Thank you for the wonderful link! That's what I need to hear. Right now, I've only been borrowing science books for DD to read as we concentrate more on Latin, math and writing. Plus, DD loves reading science books and this list will help me know what the appropriate leading level is for her without having to go to all of our libraries and look at the books myself.

Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Is it too much to ask whether there is one book that covers everything for the Introductory test? I thought I read somewhere here that one book seems to cover most of everything that appears in the NLE. I have been reading aloud FMOR and I do have LNM, but I don't want to stop using Henle just because it may not be enough for the NLE.

Thank you Robyn!

I'll join because we've been memorizing about 2 poems per week since April.

Could you tell us which level did you administer? I was thinking of having DD take the Introductory test but we've only finished Henle's declensions and adjectives and will be learning the conjugations soon. I can see from the previous year's exams that there are vocabulary and phrases that we haven't seen in Henle, but some of them are in Latin Prep.

Thanks Wapiti, I also think the organization of Henle is better for a child. It's easier to learn all the 5 declensions first, then the adjectives, and then the conjugations. I think this orderly format makes the process less confusing. I do love these old Latin textbooks and I may use Gunnison's to teach new vocabulary. I noticed that the end of the textbook has Caesar's Gallic Wars but I don't know whether that's the simplified version. The textbook has exercises that eventually lead the child to translate the last part of the book.

the book that William Linney of GSWL is using, Latin for the First Year by Balfour, Gunnison, and Harley. Linney now has many lectures on his website and and an answer key. I looked through Balfour's book quickly yesterday. Since we both have younger kids using Henle, I was just curious why you didn't go with the Latin for the First Year, as it appears that the level of difficulty is the same. Also, if you have time to look through the table of contents of Balfour, you'll notice that it's set up differently than Henle's. Maybe because we're really used to Henle's format, I find Balfour's less orderly; meaning, I'm not sure if I like the back and forth jumps between declensions and conjugations. However, we're now done with Henle's units on declensions and adjectives, so if I decided to use Balfour, it wouldn't matter to us at this point since it would be like a review while learning new vocabulary and conjugations. By the way, have you seen this book, Caesar's Gallic Wars with commentaries by Gunnison? I was thinking of reading it aloud the first 30 pages (obviously) and looking through the colorful illustrations with DD.

Oh my, I never knew about Michael's and it looks like they have other things that are 50% off. I'm thinking of getting those artists pads. Thanks!

The Redwall Series by Brian Jacques.

It depends what "getting them done" means, because if you're talking about a more relaxed way of study, then we get history done by listening to audiobooks, science done just by having DD read some books, and art done by having DD do the Masiello books. I'm becoming more strict in piano practice. For one week, we were really good at our history narrations, but that stopped because I had to focus on those CWPs. We use Apologia and it's a lot of reading for me, which tends to get pushed away for French or Spanish. I haven't even done WWE this week, but we tend to do 3 weeks worth of lessons in 1 week because DD loves those passages. We're quite consistent with math, Latin, languages, and usually WWE. Sometimes I wonder if the kids in PS are doing more than what I am giving to DD. I haven't done FLL in a few weeks. ETA: Is this confession time?

When DD was 3, she disliked coloring and when she did color, because the teacher told her to during one of those zoo classes, she would color outside the lines, not even trying to stay within them. Now, 3 years later, she loves to color and draw, but more of the latter and she does stay within the lines now. I really think kids go through their own stages and shouldn't be compared to anyone else.

DD loves audiobooks so much that when she is reading a book, she'll "listen" to an audiobook of another book :glare:. We're in the car a lot, so we've listened to a wide range of books, but right now, it's all about Brian Jacques and his series of Redwall books. The author narrates his own books and has a variety of actors for other parts. It's so well done! She listened to Where the Red Fern Grows for one month, everyday, for 2 hours, but she did cry hard the first time, and for some reason, needed to listen to the story many more times afterwards.

Wow, some professionals seem to thrive on telling parents that their kids can't succeed. Melmichigan's child is using Singapore and at grade level! Math Mammoth uses the matrix and has the student fill it out often.

The multiplication matrix was used in my parochial school in the 70s when we first started to learn multiplication and we weren't allowed to use calculators.

Are you near a university? A friend of mine lived in the mid-West for a year and had a roommate from Taiwan studying at the graduate school. If you can find a college or grad student, that would be even better than going online.

Dawn, you are always so gracious in sharing your finds with us, thank you. Without you, I wouldn't have bought the lovely, but really inexpensive, art books, which we used just before viewing the Post-Impressionist and Picasso exhibits.

Aren't most younger kids easily distracted? DD doodles all the time, on her copywork, on her math page, on her cursive page, even during dictation. In the middle of a copywork sentence, she'll get up and do something else. If there were a 3-year old next to her, there wouldn't be any work done. I usually sit with her or promise her that if she can do all her work, then she can read a book or draw.

I think I'll try it for 3 months at $7.49 per month before committing for 12 months. I can get one free audiobook per month so now I have to figure out if I should get a historical fiction or a history book. That promo for $100 is good until January 2012.

Your order reminds me to order the Buffalo Games Puzzle because these are larger-sized pieces than the normal ones. We finished the Bluebirds and I should really place an order for another one soon. They have 300 pieces and the pieces are easier for a younger child to hold and look closely.

I don't have Prime Shipment so I get the pleasure of waiting an entire week for the following: Little History of the World Audiobook by Gombrich Learning Resources Cash and Wallet (we managed to lose most of the money with the accompanying cash register and now I find out there is replacement money and a neat little wallet) Transparent Counters so that I can use HIG3A to its fullest without spending too much on the real thing Top Flight Sketch Pad because DD loves to draw now

My library doesn't carry any of Rosemary Sutcliff's audiobooks, and those books are long read-alouds, so if I were to join, I would get some of her books and Joy Hakim's history books.

Angela, what books did you get on that monthly credit that was more than $30?

Does the CD contain the same content as the free MP3 file found under Free Extras?

It's an expensive program so I need to squeeze more from Grammar Island :D.

Sorry, not Angela, but once your kid reads Grammar Island, she may want to read the entire book in one sitting. I had to pry it away from DD the other day, and this is our second round.