Preparing to Homeschool: Gathering Supplies
While you don't have to buy a ton of supplies in order to home school, I tend to look for any excuse to shop. I didn't buy a whole lot of stuff before we began homeschooling because I just wasn't sure what we would need and figured I had most of what we truly needed around the house already. That said I've had several ideas in the back of my mind that I wanted to implement once we started. I pulled out all the lists I had made when I was just looking into homeschooling and printed up one master list of all the things I wanted to start ASAP. So, with my list in hand and my two younger boys in tow we started out this morning. We first stopped at our local dollar store, which is a huge treasure trove of household items I thought we had on hand that I found out this week we really didn't. I'm not one to keep and save much of anything, I get into these moods where I systematically clean every closet, drawer, and cupboard in this house and purge anything we...