I just came a cross it and was curious what you thought about it. Have you used it? What for? Do you like it? Strengths/weaknesses? Thanks!

I'm looking for something TOG wil be at...any ideas in the midwest? Thanks!

Does anyone know of a good conference in the Mo/Ks area. Just wanting to have the time to look thru different curriculum. Thanks!

Yes with dd. The boys only did thru sports and the neiborhood. I do try to keep the involved in sports and other activities. :)

Black Beauty...the original. DD really likes it! It's challenging, but interesting...since it is done from the horse's perspective it's very gender neutral :)

Yeah, I actually went o Mardel's and looked at a sentence diagraming book to compare it to what we're doing in Shurley, refered to as classifying. Yes, it is classifying the type of sentence as well as naming all the parts of the sentence. For a moment, I was panicing. Now I feel better about my choice in curriculum :)

I recently had to take a refresher course on vaccines, how they are made, the statistics involved, herd immunity things like that. I have also swung back and forth between both camps. I have jad the wonderful oppertunity to sit under proffessors of both camps as well...from Naturalpath MD...to some pretty staunch Microbiologists. My personal conclusion is slow and steady for all, but the flu vaccine (we do not get it) unless your immunocompromised and then I think the benefits outweigh the risks. There are some great peer reviewed studies being done/ done one the link between geographic location and autism. Lending itself to the conclusion (KEY WORD "LENDING") that instead of being linked to the filler ingredients in vaccines there's a strong link to an enviromental contament. Sorry, I don't have the link it was something we studied last semester in Micro. But for us...yes we get them...try to space them...but we also travel internationally and for those cases it is a must in my eyes. We also have to consider the increase in international travel and how this does bring us into closer contact to diseases we no longer carry immunity to, but are not completely irradicated.

So, this came up in another thread and it made me curious...what is the difference between classifying and diagramming a sentence? Does anyone know?

You know what you migh tbe right...technically....Shurley has them classifying sentences. For me this was the same as diagramming. In level 3 ch3 lessons to my daughter had to classify: The old dog howeled quite loudly. First she has to label the SN, V, Adv, Adv, Adj, A. The she has to classify the sentence as a SN V pattern 1 sentence. Then she has to do this with about 2 more sentences per lesson. So I guess it is a bit different...she loves it! I think the jinggles really help. I kinda thought she would find it dry and boring, but because she gets it, she likes it :) Hope that helps a bit! and sorry if I confused you earlier!

Uh Oh....feed a romaine salald to a group of young adults in my kitchen last night :(

I think we call that thinking "crazy makeing." :) As a nurse I had to do a few rotations in rehab home...I made Dh swear to never put me in one!!!! That's just my opinion I know there are some really good ones, but with the number of hospital born infections and an elderly compromised immune system, I would refuse too. I have a dear friend who teamed up with all the siblings and the parents estate and put them in a really nice retirement home. Then they pay about 3 people as caregivers for the hours they cannot be with them. These people are not made out of money, but they made it happen. I told dh this is how I want to go!!!!

I just pulled my kids as well (a month ago) and just bought shurley in their grade levels. My sons (grade 2) I chose to just start in the grade level they were in and work thru the summer. So were doing level 2 and they are already diagraming simple sentences. My dd in level 3 is diagramming sentences with subject, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, article adjectives and pattern types this is only lesson/week 3. Hope that gives some idea of what were doing with shurley :)

I prefer the verse where Abraham's servant gives the nose ring to Rebecca as a sign of abraham's honor and wealth.

I have wanted a nose ring for the longest time!!!! The piercings don't go over real well with all the horse training I do...all I would need is some young horse bashing his head into mine...and well...my imagination of what would happen makes me refrain :) But many of my dearest friends have quite a few different piercings, from tongues, lips to gauges.

I actually think that is awesome!!!! And I'm a pastor's wife :) albeit a very artsy/funky pastor's wife!

I thought about that right after I posted :) I guess I was also looking at philosphies and homeschool mindsets. What do I need to make sure I cover and all that good stuff!!!! Probly would be best if some well meaning moderator moved this to the K-8 area...I'm still learning :)

Okay I haven't seen on of these threads yet...but I am new :) So would you all be willing to lend your advice on where to start and progress from here? I have a 9dd, twin 8ds, and an almost (he can barely take it!!!) 5ds. Put's us towards the end of 3rd,2nd and pre-k...but I'm really looking to plan for next year. Right now I am useing a mixture of MUS, apologia, literature that I pick, zane-blouser spelling, SOTW, and Shurley english. I'm not really dissatisfied with my first picks...but I know there are other great ideas out there!!!!

I was taught to diagram first in private school by 3rd grade...we did not start diagraming in public school until I was in 6th grade. I did very well in college english, but many of my PS counterparts did not. One of the main complaints a CEO friend of mine has, is that very few of their new hire's can draft an appropriate and proffesional memo. I have forgotten much of what I learned, but thankfully it is all coming back as I teach my own children :) It doesn't help that dh had a really good private school education and sometimes I hate that he can just hear a sentence and tell me all the parts of speech, why, and what needs to be fixed :) I on the other hand love to run on......:lol:

One of my boy's is reading Farmer Boy and the other is reading The Barn by AVI. The Avi book was difficult to start and it's a pretty intense book about 3 young kids whose father becomes inacapacitated and they have to take care of him and keep the homestead afloat...it's real life graphic about what it means to care for an invalid. I even asked ds if wanted to find a different book...but He's actually beginning to bond with this boy on whom so much responsibilty is laid. I'm in the same boat looking for more books...I was thinking of looking into Ronald Dahl.