our science units. I do stock up on supplies for our handwork projects this year which will include embroidery work, knitting and wet felting.

When starting out on your Waldorf journey, you might want to begin with a Waldorf inspired curriculum if you are home educating. While I can’t say from experience how the following curricula fair, I can tell you that since 2004, we’ve been relying on Live Education! Waldorf curriculum for our needs.

This is more than a book haul. I give you snippets of info into the Waldorf philosophy and how we intend to use these books. The concepts in these books are nothing new to us; we done form drawing, watercolor painting and movement math, but these books are going to help provide more background information and definitely boost the inspiration. I'm super excited about them!!

Artistic representations of lessons is a common practice in Waldorf education. Often, main lessons will include an illustration. While we have used various art mediums from chalks to watercolors, we often settle with color pencils in middle school and crayons in the early years.

It's that time of year again...back to school shopping! This isn't your typical back to school haul. This isn't your typical curriculum haul either. My homeschool hauls feature everything from educational toys to innovative science kits. I love hands on projects and love adding living books to our unit studies and main lesson blocks.

Twice a year, we make large curriculum and homeschool purchases. While few of the items were actual necessities, they are all educational and inspirational. We do a lot of hands on learning in our homeschool so half of what we order are materials for projects and activities and the other half are books!

Oh my! New books are here as well as main lesson notebooks, fountain pens, hands-on kits and much more! Dive into these new materials with me! Many are from Amazon, but the Waldorf supplies are from my favorite Waldorf vendor: A Child's Dream.

These wooden educational products by Treasures from Jennifer are some of the most beautiful pieces in our homeschool room. They are well made, durable and all natural. They are also expensive and take up lots of room.

We got play silks from eBay several years ago and thought it was time to invigorate our silks with new ones. The kids use these for dress up, forts, capes and pretend play of all kinds. Our old silks have held up so well to kid play; they've been tugged, tied, draped and pulled and yet have never torn. I have every confidence that these new silks will do just the same.

The materials from this homeschool haul are primarily from A Child's Dream and Michael's Craft Store, with some books, games and pencils coming from Amazon and JetPens.

Here's one order that didn't come in in time for my EPIC homeschool haul recently. This order is from Waldorf Supplies and includes art portfolios, glockenspiels, books and watercolor paper.

A Child's Dream has some of my favorite Waldorf supplies for our homeschool. This haul includes a charming peg doll book, peg dolls in a variety of shapes and sizes, finger puppet bases, felt, Lyra watercolor paints, soy-based paint, and more.

Even when I'm on a trip or vacation, I manage to make the souvenirs educational based. And I even got to check out a local thrift shop (looking for baskets for my sister who was too ill to go shopping), and found some books to accompany past and upcoming homeschool units.

When it comes to homeschooling and educational supplies, A Child’s Dream is one vendor I’ve been shopping at for years. As we conclude our final years, I’m sharing some materials that have been especially useful throughout our years of education.

Looking for felt that's of better quality than the acrylic felt from craft stores but more affordable than 100% wool felt? How about a wool blend? Or bamboo felt! I found Over The River Felt during a search on Amazon and later contacted the company to see if they'd like to donate products for my felt comparison video.

New yarn means new projects, and before I got to filming this haul, we already got started on our new projects. We are busy knitting away during these cooler months with longer nights and cozy days.

Is winter time a creative time for you? With shorter cooler days, I find myself indoors more and having the supplies to get creative helps explore the creative bug that takes over during these months.

These are arguably the most beautiful books you've ever seen. The books by Katie Scott are magnificent! The vintage looking illustrations evoke a sense of being in a natural history museum. It's captivating and inspiring at the same time.

It's that time of year again...back to school shopping! This isn't your typical back to school haul. This isn't your typical curriculum haul either. My homeschool hauls feature everything from educational toys to innovative science kits. I love hands on projects and love adding living books to our unit studies and main lesson blocks.

Twice a year, we make large curriculum and homeschool purchases. While few of the items were actual necessities, they are all educational and inspirational. We do a lot of hands on learning in our homeschool so half of what we order are materials for projects and activities and the other half are books!

Oh my! New books are here as well as main lesson notebooks, fountain pens, hands-on kits and much more! Dive into these new materials with me! Many are from Amazon, but the Waldorf supplies are from my favorite Waldorf vendor: A Child's Dream.

Twice a year, we place huge homeschool orders and this time is for a number of books. Curious to see the books and the contents? Plus the total price? I'll show you each book, tell you why we chose it and how it will be used in our homeschool and most importantly, I'll show you the insides of all these books!

This may look like a big homeschool haul but compared to my previous homeschool hauls, I call this a medium sized one. I'm purchasing items mostly for our science units. I do stock up on supplies for our handwork projects this year which will include embroidery work, knitting and wet felting.

We've come to the end of the school year and with that, the last homeschool haul of the year. While I'll still have other hauls planned for the following year, they won't be as extensive as the ones you've seen in the past. Needless to say, we have more than enough resources for this year and the years to come, and for next year, we have something different planned with our funding.

It's that time of year again...the time where my wishlist is bursting and finally books and resources are being moved from the wishlist to the shopping cart and what follows after that is pure happiness as all these inspiring supplies start trickling in.

Everytime I think I'm done buying books, I find more I think I like. In some cases, I see other homeschoolers using these gems in their homeschool and decide we want to add them to our library. Other times, Amazon recommends books based on our purchases and what other customers bought. Enter the world of algorithms.

Why buy books? We buy books for our homeschool main lesson blocks and unit studies. We love books! Granted many of the selections you can find at the library. We did include a few kits in this haul, but primarily, we bought books. We used our educational funding to purchase these materials. We shopped at Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Treasures by Jennifer.

Why buy books when you can get them from the library? It's a question I get often, since I tend to buy our books for homeschool rather than check them out from the library. But it wasn't always like that. I used to check them out from the library in the past, too. Why the change? And is it right for you?

More books? Didn't I say I was going to ease up on buying books? I changed my mind. At least for the time being. So join me as I walk you through this latest collection of books, kits and other materials for our homeschool unit studies in Physics, Alaska, Middle Ages, Silk Road, West Africa, Literacy, Math and early childhood education

At the start of the school year, we start receiving a lot of our homeschool supplies that are going to be used for the year in our various unit studies and lessons. This haul contains many books that are going to be used for our Horse unit that I'm putting together for my now 9 year old daughter.

It's time for a new unit! We save our science units for the spring, and to kick off this new unit, I have a curriculum haul to share with you from Acorn Naturalists. Acorn Naturalists is one of my favorite places to pick up curriculum for science. They have wide variety of material.

More living books! Yes please. I keep saying I'll divert my funding from books to use for other resources, but here we are, back to buying books. I love books that are engaging, well written and beautifully illustrated. This haul is no different.

Even when I'm on a trip or vacation, I manage to make the souvenirs educational based. And I even got to check out a local thrift shop (looking for baskets for my sister who was too ill to go shopping), and found some books to accompany past and upcoming homeschool units.

Our Fall 2024 Homeschool Haul is primarily composed of books and resources for our two upcoming units of Chemistry and Anatomy. I have separate videos for Anatomy (both the Waldorf approach and a unit study approach) and Chemistry (both the Waldorf approach and a unit study approach).

This is a smaller haul compared to the huge ones I have at the start of the year or mid-year, but it's still a lot of delicious homeschool goodies. We are planning for a few science main lesson blocks: mineralogy, oceanography, astronomy and physics, a few history blocks: Roman history, middle ages and maybe Greek mythology, and we'll round out the year with geometry and maybe creative writing.

Well it's a happy day when you get a homeschool haul and you didn't realize you even ordered anything, er, I mean you forgot you ordered things...

I've assembled a number of supplies for us to use for our upcoming physics lessons. For physics main lesson block involves doing a demonstration each lesson, followed by drawing and writing about it in the following lessons.

Enjoy these late additions to our homeschool haul! These are a few items I purchased for our Anatomy and Chemistry Main lesson blocks with the exception of Oceanarium which I plan to use for our opening activities.

I’m excited to share Insect Anatomy, the newest book by Julia Rothman. Over the years, her books (Nature Anatomy, Food Anatomy, & Ocean Anatomy) have become staples in our homeschool, especially as inspiration for our main lesson illustrations. We’ve used Nature Anatomy, Ocean Anatomy, and Food Anatomy many times, mainly because the illustrations are simple, beautiful, and easy to replicate even if drawing isn’t your strength.

We live in California where we have many choices in education. We chose to enroll with a charter school that provides funding for educational materials and classes. Prior to joining our charter school we were homeschooling independently and paying for our supplies out of pocket (or getting them from the library or second-hand).

Twice a year, we make large curriculum and homeschool purchases. While few of the items were actual necessities, they are all educational and inspirational. We do a lot of hands on learning in our homeschool so half of what we order are materials for projects and activities and the other half are books!

Finding high school material for a highschooler that wasn't a traditional textbook was not easy to find. This series of books by Joy Hakim covers US history from pre-history to 2008 in 10 well-written and illustrated volumes.

Looking for a complete history of the US? I have five American History series that would be suitable for all elementary and high school. The History of US by Joy Hakim would work for students as young as 5th grade through high school. The books are sold separately or as a set and you can also purchase student workbooks and teaching guides to accompany each volume.

I debated whether I should have a separate unit for Native American because the stories and history of the Native Americans spans the whole history of the US. This is a small compilation of supplies that would stand alone as a unit, but what would be more authentic is to distribute these materials over all our other American History unit, as currently each unit only has a little bit of relevant Native American material.

We are kicking off our American History units with the Colonial times. We did an introduction to American History with a small unit on Columbus, but this is our first official unit of a series of units that will span several months.

I love books. I love paper. I love pretty pictures and beautiful words. I love it when someone finds a great book and shares it. These books are mostly from recommendations from other YouTubers. Please take the time to check out these other fantastic channels and send some love their way.

More books? Didn't I say I was going to ease up on buying books? I changed my mind. At least for the time being. So join me as I walk you through this latest collection of books, kits and other materials for our homeschool unit studies in Physics, Alaska, Middle Ages, Silk Road, West Africa, Literacy, Math and early childhood education

What happens when you forgot you placed a homeschool supplies order? You're a little confused, but you get extra happy mail! And a unique book haul where I say often, "I can't remember this book!"

The Westward Movement spans over 100 years in American History, so within this unit, there are other subunits: American Civil War, Lewis & Clark Expedition and California History & Gold Rush. Even so, I still have a lot of material, and may choose to split this unit up further.

If you want to choose your own books and projects to tailor your curriculum for your child and family, this is just right for you! Choosing material for homeschool unit studies and Waldorf main lesson blocks is one of my favorite things to do in homeschool.

This is a smaller haul compared to the huge ones I have at the start of the year or mid-year, but it's still a lot of delicious homeschool goodies. We are planning for a few science main lesson blocks: mineralogy, oceanography, astronomy and physics, a few history blocks: Roman history, middle ages and maybe Greek mythology, and we'll round out the year with geometry and maybe creative writing.

Well here we are at the end of the school year and I have just one last homeschool haul to share with you. Actually, just as I posted this video, I saw that I had a few more books coming in so I'll have just a few more books to share with you. The materials in this haul are for our history and science units.

California history including the gold rush make up this unit. It's a mix of biographies, historical fiction, resource books, kits and a 'how to draw' book. I think I'm most looking forward to the kit we got for panning for gold. We also really like the 'Who Was..." books for their simplicity, content and illustrations.

Of all the units we've put together, I think I've gotten the most supplies for this one! So much that I had to split it up into multiple units: Columbus, the Pilgrims, the American Revolution, the Civil War & Slavery, the Westward Movement, the Lewis & Clark Expedition and ending with California History and the Gold Rush.

Pulling together books for our American History Unit, I knew I wanted a substantial amount of material on the Lewis and Clark expedition.

This is the last homeschool haul of 2020-2021. These last items came in a week or two after my previous haul and were supposed to be part of it. This haul is just books and a few of them are hand-me down.

While putting together our units for history this year, I discovered that this unit on the American Civil War and Slavery was quite a bit smaller than our other units. After shooting this video, I went to Rainbow Resource and ordered more supplement material to complement this unit. I ordered historical play figures, books and games.

Fatima al Samarqandi is truly remarkable. Her life and achievements are noble and inspiring. Women biographies are generally lacking, so I'm thrilled to see this book and pleased to include it in our home library and part of our history unit. Fatima lived during the 12 century North Africa, so it perfectly complemented our history units for late Middle Ages and our Golden Age of Islam unit.

When choosing English literature books for my 9th grader, I looked for ones with a historical theme, set in a time period we were studying or were American classics. That way, the books my son was reading for English complemented his US History studies.

Do you recall the opening pages of the book Half Magic? The children trek to the library at the start of summer and collect more books than they can carry. They walk home and set their books up and begin reading.

The school year is barely over and already serious planning for the next year is well underway. At the end of the year, a local library bookstore has its annual end-of-year sale (that would be end of the school year sale) where everything is only 25 cents! Woohoo! Homeschoolers rejoice! Not only is it thrilled to hunt for books, but it's double exciting to get them for such a great deal.

What if you could cozy up on the couch surrounded by a stunning library and be handed one book after another that is sure to delight you and your kids. Sounds too good to be true? That's exactly what you'll be getting each month with Build Your Library's family book subscription crate.

Here are 20 female role models who are sure to inspire girls and women. Women should be celebrated every day, but on March 8th, International Women's Day, it's a must to acknowledge the courage, perseverance and dedication of women in history who have paved the way for discovery and change.

Our homeschool runs on books among other things. Having a home library takes time and money to put together. While there are many books I buy new, there are many I buy second hand from thrift stores or the library bookstore. I have my eye out for certain kinds of books, so it's become easy to for me to browse the books and pull the ones I think will work for us.

Because we buy most of our homeschool supplies through our charter school, I don't usually buy things on our own. Today is an exception! While at the library, we visited the bookstore and discovered they were right in the middle of a huge sale!

Who doesn't love the Curious George series! These are the level 1 and level 2 readers from Rainbow Resource. They have simple storylines, bright illustrations and come with activities included at the back of the book that relates to the story.

Since starting our unit studies, I know which books to look for. The library bookstore is suddenly a treasure trove of education material available for great deals for those who wish to sift through the thousands of books they offer. I go directly to the kids section and browse the non-fiction books.

I love using art supplies in our homeschool. I'm sharing with you some of the products we use often: Distress Inks, non-stick scissors and hand-made paper from Nepal. All the supplies were purchased from Blick Art Supplies.

How cute are these dollhouse furniture pieces? And for only a dollar! If you are near a Dollar Tree, be sure to look for this dollhouse furniture because it's well made, made from wood and has exquisite detail!

Want to get a lot for a little? Check out the new products at Target's Dollar Spot. There's a new range of school supplies, office supplies, calendars and Valentine products. With most things ringing up at just a dollar, these supplies are worth it!

Oriental Art Supply carries the most beautiful supplies for Chinese brush painting, Sumie and Calligraphy. The materials look beautiful online, but nothing compared to their stunning quality in person. The book 108 Flowers Book 4 by Ning Yeh shows step by step instructions on how to paint a beautiful assortment of flowers.

Well goodness me...here I am talking for nearly an hour about a handful of pencils. Granted these pencils are soooo talk worthy!! But because they are brand new to me, I did give occasional wrong information...sorry.

And here it is! Here is our second haul and after several months of using these amazing pencils from CW Pencil Enterprise, I can tell you we are loving the scented pencils and the Blackwing pencils which we bought in black, white and natural (each having a different hardness or smoothness).