 Hey everybody, welcome to the Waldoch Way. I'm Jessica. Today's video is going to be another summer haul video. Today's summer haul is from Amazon and it's in collaboration with Abby from Rooted and Rest. So once you have watched this haul, hop on over and watch hers where she's going to be sharing everything that she got from Amazon Prime Day. Now my haul is going to be a little bit of a mixture. It's things that I intentionally purchased just because I wanted them for back to school, things I purchased during the buy to get the third free sale as well as things that I purchased during Amazon Prime Day. So it's kind of gonna just be an Amazon smorgasbord of back to school, homeschool goodness and I hope you enjoy it. Now before I show you all these goodies, I wanted to remind you that each of these summer hauls has a coordinating giveaway that goes with it. Now last week's was exclusive to Instagram and this week's is exclusive to you guys here on YouTube. So stay tuned till the end where there will be an announcement of what the giveaway is gonna be and there will be two winners. So good luck you guys. Okay, I am just gonna jump in cause the tables and chairs are literally surrounding me with just all kinds of stuff. The first thing I picked up was this fraction flip book. So you have the fraction, the decimal, the percentage and then a shape and you can just kind of flip through to try to match them. And I knew I wanted her to start experimenting a little bit more with the like, you know, shape or the decimal and the percentage that match the fraction. And I thought this would be a fun way to do it kind of hands-on and then you can see it's double-sided so you can go back the other way too. I just thought, you know, anytime there's a hands-on component she does a lot better with it and this was a way to do that. Along those same lines I got the place value flip chart. Now we've had one of these before that only went up to thousands. I don't know which direction this goes. Okay, this way, so up to thousands. And I wanted something that went up to millions and this does that. So this one will go all the way up and we can start working with very, very large numbers. She should be pretty good with it but I just thought it wouldn't hurt to have it because the one that we have does only go up to thousands. So we're gonna upgrade to the one that goes up to millions now. Most of what I got is books and games, you guys. So I'm gonna just try to get the few things that aren't books and games out of the way. I also picked up the brain quest fourth grade. This is the trivia card deck. There's normally two trivia card sets in here, a deck one and a deck two. And it just asks questions. Each card has questions about science, English, math, miscellaneous, US history, geography, science, English, math, miscellaneous. So they just go over and over and there's questions and answers on them. We have used these for years now. I don't know that we've ever really gone from the very first card to the very last card but I like having them on hand. They're really good for car schooling too. She likes to do trivia in the car. They're just a great resource so I like having those. The other thing I picked up was totally for me and it was because I never realized that friction did this. These are the friction fineliner markers, pens, whatever you wanna call them. They remind me of a paper mate flare because it's a little bit thicker than your standard ballpoint pen. They are erasable, like all of the friction. And I have these in a set of like 24 with beautiful colors but I find that my black runs out quicker than anything else and I don't necessarily need to replace all the other colors. And so I found that they now sell a box of 12 just black. So I actually think I bought two boxes of these because they go to gray so quickly or they turn to gray so quickly and they're not that crisp black anymore. And I'm weird and anal and wanted them to be crisp black. So I bought two boxes of those. I also picked up the handwriting without tears was on sale during prime day. It was actually a pretty good sell. I think it was like 20 or 30% off. So these are the last two books that we did not own yet. Cursive success and cursive handwriting. I have no idea which one comes first. I don't know which grade levels are which. I'm not forcing her to do them. This is not like curriculum choices stuff. I actually have had the first handwriting without tears book since she was in kindergarten. She cried, I put it away. It ended up in my office on a shelf. We've never pulled it back out until a few months ago when she wanted to do more handwriting. So I pulled it out for her and she has flown through to the two printing books and has now moved up to like cursive kickstart or whatever it is. So she's doing cursive now. So I bought these just so I have them on hand. If she chooses to go through them, if she gets to that point, they'll be here. If she doesn't, well, then they'll be here for whenever she decides that she wants to pull them off the shelf like she did the printing book. So that is what I got those for. I also picked up the learning resource mental blocks. This was on sell on prime day. And to be honest, I've always wanted this, but it's a little pricey or is normally a little pricey. In my opinion, for what I will pay for a single-player game, we just have so many good ones already. I'm not gonna pay an astronomical amount for one. And it was at a really good deal. So I picked this up. I love when single-player games come in like their own little self-contained thing and makes them really great for throwing on my purse or car schooling with. And this one did all of that. So it will be really fun to add to a lot for logic and critical thinking for her. All right, you guys, this is so hard. I have games on one side of the table and I have a books on the other side of the table. And I don't know which ones I wanna show you first. Oh, the dilemmas. All right, we're just gonna go with books. So like I said, I think every one of these was either purchased during Prime Day or the buy two get the third free. I'm almost positive it was all buy two get the third free. The first book series I found was a book series called Cased Closed. These are super fun. We haven't read them yet, but I'm really excited because they're a pick your path, crack the case. So you get to a certain point in the mystery and then you have a choice of what you're going to do next. And we recently read a few of those Choose Your Adventure and Emily loved them. So I thought she would really like these. Now they're a little bit thick, but I know that that's because there's so many different options for the story paths in them. So I'm hoping she'll read them independently. If she's intimidated by them, we'll read them together. We'll see. So we have Cased Closed Mystery in the Mansion, which is book one. Cased Closed stolen from the studio, which is book two. And then Cased Closed haunting at the hotel, which is book three. So I will let you guys know what we think about those. They just looked really, really fun. Another set of books that I picked up a book series was one that I saw recommended a lot in I think the Waldoch Way community on Facebook that people who liked Harry Potter also liked this. So I thought you can't go wrong with it because we love Harry Potter. And it was the Books of Elsewhere series. So I got all five of them. So this one is volume one, The Shadows. Then we have volume two, Spellbound. Volume three, The Second Spy. Volume four, The Strangers. And volume five, Still Life. And it just dawned on me. I probably should have told you a little bit about it. When 11 year old Olive moves into the old house on Linden Street, she knows there's something weird about the place. The creepy antique paintings, the three very unusual cats. But the weirdest thing when Olive finds and puts an old pair of glasses on, she can travel inside the paintings to elsewhere. A sinister world with strange secrets to keep and soon Olive finds herself caught in a dark and dangerous plan. So they, like I said, just sound fun. We like any kind of magic stuff like that where the characters can go and do things. It sounded also a little bit like the series 68 Rooms that you guys know that we absolutely love. Okay, next book series was Book Scavenger. This one sounded similar to kind of like a mix of Mr. Limoncello's library and Bookwander's, both of which were huge wins for us, not last year. And the character's name is Emily. So 12 year old Emily is on the move again. Her family is relocating to San Francisco, home of her literary idol, Garrison Griswold, creator of the Book Scavenger, a game where books are hidden and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles. But Emily soon learns that Griswold has been attacked derelying the launch of his epic new game. Then she and her friend James discover an odd clue which will eventually lead them to a valuable prize. There are others on the hunt for the special prize and Emily and James must race to solve the puzzles. So like I said, main character's name is Emily. It's kind of got that book literary type feel and we love that and a little bit of mystery. Emily's gonna love them. So the first one is just the Book Scavenger. The second one is the Book Scavenger's Unbreakable Code and the third one is Book Scavenger, The Alcatraz Escape. Again, very excited for those. You guys, I'm gonna have stuff tumble before this video's over. Just telling you now, there's gonna be a loud boom. Okay, the last book series, that's like a read aloud that I bought was the Mysterious Benedict Society. Now I bought this because it sound like it would be super fun and then like the day that it arrived, I saw that Disney Plus was getting the series and so that makes it a win-win because now we can read and watch. So are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities? When this peculiar ad appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enrolled to take a series of mysterious mind-bending tests. But in the end, just four very special children will succeed. They're challenged to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and resourceful children could complete. With their newfound friendship at stake, will they be able to pass the most important test of all? So volume one, The Mysterious Benedict Society. Volume two in the perilous journey. Volume three in the prisoner's dilemma. Volume four in the riddle of ages. And volume five is the Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict. So again, it just seemed like it would be kind of a fun series and I like finding book series that I feel like our whole family would enjoy ones that we can all do together and that seemed like one that would fit that bill. So I love that. Okay, I have another stack of books here and this is gonna be a little bit of insider information. Just kidding, it's not. She's already published it, but you've heard me talk about the out-school book club classes that Emily has been taking and loving with Mary Hannah Wilson and she has decided to do a semester one and two book club on out-school for this coming school year. So I went ahead and purchased, I think all eight of the books for that. So we're already registered for semester one and we will be registered for semester two. It's just not open yet, but the books that she is going to be doing throughout the year are Crenshaw, Wish Tree, Nims Island, The Prairie Thief, The Lemonade War, and Heartwood Hotel, A True Home. Now I could totally have got these from the library, but when the buy two, get the third one, free sell happened, most of those were included in it and I would rather own books that I know Emily's going to read throughout the school year so that she doesn't have any pressure or anxiety about having to get done by a certain date, all the technologically she will because there's a book club, but at least there's not that return date of impending doom. So she'll have them, they'll be hers, they'll be on her bookshelf, she can read them whenever she's ready. All right, the very, very last books I have to show you are ones that I've been eyeing for forever. I knew I still had a few years to like have to have them, so I kind of waited and they were on sale. They may even still be on sale. They were like $5 to $7 a piece. I've never seen them not cheap, so I went ahead and got them all because I know I'm going to want them and it is the Complete Middle School Study Guide and so there are six. This one is the Complete Middle School Study Guide to English and Language Arts. And then we have American History, World History, Science and Computer Science and Coding. Now I have one more thing to say about these. This is, hang on, it's going to be backwards for you guys, but I'm going to hold them up anyway. This company literally made these for me because when I got them all in, the amount of excitement that I had over this was ridiculous, but you guys look, if you put them like that, they're like rainbow, they make ROYGBIV. Okay, that's ridiculous, but they made me super excited about that. Now let me show you inside one. So it is set up in a way that's just kind of fun and graphic and exciting for kids. And then something I really liked is that at the end of each kind of section or chapter, there are these little check your knowledge, like eight to 10 questions. So it goes over a concept, it gives examples of a concept and then it has like a check your knowledge and the answers to that check your knowledge. And there's just, there's so much in here. Like so, so much in here. And I haven't been able to find a ton of resources like this for middle school. So I thought I might as well just go ahead and add these to our collection. And I saw when I was checking out that they also have a high school set of these two. So if you have an older kiddo, they have a complete high school study guide set. I'm not sure which all subjects they have, but I know they have high school. So that might be something you want to look into because it's a really great way to kind of use resources and peace your way through and not have to have curriculum if that's not your thing. All right, let's jump into the games. The first one I have is Battleship Outer Space. If you saw the Simply Fun video, you heard me say that we are gonna be doing a very large astronomy unit study in Battleship as one of Emily's favorite games. And this looks much more advanced, a little bit more complicated, but also a lot more fun. Plus I can just see her sitting there with her space helmet on playing the game. And that just kind of made me giddy thinking about it. So Battleship Outer Space. Periodic, the game of Elements. Again, Kevin requested a few more science games. So this was one that I picked out for them as well as the Science Ninja Valance. Both of those work with chemicals and compounds. And then this isn't a game, but this is also one of his request during Prime Day. Probably his only request during Prime Day. And it is a rock tumbler. Now we got the hobby edition because I have no clue what we're doing. I didn't even know we needed a rock tumbler, but apparently according to him, we do. So they got a rock tumbler. Okay, let's see here. Seriously, you guys. All right, most of these games are either, most of them are really just upgrading games that we already have and that we love and we're just kind of moving on to the next level. So, Apples to Apples Express. We have Apples to Apples and we like it, but it's a little cumbersome for just the two of us or three of us. So I thought maybe we would try Express, which would be like a quicker gameplay and quicker setup. And maybe we would play it more often. At least that's my hope. Mad Libs, the game. You guys know we love Mad Libs and I think Emily is finally old enough even though it says 10 plus to understand and play it. So I decided to add it to our resources this year. Stim Family Battle. Now we actually already played this. We played this just the other day and I will say it was a lot of fun. It says ages 12 to adult and I will tell you why. I actually even think while kids can totally play it, some of the questions, even me and Kevin were like, wait, what? Let me see if I can find one. Anyway, I'm not gonna be able to find it, but like it referred to a floppy disk for technology. It's not all that dated, but some of it is. And so your kid, if they're like as young as Emily had no clue what a floppy disk is. She's never even seen one she has now, but before we played the game, she hadn't. So it is really fun because there's a ton of rabbit trails you can go down when you play it because it's like a trivia based game, but it's a lot of fun type of trivia. You're kind of battling and answering questions and it really was a joy to play that together and the laugh that we had was hysterical. So there is that one. Mill Borns, I'm sure I'm saying that wrong you guys, but it is a mile game. Whoever gets to 1,000 miles first wins. It is a classic racing game. I actually remember playing this as a kid. This in Racco, I have very fond memories of. So when this one went on sale for Prime Day, I grabbed it. I'm not really sure that it really hits any of our goals for fourth grade, but who cares, it was fun and it's nostalgia. So we're just gonna call it that. How about that? Read my list. This one kind of, when I read the description, it kind of made me think of Blert and some of the others that I got from Simply Fun. I wanna work more with her on vocabulary and categories and writing. And so this fit the bill for that because there are list cards and you pull the list out like types of drinks. And for instance, it has punch, cola, chocolate milk, lemonade, hot chocolate, grapefruit, juice and water. And you have to listen to it and guess the category of what it is, which is types of drinks. And then the lightning round is you take turns naming things that fall into the specified category like that aren't listed. For instance, milk, apple juice, coffee. Now I am going to have her write those possibilities. I talked to you guys before in the last video about the little mini boogie boards that we bought and I am using those because they're adorable for everything and she loves them to sneak in some extra writing, which also means spelling. So instead of just yelling those words out, I will be having her write them. So I'll be reading it, talking about vocabulary words, categories and sneaking in some writing that way. Kind of the same thing with the May the Best List when listography game. This one has writing built in already. It comes with paper and pencil. You are basically racing to create lists based on a range of topics from geography to pop culture to pirates to pizza. So again, vocabulary, spelling, writing. I am trying to upgrade a lot of our games to those types of things for language arts so that we're expanding beyond just the typical like basic grammar and spelling games. And another one that I'm doing that with is grasping grammar. So this has eight, all eight parts of speech in it. A lot of the, I guess younger games only have like your standard four. And since this had all eight, I wanted to make sure that it was on our shelves so that we could be working with that for grammar. And I think this is the last language arts game. No, it's not you guys, but we're getting close. Word on the street. We have word on the street, junior. We love it. We play it often. And I thought, I'm not even sure if we're being honest, except I know that word on the street has a few less letters than words on the street, junior. Like, I know for instance, I'm pretty sure that there's like not a Z, but this upgrades the game from the junior one. And I thought it was probably time that we should do that. So that's what we're doing. Word around race to unravel the word. This has these cards that have a whole bunch of letters on them and you're racing to try to figure out what the word is on the card. So again, that one's going to be a ton of spelling. And I'm sure vocabulary, cause I'm sure there's going to be some words that we'll have to define and talk about, but it's you flip a card and be the first to read the word, you know, by unraveling it. So I thought that would be a really fun one. This one is a very educational one, but again, it's going to be helpful with spelling and it's just called spelled. It is by edupress. And these just have like, kind of like spelling based trivia questions. I just thought this would be kind of a fun thing to do a few a day. We can maybe put it in our bedtime basket, put it in the car for car schooling. I don't know for what, but it just seemed like a better way for Emily anyway, to do spelling than like a typical spelling memorization and checklist. Again, like I said, that's Emily. I'm not saying that everybody should do that. The last few games I have are math games and I really didn't get that many because when I looked at our shelves, we had most of the topics that I wanted us to do this year covered with games between this and the simply fun order I placed and like short learning. So the ones I picked up are Proof and Adds to Monday, I'm gonna say. And both of those are just fun card games, but they extend the math to all four operations. I found that a lot of the things that we had were either addition and subtraction or multiplication and division or they were like just multiplication. And there wasn't a lot of things that we had on our shelves that did all four operations equally with the exception of Prime Climb, which has been one of our favorite math games this past year, and I think that's why. I think it's because you're doing all of the different operations or you have the ability or option to do all of them. So I wanted to make sure that I added a few games to our game shelves this year that did the same thing and these two do that. They're just quick card games. So I'm both gonna play in less than 15 minutes and I'm always looking for games that we can play and quick and get a lesson in. And then I believe, you guys, I think this is literally the last thing I have to show you. It is. It is called Mathological Liar. It is also by Edgipress. These seriously remind me of Odd Squad. Hang on just a second. All right, I already have the third grade ones open so I'm just gonna show you these instead of opening the fourth grade ones. So the way these work is there is four case cards. So like here is the case and you get four cards. The case of the disappearing diamonds. So the card club has a problem. Someone stole the diamonds. They left the rest of the cards but they took some or all of the diamonds from each deck. Tomorrow is the card club game night and the president of the club needs those diamonds back fast. Who stole the diamonds and how do you know? So each on the back of each of these cards is a person with their explanation of why they are not the diamond thief in this case or whatever each case has different things. And they have to do the math for each of them and whosoever math is basically a lie or incorrect is the person guilty of that case, whatever it is. They're the person. So for instance, Lucky Lucy on the back says, I checked a deck too. It used to have 13 diamonds in it and now it has zero. That means someone took zero diamonds from the deck. Well, obviously she's the person because if it had 13, now it has zero. Somebody took zero, there would still be 13. So that math is incorrect. But normally, Emily will do willingly, happily. She will do all four of the cards and all four of the problems to figure out who is the person who did whatever it is. She loves them. She even has a little small like flip top, hang on. A little flip top notebook, just like they use in Odd Squad because she thinks it's super cool that she is solving math cases like them. She loves that show. So these make math fun for her. So if you have a kid who loves Odd Squad, go pick them up a notebook from the Dollar Tree and then get the Mathological Liar. I think it comes in second, third, fourth, fifth grade. It may even come in sixth, it may come in younger. I know I saw third, fourth, and fifth. Other than that, I don't know, but I'm sure there's other grades in it. But it just makes math a little bit more fun. So that is everything. That is my Amazon Back to School Hall that's pretty much the majority of what I purchased intentionally for the school year. Obviously there's gonna be stuff I'll purchase along the way, but these were the books and the games and the things that I kind of felt were lacking or needed more of in our school for this upcoming home school year. And now for the fun part, the giveaway. So I wanted to do a giveaway for you guys that could be worldwide and could be exclusively here on YouTube. So we're gonna make this super simple. Like this video and leave me a comment and you'll be entered for a chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card. And there is going to be two winners. So that means each person will win $100 Amazon gift card, each of the winners. So that means we're giving away $200 in Amazon. That way you can go on your own Back to School Hall.