Thanks for the link to Foxit...it worked! Now I need to stock up on printer ink, LOL. I guess I'm in the wrong part of the world. I frequent thrift shops and the like and have never seen any curriculum! I totally forgot about Freecycle. I loved Craigslist when I lived in TX, but after the move the closest city listed is almost 2 hours away. I'm not feeling so overwhelmed anymore
Remember that curriculum doesn't have to look like curriculum! I go to thrift stores all the time here and buy books like crazy.. I also go to yardsales for them. I don't find much, I have more luck with yardsales because you find quite a few teachers homes, but homeschooling isn't all that popular here so specific homeschool curriculum isn't common.... but I don't use it much anyway. Oh and check ebay for cheap printer ink, I get mine for about 2 bucks a cartridge for my brother printer. At Staples, the only place local I can get it, it is 27 for 1. It may be generic ink, but it works just as well.
I wanted to add, that being on a budget made me re-think my attitude about buying books... We luckily lived close to some good libraries.. So when it came to reading material, we checked out a LOT of books... When i came to reference material (The stuff you can't take home from the library) THAT is what we would spend our money on. So, when my youngins would wail for a book at the store, I told them that we do not buy reading books, we can go to the library and see if they have it, if not we can ask them to get it.... This has NOT impeded their love for reading at all. We raid the library (Because they are young, I usually give them a theme to search for books, helps them to not be overwhelmed) and then they are allowed to stay up at least 30 minutes past their bed time with a lamp, reading. They feel like they are getting away with something, it is AWESOME! Ok, so we only buy reference material... anything that is NOT fiction... encyclopedias, dictionaries, books about pirates, Romans, anything that can be used for research, even kiddy books that can be used for research. If I did not limit myself, we would be in real trouble. Also BOOKMARK things, don't try to print the whole internet.. I have tried it and it doesn't work. Don't print anything until you are ready to use it within 24 hours... That's is what I had to do to control the need to print everything....
If you go to Filehippo.com you can find some alternative programs that you can download and install to do .pdf files with. I think one is called Foxit reader. These programs are much less bulky and dont take over the system as adobe does. Additionally you can click on the adobe reader there and get to some much older and less bulky versions that will work better if you have an older operating system installed on your computer. Additionally there might be a updated version of your printer driver software on the manufactures website if you are still using the one that came on the disk with the printer. They often have glitches that are worked out after a model was released. Another thing to note for some is that the print to PDF option does not mean printing out a pdf, but instead means that you are converting your current open file to a .pdf and saving it to the hard disk. Doing this inside of adobe it would cause trouble as adobe reader has the editing fuctions disabled.
http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mep/default.htm Great free math curriculum K-12 http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/mep- homeschoolers/ yahoo group discussing above math curriculum http://msnucleus.org/curriculum/curriculum.html free science K-12 http://www.ourlosbanos.com/homeschool/history/americanhistoryindex.html free history grade 2-6, haven't looked at it much so can't vouch for quality http://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/free-curriculum/ listing of free curriculum searchable by subject
THanks for all the links you all are giving I am looking at doing my ds7th grade for next to nothing already next year but this is filling in the blanks! Wee !HOO! feild trips are going to soar for us cause I will use the Cash from the budget for supplies on that instead! Lego land here we come! HA!
was just putzing around online and a lightbulb went off in my head... here is a free science curriculum, goes from K-12 and is AMAZING http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/matrix.cfm And a free geography/social studies curriculum that also goes from k-12 and is AMAZING http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/matrix.html
shhh don't tell anyone or they will expect this kind of thing from me more often. I don't know how I had forgotten about those sites! We used them sooo much last year!
