Used Curriculum Sale!! - Life update soon...

Settling in to our new life... and getting ready for our 2013-2014 school year. I have been organizing and cleaning and thanks to Jessica's Curriculum Sale Blog Hop, clearing off the shelves of books and such that we no longer need or use in our home education. So - before I get back to any kind of regular blogging, we will start our year and hopefully, do it a little bit "lighter"!!

So, without further ado...

If you are interested in purchasing any of the items listed, please leave a comment listing the books you would like, along with your email address, and I will send you your total, with shipping, along with my PayPal info. (If you'd rather not leave your email address, you can email me directly at afamilytreehouse{AT}gmail[dot]com. But, please DO leave a comment so that I make sure to find your email (in case it shows up in "junk"!!)

Shipping will be a flat rate of:

• $5.00 for up to 2 lbs
• $6.00 for up to 4 lbs
• $8.00 for up to 6 lbs. 

to cover the cost of packaging and shipping in the continental U.S. If your selections would happen to weigh over 6 lbs., I'll let you know the shipping costs. And please feel free to do "Let's Make A Deal"... I have tossed prices out here based on what I paid, what they are going for now, how much I used them or if they only sat on a shelf with good intentions... The only thing "set in stone" around here is our house and the 10 Commandments!!

Thank you!

LOWERING PRICES - CHECK THEM OUT!!!!

Onions in My Boots - NEW - $6 SOLD
Easy as 1, 2, 3 - A Cathoic Overview of Science for the Primary Grades - Like New - $3 Sale Pending
Science 2 for Little Folks - Like New - $6 SOLD
Catholic Stories from Science 2 - Good/Acceptable, cover wear, no writing, older edition - $2 SOLD
The Original Backyard Scientist - Like New - $2
Backyard Scientist Series One - Like New - $2
Kindergarten Science for Young Catholics - Like NEW - $2
Science 2 for Young Catholics - Very Good, some cover wear - $3 SOLD
How to Do a Science Project - Used Library Copy - FREE WITH OTHER PURCHASE
Developing Critical Thinking Through Science Book 1 - Like New - $3
Science Interactions: First Course - Like New, School Text, school stamp inside - $7




Evan-Moor

• Write a Super Sentence- NEW - $3
• How to Write a Story - NEW - $3
• Writing Poetry with Children - NEW - $3
• High-Frequency Words: Stories and Activities, Level C - NEW - $3
• Planet Earth, Grades 4-6+ - NEW - $3
• Simple Chemistry, Grades 4-6 - NEW - $3

Creative Communications - New - $4
My Catholic Speller - Level C - NEW - $7 SOLD



Celebrate Special Days - OOP, Acceptable, cover wear - $2
Summer Fun!: 60 Activities for a Kid-Perfect Summer - Like New - $3 SOLD



The New Saint Joseph First Communion Catechism - NEW (in shrink wrap) duplicate - $1
Jesus Our Guide: Activity Guide - Book 4- NEW - $5 SOLD
Who am I?: Pre-K/K, Teacher's Manual (Image of God Series) - 1st Ed. OOP - NEW - $9



Blue Knights Boys' Club Leader's Guide Year 2 - NEW - $6
Blue Knights Boys' Club Member Guide Year 2 - NEW - $3 SOLD
Little Flowers Girls' Club Leader's Guide Wreath IV - NEW - $6
Little Flowers Girls' Club Activity Book Wreath III & IV - NEW - $3 SOLD



The Essential Book of Presidential Trivia - NEW - $3
Dinah Zike's Big Book of World History - NEW - $10



Complete Book of Art Ideas - NEW - $8
The Usborne Art Treasury - NEW, hard cover, dust jacket has shelf wear - $7
Draw Write Now, Book 1 - Acceptable, some pencil markings inside (will take pics of inside marking if you'd like) - $2 SOLD


You Can Teach Yourself Guitar - Like New - $8 SOLD
You Can Teach Yourself Guitar - DVD - Played 3 or 4 times/Like New - $5 SOLD


Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum - Like New - $5 SOLD
Catholic Education: Homeward Bound - Like New - $6 SOLD


101 Amusing Ways to Develop Your Child's Thinking Skills and Creativity - Acceptable, spots on cover - $1
The 100 Best Brain-Boosters - Very Good - $1


The Days of Laura Ingalls Wilder by T. L. Tedrow

• Children of Promise (Book 2) - Used Library Copy - $0.25
• Home to the Prairie (Book 4) - Used Library Copy - $0.25
• Good Neighbors (Book Three) - Used Library Copy - $0.25

TAKE ALL 3 by T. L. Tedrow for FREE WITH ANY PURCHASE


Literature Notes: The Mitten - Like New - FREE WITH ANY PURCHASE
Creating Curriculum Using Children's Picture Books - Like New - $7


Open Court Reading: Level 4 - School Edition, Very Good Condition, Only recorded one student use in 07/08 (besides my child at home)- $3 Sale Pending
The Accidental Zucchini: An Unexpected Alphabet - NEW - $3


Chewing Gum in Holy Water: A Childhood in the Heart of Italy - Like New - $1 SOLD
Story Craft by the Author of Hank the Cowdog - Like New, autographed by the author - $2
Amazing Grace for Mothers - Like New - $3
Prayerfully Expecting - Like New - $2


Raising Happy Kids - Like New - $1
Living Aboard Your RV - Some Shelf Wear - $1
RV Vacations For Dummies - Shelf Wear - $1



Learn Spanish Together - Like New contents, box damage by opening, - $6


Let's Sing and Learn in Spanish, Book and CD Edition - Gently Used - $3


Play and Learn Spanish with Audio CD - Possible CD Scratch? (will update after I listen to the whole CD) - $...


Rapanese (The Musical Method of Learning Spanish), Series 1, CD - One small skip when repeating one phrase on the 3rd or 4th time - $1


Managers of Their Chores - Like New, all parts included for 4 ChorePacks only out of the shrink wrap for looking over the book - $12 Sale Pending


Learning System 2007 - Never Used, do not know how or if it works - Free with the purchase of something else!

Please leave a comment, or email me directly, if you have any questions. And hop on over to Jessica's to see if someone else has thinned their shelves of something that you need! 

Adventuring out West!!!

Tomorrow we will set off on an adventure, yet again!

Pops will arrive at the airport around lunchtime, we'll pick him up with a freshly packed case of clothing and we'll be on our way! Pops has two conferences to work in Southern California. So, the kids and I are tagging along on the very long drive to soak in the experience!

We will be in Anaheim for the first half of the week and will finish the week in San Diego. I suspect that on the day that he has "off" in the middle of the week we will make an attempt at seeing "The Mouse." Bump loves the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cartoon, so it might be a hit for even him! Tinkerbell is fresh on both girls' minds and Bud will love roller coastering and rolling his eyes at princesses. If we go, my question is: "NOW, can we never return??" I know - what a stick in the mud I am! I am just really not a fan of the craziness of Disney.

I am, however, looking forward to returning to the San Diego Zoo! I really thought that it was all that it was hyped up to be. I liked their layout, the bus system in the zoo, the overhead sky tram, the panda exhibit... yes, the list could go on and on! I am also looking forward to the beach. Oh, how I have missed the ocean. The sounds, the smells, the feel of the spray on your face, the sand between your toes pulling away in the tide... Yep - I'm ready!!

So - if this is where we are going... any suggestions??

• Legoland - what is it, what did you think of it?
• Museums - which ones are great for kids AND adults?
• Beaches - ones to hit/ones to stay clear of?
• Disney - what here must we do/see/try??
• other places????

Holy Long Hiatus, Batman!

Don't even know where to begin... Yes, you were very quiet like my last post requested for the birds... but they are long gone, and so are we!! Sometime around July 1st, we moved from the little acreage after selling the calves, finding homes for the ducks and chickens and (sadly) finding a new home for the little dog. We didn't find another rental or a house to purchase, so we moved ourselves back into our 5th Wheel Travel Trailer and all our earthly non-essential possessions into a storage facility about 1/2 mile from our RV park. I sort of thought it would last a month or so...

It was a very hot summer. We wished for a quick drive up into the mountains or out to the Pacific Coast!! Instead, we made some good friends, visited the Science Museum of OKC often, did some visiting with family in Nebraska, Illinois and Ohio, read lots of books and spent lots of time at the library, kids went to VBS and Totus Tuus at church, they took swimming lessons, the girls went to a week-long choral camp, we went to a couple of rodeos and otherwise just had a fun time together!

We have been continuing the fun this fall and have learned a lot (including a bit on stringed instruments), played much, visited The Great Wolf Lodge in Kansas City, a ski resort off-season in Avon, CO, Zion National Park in Utah, a variety of things in Las Vegas including attending the PBR Finals and a day trip to Death Valley National Park, a quick stop visiting some of our friends we met in Oregon that have moved to Arizona and finally the long haul home to "home sweet home, RV" through New Mexico - a new state for most of us - and the panhandle of Texas, where we made a quick stop in Groom, TX to see the ginormus cross on the interstate. We thought we would be done traveling for a while after that long jaunt!!

But, what d'ya know... we did a fair amount of traveling back and forth to Nebraska - soon to be home to our family again! Pops took a new position with the company he has been working with since 2007!! This new position will have a fair amount of traveling and he will need to be near an airport!! We are hunting for a great place to live and are ready to sell our RV, again!! It has been good, but it seems everyone is ready for a little space again. Hopefully, we can settle into a new home before the first of the year... it's good to have goals, right!?!

So, that is where we are... in transition, yet again!!!

There are many pictures to share (I suppose that happens after a 5 month hiatus...) so, I have some in a slide show here... you'd be scrolling forever to see these 54 I have chosen to share for now!!  Enjoy!

A Family Treehouse June 2012 -Oct 2012 - free slideshow maker with music