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Log of Books & Materials Used 2012-2013 & Attendance Record

Books
Field Guide to Luck
Pass the Celery Ellery
Polka Bats and Octopus Slacks
The Robots are Coming
The Blood Hungry Spleen
Cowboy and Octopus
National Lampoon's Favourite Comics of the 21st Century
SpongeBob Squarepants Survival Guide
Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure! #1
Learn to Draw Manga books 2 & 3
World of Inventors: Thomas Edison -- One Man's Extraordinary Influence Upon the World
LEGO Star Wars comic
World of Archie Digest #1
Spongebob Comics: Freestyle Funnies
Adventure Time Free Comic Book Day #1
Diary of a Zombie Kid #1
Adventure Time #1
Adventure Time #2
Adventure Time #3
Dictionary
Thesaurus


Magazines
Game Informer
NatGeo Kids
Lego Club
The Brick Journal
Ranger Rick
Ask!
Range Finder

Seattle (May 2013)
Visit Vancouver USA: Regional Visitors Guide (2013)

Web Comics
Garfield Minus Garfield
xkcd


Web Series
CrashCourse
Yogscast
Lore In One Minute
VlogBrothers
YogsLab
Game Theory
Table Top
The Way Games Work
Vsauce
Mind Blow
Minute Physics
AsapSCIENCE
Fast Facts


TV, Movies, Netflix, & DVDs
Mythbusters
Word Girl
The Electric Company
Beakman's World
Futurama
Jeopardy
Smash Lab
Prototype This
Warehouse 13
Indie Game the Movie (documentary)
One Way Out
MythQuest
Weapon Masters
DC Cupcakes
Cake Boss
Video Game High School (movie)
Star Trek Enterprise
How Stuff Works
Ghost Hunters International
Star Trek: The Original Series
Comic Book Men
Red Dwarf
Postcards from Buster: The Case of the Coin Purloined (Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri)
Contraptus
Destroy Build Destroy
Dude What Would Happen?


Webpages
Ipecac syrup
Minecraft splash screens & their meanings
Difference between 'imminent' & 'eminent'
Cork trees
Croissants
Calculator alphabet & spelling
Leet
Northeast Unschooling Conference
Unschoolers Waterpark Gathering
Life is Good Unschooling Conference
Interrobang
Moon mod and Tekkit mod for Minecraft
Marshmallows
Fahrenheit, Celsius & Kelvin
Rube Goldberg Machines
Acronyms and Initialisms
The Scoville Scale
Bento
Etymology of the word 'glitch'
Corundum
Pig Latin
Taxonomy
The Scale of the Universe
Doodle Music
A Song About a Circle Constant
What's Up with Noises?
What Was Up with Pythagoras?
Top 10 Animal Power Moves
What's Invisible? More Than You Think
Hexaflexagons and Martin Gardner
Hexaflexagons
Hexaflexagons 2
Hexaflexagon Safety
Flex Mex
Vi Hart Mathsgiving Playlist
Toby Turner aka Tobuscus
Wilhelm Scream Compilation
SnowFlakes
Sphereflakes
Organic Chemistry
Folding Space-Time
Vsauce - Science playlist
Long/difficult words with fewer than 3 vowels for Hangman
Google Translate Beatbox
AsapScience: We Are All Female
5 Reasons We Like 5 Reasons Videos
Crash Course - Chemistry playlist
Ambigrams
Science Friday
YouTube, Internet, Google, WWW, and TimBL (creator of WWW)

Other Resources
NPR in the car
Schell Games (where E playtests video games)
Minecraft MOD instructions
Twitter.com

Facebook.com
Pinterest.com
Wikipedia.com
Wiktionary.com
Learnist.com
Khan Academy
Gift/Toy Catalogues
Personal game Notes, Plans, & Schematics
Snap Circuit Instruction Books

Gun Safety Comic & Brochure
Minecraft Building Tutorials

Northeast Unschooling Conference schedule & program booklet
Unschoolers Waterpark Gathering Conference schedule, program booklet, and resort map
Life is Good Unschooling Conference schedule & program booklet
USA map, local maps (Vancouver, WA; Seattle, WA; Portland, OR; Boston, MA; and Pittsburgh, PA)


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