He's the maintenance supervisor at a National Historic Site for Parks Canada (similar to the National Parks system in the US). Previous to that we were in ministry at various camps and bible schools.

Honestly didn't even think to remove it, just shows up automatically and it never occurred to me it might make anyone think anything other than just "sent from her iPad/iPhone" :confused:

I make and sell baby quilts and Minecraft quilts on etsy: http://www.corahandmades.etsy.com My son makes custom Minecraft avatars and does graphic design: http://www.finsgraphics.com Great thread!! Carla

We do love it here!!

Central Alberta, near the foothills of the Rockies.

Our family happens to really like the reader Kara Schellenburg. She reads several others Librivox recordings and is hands down our favorite :). Try it, you might like it too.

Peace Hill Press would put out a science curriculum! My children are HAPPY when I pull out Story of the World, they are happy when I pull out Writing with Ease, they are happy when I pull out Writing with Skill, they are happy when I pull out First Language Lessons. And perhaps most importantly, I am HAPPY. I wish I felt that way about science. That is all.

Thanks for your suggestion, I replied below, they look really great. But do you know whether they are available as a PDF download? I live in Canada, so shipping is steep, and I also want 3 copies!

Any other suggestions out there? I think I have been out of the loop with my youngers, I was a curriculum researching junkie with the olders :D

Oh my goodness, those are nice! I used Apologia with my older ones when they were this age, but they didn't have the junior note booking pages then! The boys tolerated Apologia and I ended up selling the texts I had. I think my youngers might like it though with these pages.... I should have learned my lesson by now with selling curriculum. I often end up buying it again!! :lol:

My little kids LOVE doing Story of the World. They LOVE having colouring pages to do while I read. Is there anything out there science-wise that comes close to this? We have Elemental Science, but those blank pages with lines are daunting, especially since we do Writing with Ease every day and so don't do narrations in history or science anymore. Is there something out there where they can just colour pictures and diagrams and do just a little writing or filling in while listening to great science? Apart from me pulling together books and colouring pages myself from the internet and Dover publications?

Just popping in to add my enthusiasm! My boys are done with the sample pages and we want more! I would definitely buy a PDF of 1400 pages without hesitation :)

I just came on here because I was wondering the very same thing. I just received my SOTW 3 Activity Book and was disappointed it wasn't updated. I replaced my SOTW 2 with the new one because it was so much nicer, not only the coloring pages, but the layout as well. Does anyone know if there are plans to revise this in the future?

We live in the woods and the boys handle firewood a lot. We use peanut butter. Rub it in then wash with soap and water.

I have one thing that I learned that was interesting about schooling in "Europe". We have a close friend who grew up in Italy. He was explaining how they did history chronologically and rotationally in the school system. Each child in Italy, he said, went through the history cycle three times during their school years. Sounds pretty classical, no? ;) He was quite surprised that we homeschool using that same method. :)

I have downloaded several public domain audiobooks for my boys to listen to on their ipods from Librivox. I downloaded them onto my macbook and then they sync to the ipod. However, the books that have the chapters in separate recordings are all out of order. Any advice how to fix this and avoid it in the future? I can sort them using the bar along the top of the title on my macbook, but the ipod touch has no such thing. My son has been doing some long complicated process involving renaming the files and one by one changing them using his computer to fix it, but there must be an easier way! Help!

Yes, they do that, but we aren't getting to it every week. At least the literature for the Middle Ages is fun. They are enjoying that, both audiobooks and reading. They are big fans of Lord of the Rings and that genre of literature, so Middle Ages is right up their alley.

Come to think of it, we started out doing this earlier in the year! But my eldest guy was running out of time in the day to get his other subjects done if he sat in on history with the youngers. So we stopped. But I miss that cozy feeling of us all gathered around engaged in these stories. Maybe I need to try to fit this in again. They do have SOTW on CD which they all listen to from time to time in their rooms, yet I love the opportunity to be able to discuss and all be learning together. I have been missing this as they all grow and now I have my older guy studying biology and algebra (and a separate history book) and I just can't keep up with everyone :crying: YKWIM?

So I started in January following WTM recommendations for the Middle Ages History. My middle schooler is writing out facts from KHE (actually has been doing this since last January in Ancients), outlining some additional resources and my early high schooler started writing outlines using "History: The Definitive Visual Guide" from DK. My elementary guys are listening to me read SOTW volume 2. I feel like the little guys and myself are the only ones getting anything out of it. The encyclopedias just feel like they hop around and they are just copying down stuff but not really "getting" what's going on. I wish we could all just do SOTW, but the olders have listened to it before and it just would seem like they should be beyond this already. I am reading SWB's "History of the Medieval World" in an effort to get it myself at a higher level than SOTW. I did order "Human Odyssey" from K12 for my eldest (it hasn't come yet), because it sounds like it is written in more of a narrative style, maybe a bit predigested, but at least flowing better? I do try to discuss things with them, but it is hard to get it all in. As an example, today my husband looked at my middle grade son's fact list (which he NEVER does) about the Islam spread in KHE and asked a couple of simple questions and my son was just like "I dunno who those guys were, it just said it in the book." It was just so... disappointing :leaving:. Any thoughts?

I think I read somewhere on here that the student workbook pages are included in the teacher's manual for Caesar's English. Does this mean pages that I can copy, or a "thumbnail" image of the pages within the teacher text, or....? Can I just get the teacher manual and that be enough to do this with my two students? Just waiting to hear back from Royal Fireworks Press on the cost of shipping these to Canada. Any Canadians out there have a copy they want to sell? ;) Thanks.

How many pages are your children doing a day in these workbooks? I've been having them do one page a day with sometimes two pages when they mostly consist of crossing things and less writing. My just turned five year old is in book one and my 7 year old is nearly done book three. Just wanting to know what others out there are doing.

I am looking for a place to buy Micheal Clay Thompson's Caesar's English in Canada to save on shipping costs! Anyone know where I can get this? Thanks!

Thanks for all the replies, they have been very helpful. My olders have no trouble picking out the prepositions and prepositional phrases. I don't think I will have them memorize the list. And neither does my nine year old who is doing FLL 3 have any trouble when we do it orally. Without hesitation, he could tell me the prepositions when I read the sentences out to him. But then, he continued on in the worksheet, reading the sentences to himself and became totally lost, even when he was doing sentences we had already done together orally! Why did THAT happen? :confused:

We are doing FLL 3 with my youngers and Easy Grammar with the olders. They both have you memorize all the prepositions. I don't have them memorized, but I don't have any trouble identifying a preposition in a sentence. Anyone have any experience or advice as to why these must be memorized? Anyone's children doing just fine without memorizing them? It just seems so... boring :glare: Sorry.

Oh good, this is what I was thinking. Thanks!