Thanks for responding. that is a good description.

Has anyone read this series? Or anyone's daughter? Ann Martin is the writer of the babysitter's club I think. What age for reading the series? Do you think the topics she brings up are appropriate? My daughter, who's 7, listened to the first book on Cd from the library, and wants to get more, but I don't know much about the books. What's your opinion of them? good books or not?

Has anyone read this series? Or anyone's daughter? Ann Martin is the writer of the babysitter's club I think. What age for reading the series? Do you think the topics she brings up are appropriate? My daughter, who's 7, listened to the first book on Cd from the library, and wants to get more, but I don't know much about the books. What's your opinion of them? good books or not?

Have you seen the Lois Burdett series, Shakespeare for Kids? It is really fun. We checked a few out from the library, and it got my six year old into Shakespeare.

This is awesome! I was just going to post a very similar question. Thanks gals. Any easy science suggestions?

My son is 4 and 1/2, and he begged to do more school last year. So this year we got him ETC primer, Get set for school (HWOT), singapore math essentials, and a kumon cutting book. He also loves sitting in for SOTW and FIAR.

I got some craft paper at Michaels or Fred Meyers. It's pretty wide though, like wrapping paper wide on a roll. Or we have bought rolls of paper from our local newspaper for 2 or 3$. We use it for coloring or for making fires in out wood stove.

We just have a 1st grader and two preschoolers right now, so obviously our collection is just starting:001_smile:. We have WWE 1 and 2. It's worked for us so far.

Our oldest will be 7 in a month!

Thank you!!

We are reading Indian in the Cupboard right now and it is a big hit!

This is encouraging to me too, because we are starting cursive for DD this year in First grade also because she wants to write pretty. It sounds like she ready!

It's not silly because I have wondered the same thing. Listening in on this one :bigear:

We are done with OPGTR and WWE 1. Explode the code was just a supplement fun material, that's just review and easy. Sometimes seemed to take the edge off the day if thrown in. After looking at them, I know she could skip 3 altogether, and just go to 4 of even 5. Any suggestions?

I was planning to do spelling workout WWE 2 A Reason for Handwriting T FLL 1 And what if I had ETC 3(or 4) just for extra work/ weekly change ups. Is this too much? Drop ETC? Or drop WWE 2?

thanks for clarifying!

We started earlybird math through singapore and I was planning to not have DD write in it, but at her age it seems a little complicated to have her not. Do you let your child write in earlybird? then not in the other textbooks like 1A and up? Are the other textbooks structured different than earlybird or are they similar layouts?

Sorry:tongue_smilie:what is lcc?

Wow thank you! I had only heard about Cache!

That's a great idea! Thanks for sharing. I will definitely be using that with my daughter.

Hi, Oregon moms! We just moved to Corvallis from Portland.

Great discussion! This really has got me thinking. I read the article on line someone suggested, and already put a book on hold at the library. I think that we will check out a fairy tale book and skim through and see how we feel, and maybe I'll try to get a hold of "Orthodoxy". That sounds like an interesting read. Thank you again for all the impute. I really value thinking through our decisions as a family and really seeking the Lord as to what is best for US, and not just going with the cultural flow. I think everyone who chimed in is also doing just that! So it's been so good to hear from you all.

All I know is my king will one day come on a "white horse" and take me to his mansion. :001_smile: AMEN!

Great advice. Thanks everyone for continuing to chime in! I know this can be a heated topic, thank you for being respectful and loving.

Thank you everyone for sharing. I'm really enjoying hearing what everyone has to say.Thanks HappyGrace for being so candid, and I think I am still trying to figure out what we will teach in our home about "magic" and "witches". Grandma already told oldest that they were bad, and I don't even know how I feel about that! It's so hard sorting about all these things and it's so nice to hear from other moms.