Happy Labor Day! Whether you are getting together with friends and family, traveling, preparing your school area and supplies, or just enjoying down time, we hope you are off to a great start and can catch a quick breather before we dive back in.
Today and tomorrow we will not have classes on campus, so we encourage families to use some of this time for “E&E” – “Enrichment and Education,” which means any kind of educational activity that goes along with what we are studying, or additional educational pursuits your child is interested in. (12 hours per trimester are required for Kinder-UMS, in addition to our classroom and normal home days, and you will record your E&E hours at the end of the trimester in your parent progress report.) Examples of E&E include, but are not limited to: field trips, exploring a topic of interest, reading additional books based on our history or science, watching historical documentaries, visiting museums, catching up on school work, etc.
Our Monday Mix-ins are a great source of E&E ideas! Today we want to make sure you know about the many homeschool tools and gifts available right in our very own school bookstore. These are all optional, of course, but this year we have gathered a wonderful supply of materials you might love having on hand at home to complement what you are already doing, to explore interests further, or just for fun. Here are a few examples of the kinds of items we are currently carrying in the bookstore:
Audio CDs by Jim Weiss:
The Prince and the Pauper
Shakespeare for Children
Animal Tales (features Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Lion and the Mouse, and The Tortoise and the Hare)
Tell Me a Story! (features Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Little Red Hen)
Galileo and the Stargazers
The Queen's Pirate
Fandex
Shakespeare and Explorers
Baby board books based on classic novels
Many titles – these are so fun, you must check them out!
Alphabet and Number cards
Alphabet cards are either Animals or Food. Numbers are Forest Animals.
Fun t-shirts based on books:
Charlotte's Web
Huckleberry Finn
Sherlock Holmes
Walden
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
Madeline
Harold and the Purple Crayon
And more!
We also have some really cute totes: Wizard of Oz, Moby Dick, and The Very Hungry Caterpillar. And pencil pouches!
Great supplemental books for Science and history on the Renaissance
Singapore Manipulatives
“Must Reads” books and parent book club titles
Art Supplies
Watercolor paint, Prismacolor pencils, sketch pencils, and sketchpads for all types of drawing
And of course Grizzly Bears – big and small!
Plus we have:
- A wider variety of snack foods and beverages.
- SLOCA gear! Shirts, sweatshirts, sweatpants, yoga pants, and hats. We will be getting new items in, and we have some clearance clothing still left. These are priced at $5.00.
It's fun and convenient to shop at the school bookstore – grab a few of these items to mix in to your week, or to give as quality gifts!
