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  1. Just because it hasn't been mentioned, English Lessons through Literature. http://www.amazon.com/English-Lessons-Through-Literature-Level/dp/1500192481/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1439258460&sr=1-1&keywords=english+lessons+through+literature We liked it here.
  2. C.S. Lewis' _Til We Have Faces_ ?
  3. I think this was it. http://www.classroomdoodles.com/specific-subjects.html
  4. I'm not sure from the description if that phone can do apps (which is how I know how to get Audible files to work on a device like that). This is more like what I got for our kids. I think it's in the $30 dollar range, but I found one at a Shopko for 19.99 on sale. You can keep the sim card out entirely. (This means no telephone service possibility. We also have an older model "dumb" phone on purpose for our cell phone.) You can buy up to a 32gb micro sd card to expand the memory on the particular phone linked above. First, you can have it search manually for your home network and put in your password. Then download whatever audible content you own and transfer mp3 files to the music folder (using a cord to your computer or wherever you have it stored). You get it all set up the way you want it (in my case that included deleting a bunch of the icons for stuff that we weren't going to use), and then go back to the internet connection and disconnect from your home network and pick don't remember (or something similar) so it won't automatically reconnect to your home wifi. When the content you want your kids to be able to access is all on the device you can make sure the password is no longer entered on the device and it will need to be typed back in if you want it to access the internet. Our crew is young enough that this is sufficient to make sure they're not attempting to navigate the web unless it's with a parent on the laptop. For older, savvier, or more determined kids, this might be enough of a safeguard. I don't put any games on the device. Basically, just our own music and audiobooks. (Although, you could do ebooks, too, if you're inclined. It's just a pretty small screen for that. But the kindle app would let you download a bunch of free stuff item by item and not have access to anything else without an internet connection.) Our kids can also use the camera/video feature to be silly, but they can't put anything online at all, they just use up some digital space and then erase it when they want to record something else. (There's also a librivox app, but that seems to not always work the way I think it should. If you like librivox recordings, it might be easier to just download them as mp3 files and put them in the music folder instead of trying to mess with the app.) I'm really pleased with this solution for our family. We've been listening to tons of audiobooks recently as a result of this. As always, YMMV. :) Hope this helps! Edited for clarity. Hopefully.
  5. If you watch for sales, there are super cheap smartphones you can snag for $20 or so at Walmart or even on Amazon. They're usually in some rotten network which makes them undesirable as actual phones, but if you take out the sim card and use it just over your wifi (and then you could even take the password off and have it offline), you can put music/audible stuff on there and get tons more storage (if it can take an sd card) than a dedicated mp3 player. It's like a super cheap ipod substitution. Also, they make cases that actually protect the device. (I really like the ones we use--strictly on home wifi [mine] or offline [separate one for the kids, so they don't keep using mine].) ETA: These phones typically have external speakers so headphones aren't necessary, but they almost all have headphone jacks and/or bluetooth capability for earphones/speakers if desired.
  6. How long has it been around? How sure are people that it's a safe place for kids? How comfortable are you letting your kids post projects that include pictures/videos of themselves? Am I just super-paranoid? We try to keep everything possible offline when it comes to our kids. So, when they're old enough to know what an online presence/identity means, it's not too late and they have some sort of control. Thoughts? (I think my kids would love earning the badges on diy, but I'm still trying to decide if the social aspect of it is worth starting this juggernaut.)
  7. Since SCM Pet Store Math was discussed positively upthread, I'll mention that I just got it to try (maybe for the summer?) from the Build Your Bundle (or whatever it's called) that's going on. I'm not referring anyone (if you google homeschool build your bundle, I think you'll find it.) If you have other stuff they're selling that you're looking at, too, it might be a deal. (Probably not if that's the only product you really wanted.) Just a head's up. And, thanks to the people who bumped this. Lots of fun stuff in here! (My Amazon wishlist is expanding....again. :) )
  8. Sorry, I posted and disappeared. Also, I'm not Jackie, but as I understand it, you can play your audible purchases on any device that does apps (download the audible free app). Unfortunately, the list of dedicated mp3 players that will play their files is pretty small. Alternatively, you should be able to put the file on iTunes and burn it to a cd. (But, I have not been able to do that successfully so I just play them all from cheap phones that I got specifically to use as audible players.) Hope that helps.
  9. 80 Great Courses are on sale for 6.95 each at audible. (Through May 8, I think.) If you have an Amazon account, you can buy them without being an audible member. I'm not an affiliate, but I am addicted. :)
  10. Just fyi, I think the author might actually be Kathy Jo's husband, not son. I let my 9yo dd read it for a free read, and she really enjoyed it. I looked at the notebooking pages/schedule for the zoology one, but I'm not sure if we'll try that next year for a bit or just use it as another free read. Sorry, that's not a terribly informative review, I know. I'm planning to read more than the first three-five chapters, but that hasn't actually happened yet.
  11. Are you super-saturated with volunteers already? I would be willing to lend another eye to the process.
  12. This. How bad could it be to use US edition workbooks with Standards HIGs and textbooks?
  13. My plan is to have the complete set of HIGs/TB/CWP (which I've collected already, just because, even though my oldest is just finishing 4B....) and buy the workbooks depending on how many of the real-live actual children in this house use them. If at some point the standards workbooks aren't printed anymore, I'll plan to teach from the textbooks and line up whatever edition workbook is currently being served up with the textbook I already have and know well. There might be some spots that don't ever correspond that way, but I'm finer (I know that's not a word) with that than with any other of the potential scenarios I imagined.
  14. The Inexplicable Universe, a Great Course by Neil deGrasse Tyson is $1.95 today as Audible's daily deal. Sorry this is so late in the day. I don't get paid anything to say it. :) HTH Edited to fix a weird comma.
  15. You don't have to be an audible member to buy audio books outright. (Being a member means buying monthly credits to get books at a discount. But you can buy books without the credits.) I think if you have an amazon account you don't even have to sign up separately and start a new account with audible. But, they are linked to your amazon account. Also, you have to have a mobile device that can play audible (not just any mp3 player, I found out). Or plan to listen by your computer. Or figure out how to import them to iTunes and burn cds.
  16. Just fyi. Peter Dennis' narration of Winnie the Pooh is the daily deal today. Ninety-nine cents. (I'm not an affiliate.) :)
  17. Just fyi, I think the pdf's from Currclick are black and white, so printing in color doesn't help.
  18. I wonder why, too. Used primarily as an audio device (audible, mp3s, etc.) it's been really nice here. I haven't used it as a phone at all, but for what I wanted it's been great.
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