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  1. It's confusing isn't it! :) The Galore Park book is Attic Greek. It is a nice intro to Ancient Greek and might be a good taster kind of course to see if Greek is really your son's thing. The most popular (and, IMO, best) Attic Greek textbook is Athenaze. It's commonly used in university Greek classes, but two of my kids started it in 7th grade and had no troubles (we went fairly slowly, of course). It took DD 15 three years to complete Athenaze I&II and DD 13 is on track to finish in a similar amount of time. My one hesitation with mixing the Galore Park book and the Athenaze book is that they use a different order for declensions. :glare: Athenaze follows the nominative, genative, dative, accusative, vocative pattern, whereas GP goes nominative, vocative, accusative, genative, dative. It's not really a big deal, so long as you stick with one format, but it can be confusing at first.
  2. Glasses Rosary Bible Books I'm currently reading (actually, those are mostly on the floor) Alarm clock radio Notepad Pen
  3. My neighbour is fifty-something and dyed her hair purple earlier this year. She said she was getting too serious for her own good, so she had to do something fun. :lol: It looked great!
  4. :iagree: My kids were going to be so perfect. They would never argue, complain, or procrastinate. It hasn't worked out that way, but my kids are still great. :D
  5. During the grammar stage we just read and memorise. We read a wide variety of authors (Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack Prelutsky, Christina Rosetti, Shel Silverstein...) For memorisation, I might give some suggestions, but DC get the final say about which poems they memorise. In the logic stage we start more formal poetry studies with Classical Writing's poetry books.
  6. I don't know anything about bilingual schools in Norway, but I wanted to say, "Hei!" because I love all things Norwegian. :)
  7. French, Norwegian, and Icelandic. Dh is francophone and my children all speak French quite fluently. Their written French, especially their grammar, is not as strong. When DD 15 was asked why she is learning Icelandic she replied, "It's so impractical; that's why I love it". That pretty much sums up DD 13's reasoning for studying Norwegian as well. :D
  8. Colleen, I would love to see your plans. DS 10 will be starting Henle in Jan. (he already has a year of Latin, but Henle is much more rigorous than what he's done) and I haven't bought any guides yet because I wasn't sure how necessary they are. Having a free guide to follow would make me very happy. :)
  9. It's my understanding that the newer R&S books have been edited of anti-Catholic (and anti-various-other-religions) references. However, they're still selling tracts such as this one which contain anti-Catholic rhetoric ("left the Catholic priesthood to follow Christ" :001_huh:). I'm all for cultural diversity, but not at the expense of bashing my religion.
  10. Both publishers have anti-Catholic views, so on that basis alone I would never use them.
  11. Other: We're doing interest based science, with BFSU as a springboard. DD 13 is currently interested in marine biology and is currently reading Poseidon's Steed and DS 10 is reading The Story of Science vol. 2 as well as several Basher books and the Usborne Science Encylopedia.
  12. We use Classical Writing. I like the progymnasmata approach and can see the improvement in my children's writing. I've always started with Aesop in 3rd grade, although there is now a new book, Primer, for the 2nd-3rd grade range. I also use Emma Serl's Primary Language Lessons and Intermediate Language Lessons, which are Charlotte Mason style grammar and writing books. The combination of classical and CM has worked wonderfully for us.
  13. This sounds like so much fun! I want to try, though I'm somewhat doubtful I'll succeed..
  14. I'm not in Europe and am not on top of the current situation there. However, I do have some links to Norwegian articles and studies done, which may be of some use to you. Christian Beck, a professor at the University of Oslo has written numerous articles on home education. His English website is here and his Norwegian one is here. He has also written a book on homeschooling in Norway, which is available for free here (unfortuantely, I am not aware of an English translation). I hope the homeschooling situation in Europe will become easier. Those of us in North America are extremely fortunate.
  15. DS 10 started mid-October, but stopped for a few weeks when the baby was born. He's in the middle of chapter 2 now.
  16. Am I really the only one who knows Boeotian? I feel like a Greek geek.
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