My oldest used the High School Gold book, British Literature, and my youngest son used the Green Book. The green book has all you mention. I don't remember about dictation in the gold book or the grammar but the rest is there. The poetry units are very good.

For one ds I used Alpha Omega Life Pac Art. It covered different art media and art terms (value, scale, line...). For my other ds he earned 2 Fine Arts credits, For one credit he learned to play piano: completed 2 adult piano books and performed certain pieces from the books. For the 2nd credit he read Sister Wendy's The Story of Painting and wrote a research paper on a specific art period, he also had to visit the art museum several times to find specific examples of art period/artist/art vocabulary (use of line, shading, shadow...) For my ds who is doing high school now, he is working through Artistic Pursuit bk 1 and 2. He tried going the piano path but died when he got to When The Saints Go Marching In...never could get it, got frustrated, and quit. He now is trying the art books. He is NOT an artist (his stick figures look deranged) but he is getting a grade on each project if he meets each requirement, puts an actual effort into it, and is creative. He is surprising both himself and me with his drawings, very pleased with this program.

Anyone?

My ds is the same, he could not think of anything he really wanted. He said there is just nothing out there worth getting. I decided on the following: A few video games he has his eye on A remote control helicopter A set of books he is always checking out of the library A hand held video camera...the cheap ones ($50), so he could play around with it A kit to make a trebuchet Edit: I forgot to add I bought him a Survival Guide for Zombie Attacks....found it at B&N and what I read was funny.

For a 8/9yr old, what are your opinions on this history course? I am mostly looking for the Biblical aspect of it, how it uses scripture as a mirror for events/people. I used this a very long time ago, about 16yrs ago and cannot remember anything about it except coloring a Lief The Lucky picture. We have used the History of Science and liked it (plan on using it again) but I cannot remember the Biblical connections in it mostly because my son did it on his own. Before I reinvent the wheel on my quest to get our school more Bible centered I am looking at several curriculum...SL, BF, HOD, and MFW....I don't want a forced form of scripture in the curriculum but one that has scripture being used as a standard for things being seen in history/science and so on.

:iagree: very much so.

Thanks all for the info and the links...all very helpful. I will go ahead and order it. :thumbup1:

I have an oppertunity to get this free. I have seen it mentioned on the boards often and am curious what is it about?

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Is the Biology information in this DVD at a HS level? I am just interested in the biology info not opinions on it being from CIG please.

Thank you for the links.

would the Kindergarten be too young for my 2nd grade 8yr old? I am thinking of getting the whole set and starting from the beginning.

I started writing a list of the things we covered for the day to help me see all we do (because our days are short and I was doubting it being enough). Something simple like English: verb aggrement, alphabetical order, review parts of sentence.

We liked the Wordsmith but not Wordsmith Craftmam...this book had a lot on scheduling and notetaking. Maybe to use in addition with another writing program but not as a stand alone.

I am posting even though I did not like IEW. For 4-5th I like Wordsmith Apprentice For 6-7th Wordsmith For 7-9th Lightning Literature 7 and 8

I found A Biblical Home Education by Ruth Beechick and am now working on incorporating her ideas into our curriculum.

Thank you :) I still am trying to process the book. I have a plan on what I want (as mentioned in the blog post) but I am not sure how to get what I want plus RB ideas working with our studies. This is my goal from now to January, to figure out a way to implement her ideas. I plan posting on my blog how I am actually doing this one subject at a time once I figure it out. Hopefully by :) the beginning of next school year I will have it worked into each subject.

Thank you, very helpful. I feel it is time, as a Christian, to start using the Bible more in our day to day walk. I have used it to guide us morally and spiritually but have not used it when teaching as I should be. I happen to find this book at a perfect time (funny how that is) when I have been questioning what we do school wise and how to bring God into it more. Using Christian curriculum does not do this, I have used this stuff for the 20 yrs of homeschool. Yes, it has God in the lessons but usually I find it forced, inserting a verse through out the lesson is not what I want. I want a teaching method that uses Gods Word and to use it as our starting points.

I keep getting a URL error when I click the link.

I just found this book by Ruth Beechick and haven't finished it yet but am very interested in the incorporating this into our curriculum. Has anyone used this?

What's the best book for this?

Funny thing is I don't subscribe to many...just 3. To have actually subscribed means they were VERY important at the time, but I have no clue why:tongue_smilie:

I just looked at the threads I have subscribed to and was like :confused: why did I subscribe to that. Anyone else do this, subscribe to a thread months ago and have no idea why?

If they start wearing kilts we will know she had something to do with it.

What is up with teen boys? my ds acts like I am asking an unreasonable question when I ask him what he wants for Christmas. Makes me want to scream. He does this for his birthday too...grrrrr. For him I got same video games, a remote control helicopter, a catapult kit, and a collection of books he has checked out of the library over and over.