Lifepacs Science Grade 8
Complete set, Units 1-10 plus Teacher's Guide and Science Experiment VHS tape. Unit 1 book was used, but erased as well as I could. There are 4 pages with a few marks in pen. The Teachers guide has a mark on the back cover. Otherwise the books are in great condition aside from shelf wear. Asking $27ppd for Priority Mail shipping & Delivery Confirmation.

Math U See Zeta
Includes teacher's manual and DVD. The DVD has no marks or scratches on it, the manual does have 4 marks from a pencil going through the first few pages as well as wear from being used. (I think one of the kids were punching holes in paper and the book happened to be underneath.)

Asking $35ppd for Priority Mail shipping & Delivery Confirmation.

PayPal Only.  (And regarding shipping, I prefer not using Media Mail as I have had major problems recently with packages not arriving.)

Thanks!

We did quite well last week with keeping up on Math. We did *skip* math work on Friday though, but we still completed a lot. Here is what is on the agenda for this week.

Monday, 9-29: Math - 2 lessons, possibly 3 if that goes quickly enough.
LArts/Reading: 4 pages Word Roots; begin reading Runemarks.
Science: Begin reading Cartoon History of Chemistry; Begin reading Dr Arts Guide to Planet Earth, Ch 1.

Tuesday, 9-30: Math - 2 lessons
LArts/Reading: 4 pages Word Roots; read Runemarks.
Science: Reading Cartoon History of Chemistry & Planet Earth, Ch 2; possibly watch first dvd of BBC's Planet Earth.

Wednesday, 10-1: Math - Final test, and that will be that for that book. hehe
Amanda has her first Photography class today.

Thursday, 10-2: LArts/Reading: 4 pages Word Roots; read Runemarks.
Science: Finish reading Cartoon History of Chemistry; read Ch 3 of Planet Earth.

Friday, 10-3: Co-op

Week Two - Here is what is on the schedule for this week.

Monday, 22nd: 2-3 lessons MUS; 4pgs Word Roots; Reading. (Me - I have to get materials ready for Earth Scouts.)

Tuesday, 23rd: Earth Scouts meeting; Reading; 4 pgs Word Roots.

Wednesday, 24th: 2-3 lessons MUS; 4pgs Word Roots; Reading; possibly some form of art.

Thursday, 25th: 2-3 lessons MUS; 4pgs Word Roots; Reading.

Friday, 26th: 2-3 lessons MUS (and book should be completed); 4pgs Word Roots; Reading.

I know that seems like a lot of math, but they only do 1 practice sheet and 1 review sheet, then the test. And if the DO the work and not goof around, doing 3 lessons would only take about 35 minutes tops. And we really need to get this book finished. LOL So once we do, math will be not as hectic. ;)

Our first week "back to school" didn't go too bad. We *should* have gotten a little more math finished, but all in it went well.
Monday, 15th, Amanda had her follow up appt. with the dentist that removed her wisdom teeth. All looked good. The kids had completed a few pages of Word Roots, a few pages of math (Key To), and we read one of our library books, Life on Earth: The Story of Evolution.

Tuesday, 16th, they completed 2 lessons from MUS, 4 pgs Word Roots. Then we went outside for awhile. It was too nice to stay indoors.

Wednesday, 17th, they did some more Word Roots, then we headed off to the park for an hour. We thought maybe some other local HSers would come, but none did so we didn't stay too long. The kids get bored of no one else is there. We came home and began reading another library book, This is My Planet: The Kids' Guide to Global Warming.

Thursday, 18th, they did a few more Word Roots pages and another MUS lesson. Then one of their friends was coming over for a bit for some Xbox gaming (Rock Band and Call of Duty 4).

Friday, 19th, was co-op day. Jake has 2 classes: Wizardology and Kitchen Chemistry. Amanda hangs with the teens and Kitchen Chemistry. I teach both classes. So in Wizardology I have 4 boys. Yesterday we painted the wands we made last session, and did some reading the Wizardology book. This class goes SOO quickly with the boys, I hardly felt like we did anything at all. LOL Then in chemistry we did a really fun color experiment with food dye and M&M's. I'll post the link so you can check it out too. All the kids had fun, of course they were hoping for more Bubble Bombs from last session. ;)

So all in all a fun productive week. :) I'll post what our schedule for this week coming looks like in a minute.

Well if you read the previous post, you'll know I had wanted to start back last week.. but since Amanda had oral surgery, that was pushed back. So Monday the 15th will be our start date for the 2008-09 School Year. Here is what I hope to have completed:

Math - We never finished the last few pages in MUS Zeta from last year, so that needs worked on. I want to have 10 pages of their Key to Decimals book done.

L. Arts - 10 pgs in the Word Roots books. These take all of 2 minutes per page. They actually do more like 4 pgs a day, but I'll just stick with 10 because.. well just because. LOL We have SEVERAL library books to get read so we'll be finishing those up.

Science we plan on doing the books based on Joy Hakim's Story of Science but I think we'll start that in October. I have some more things to read of Dr. Art Susseman so we'll do that. I want to work our way through the Planet Earth DVD's as well this month.

History we'll be doing the BF Medieval times we didn't use last year. But again I think we'll start this in Oct. or later in Sept. Not next week for certain. hehe

Then I also need to get our next Kitchen Chemistry experiement ready for co-op next Friday. The kids I forgot to bring notebooks for them, so we need to get last weeks experiment transferred over so they'll have everything in a spiral book. Plus they'll be keeping logs from our experiments we do at home as well.

So I am looking forward to getting back into things. Let's hope for a year full of fun learning. :D