Mine are 9 and 7 Lego Snap circuits Adventures in oddessy on cd Rook. A card game Nerf guns Building out of cardboard, tape and tin foil Sculpty clay Colored pencil and painting Any sport outside Randomly going through stuffing the garage, tools mostly Kapla blocks

I am there but I also can't remember laughing so hard at these stories, thanks for giving me a light heart about the destruction mine are doing!

Anyone else in Asia?

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I like Cynthia Tobias' books on learning styles (on a side note I also really like her book on strong-willed child called You Can't Make Me But I Can Be Pursuaded")

All the books in the Laura Years Series (Laura Ingalls Wilder) Little house in the big woods, etc. performed by Cherry Jones. My son, 8 has listened to them each at least 2 or 3 times each and he said the other day, that (besides his mom), Cherry Jones is his favorite voice. :) We get these at our public library. I haven't been able to locate this myself, but when I addended the Charlotte Mason Seminar, (SimplyCharlotteMason.com) the speaker said her family's favorite was Flo Gibson reading, Wind in the Willows. We LOVE audio books so I am sure I'll think of more.

Thank you, I will check this out. Does anyone use McGuffey progressive spelling book?

This was great, I so enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing

I think that would be too much. What I have done when I need to go to the next level in history is I got the SoTW CDs and we listen in a car ride or at home but we didn't do any activities for SOTW 4 we went back and started over with ancients once we listened to the entire SOTW4book (for us we went back and are doing a year of CHOTW) but same idea. Just an idea, I wouldnt let history make your days stressful. Good luck:001_smile:

I have been enjoying SWB's youtube videos (peace hill press channel on youtube) and the "nap time or quiet time" that she calls it when after lunch her kiddos go in their room for 2 hours (from 1-3) then start school again at 3 seemed very interesting to me. We tried it this week and it went very well. I did have a problem with my middle son (almost 7) who doesn't like to be alone. He kept wanting to be with someone, I finally got him to listen to Adventures in Odessey but it was a struggle for him to be by himself. Since he is with his siblings all day, I thought this would be good for him. Anyone have an opinion on if it's okay for a child to not want to be alone, should I push it? Ideas for him to explore alone? Anyone have success with "rest time". I was thinking about doing some 1:1 time with the middle child during this time, but then that takes away from my break and I was starting to think my brain needed 2 hours off of talking with kids. Also, it was great for me to not multi-task in the morning with the kiddos. I also felt like I have 2 hours to do what I need to get done later and so I was more focused to be with them during school. BUT it was hard to give up 2 hours of "school time" for them to play legos, play with their science kit, etc. thoughts?

FLL 1&2 for sure! I got the book at the library a couple years ago and thought it was too easy, we didn't need it. I have since realized that you can skip some of the lessons if you need to and I wasn't doing much in LA without it! Now I have the book again and am loving it (even though my 3rd grader is far behind in LA I have to start somewhere and we are zipping though becuase I can't wait to get him on track to do FLL 3!) Also, Saxon 2, again thought it was too easy went too slow, too repetitive but now I realize that is good for the child. It is to gain mastery and I didn't get that concept. We finally started one lesson at a time and I did end up finding things my 2nd grader at the time didn't have mastered. Also AO and the CM method of reading a chapter or less of a book at a time. I would sit down and finish the book with the kids and then I finally understood that the child will remember the book much more if the reading is prolonged over a few months, it really works. They don't remember a book we read all in one day but they really remember and get into a book that we took an entire semester to finish.

We do CC with a group weekly but at home we practice our CC Latin memory work at home AND I speak Latin and we TRY to fit in Prima Latina DVD and lessons but we can't fit the PL in very often so that will pick up the week after CC ends and we will hopefully finish that up over the summer (we school all year round) Especially in Cycle 3 I didn't think just memorizing a passage was enough for Latin and they seem fine doing more Latin at home. I was attempting to follow LCC then we started CC...

are most of you home 5 days a week? I really want a schedule but it seems like we never had a typical week. I dream of cutting everything out and just doing school all the time but I also LOVE the field trips, plays, scouts, co-ops, music, martial arts, swimming lessons, art lessons... We try to keep the activities to afternoons but that means the school day ends at noon often. Any insight from others struggling with schedule and outside activities?

Did you have success doing this, it sounds like a lot of work, but maybe not? I have the same questions not sure if we will do CC again, but I do LOVE it. I just feel like it's stuff I can do at home myself. All except the presentations in Foundations.

I think about this question, right now we are in the U.S. but just the other day I was day dreaming being in that situation and here is what I would buy (mostly books too) SWB (writing, grammar, SOTW, etc) Usborne or Kingfisher History and Science Encyclopedia Andrew Campbell (Living Memory, I Speak Latin) Classical Conversations (you can buy the material and CDs which are fantastic and do it at home) Sonlight I could not use sonlight for my curriculum BUT I have ordered so many of thier books and have loved every one (I would just skip the teachers guide if that isn't your style as it isn't mine). of course math, Latin etc videos like Planet Earth, Wonders of God's creation, to view as a family but are educational art supplies (good paper and a huge box of prismacolor primere colored pencils)- we got these for Chistmas and LOVE them I think I just spent all your $$ ;)