I totally agree with this! Better with time!

I don't have any experience with "we remember". I don't think it was out when we used about 4yrs ago. I did prefer the biblioplan guide alongside SOTW & guide because my boys were a little older and I did not feel confident piecing together church history myself. But this was for Middle Ages. For accidents just SOTW with the AG is plenty if your dc a very young and you don't mind your bible not correlating. You can probably find a free list on line somewhere that has a SOTW chapter correlation with which bible stories to read. I know there are several flouting around.

We did SOTW ancients with the AG only for year one, SOTW w/Biblioplan and no companion for middle ages and I'm only considering the companion now that they are older. You don't need the companion at all and in fact I think it's overkill for the younger grades. ETA: no experience with MOH

We just replaced out electrulux with a dyson. Before I threw it out I vacuumed our living room rug WELL with the electrulux and revaccumed with the new dyson. Whoa! I thought the carpet was clean. Nope, had to empty the container cause i was full! We bought a cinematic ball animal.

Japanese cars. We just never have problems with them. Very mechanically sound. Totally worth the extra $$. We have friends that keep buying chevys and have to replace them every couple of years. The last few, it was yearly.

Your dd sounds like the perfect candidate for IEW. It will give her the structure and scaffolding she needs for her ideas. We use it at coop and I am amazed at how much my dyslexic/dygraphic ds (as well as my typical learner) have progressed. The one thing I do for him, though, is scribe for him in order to eliminate his need to think about the mechanics of writing and spelling. He just verbalizes everything he wants me to write.

Yes it is as independent for the older grades. The companion guide is meant to be read as a family but I can't see why it couldn't be assigned for your orders. You can add coloring pages for the younger ones and what they call cool history pages as well as geography pages for the different levels. I think the best part is the amazingly large books lists, and the fact that the schedule gives you so many resources to choose from, all based on grade/reading level.

I agree with this. 5yrs old is a bit young for playing out of sight.

We love Biblioplan specifically for the reasons you listed! It lets you pick you spine, stick to it, or not. It schedule your readalouds and other books, audio, and dvd sources but lets you pick and choose as you go.

We have a 2003 Sienna. We bought it used with under 50,000 miles. It now has almost 200,000 and still going strong. It will easily go to 300,000 I think. Never had a single problem with it aside from one of our boys putting pennies into the cd player as a toddler and shorting out the stereo!

Ugh. I'm so sorry! :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

What would you use? I would love for my LD children to join in also if possible but this is more geared toward my typical learning 5th grader. My oldest dabbles in GSWL and we have the first visual latin video but what is else is out there?

CLE has a great laminated reference card with all the measurement conversions on it including some other stuff. You could make something similar and let them have it while they do their work. I think stuff like measurement gets memorized with more exposure. Honestly my children forget the stuff less often than I do. Over time I see that they need the reference chart less and less often.

We got a call from the CDC. They said they were doing a survey and they wanted to know about immunizations. They assured me I did not have to give names or other info and preceded to ask me my children's names, ages, and our address, again assuring me they only wanted the info for the survey. Then they wanted the name and address of our pediatrician and would I please release my children's medical histories to them. What???? I said no, I thought you did not want any more information. Then they offered me $ for the info. ?????? No way. They kept call me for months.

I think it really just depends on personality and the "seasons of life". We tried it with ECC first. We went thorough about 14 weeks of it with my boys giving me a silent groan whenever I pulled out the books. So we ditched it an did middle ages history with books from the library. They loved it. Looking back it was probably that particular year. Too much geography, we didn't like the YWAM books, ecology was really dry,etc. It felt too structured. I secretly really wanted to start with ancients but was convinced the only way to do it was the way they recommended which is to start with year 1. We tried it again three years later, starting it where we pleased, and it went really well. We did exploration to 1850s followed by 1850 to present. My kids learned *A LOT*. It served us well but my kids were older and they all fit into the age brackets for the family cycle. It fulfilled my need for accountability and structure that I seemed to need at the time. We are restarting our history cycle this coming school year but this time I feel like I need less structure and a bit more freedom to add or subtract as necessary. So use it as your tool and not your master is the take home message. ETA: I couldn't stand the science portion. It was very loosely related to the unity study. We did a lot of supplementing. If we were to go back to it I would do a completely different science.

There is a really great review by The old school house magazine crew about MUS for high school. It talks about how there are things not covered in MUS algebra are covered in other hs algebra texts but that the reverse is also true. It now also include a lot of enrichment/honors pages that make it more complete. It might be worth reading to ease your fears. I just googled MUS algebra.

A bit over 400 pages but Jane Eyre :001_wub:

Well I am also a salt craver not a sweet craver and I can say it works really well for me. It seem to specifically target my middle. I do use coconut oil quite a bit though so that my be a contributing factor and I like the sweeters (I used them even before THM). I am also very active but was not when I started THM.

We do mostly fresh and fermented veggies. Love these! I like to keep some frozen vegetables for occasion we ran out and did't have time to go to the store. In the past we have actually canned our own tomatoes.

This is a spin-off from the CLE vs. Abeka thread. I know the original WTM recommended Abeka but the current edition recommends R&S english as the most thorough. Aside from Abeka being a workbook and R&S having a hard text can anyone compare the two? This would be for a 5th grader.

I will be getting kids into TKWD next week hopefully.

Restarted my running/weight lifting after being down with the flu. Feels good!

Bumping...... I know SWB recommends Rod & Staff english for grammar. Is the Abeka recommendation from a prior edition of TWTM?

:party: Congrats! Hope things go well and we will be praying!

Honestly, evals were the only thing that helped me understand the underlying issues. I knew my son had low working memory and processing, for example, but had no idea how low. Having those numbers is what made me put things in perspective. I was constantly getting on him about how long he would take to complete schoolwork. Now I know he couldn't help it and was actually working 3X as hard to produce a 1/4 of the work than kids without these issues.