Tuesday, August 4, 2009

school daze

I have finally started doing some prep work for our school year (starting in just 4 weeks). I had great intentions of keeping up with math and a few other things over the summer, but with the first trimester woes I lost motivation for doing much other than laying on the couch. So, instead of feeling guilty about all we did not do this summer I decided to enjoy the time off and do some things (like sewing and reading) that I won't have much time for once we start school. But now it is time to start thinking about the school year, and what I need to do now to insure a successful year, and here is where I started...

Yesterday I loaded Rosetta Stone (French) onto the computer and tried out a few lessons, pretty fun, I am looking forward to learning along with the kids.

I made a schedule, now I just need to pray that I can stick with it (I am not really much of a schedule girl)!

And I ran over to Office Max to take advantage of their back to school penny sale. I got everything in this picture for a whopping total of $.76! Yes, that's 6 folders, 3 packs of lined paper, 36 pencils, 3 rulers and 3 Sharpies for all for $.76 (tax included).
All in all, a pretty productive day, hopefully there will be many more of those in the next few weeks!

6 comments:

Alicia K said...

We love Rosetta Stone! We are using it again this year for Spanish. Did you buy the Homeschool Version?

amy said...

Alicia,
Yes, we got the Homeschool Version- I bought it from Sonlight as they had the best price I have seen.

Leslie said...

wow those are awesome school deals...i can not believe the school year is fast approaching already.

Cynthia said...

Amy, Great deals! Are you doing vol.1 or 2 of Konos this year? Are you joining the co-op? We are going with 2 this time.

amy said...

Cynthia, We loved out first year of Konos last year, but with the baby coming this year I knew that I would not be up to it for this school year- instead we are using Sonlight and hoping to suppliment in Konos activities when ever possible. I am sure by January the kids will be begging me to go back to Konos :)

Toni said...

Hi just saw the Konos comment we use Konos as well, we do other things too, so are not exclusive to it.

Congrats on the coming arrival:-)

 

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