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  1. I haven't logged on to these boards in ages. Sorry I'm late to the party! We actually still do use Ray's (though, yes, we are using it alongside BA). I have one dd though, who is going to use Ray's almost exclusively this coming year and just occasionally dip her toes in BA when it seems like it might be fun. I have all the BA books, and they have mostly been fun for us, but for this particular dd they are not a good fit. I wanted to make it work because pulling out a workbook and doing a few pages seemed like it was just so much easier than taking the time to go through the oral work in Ray's together. It seemed overwhelming somehow to have to do math with her and also with my 1st grader. But I've realized over the past year that Ray's actually takes way less time and lays such a solid foundation that I was silly to have moved away from it in the first place. I can't wait to get back into it more fully again. The older two dc never stopped using Intellectual, though we did stop using Practical since they were doing the BA books. They're both in the fractions chapter now and I continue to be so impressed by how thorough it is.
  2. Thank you for sharing this! I'm really looking forward to listening. Some of the speakers are definitely people I want to hear!
  3. I'm looking forward to our break week that's for sure. 1.5 weeks to go! In the meantime I'm being inspired and encouraged by Julie Bogart's Bravewriter podcast and her new book that just arrived today! ❤️
  4. In the box my dad gave me were also 2 volumes of Adler's syntopicon as well as one random volume of War and Peace that looks like ot belongs to the Great Books set. The syntopicon looks really interesting, but I've only had time to glance at it thus far.
  5. Thank you, Lori D. I had seen some of the threads you linked but some were new to me!
  6. So my dad gave me a set of these and they look really interesting. They don't contain the original texts of the authors mentioned/discussed beyond some significant quotes, but the idea behind the set seems to be a thorough introduction to various great works on a variety of topics. Curious if anyone has these and has used them with their children in any way? I'm very intrigued and am hoping to find a way to incorporate these into our studies.
  7. One thing I like about Ray's is how new types of oral problems are introduced with a step by step breakdown of how to go about solving them. If my kids need that breakdown we go through it and then only return to it if they start to struggle a bit. Sometimes we don't even need to cover it at all, other times we go over several problems step by step before they're able to get comfortable with that type of problem. But mostly if they're giving me correct answers I don't bother asking them how they're getting there. I find that so much oral practice really gives me a good sense of where they understand and where they struggle so it's easy to tailor our work accordingly.
  8. Ray's Arithmetic might work. That's what we've been using for several years. The Primer might be a little easy if he's already in 4A, so maybe look at Intellectual Arithmetic, which is meant to be done orally all the way through.
  9. I had shingles around that age. Mine did show on the skin, so it was easier to identify, but even to this day when I get overly stressed/burnt out I will start to feel the burning/tingling/itching feeling in that area that was affected without any kind of outward evidence on my skin. So it could very well be that, even with nothing showing on her skin.
  10. Having just spent a gorgeous day at the beach on Lake Erie, I'm putting in a plug for the Cleveland area. Four hours or so from Cincinnati, easy to homeschool here, snow in the winters, but not too severe (unless you live east of Cleveland - then you get lake effect snow. The southwest suburbs get less). Then there's the Metroparks - an AMAZING park system that spans around 77 miles in the Greater Cleveland area, full of hiking trails, freshwater beaches, nature centers (that even offer homeschool programs on occasion). It's a great area.
  11. So while I have not actually suffered from PF myself I have a friend for whom this book has been really helpful: Every Woman's Guide to Foot Pain Relief I've read some of her other books for issues of my own and am totally impressed. Hope that's helpful!
  12. So many good books listed already! We just recently discovered The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson and they are excellent. Lots to discuss and ponder. I wasn't so sure when I read the first one, but by the end of the second book I was sold.
  13. I just heard about this! Really excited for when it comes out!
  14. The Lemon Tree is an excellent book that looks at the Jewish/Palestinian relations since WWII. It's an adult book I suppose, but I think an 8th grader could potentially handle it if you plan to read along with him. It's really well done and I did not precieve overt bias one way or the other. I felt it was very balanced.
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