Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:06 am
my children are currently in 6th & 7th grades, is this an expensive time period?
What about SAT's??
What about SAT's??
Lego robotics...now that sounds like fun!
Our town is tiny, and the next town over is small. We depend on the library a LOT. What we were pleased to discover (now that we are homeschooling and pay attention to all the little "extras") is that our library hosts all sorts of special events. In the last month, my kids have gone to Spa Night (cool stuff to make with kitchen ingredients, lots of science going on there) and free Art Lessons (turns out the new library director was an art major). There are movie nights (always based on books!), story hour for the little ones, craft days, and book discussion groups. We are thrilled with the amount of stuff available to us, even in our little neck of the woods.
Another surprise for me was free textbooks from public school teachers. Found out the free sample books from the publishers were headed for the dumpster. What a shame! We just asked, and they were happy to get them off their shelves. These are brand new student and teacher textbooks. We had several quality books to choose from, so brought a few promising ones home. Don't know if this would work for everyone, but this was in a highschool building where everyone has known our family for years.