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Log of Books & Materials Used 2014-2015 & Attendance Statement

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Books
Monster Spotter's Guide to North America
National Geographic KIDS Almanac 2015
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Pocket Guides to Wildflowers, Wild Edibles, and Mushrooms

Magazines
Game Informer
NatGeo Kids
Lego Club
Ranger Rick
Ask!
Muse

Web Comics
Garfield Minus Garfield
xkcd

Web Series
CrashCourse
Yogscast
Lore In One Minute
VlogBrothers
YogsLab
Good Mythical Morning 
Comic Misconceptions 
Mental Floss 
Your Grammar Sucks
Spellslingers
Game Theory
Table Top
Table Flip
Vsauce
Mind Blow
Minute Physics
AsapSCIENCE
Fast Facts
Nerdy Nummies
OMGCraft
Homestar Runner
Iron Gamer

TV, Movies, Netflix, & DVDs
Mythbusters
LEGO: Marvel Super Heroes: Maximum Overload 
House M.D. 
Digimon Fusion 
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic 
Sword Art Online  
FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman
Dude What Would Happen
Scooby Doo!: Mystery Incorporated
Eureka
Futurama
A.N.T. Farm
The Nut Job (movie)
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmare
Dr. Who
Torchwood
Beyblade
DC Cupcakes
Cake Boss
Adventure Time
Destroy Build Destroy
Fringe
Psych
Pokémon: Black and White
Clue (the movie, on the big screen)

 Webpages
Science Friday
MineCraft Forums
Binary Translations
List of binary codes
Geologic Eons, eras, periods, and years
Pi
Iambic Pentameter
Nyan Cat
Minecraft getting purchased by Microsoft
110 Year Old Light Bulb
The Addams Family Theme Song Lyrics
Ancient Sneezing: A Gift From The Gods (NPR podcast)
Responses to sneezing
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo (and other "linguistic example sentences" and "Garden Path sentences")
Tauday.com: No, really, pi is wrong
The day before yesterday
Words with no English Equivalent
Kill la Kill (an interesting anime inspired by linguistic anomalies of the Japanese language)

Video Games & Table Top Games
Little Big Planet 2 & 3
Pocket Mine 
Two Dots 
Minecraft Scribblenauts Remixed 
Floors
Binding of Isaac
Kerbal Space Program
WarioWare D.I.Y.
Words with Friends
UNO 
Family FLUXX 
Word Pirates 
Magic: The Gathering
Quiddler
Phase 10
Aquarius
Pandemic
Poker & Blackjack
Castle Keep

Other Resources
NPR in the car
Minecraft MOD instructions
Twitter.com
Facebook.com
Pinterest.com
Wikipedia.com
Wiktionary.com
Khan Academy
Personal game Notes, Plans, & Schematics
Minecraft Building Tutorials
USA map, local maps (Pittsburgh, PA)

 Attendance Statement
In accordance with the Pennsylvania Home Education Law, I attest that "a minimum of one hundred eighty (180) days of instruction OR nine hundred (900) hours of instruction per year at the elementary level" have occurred this year for Elijah.
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