 Hey everybody, welcome to the Waldoch Way. I'm Jessica and today's video is going to be a rainbow resources back to school hall. I am super excited. I don't have a ton from rainbow resources but the things I have are really, really good. I love using them for homeschool things because sometimes they have really unique resources and nine times out of 10, they have some really great prices on them. In fact, they normally will even beat out Amazon. So I like checking there for things first. So I'm just gonna get started. The thing I was the most excited about are these life skill kind of real world math workbooks. I thought these would make an amazing addition to Kevin and Emily's STEAM lessons, if you will. He has been wanting to do things with her that would be like the more traditional real world math like bank accounts and checkbooks and credit cards. The things you don't typically find in like your standard math curriculum. These specifically the ones I bought were a bundle. You could purchase these individually or all together. And on the back, they do say that they're for grades six through 12. So when I show you these, I'm not like planning on us getting through all of them this year. I just kind of wanted to have them on hand to work through and it was more affordable if you bought the bundle. So the first one I have is bargain math. Then we have budget math, bank account math, checkbook math and credit card math. And I am just going to randomly let you see inside one of these. They are pretty much all similar to that. They're black and white. They're very, very plain and simple, but I think it's exactly what I was looking for as far as just having it spelled out for me. Like for example, this page talks about credit scores. So again, I'm not sure how we're gonna use these, but I know that we will definitely be going through all of those at some point in the next few years. And then kind of in addition to that, I picked up this real world math, unexpected events game. It is for ages eight and up, two to six players. And it is understanding money and personal finances and learning to balance a checkbook. I just thought it would be kind of a fun hands-on way to get in some real world math. And then we have banana grams dual. In our homeschool, Emily and I end up playing a lot of games, just the two of us. And banana grams is one of those that's, I mean, you can do it with two people, but it's just a little clunky is what I like to say. A lot of games don't play really well as two players. So when I saw this, I was like, oh, this is perfect because it's 10 minutes to play 10 rounds. So it'll be like super duper quick. It's basically a head to head. There's themed cards and cubed letters. So you kind of have like these little themed bananas. And then your letters are like dice. So I'm excited to add a two player word game. I personally love word games. And then speaking of two player games, I also picked up this cube dual. It's by smart games. It is a 10 player plus or 10 years plus game. And it is two player. It kind of reminds me of Tetris, except it's in cube form. So it's kind of three dimensional. And Emily, as soon as she saw it was like, oh, it's kind of like Minecraft. So she's convinced that she's gonna be great at it because she's good at Minecraft. We shall see. But there's also, in addition to this being a great two player game, there's also 81 player challenges. So it's one of those games where she can play single player or we can play together. And I love when we can do that with a game. It means it can sit on our shelf. We can easily pull it off and play together really quick head to head. Or she can play it by herself to get a little bit better at it or to practice logic. It's a win-win. Let's see. I also grabbed these two cookbooks just because they looked really fun. The math chef. It is 60 math activities and recipes for kids. It talks about like the math chef's tool of the trade and how many grams is a pound of potatoes and how many quarts is a liter of milk and how long is that giant cookie? How much soup in a bowl of soup? What does a handful of pasta weigh? How do you cook candy? How do you triple a sandwich recipe? How do you cut an applesauce recipe in half? How much lettuce do you need for six salads? What's one third of a waffle? What's the percent of margarine in a muffin? What is the area of a brownie? What's the diameter of a cupcake? And what's the circumference of a pie? So it has recipes, but all the recipes have some sort of math activity or kind of background to it. Here's an example of one. I just thought again, it would be a great way to have some guided rural world math. And then when I was looking at that one, it popped up at the bottom. You might also like the science chef. And this is the science chef travels around the world. It is fun food experiments and recipes for kids. Let's see. We have the science chef's tools of the trade. And in Canada, we have an experiment of what keeps lettuce crisp. Then we traveled to Mexico and our experiment is how does soaking affect dried beans? In Brazil, how does a barometer predict the weather? Italy, why do we dry foods? France, how do plants take in nutrients? Germany, how can you tell acid from a base? Spain, what happens when you cook custard? Israel, how can you determine the specific gravity of potatoes? India, do vegetables die when you pick them? Anyway, and so it goes on and on like that. But then in each place, for example, when we get to Thailand, it's how do beans sprouts grow? But then you also have recipes like Thai salad with bean sprouts and zippy fried rice with chicken and banana nut dessert. So there's like a science experiment and then recipes that go with that too. So it's like science and geography all in one. And then we have looking after your health. This is actually an Usworn book. I was looking for it. Usworn no longer carries it or at least I couldn't find it on Usworn. So I grabbed it from Rainbow Resources. I was looking for something that had a very generic kind of health overview so that we could talk about some of it. And this seemed to hit the mark. It's like, what is health? Your amazing body. Let's talk about food, diet to dieting and diet culture, body maintenance, exercise, mental health matters, help is out there, the importance of sleep and then health for life. So more about food exercise and stress management. And it's really simple. It's like little chapters. And then at the end of each chapter, there is normally some sort of little quick quiz. I mean, I'm not going to quiz her but I think it makes a great way for us to discuss some of the things that we've read about. And so this is just something I picked up to have like, I said a baseline. And then also because Emily is getting to that age where this is starting to kind of matter, I got the ultimate girl's book guide. And what I liked about this is it's from like question standpoint. So instead of it being a book that just tells her what's happening, it asks a question first. So for example, am I growing or is the ceiling dropping? How do periods work anyway? Let's see what else we have. Why do I sweat? Nails, makeup and hair. How much should I care? Social media is fun, but how much is too much? Is there a monster in my computer? When will I become a woman? So it's like I said, from a question standpoint, and I just feel like that's a little less intimidating to say like, oh, this is a question that I also maybe have and read the answer to the question versus just like being told all this information. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it will be really helpful for Emily to have it in a question standpoint. So I grabbed that for her. And then we are going to be going on a road trip very soon. We are hoping to go to a handful of national parks out West. We're hoping to hit the Texas and New Mexico national parks. And so to go along with that, I grabbed the Road Trip America word teasers. It just looked kind of fun. So you have like, for example, the mysterious dome house on this Florida Island was built as A, a structure for aliens, B, a floating hotel, or C, a vacation home. And then it obviously was a vacation home, but then it explains more about the dome house on the back of the car with the answer so we can learn while we travel. Also, the scavenger hunt road trip, just to give us something fun to do that's not screen-based while we're in the car together. And then because we're gonna be doing national parks, I got this extreme dot to dot national park because I loved that it was something that was actually going to challenge her. I mean, that is seriously amazing. And here's some finished examples on the back. And then also the ultimate sticker license plate game. And I actually got two of these because in the very center of the book is the US map with the license plate stickers. And I thought, Emily and I would come up with a challenge and see which of the two of us, because Kevin will do the majority of the driving, which of the two of us, without pointing them out, could fill our maps the quickest with the license plate that we see. And I haven't figured it out yet, but there's gonna be maybe some sort of prize, like something that our whole family would like to do, but some sort of something to look forward to. And then again, because national parks, I grabbed a few new national parks games to add to our library. So this is the National Parks Kids Wild, a frenzy game of wildlife wrangling. It is, let's see, a 20 minute gameplay, three to six players and six plus for age. And then the national parks trivia board game, the trivial pursuit. This is, let's see if I can find it, eight plus for ages. And I'm so missing it. It does not say, oh, two to six players. There we go. And then the last thing that I grabbed at Emily's request were a 12 pack, or maybe I bought them individually. I don't remember if I bought them individually or in a bundle, but they are just blank books. I'll open one. There are hardback and you can draw on the covers, but it's a hardback book. And then I wanna say that there's just 32 blank pages inside. She's really in this like phase of making her own books. Right now she's creating a cat breed guide dictionary thing, it's so adorable. She's using the sprocket and she's sticking cat pictures inside and then writing in tons of facts, like tons and tons of facts about them and making an index and a glossary and table of contents and all the things. But she loves that the hardback ones feel more like a real book. And that there's like enough pages that you can fill it up, but there's not so many that it feels like you can't fill it up feasibly on one topic. So because of the amount that she is using here recently, I just went ahead and grabbed 12. Like I said, I don't remember if I bought them individually or if it was a bundle. So that is it, that is everything for the Rainbow Resource Back to School Hall. And this video actually brings us to a close for our Back to School Halls for the 2023-2024 homeschool year. If you've missed them, I will link them up here. I have already done an Amazon Back to School Hall and an Usborne Back to School Hall and they were both pretty epic. So make sure you check them out if you haven't yet.