Oxford First Ancient History & budget constraints

Don’t fret!  Many of the resources may be available at your library!  Be sure to check there first – especially if you’re on a tight budget.  Second, you can most certainly do module 1 without Oxford – it’s great, but you can find other books from the library to substitute for the ancient Egypt lessons.  (Also – someone just emailed me her list of things for sale and Oxford was on there for $20!!!)  Third – lots of people are finishing up with their year and have been posting on this forum that you can pm them for a list of books available – many of them are offereing the books you need for very reasonable used prices so be sure to check those out.  Fourth – we didn’t use the commentaries for Module 1 and we did fine, I have a friend that used them and LOVED them, but they weren’t in the budget for us so we just supplemented those lessons with our own adult commentaries – I would read them and then paraphrase for the girls (good narration practice for me). 

Yes don’t worry.  I did Mod 1 this past year, downloaded (cheaper) used books from the library on different topics and didn’t use the commentaries sicne my ds were 7 w/ 5 yr old tagging along.  And I did download the Boy of the Pyramids which the 7yr old Loved.  I did save up and get the Oxford book, but was dissappointed, we didn’t “love” it, although I referred to it myself sometimes to find other books on the topic.  I have since felt much more confident in CM methods and feel I don’t even need a guide for right now, so just finding books/cds etc at library.  I was even going to purchase a handwriting/cm copywork book but have decided I can do just as well with paintbrushes in water outside, whiteboard, pencil/paper/clipboard etc.  So in essense, getting creative with what I have.