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.