Hi, I know I don't post very often, but I wanted to tell you that my 21year old daughter has episodes like this occasionally during her monthly period. It happens only every so often, and when it happens it comes on very suddenly. One thing that stands out to me is the mention of possible warm water from a plastic bottle. (Don't know if it was plastic). Anyhow. She may have been reacting to the toxins from the plastic leeching into the water if it had been in the sunlight.

My own labels. Scotch tape is my friend.

We have used SL booklists for reading and history for most of the past 4 years. We started with C, went on to D and then E and are now on F. We (my dc and I) have learned so much! Next year, I plan to start B with my 7 year old and do 100 with my 12 and 14 year olds. When we were doing D one of my sons was 8. He did fine just listening in. He is 10 now and going back thru the D and E readers while he listens to me read F books. He will take a break from SL next year because he isn't ready for 100 (which is where I want to put my older ones). Even though I will be having my 7 year old do B, I don't necessarly think a second grader has to do much more than the basics. It will all be gravy to us.

I don't know how much you have to spend, but could you afford to buy the absolute essentials of Sonlight G to get you going for the school year and then pick up the rest as needed via Amazon? I know SL seems to indicate you can't save money by buying from other places, but my experience has been that you can order MOST of their titles (except SL exclusives) through Rainbow Resource for several dollars cheaper per book. It adds up substantially. Sometimes you can get an even better deal used on Amazon (but factor in the shipping!). I can afford to shop around as I have more time than money!:D

1972 is an old edition and not nearly as good as the present ones. I am not sure when the series was revised, but I can check.

I made a paper sleeve that I slipped over the first couple of chapters. I told my dc that part I had a problem with, but the rest of the book was fine as far as I was concerned. I didn't forbid them to look at it or anything, they just know where to start reading when and if they ever pull that book off the shelf.

Be sure to look up the Landmark book called The Story of Australia by A. Grove Day.

I have all my ducks lined up, so to speak, but I just can't hit the order buttons to order Sonlight W for my 12 and 13 year olds. It will cost me less than $300 from various sources added to what I already own, so cost isn't the issue. I just don't know if I can really swing SL! Can I do this? We have always read aloud A LOT. We love it. What is the Bible portion like? What about the LA? My dc seem to be dragging their feet about studying Ancient/Medieval world history. They want US history, but we read through all the D&E books already and are READY to do world history. Just trying to decide whether we ought to do a quick run through world history with something like just reading Story of the World and then move on to US history again or whether we ought to draw it out longer with SL W. I have younger children I need to spend more time with, too, and am not sure whether doing SL W more officially than we've done other cores will take up too much time. Thanks for any input.

:confused: I don't post here often, but I read frequently. I, too, was anxiously awaiting SL's new website. I assumed it was going to be REALLY different than before because they took their whole site down for a full day. (Who else does that??) I was shocked when I saw the "new" site. It looks the same as the old site. And I couldn't see samples of the things I was interested in! I thought maybe I was just totally confused. I have used SL lists for years (cores D and E and now F). Next year I was thinking about ordering the full B and G cores. I think I am holding on to my golden 2010 catalog with book descriptions and keep skipping their IG's!:tongue_smilie:

Which would you pick, if you had to pick all of either: Abeka or Rod and Staff? (For any grade 3-6) If you could pick and chose/mix match between the two, which publisher for which subject?

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I think I will go on to the 6th book....and if that doesn't work out, I will look at CLE.

He is almost 12 and just finishing up the 5th grade book. (Technically he ought to be in the 6th grade book based on his age and when he started school.) Now what do I do?:glare: I really want to stick with Rod and Staff math, but I am so discouraged. Why oh why did this child flunk this test????????? :confused: He is at least of average intelligence. No learning problems. He was struggling all through the book to get very good scores on the tests, so I should've seen this coming. He only does a half hearted job with any of his school work. Ever. I find it truly aggravating. I have now banned him from all computer and movie time. We don't have video games or t.v.

Ok, so I just asked 11yods to tell me about the book he just got reading. He started Moonshiner's Son yesterday and finished it today. He talked to me for 3 or 4 miles while I was driving, telling me about the story. He obviously comprehended it. Lol. Thank you, everyone, for the comments. It really helps to have a soundinf board and input from other moms.:)

They've always been home schooling. We've used Rod and Staff before, always for math, English and spelling. My 11 year old did all Rod and Staff last year for 4th. My 9 yo was slow to learn to read, so he just read books to me (easy readers ala HOD) last year. I've varied the stuff we've done for history and science.

Oh, man! I just got done posting a similar dilemma about my 9 and 11 year old sons!! Interest led reading vs making them put forth effort with a more traditional course of study. :bigear: