This makes sense, thanks!

This is brilliant. Only, I JUST got both boys timelines we are going to (hopefully) stick with. (This time we will, we will, we will!!) I really want to use this idea too, though! :lol: Thanks for sharing!

I've been spending the last few months bending my mind around doing history with my logic stage boys using WTM as a guide. I've managed to visualize and implement a routine of reading Kingfisher, making lists of key facts, mapping, entering dates on timeline, outlining other sources and writing a weekly composition. What I am having trouble with is having them do a notebook page on the great men and women SWB has listed, doing primary source study and how to insert this somewhere in the flow of read, list facts, map, timeline, read, outline, summarize. Do you have them read about the great men/women and primary sources during the additional reading time? That would mean a great person to read about every week then (there are 51 great men/women in her list), and when do they select their own topics to read and outline? Never mind fitting in primary sources. Or is this on top of the Kingfisher and additional reading? :confused: Thanks in advance. ETA: We are beginning middle ages/early renaissance in January... if that makes a difference.

Has anyone tried using anything like this as a supplement to or replacing Vocabulary from Classical Roots? Any recommendations?

If you have an iPhone there are a couple of apps which do this. I have iBookshelf which scans the ISBN using the phone's camera and catalogs it. You can make your own categories.

A recipe I have used for chocolate covered peanut butter balls called for a little paraffin melted in with the chocolate. They held together beautifully. Maybe paraffin is the magic ingredient?

We use the geography games on sheppardsoftware.com a lot! My boys (of all ages) really like it.

I just did a big feed the freezer session. I made beef stew packets with beef, onions and carrots (blanched or already frozen) tossed in the seasonings and flour. I plan on just peeling and chopping the potatoes and adding them at the point I dump it into the crockpot. Then, just cover with water or broth and start it cooking. I don't think potatoes can be frozen successfully unless the are mashed potatoes. They seem to do fine when I make shepherds pie. Hope that helps and have fun filling your freezer! I love having all those meals ready to go.

Yep, I've done that. Some things were a total disaster with an older child, then a younger one comes along and "X" curriculum (which I sold in disgust a few years ago:glare:) seems as though it may be a perfect fit with this completely different child! I should just hang on to everything... But sometimes I just want my money back, ya know!:)

We had a contractor in the house for some renovations and something came up about running phone lines for the fax machine etc. "Oh yeah", he says, "you must use that a lot for faxing in the kids' tests and work and everything in to the school!" :tongue_smilie:

Quote: Originally Posted by Angie in VA Oh, and I must have ADD, b/c I focus more on what's written on the wall above the stove than what she's saying. Not good! (I'd love to know what it says!) The phrase above the stove is: "Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers" -William Shakespeare She answered this question on the Peace Hill Press Channel page in the comments. :)

Hey, I had the same problem... only I DID see the 70 page one a few days ago. I realized that I switched my thread viewing from linear to hybrid the other day. I experimented and sure enough, I see only 4 pages in hybrid, but all of them in linear. Don't ask me why but it may fix it for you too! :confused: Hope that helps. ETA: oops, sorry, it's called "display mode" in your upper right hand corner of the board. Switch it to linear.

I was tempted by the Medieval and Early Modern set... looked at the site and it was $94.50 about 15 minutes ago... then I went away to help my little son... came back and it's now $227.17. Wow. I guess it wasn't meant to be for me!

If you look at SWB's blog she posted a sample of the difference between the old and new FLL. It think it's worth waiting for! Much easier to read. I was always turned off by it because of the typesetting in the original version. Now I think, after several years, I'll actually get this! Here is the link: http://www.susanwisebauer.com/blog/running-a-small-press/sales-conference-time/#comments Hope that helps!

I second the Staples Better Binder! They are really durable and come in pretty colours too!

Mine skips there too, and I've been meaning to come on here and ask about it. So it's not just my download, then :) Thanks for pointing out the overheads, too. (I thought maybe it was something so mean that she changed her mind and had it edited out later! Ha, ha!)

All-recipes.com?

Oh, thank you for sharing this. I was wondering the same thing!

Can anyone tell me the difference between the newer (2007) edition of Easy Grammar Plus and the older one with the "plainer" red cover? I am talking about the Teacher's Guide.

I am going to agree with Siloam. Your son sounds just like mine. Mine knows all the spelling rules... better than I do. We've used Wise Guide for Spelling and Spell to Write and Read, Sequential Spelling and three levels of All About Spelling. I don't know that I would throw more money at this problem by getting a new curriculum. That didn't work for my son because he already knows the rules. Honestly, there are words that don't follow the rules and there are a lot of homonyms. We've discovered he needs to learn a lot of words by sight. I've printed out a list of 1000 most common words from the internet, the Ayres list. I am quizzing him every day to see which ones he knows. If he doesn't get it, he needs to memorize it and this is how he does it. He takes a card and artistically draws the word in a way he can remember it, some way that means something to him. Then he closes his eyes and pictures the word, spells it backwards and forwards, then writes it. Each day, I go over the cards with him and then go on to the next 20 or so in the list. He is making progress. I would say that all those curriculums we used helped enormously for most words and laid a groundwork, but many just need to be memorized and he just isn't a natural at it. My son is very auditory but also very artistic and spatial. He just needs to make a mental picture of the words. It is hard to find the time to do this (I know, I have 5 other children all younger than him). But it doesn't take too long and once I go over the words, he can sit and make the cards by himself and study them. And I REALLY want to help him learn to spell and he finally wants to do it too, so that is key! For a long time he just acted like he didn't care, so it was hard to make progress, but now he understands that it is just something he just needs to put time into (he's 14). So we do it.

I'm in the same boat with my son. I think I am going to try to stick with TT but supplement. Teaching Company has Algebra 1 on sale until tomorrow night, so I just ordered this to help me and probably him too. I think I ought to learn algebra a bit better anyways since I have 5 youngers I'm going to find myself in this position with soon enough! Anyways, this is what I am planning. Hope that helps. Here is the link to the DVD from the Teaching Company. http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=1001&ai=43351&cm_mmc=email-_-EMAIL04102010DVDAct_43340-_-na-_-na

I don't know about resale value.... but when I bought a Core, it came with a sheet of colored adhesive paper with "Sonlight Instructors Guide" labels printed on it and lots of blank space. I used a one-hole puncher and punched out a bunch of "holes" and used those as little stickers on the spines of the corresponding books to that Core. I assume each Core will have a different color. The stickers are just a tiny colored dot and don't look bad. I think I've seen adhesive paper and stickers labeled "removable" at Staples... maybe that would work?

My boys, age 12 and 9 (as well as my dh and other sons age 7 and 4) have been loving this series. I think we are on our 6th book now.