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.

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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.

I recently picked up four beautiful picture books about tribes native to Southern California, and even though they were originally on loan, the moment I flipped through them I knew I needed to own them. Because we live in Southern California, these stories feel especially meaningful. The first book I opened was a Tataviam Creation Story, written by Alan Salazar and illustrated by Mona Lewis.