Over the years, I have tended to collect Jr. and High School type textbooks that I saw in yard sales, or the Swap shed and other places. I always thought of these books as resources for extra pics, or questions or alternative explainations for the most part. And really we are not to the grade level they are intended for yet. This year the collection paid off. I was looking for Science textbooks and was not happy with what I saw in the Homeschooling stores. I decided to take a look through the collectoin at home and really scrutinize the books. There was an Environmental Science book that looked interesting but was a bit too much of an overlap wit the Life Science my dd14 covered last year. It then occurred to me it might be okay for dd10. I called her down to read a couple of random pages and she not only read but read with that over confident anticipation/quessing of what was coming next as indicated in her voice. I then told dd10 that to make up for having her use an English text labled a year younger last year, I was moving her into a higher grade level science book this year. 5 years ahead. I also found a Science text for my dd14. It was nice to save this money because we are using Teaching textbooks this year as well as a not so cheap EIW workshop dvd set. Having a bookself full of random text paid off finally. Kaching.
A kid who really likes science...will absolutely wow you with the work they can do. If your daughter is embracing an advanced science text...go, girl, go!
That's wonderful, Vantage! There really are ad-Vantages in finding/storing books ahead, aren't there? I know I already have enough to see both my grandsons through high school at least... maybe college, in some subjects! Hehehee!
I had also picked up some very discounted items a couple years back at the BJU press homeschool store in Greenville SC. I was able to use some last year and this year. When I look at a price of 2 or 4 or even 8 dollars and think about the nearly 50 I spent on a History text this year, I am grateful, very grateful for these items. We were in G-ville a couple weeks back and I stopped at the bookstore at BJU and found a pair of spiral books shrinkwrapped on the clearance shelf for 5 dollars. My DD and I thought they were a student and teacher manual together. We were like doh when we got home and it was a two part teachers manual. I then went on Amazon.com and found the student book used for 20.00. It came out being a 75 percent savings over getting both new in the current edition. The nice thing is that we are for the most part past the workbook stage and most texts are reusable. We load up on spiral notebooks each fall and they write in those instead. This will let us save perhaps a 1000. dollars or more for the second student in years to come.
