What about the Reading Rainbow app?

Would this help? http://www.classicalworks.com/his.pages/timeline.html

Today is my son's birthday so Make as many pbjs as he wants to eat Wrap presents Pick up cake and McDonalds (gag) for dinner The following will only occur if my baby is not requiring me to be a walking pillow today... Yesterday my rainbow resource order came in so Continue prereading and book notes Add geography activities to the schedule I suppose I should do some housework... Vacuum Dust Mop downstairs floor

Open, open, open.... :)

Beautiful.

Nonfiction what? Biographies? Essays? Speeches?

Oh gosh eagle. I think I would have died a little inside.

The Sinking of the Dayspring? It's about missionaries in the south seas. Jungle Islands by Maria Coffey it's her adventures in the Solomon Islands. It does have lots of colorful photographs but well written. I thought her text was engaging and a cross between a journal and an adventure novel. Hth

Ok, I'm going to have to look up your link and the sample from Mother Tongue II again. Are these from the same section? This may have to wait until the kids go to bed. Oh and I didn't think you meant to keep the term savage and just plug in deaf people for North American tribes. I was being snarky. :)

One could break!

That is a shock. I'm glad he's out and doing ok. I hope you can work something out with his college so he won't miss a full year.

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/431590-help-us-find-great-posts/?p=4382702

They're in the great posts thread.

How to put this... Savage doesn't bother me. Groups of people regardless of race can have a savage culture, uncivilized and/or vicious. But to just lump all North American tribes under one label is pretty silly. It's like the education I received 30 years ago: All Indians wore boxy fringed leather vests, feathers in their hair and papooses on their backs. And I don't think the authors could have just substituted the deaf population's use of sign language either. Someone would be offended by that too.

Love Horner's system! The connections you make are amazing. I had a hard time keeping all the bookmarks in place. So I made an excel spreadsheet that says what to read each day.

What time zone?! ;)

I'm bringing back this old thread because I'm looking for drawing DVDs too. Has anyone used Donna Hugh's Drawing Lessons?

Since I just read through Ray's Primary I'm a bit of a Ray's firebrand now... He really emphasizes how kids need to see the operation and understand it before they can move on to the abstract of numbers instead of quantities. I second the idea of playing games but ones with quantities. Heigh Ho Cherry-o (sp?) comes to mind. Maybe earning magic beans throughout the day (you have two beans and you've earned 3 more) that can be traded in at the end of the week (you have 12 beans and this costs 5 beans how many will you have left?)? However Ray's builds in order: first combinations of 3, then four...etc. Also what about setting a timer. That way she knows there's an end coming soon. So drill combinations 1-10 for 5 minutes a day to build mastery. Hth

Is it Friday yet??? ;)

But that means they read it right? I mean picture it...a teacher is facing 30 kids who all need to submit book reports on Ben and a Me that she gets to spend the weekend grading. Joy! You're right, forget extra credit She's selling an A in Language Arts for the students who post reviews on Amazon instead. That's literature, writing, community service and preparing them to interact with the technology era! That teacher is up for teacher of the year now! ;) And she'll have her weekend free to read 30 reports on evaporation instead.

Sometimes I feel like teachers hand out extra credit to students who post reviews on amazon.

I love the Ed Emberly. I need to get DD#2 the Purple Drawing Book for Christmas. Thanks Hunter. Is this what you meant about crayon painting: http://artchoo.com/crayon-painting

My mom told me not to tattle. No really, she said I should never tattle until I had first dealt with the offender myself. That takes a lot of courage and a spine most people lack. Inconvenience is a great excuse for cowardice. This is certainly something I need to continue to work on. I'm sorry you got such crap employees. It sounds like you're in a smaller town too. Good luck getting rid of them I hope they get the fire out soon!

You know, Hunter posted a book from google books that had drawing lessons by grade level with lots of hand holding. I need to go look for the title. ETA: Ausburg's Drawing http://books.google.com/books/about/The_New_Augsburg_s_Drawing.html?id=EaBpAAAAMAAJ

Someone just linked to these elsewhere on the boards: http://barefootmeandering.com/images/BarefootMeanderingReadingLists.pdf Those lists might be helpful. Are you only looking books of that era or set in era? I read Abigail Adams:Witness to a Revolution this summer and loved it.