Our family is moving to chapel hill/durham area of North Carolina this summer. Does anyone have any advice: 1) which one? Durham or Chapel Hill and Why? (We are considering putting our children into public schools in high school which is 4 years from now) 2) Help me get in touch with local home schoolers...I would love to find others who classically educate their kids...but we don't know anyone there so it would be great just to meet other homeschoolers, and find out about local home school co-ops or field trip groups. 3) Recommend a church to us. We have gone to nondenominational and presbyterian in the past...and are open to different denominations. Thank you so much

After four years of HS we are still enjoying SOTW. But my kids (especially the younger ones) really miss the coloring pages the first three editiions had in the activity book of SOTW. Does anyone have an easy way to access coloring pages we could use with each chapter? Thanks!

Does anyone know when/if Writing With Ease 3 will be coming out? I checked Peace Hill Press' website and I couldn't find any information about it. Thanks, Margaret

I've never been to the midwest home school conference before in Cincinnati. I was wondering if anyone had any advice about which speakers to hear and what curriculm booths I must see? Thanks so much!! Margaret

Can I jump in and ask why you all like 'all about spelling'? We've been doing sequential spelling, but my son8 still does poorly with phonetic spelling so I am looking for something else--why not spelling workout? Just wondering, I've never seen those books but swb recommends them so I was thinking about trying them. Thanks, Margaret

I did not like 100EZ at all. I felt there was too much explanation to wade through in the very beginning, but with OPGTR, I could just open it right up and begin. It is all scripted for me. Do you have any 'Bob" books? The first set is all simple one word pages. OPGTR and Bob books are what I've used to teach my kids to read. -Margaret

we just got the results back from my son's test. I would like a better explanation of what some of the categories are that he was tested in. Does anyone know of a website that would help to explain the test results? When I've googled it, I've just got test prep. or sales sights. thanks so much, margaret

What were the books you read that made a lot of sense to you? I like the idea of classical, but i do want something a gentle approach and I'm not sure that I'm getting that.

:001_smile: what is the difference between 'written narration' and dictation? thanks!! margaret ps Jessica, how did you get so knowledgeable about all of this anyway?:001_smile:

thanks again for all the input, and just in case Tracy, I don't think any of us called CLE simple, maybe you are responding to a different thread or misread someone? I'd be curious to hear back from everyone in a few months to know who likes WWE, WT1 , or other programs the best. -since many of them are new.

Sue G have you ever considered CLE for developing reading skills, kind of like you are for LLATL? Do you know if they are comparable? I am not a proponet of CLE reading, I've never seen it. I am just trying to find a reading curriculm that will teach elements of style well. I sort of thought that was WT1. I wish there was a reading curriculm out there that selected 1 book from each chapter of the SOTW, and taught style from those books.

Thankyou Stacy, jg, and Sue for responding. In answer to your questions, I am using sequential spelling for my ds. He will also be an older 3rd grader (June birthday) and unless I'm convinced of something better:001_smile:will buy it again for next year. I've flirted with using LLATL, but having not seen that, or even WT1, CLE Reading, or WWE, it is difficult to know exactly what I am getting us into. From spending hours on the boards here, these seem to be the products that people rave about, and the websites look equally good. We have not done a reading or writting program up till now, just copywork, dictation that I choose and FLL 1/2. It seemed, from the little I've read that SWB didn't really advocate any more than copy work and dicatation in the early elementary years. But I am open to other opinions I was wondering if any of you knew if there was a CD of songs that went along with FLL that would help the kids memorize all the grammar definitions? I agree that language arts is extremely important, I am afraid though if I give him too much of it, I will burn him out. So I want to eliminate the books that are the least necessary (and that will help me stay in budget) Why would you use LLATL as well as WT1? They seem the same to me. I'm sorry I don't know what AAS Level 1 and 2 is....another curriculm to explore for me???:001_smile::tongue_smilie: Thanks for taking the time to give me your advice and input, I'm still trying to figure it all out. Margaret

Next year I am thinking of using Writting with ease1, FLL3, Writing Tales1, HWT, and maybe CLE for my 3rd grader for language arts. We also did prima latina this year. Does this seem a bit too much of the same thing to anyone? Which program should I cut/add to have everything he needs? Thanks, Margaret

I am in the grammar stage of homeschooling. :001_smile: (only 2nd year)--and still trying to figure out which educational philosophies make the most sense. Several of you strongly endorsed SWB's philosphy of writting. What exactly is her philosophy? What makes it different and better than other writting curriculm that is out there?--Why can it be callled 'classical'? Feel free to direct me to books, articles, web sites to read etc. I've already read TWTM several times--maybe I missed something. I've been using FLL this year--and wanted something else for my 8 year old's writting, but haven't found that piece yet--maybe WWE is it. Why are so many of you excited for it? Thanks for your input, Margaret

thanks so much for all of your input. margaret