Does this program include any worldview discussion?

Thanks everyone. DH finally figured it out. It's too hard for me to try to explain the problem here without the right symbols on my keyboard, so I'll just leave it at--"We figured it out." I hope I didn't waste anyone's time, but your answers partly helped us to see what we were doing wrong in the first place.

My husband is trying to help my dd with a math problem and is running into some difficulty. The subject is Geometry. She learning leg squared + leg squared = hypotenuse squared. The problem is 3 times the square root of 2 squared + 3 times the square root of 2 squared. The answer key says the answer is 3 square root of 4. Why isn't it 6 square root of 4?

Yep. That's why I love IEW and the DVD's too--son loves Mr. Pudewa.

Thanks for your input. I did read something to that effect on the IEW website concerning SICC B. I was thinking of waiting until the end of his next school year when he would be a good 12.5. Possibly I should wait on it until he hits 13? Anyone else have a thought on that?

We are using SWI-B for my ds this year. He LOVES it. He is my pencil phobic boy who was just sure that he would never learn to write anything. So, I have been very pleased with the results this program has given us. I'm trying to decide if the continuation course would be worth the money. Does anyone have any experience they could share? (If you don't like IEW, then I probably don't want that kind of input--I already know we like IEW and am aware of the arguments against it.) $240.00 is a lot of money, so before purchasing, I'd like to know how others who generally like IEW felt about this particular course.

Here is ours!

We got snow in ABQ! Picture.

I haven't posted one in awhile--got one up today. Here.

Thanks for the replies. She may leave it--she has a couple of hours to decide. :)

Her opening sentences are: Who contributed to the development of the west in the 1800's? Farmers, prospectors, and fur traders did. My question is about that second sentence. Is it okay like that? Is that a fragment? It sounds incomplete to me, yet I understand that she is going for an effect here. We just can't think of another way to change it if indeed a change is needed. Any thoughts?

We are doing Windows to the World this year, and it provides a lot of instruction on HOW to write a literary analysis paper. I'm hoping of moving into Excellence in Lit next year.

Homeschooling with all the choices in curriculum these days can make it a daunting course of action to say the least. Overwhelming in another word. I feel for you. I look forward to reading the advice you will get here. I read everything I could get my hands on concerning Charlotte Mason. Then, I read the Well-Trained Mind. In the Well-Trained Mind, choices were already narrowed down for me, so I focused on researching those choices alone. The two view points mesh pretty well, so I use a lot of what I learned from Charlotte Mason resources, but for choosing a solid curriculum, WTM helped me tremendously. I haven't been disappointed in my choices. Since your kids are only four, you have some time to read and research. That's a blessing. Many people I know haven't had that time to prepare. Good luck on your journey!

Thanks everyone for the input and experiences. Her handwriting is legible, just ugly. :001_smile: Her teacher's comment was that her content was so good, that her handwriting should match it. Well, I'm still not sure it will really matter in the end? Most papers will be typed, and she can write legibly enough to take an essay test, I think.

My eighth grader has terrible handwriting. We just got her grades from a class she's taking. Her teacher praised her on many fronts, and she made an "A" for the semester. The only negative remark was on her handwriting. Any thoughts on how to help her improve her handwriting? Her cursive is better than her printing, oddly enough, but both are not good. I'm not sure she's motivated to improve it really--she was just mad that the teacher said anything about it.

We are half way through our school year. Yea! My post is mostly about our baking. See here.

I just have to add The Great and Terrible Quest and Beorn the Proud to our middle ages favorites list. We just finished them both for the first time. Great books!

Adam of the Road was by and far our very favorite when we did that time period four years ago. We felt like we got a very good picture of what life was like in the middle ages, but more than that, we just thought the book was great--it wasn't slow moving, and kept our attention.

Yes, the student book does seem more helpful. I think I'd be better off just reading the student book and teaching from it--the teacher's manual is just awful!

What do you mean by not "getting" it? I ask because I'm trying to teach EE to my 2 dd's this year. I think it is incredibly hard to follow the teacher's manual. I like what EE is trying to teach, but I think the layout is confusing. Just wondered what others thought.

I hope lots of you are doing some fun Christmas things to read about! Here's our report.

My dd LOVES Brambly Hedge. Her favorites are Autumn Story and Winter Story.

I would have to agree with all the other posters. My experience has been about the same. I had two kids that learned with it fine, and two that did not. For the two that didn't--OPGTR is just too lifeless--they needed/need color and pictures.

I read it at least once a year and have since 1999.

I had a child who resisted reading silently too. I figured out that she just didn't like going off by herself to do the reading. So, I allowed her to read in a room where she could hear what was going on, and not feel so isolated. I also built up her time slowly. My other children jumped right in with 30 minutes daily. This dd had to have her time built up slowly. I required 10 minutes a day and worked up from there. By sometime in her third grade year, she was reading silently for 30 minutes, and not long after that, she was content to go somewhere quiet and away from everyone else to read. HTH.