Yes to Potter's School. We are starting the 7th grade Journey Through Narnia, which got very good reviews here.

We visited Japan in May, Kyoto and Tokyo. Restaurant serving size is uniformly very small. If you want more you have to order another dish and the price adds up quickly. The price is comparable to US.

And ice cream and cookies are for children only. Adult eating ice cream and cookies was pretty unheard of when I left China in 2000. Cakes are for very special occasions like birthdays. Pies are almost non-existent unfortunately. No one had an oven and we bought bread and special treats at bakeries. Fruit intake satisfies the sweet caving. Yes, I only learned about adult snack when I came here in 2000. We had 2.5 to 3 hour long week day evening Bible study or prayer meetings and did not have any snack. Here suddenly almost every meeting has snack. Our homeschool co-op has snack sign up and we bring salty and sweet snacks, which makes sense, because the co-op runs from 9:00 to 12:15 and some moms have to go earlier to set up and some have to stay longer to clean up. Moms go there and have the breakfast type of snacks.

Amen to this! When I visited my hometown in China, family and friends would invite us to meals at restaurants. They would book a room in restaurants with couches. We would spend hours eating and visiting. I was amazed that almost all my 15 coworkers showed up for a reunion lunch at a one day short notice. Eating well and chatting is highly valued. My boys, dh, and I do karate 6:30-7:30 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I kind of resent that we have to hurry to finish dinner before we leave the house. Dh can't eat with us those two evenings because he goes directly to karate class from work. Money's the boys have Boy Scout at 6:30, so another rush rush dinner. Wednesdays and Fridays are good days when we can eat dinner together at leisure. I do spend lots of time cooking. I make Chinese dumplings, ie, potstickers, from scratch with half white flour and half freshly ground flour every other week and hand pulled noodles sometimes, too. These dishes are time consuming, but are so yummy and healthy! I have been putting together a meal list. They are all quite time consuming and I am tired now.

Is Trail Guide to US Geography enough to go with 8th grade American history Changing Frontiers? Or does the map work book in America the Beautiful work better to go with Changing Frontiers? I am still undecided for ds13's geography. Help please!!!

He needs a one year course of logic and focus on "cause and effect". He definitely cannot keep this straight.

Add Journey Man for younger son.

Thank you for your help! I love the idea of doing short stories and poetry. This is the list I finished putting together last night with some Sonlight Core 100 titles and wonderful ideas from you. Both ds will read all of the books in the list. We may take 1.5 school year to do American history and literature. ds13 will do CLE Changing Frontiers and ds11 will do America the Beautiful. And their writing will include lit analysis, so i may only choose a very limited few in this list for them to do a deeper study. Otherwise it will be simply reading on their own. I do not know how to put them in chronological order, though I did look at their in a short summary online. Can someone help me please? Would like to incorporate movies and documentaries in the study, too. There are so many good movies we want to enjoy! Put a check mark before each title when you finish reading it. Daily: A Treasury of Poetry for Young People ---1 page a day Go to this site to read American short stories https://americanliterature.com/twenty-great-american-short-stories. Read two stories a day if they are short; read one a day if it is a long story. All Summer in a Day (google it yourself) The Gift of the Magi (1905) by O. Henry To Build a Fire (1908) by Jack London An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890, 1891) by Ambrose Bierce The Monkey's Paw (1902) by W.W. Jacobs (study) Regret (1897) by Kate Chopin The Lady or the Tiger (google it yourself, then google questions to read and think about) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865) by Mark Twain Ransom of Red Chief (1906) by O. Henry (google yourself) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) by Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle (google it yourself, study) The Tell-Tale Heart (1843) by Edgar Allan Poe Scarlet Stockings (~1869) by Louisa May Alcott Bartleby the Scrivener - by Herman Melville The Lottery (1948) by Shirley Jackson Thank you, M’am (google it yourself) Novels: Amos Fortune, Free Man -----1 week Indian Captive-----2 weeks They Loved to Laugh-----2 week The adventures of Tom Sawyer with analysis---3 weeks (study for younger son) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain---2 weeks Bound for Oregon----1 week Dragon’s Gate-----2 weeks Dragon’s Wing---2 week Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas---2 weeks (study for older son) Red Badge of Courage—2 weeks The Call of the Wild ----1 week (study for younger son) Out of the Dust----1 week Their Eyes Were Watching God---2 week The Yearling---3 weeks To Kill a Mockingbird-----3 weeks (study in older son's online writing class in WHA FOEW) Moonshiner’s Son---2 weeks A Year Down Yonder ---1 week Maniac Magee---1 week My Side of the Mountain---1 week (study for younger son) A Wrinkle in Time—1 week The View from Saturday---1 week Wednesday Wars----1 week When You Reach Me—1 week The Outsiders ---2 weeks (study for older son)

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Just observed ds13's first Clover Creek Physics online class. I looooove it! Mrs. Jetta is very friendly and pleasant. Her southern accent is so charming! The students are so fun, too! I so wish my son could see them all in person! Ds11 will start with Sr. Gamache Spanish in an hour. Yay!

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RootAnn, I miss your green avatar.

My oldest did WWS 1, IEW SWI Level B, WWS 2 first half and gave up. I let him do Lively Art of Writing. He didn't produce much with LAoW. Then he did a local writing class, which unfortunately was toooooooo easy and put him several years back. Now he is turning 14 in less than 3 months and is enrolled in Wilson Hill Academy Fundamentals of Expository Writing. I am sure it will be the right level. He learned a lot from WWS 1 followed by IEW Level B. However, WWS 2 lessons became harder and longer and we had to stop. With my youngest, we tried WWS 1 for a week and he asked to stop. He went on to Jump In, which he liked a lot but didn't improve much. Then he joined a group of kids for IEW Level B taught by my friend at her house. He learned a TON! Now he is enrolled for Potter's School Journey Through Narnia. For writing, I find outsourced classes are necessary, though my oldest did very well with WWS 1 by mostly self teaching. I am very pleased with it; but obviously, WWS is not for everybody, as you and I found out with our own kids.

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Thanks! By the way, I missed Sr. Gamache's open house because i totally forgot mine is Central time while his is Eastern. I requested a private "open house" for ds and me. Ds is coming home today from his 7 day Boy Scout Many Point Camp. He will be really tired and need down time. I really really hope Sr. Gamache will agree to "meet" us for a few minutes tomorrow before Monay class starts!

I just received Changing Frontiers. Would like recommendations for a simple and effective get it done geography to go with it. My younger son will probably do America the Beautiful. Can I just get a copy of geography workbook from that curriculum for my older son who is doing Changing Frontiers? What geography are you going to use with Changing Frontiers?

We were in China to visit my family for two weeks in May. Which cities are you going to? Is your newborn granddaughter a Chinese?

I have been spending the last two days setting up and printing syllabus for these classes. Would like to find buddies whose dc are in these classes. Has TPS not sent invitation for their online classes yet? We got invited to prep-start three of the four classes I signed dc up. Haven't heard from TPS yet.

I agree. I think it's time for marriage counseling if they don't want their marriage go down the same direction that it is heading.

Please let us know what she decides to do and if everything is fine. I hope it is something benign. If not, she'll need to choose how to react to it.

Praying for you. So sorry.

I have a copy of the 1st edition. I will probably use it to supplement TT geometry. I don't know where to find answers to the third sets either. Hope someone can help.

Ds11 will use America the Beautiful, but since a few people say that it is more geared towards younger end of the target d 5th to 8th grade, I ordered CLE 8th grade Changing Frontiers for ds13 for American history. I am hoping to use Notgrass for high school. I am all ears to what reviews people give to it, though. We may change to something different.

What would you use I stead?

I would be upset too. Do you know anyone else who buys this CSA? I would definitely voice my complaint based on good proof and reason.