Daisy,
The CTC Student Notebook covers everything on the left side of the plans, so it will cover your history, Bible, and geography. Timeline entries will go right within the Student Notebook, so no timeline book is needed. Draw and Write sketches will also go right within the Student Notebook on the actual pages. The pages will be 3-hole punched, so you'll need a 3 ring binder for them with a clear plastic cover in which to place the cover. The kiddos will print and make several maps for A Child's Geography of the Bible Lands, which can also be filed in the Student Notebook.
The Science assignments are not included within the Student Notebook, so you'll need a place for those. Assignments include a need for a weekly lab sheet (provided in the Appendix to photocopy or students can write out their own), a place weekly for students to answer questions, and a place for a notebooking entries. The kiddos will be making a tracks book, a bird book, and a plants book (similar to a nature journal). The guide gives the option of either making 3 separate home-made booklets for these, or of placing them all within a hardbound nature journal type book of your own choosing.
Your kiddos will continue to need a Common Place Book to copy Bible verses, which is typically a small book (often hardbound) with lined pages to keep throughout the years.
Unlined ndex cards will be needed weekly for poetry copywork. You will also need watercolor painting paper and a few painting supplies (palette, water cup, large flat paintbrush, small flat paintbrush, 2 sizes of round brushes, toothpicks, masking tape, and watercolor paints). We're compiling a list of needed painting supplies this upcoming weekend and will have all the colors needed listed, as well as more detailed recommendations on type of paint. You may also wish to store your child's paintings in a portfolio of some sort. Kiddos can read aloud the poetry of Robert Frost from the guide's Appendix, however we've enjoyed copying the poems and placing them within a binder for each child to keep.
A notebook or paper will be needed for grammar assignments and for Write with the Best. A place for dictation passages will also be needed. We've like a bound composition book for dictation. Depending on how well your child writes in cursive, we've also found it helpful to have a small card with cursive letter formations on it to tape inside our kiddo's art boxes for ready reference. Some kiddos don't need it, but ours did at first.
The kiddos won't be writing within their quiet time, but they will be highlighting so they'll need a highlighter and a place to listen to the audio CD, while they sing along with their Philippians CD. They will also be doing a substancial amount of Bible reading and copywork, so they'll definitely need their own Bible. We have one on our shelf for ready reference in most rooms of the house, while each child has his/her own personal Bible as well. That way we're not always running for the Bible. We've loved having a parallel text Bible which has KJV on one side with the NIV on the other side to compare. But that is just a personal preference and in no way is needed for CTC.
The projects within CTC just take a well-stocked art cabinet and kitchen cabinet. Everyone's different on their comfort level with supply gathering, however we've found we typically have on hand what's required for the guide.
We often schedule our kiddo's project in the guide as the last thing in the day, so they can take as long as they'd like with it. The projects are designed to last 20 minutes or so, but my boys love to create, so I hate to hustle them along in that area.
Blessings,
Carrie
I did not see that there is a lab sheet provided. I'll leave this in case it is helpful for anyone on another level. We used them in Bigger.