Do you need to print it all at once? Can you print just what you need this week or for the first month? Would it help your budget to spread out the printing?

My order came in 9 days.

I am willing to pull a child out of school for a family vacation. BUT my kids are not willing to miss school for a family vacation! Several situations now where that has come up with my dd, and she refused to go with us.

It looks like the same exhibit that I saw at the Bower Museum. It was awesome and worth the 2 1/2 hour drive. I blogged about it, if you want to look at it. http://missmoe-thesearethedaysofmylife.blogspot.com/2012/03/terra-cotta-soldiers-field-trip.html

I would have made a frittata. I'm currently trying to lose weight and this thread is making me so hungry!!!!!

I cried my my first month into it, when I realized I had 10 more years of it! Thankfully, my dh goes with the kids three days a week to play basketball! My kids all enjoy it.

Windows to the World might work for you dd. It teaches lit. analysis through short stories. I've found it a great way to prepare kids for the writing needed for high school.

Yes, I had my own electric typewriter in college---something unheard of at the time. I typed papers for hire. Nobody typed their own papers.

YES! :lol:

Northwest Mama, I am creating it for my middle school age children, but also think it would work well with grades 4th and 5th.

Okay, as I'm on hour four or five of making a science workbook, do you think there is a market for a science notebook to be used along with The Usborne Internet Linked Science Encyclopedia? Or any of the other Usborne science encyclopedias? If yes, what would you like included in those workbooks?

I was thinking the same thing!

Our first day is the second day of the public school year. And we mostly look at our new books, organize our spaces, and go do something fun. Then we gradually ease into things for a week or two. This year, my husband and I are going on a ten day trip three weeks into the school year, so I feel that we have to jump into things pretty quickly. But I am actually waiting to start our online math class and our logic class till after we get back from our trip and I've had time to recover.

Kinkos delivers?! Oh, I think I've just died and gone to heaven!

Staples has always been the cheapest for me. I've never paid more than $3 to have anything bound.

That is one reason I blog. I plan to have my blog made into a book. Blogging became too much for me in this season of my life, so I'm going simplier. I'm making a photo book of our year. Every week or two (or three) I download my pictures onto Blurb. I'm able to add pictures a little bit at a time with little captions. At the end of the year, I will publish the book. I plan to make a copy for my dh and I as well as for each child. and your list of things you did is great!

Haven't read everyone's response, but wanted to add my two cents anyway! I read it many years ago, and it did hold some appeal for me. After many years of homeschooling, I have to say I don't feel that kind of education is good for most children. Educating kids isn't about covering information. One has to consider maturity and developmental stages. One doesn't teach a grammar stage student the same way one teaches a logic stage student. So although the child may have learned "the facts" at an early age, was the student able to think, reason, and "play" with the information in the same way an older student would have? I don't think this kind of program allows a child enough time to learn to think.

Thanks, Tracy.

:bigear: I'm waiting for mine to arrive.

:bigear: I'm waiting for mine to arrive.

I don't get emails. How does one get emails? Must be a setting thing.

I guess Peter isn't coming back to answer any questions!:tongue_smilie:

History Portfolios is another product to help one notebook. The TMs are a great help for me. They help me come up with ideas to fill notebooks.

Eaglie, Came across this on and entry titled Commonplace books on Wikipedia and thought of you. Perhaps we need to call our journals hodgepodge books? or zibaldones? The Italian peninsula, during the course of the 14th-century, was the site of a development of two new forms of book production: the deluxe registry book and the zibaldone (or hodgepodge book). What differentiated these two forms was their language of composition: a vernacular.[1]Giovanni Rucellai, the compiler of one of the most sophisticated examples of the genre, defined it as a "salad of many herbs."[2] Zibaldone were always paper codices of small or medium format – never the large desk copies of registry books or other display texts. They also lacked the lining and extensive ornamentation of other deluxe copies. Rather than miniatures, zibaldone often incorporate the author's sketches. Zibaldone were in cursive scripts (first chancery minuscule and later mercantile minuscule) and contained what Armando Petrucci, the renowned palaeographer, describes as "an astonishing variety of poetic and prose texts."[3] Devotional, technical, documentary and literary texts appear side-by-side in no discernible order. The juxtaposition of gabelle taxes paid, currency exchange rates, medicinal remedies, recipes and favourite quotations from Augustine and Virgil portrays a developing secular, literate culture.[4] By far the most popular of literary selections were the works of Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca and Giovanni Boccaccio: the "Three Crowns" of the Florentine vernacular traditions.[5]These collections have been used by modern scholars as a source for interpreting how merchants and artisans interacted with the literature and visual arts of the Florentine Renaissance.

Peter, Can you explain more how the reasoning is taught?