I was wondering if anyone knows of a list or lists that have the Sonlight books on Kindle.

I agree it depends on your kid. Mine didn't like them at all.

In my current state we are required to do 180 days. Tomorrow will be day 180. It's actually really annoying to have to count these stupid days when I see a teenagers Fac ebook page saying something like "We watched a dvd on aliens in history today!" or see pics of kids having end-of-the-year parties. I'm not against parties I just don't want to keep attendance! lol

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Can I listen to Audible books on my laptop? Can I burn them to a cd?

I actually skipped some lines in some if the books that were too...derogatory? to Native Americans. My youngest listening was 7 and I didn't feel she needed to know that.

If I did this once a week or so with my kids would they have to review anything from the previous lessons or can each lesson stand on its own?

If you buy color at a store like Walmart, it won;'t last as long and it is more damaging to your hair. Buying it from a beauty supply store, using what professionals use, is less damaging and lasts longer.

I don't hate him and I've even tried homeschooling his way but this is really bizarre, to go around mailing fliers asking for people to send him their pee!!!

Um. That's REALLY weird!

Those things always confused me.

My dh recently got a job that is moving us from SC to TX so out of need I've dropped some stuff and changed some stuff. Started doing written narrations after the kids read something and just discussing things after I read or they listen to something. My new obsession is audiobooks. They listen to MOH, we talk about it. They listen to SOTW, we talk about it. I just got Apologia Flying Creatures audiobook and they will be listening to that, discussing. If I feel like it and we have the materials, we may do some activities. If not, no big deal. I changed them t TT math so I don't get behind in checking math like I do with Saxon. Adding LOF and letting them check it themselves. Also key to measurement for fun. One page a day. Reading some poetry. Listening to Jim Weiss. But in the past 2 weeks, my boys have helped their daddy put down laminate flooring, take apart and destroy 2 broken computers, among other stuff. They collected bugs and frogs. We kept a carpenter bee that had a broken wing for 3 days, they gave it flowers and water. It died today. I've done some CM-type grammar and Daily Grammr with them and found out they retain way more by just doing a little at a time and together. They've been memorizing poetry. My 14 told me she'd rather do workbooks than written narrations because the narrations make her THINK and workbooks don't. Maybe when we get this house sold and move to TX I will keep this up. Maybe. lol

Ok, another question on this apparently year old thread (that I just discovered last night). How many of you are atheists directly because of how Christians have behaved, things they've said or done, that started you questioning, or things they said or did that caused you to no longer believe? Obviously if you never believed or doubted for other reasons this doesn't apply to you but I am curious because I know Christians have caused people (including myself), to stop going to church, or a specific church, and this thread made me wonder how many have fallen away from God Himself because of other people.

Art Reed has written articles about why problems should not be skipped in Saxon but I can't find it now that I'd like to. I will TRY to explain why but his explanations are much better then mine. The way Saxon is set up is they teach a concept in a lesson then review those things that are taught but the problems get harder without extra explanation. So if you skip problems, say all the odds, or whatever, eventually your child will have a very hard time understanding the math because he's missed some. Not all math currics are like this, I think only Saxon is. I've tried Saxon more than once with each of my kids and really prefer it and Life of Fred together. I don't let my lkids skip problems so with my 7 and 8 yos one lesson may take 2 or 3 days, all depending on how they do. My 10 and 11 yos usually do one lesson in about an hour and my 14 yo takes about an hour and 1/2. Having said all that I have to add that my 11 yo had to learn over time that I will make him do ALL his assigned work and if he chose to daydream and goof off and take literally 9 hours to do what should not have taken moire than 3 to finish, that was his problem. But he was 11 when he learned this, not 7. My current and past 7 yos never have more than an 1 and 1/2 hours total sitting down school work. I also have to add I've switched m y kids to TT and LOF math because we are moving and my dh is going to work in another state leaving me behind to sell our house, take care of my parents (who live with us), and our kids so for the sake of MY sanity, I've switched. But, I plan on going back to Saxon ASAP because I feel it's a very strong math curric that works. If only someone else would grade it like TT!

I wouldn't force a 7 yo to sit through hours of math. How about if you set a timer for a certain amount of time and whatever he gets done in that amount of time he gets done? Just don't skip the problems! Saxon builds understanding through the problems and he will be lost if you skip.

That's what I did and don't get discouraged with it because Apples starts with adding 4 + 2 or whatever. I think that's better for a kid who isn't strong in math to build confidence because LOF looks at math so very differently. That's one of my favorite things about it because I was horrible at math as a kid.

I didn't vote since I live in one myself but I am really curious about the people who voted always!

Who do athiests think Jesus is?

My kids like LOF. I started my 11 and 10 yo boys in Apples and now they are in...I forget. lol Farming? Goldfish? Something like that. My 14 started with the decimals and percents one and is now doing the pre-algebra with biology. She likes it but considers it harder than Saxon pre-algebra.

LOL Yea. With 7 kids I can say anything and keep a straight face.

Can anyone link me to a good, cheap site to buy audio books already on cds? Because I don't Ipads, or pods, or apple things. I'm able to get on this computer and not do much else on it so I don't want to do mp3's and all that. lol

That sounds legit. The OP doesn't. I could be wrong, it's happened before. I was in a grocery store once, put my bread at the end of my order because I HATE squished bread. I like nice, square pieces of bread. These 2 women behind me came up, pushed the stick that separated our orders into my bread and squished it. I asked them not to squish my bread and moved it back. I was polite but firm. They said I had no business wearing my Christian t-shirt. So I asked them how being a Christian means it's ok for them to squish my bread. This is the same attitude of some here. Because we are homeschoolers doesn't mean we should be DOORMATS, for pete's sake. Why is it impolite to refuse to answer someone who is being vague and rude herself and letting her KNOW why you're refusing to answer?

I agree with this 100%!

They could butit would more authentic to ask the question, then twist it around to make it a negative thing. Some people are quite good at that.

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