Well done. And at that price, if you hate it, where's the loss.

It's part of the awesome Scribners School Editions series that came out in 1963. It teaches poetry with the confidence that children can tackle everything from straightforward symbollism to scansion. Every chapter is thick with solid (though seldom exciting) selections, and there is good discussion of various poetic devices and literary techniques. The big selling point for me is the well-thought-out discussion questions at the end of each chapter, which is the hallmark of the SSE series. It's actually very much what I wanted the MCT poetry to be, but wasn't. A good preparation for Perrine's Sound and Sense. (ETA: by Kirkpatrick and Goodfellow)

Somehow I'm hearing Sean Connery's voice there. Just finishing Arthur's Britain. The book is a little dated, but it's definitely of interest to homeschoolers. Alcock's big contribution to Arthurian-era history is his meticulous and convincing argument that, contrary to the story of Hengist and Horsa and the Anglo-Saxon-Jutish invaders taking the island by fire and sword and driving the British into the remote western places, in fact the archeological evidence is for gradual settlement and intermarriage rather than displacement. The other story got traction because that's the way the Germanic settlers preferred to tell it.

Oh yeah, Reading Rainbow ... What happened to Geordie's visor?

Just wait till 9th grade, when everything goes on the transcript for college! There's something I don't look forward to reliving. :D

For an awful moment I read that as competitive driving.

Thanks for this thread. I needed a push to start planning. Current plans for 5th grade (several being continuations or finishing up from 4th): Math: AoPS (Geometry, Int. Algebra, Int. Counting, Number Theory) Arithmetic: Standard Service Arithmetics Grade 5 English: Junior English Book 3, Poetry With Pleasure, Drums (Scribner School Ed.), Mommy's cobbled-together grammar course Latin: Artes Latinae Greek: Athenaze French: class & SYRWTL French Music: piano lessons Science: TOPS, Nebel 2 Religion: My Catholic Faith Literature, history, geography: reading, reading, reading

OTOH ... We've used the Key To series as a full course with two children now, quite successfully. The first time, we followed it with a cobbled-together curriculum made from math contest problems and the original 2-volume AoPS. This time, AoPS has kindly put together the curriculum for us. Key To Algebra/Geometry make an excellent preparation for an AoPS Geometry/ Prealgebra/ Algebra combo. YMMV.

Cheese grits are tasty, but I prefer my hominy in posole form.

No one's as ambiguous as Kim in the Babybug magazines/books; besides the family apparently being Asian/Hispanic/Anglo/Black, they carefully avoid pronouns or clothing that would give away Kim's gender.

Is there a vulgar word in English with more impeccable literary credentials? Ewe bleateth after lamb, Loweth after calve cow, Bullock starteth, bucke farteth, Merry sing cuckoo! I propose "cuckoo" (or "cuccu") as a euphemism.

Happy birthday, thread! :party:

So Amiens then? Toulouse? It ain't Nairobi.

In Babar, how is it that the jungle is only a few miles from Paris?

Think you mean fixin t' explode.

You can also try having them always say the words as part of a phrase or sentence, as they're usually only homophones when said in isolation. If I say "Too or to?" they sound the same; but in phrases, such as "have to go" or "walk to the store," to is pronounced much more like "tuh." But too is always /tū/ as in "too much fun" or "me, too." At least in Texan English. :D

A universal law of learning, in my homeschooling experience, is that new information/ skills unsettles the old. I would predict that the old understanding will return as the new language understanding firms up. YMMV.

Just good old Half Price. The guys who had just spent half an hour oohing and aahing over them looked pretty guilty about the offer, and I had the strong feeling he could have done a lot better on eBay, but he didn't want to do that.

:iagree: My least favorite: the pious little old lady who stands at the end of the pew until you feel guilty and move the whole family over to let her sit at the end, which she clearly needs to do (which is why you feel guilty), and who then kneels throughout the liturgy eyes-closed with her rosary, deep in prayer and no doubt joining St. Teresa in the Ninth Mansion of the Interior Castle, while you try in vain to draw her attention to the screaming toddler you wish to remove from the pew but can't because she is in the way. Yes, she is on the threshold of heaven, and I am living the other place.

Well dh decided to help declutter. He tossed a few unnecessary electronics, and sold a small stack of his vinyl records from the 80s. For which they gave him nearly a hundred dollars. :glare: Mancleaning. Hmph.

D'Aulaire's Greek Myths The Iliad and the Odyssey (Watson/Provensen) The Golden Treasury of Myths and Legends (White/Provensen) A Coloring Book of Ancient Greece (Bellerophon) How Would You Survive as an Ancient Greek?

Hopeful bump ... Bill? Anyone? Bueller?

You've given me an idea. If anyone figures out a clever way to deal with some clutter that there isn't room for, or you can't figure out how to get rid of, post it - and if you need suggestions, ask. Off to put sheets under mattresses! ETA: obviously it's up to Halcyon how/if she wants to do this - don't mean to usurp!

A wise man.

We have very little storage space. Out-of-season and between-age clothes (there are six years between each girl) go in sealed bins in the attic. Some towels are folded in a towering stack on a small table in the master bathroom, and the girls' towels hang on hooks in their bathroom. Linens are crammed into the microscopic so-called "linen closet"; max. one change of bed linens per bed.