Thanks for sharing that information. :)

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but have you ever looked at the Knowledge Quest curriculum Integration guides? There's one for CHOW and it coordinates it with Map Trek.

We used these at the beginning of the year with my 7th grader. We were/are also doing MFW CTG and Paths of Settlement. So these were just supplementary readings in a different time period and we really enjoyed both books! SO easy to read a chapter a day. :)

For us MFW CTG seems pretty light, but we aren't doing the Deluxe package. I haven't really cared for the Book basket either, and I'm not good at regular library trips. I'm not sure if BP would help you there since I haven't used BP. I don't know if BP really schedules the literature. In looking at the samples, it just gives suggestions for books by grade. So you might actually have to figure out how much your child would read and when. Maybe someone who uses BP could help to answer that. In case you didn't know BP will let you request a 3 week sample for Ancients and Modern. On that page you can also see links to samples of everything else. That might help you to get a better feel for it. MFW RTR and BP both use SOTW and I think the Cool History has questions based upon SOTW, so that could add something to your MFW study. I like TQ for the commentary. The Beginnings guide has wonderful commentary that has led to many wonderful conversations between my dd and I. So I'm considering having those guides for the commentary alone and adding it to whatever we decide to use.

I agree with Daisy. TQ has a very detailed booklist. It is easy to get bogged down. I have TQ American History for Young Students 1 and TQ Beginnings/Old Testament/Ancient Egypt. In the past I tried to use TQ AHFYS 1 and I could not get a good pace, we would have been way more than one year with the topics they have listed in the guide. I have a difficult time knowing what to eliminate. I'm not very good with decision making, so TQ AHFYS 1 was hard to implement. This year I've been using the TQ Beginnings guide. It's great. We have really loved the commentary and I've been using it along with MFW CTG. So I'm only using a small part of the TQ booklist but I'm using all the commentary and letting it guide us instead of MFW CTG. We will most likely not finish it this year. It's more Bible than anything though, so I'm ok with using it for Bible next year. But I will use something else for History. As much as I like TQ, I am not good with making my own schedule and staying on track. I don't know what I'm going to use next year. I am considering SL and Biblioplan though. I think BP would be much easier to implement than TQ, since most of it is scheduled for you. I have read past reviews that it uses many of the books that SL uses. I believe it's scheduled for 3 days a week, so you may or may not like that. I like to do history 5 days a week. ETA: Oh forgot to answer your question. Yes, TQ does list books that are fiction and non-fiction. It will also list movies and activity books sometimes. You can see different samples of the guides on Christianbook, Exodusbooks, and the TQ site.

I voted other. We use Bob Jones Math.

I am using MFW CTG, and yes I do think it's very basic. It is not enough for my 7th grader this year. To be fair to MFW we are not doing the Biblical Feasts and I'm sure that would add something. I think MFW is a great company and probably wonderful for many, many families. So I'll just leave it at this....It was not what I was hoping.

There is some information on the Classical Academic Press facebook page about them working on SSL 2. I'm not sure when they plan to have it available though.

You're welcome. :)

Hi Des, Seems we are always interested in the same things. ;) I'm formally "aquiverfull" in case you don't recognize my new name. I have the Beginnings guide and I absolutely can't say enough good things about it!! The commentary is awesome, so many wise little gems in there. We have had great discussions due to the commentary. It is in chronological order and mostly Bible history. When you come to other areas time-wise she lets you know... For instance during Abraham, she also lists some resources for Sumer/Mesopotamia. During Joseph's life you will begin talking about Egypt. She also gives a heads up for when you could begin your study of Greece Chronologically and lists some resources. However, she addresses Greece much more in depth in the next guide so she leaves it up to you as to when you want to cover it--chronologically or by civilization. So the guide is set up with lots of rich commentary. Then the booklist just like all the other guides. The Bible is one of the main resources, she lists chapters so you can use any Bible you wish. I'm actually using this along side of MFW CTG and they line up very well. We've had to slow down MFW a little to line them up, and I've switched the MFW weeks around a little, but it hasn't been difficult. I think TQ adds so much to MFW CTG, because otherwise I feel CTG is pretty light for my 7th grader. Hope that helps. :) Any more questions feel free to ask or PM me.

LOL! I love it, so cute! :D

Have you ever looked at Illuminations from Bright Ideas Press? It is meant to be used with the entire family 3rd through high school.

He's so adorable!! I love the picture in your signature too. You have such a beautiful family! :)

:party:Woohoo! How fun! I'm getting ready to have a few small box days! I wish I could have ordered everything in one big box from SL, that would have been awesome! Enjoy it!!

I know I've sobbed through a few...lol. One I can remember crying with is The Birchbark House.

I had to jump in here too. I'm excited to go back to SL for my little girls. I just ordered the IG and the rest of the books I needed for P4/5. I used SL years ago with my now 13 yo. I miss the way SL does history and after trying many, many things I'm eager to jump back in. SL is easy to secularize if that's what you want. Or if you are a Christian, you can use your own Bible studies instead of what SL schedules. That part is really easy to swap out. I have very fond memories of snuggling on the couch reading with my dd, and of all the wonderful discussions we had.

:iagree: LOL, but only because I'm diving back in to SL with my younger ones. I had used it years ago with my now 13 year old. We've tried many, many, many different things. Since SL was the first Literature based HS curriculum we tried, I just got used to the way they have it scheduled and I can't seem to get that way out of my thinking....a read aloud for mom, readers for the student, and tons of history books to read a little from each day. Lots of snuggle time on the couch and wonderful discussions about the books. :D

Right now I'm thinking, No, I won't supplement the grammar. When I was accelerating my older student we did use additional grammar but that was because she was older. I guess I'll have to wait and see how I feel when my younger children are actually at that point. However, at this point I have no future plans to supplement the grammar.

I didn't really start to fall in love with PR until Level 2. Then when I saw Level 3 I knew it was a program I'd want to use with all my younger kids. I'm sure Level 4 will be even better, but I don't own that one yet. Level 1 is mostly spelling and it does get boring. I also feel like that isn't enough to get my dd reading fluently. Perhaps, I'm just not patient enough. She's 6 and in 1st grade and I wish I would have started PR when she was 5 because she was ready, but I waited. She already knows all the phonograms, and can read some things. I just feel like reading the daily words/weekly spelling lists is just not enough to practice fluency. It's too bad, because I wanted PR to be an All in one for us. We are currently on week 15, but I accelerated an older child through Levels 1 and 2 last year. So far, I've decided to supplement. I'm sure others will say it's not necessary and maybe it's not for some kids or for some moms who can be more patient. We also used All About Reading Pre-Level. I was going to buy AAR level 1, but at the last minute I decided to go with AAS 1 and 2 with all the readers. I chose that simply because I know my child is ready for more, she's ready to move on with reading and I'm not sure when they will have the next level of AAR available. We are also going to start the Explode the Code books. I'm still going to use PR, because I think it's an awesome program. Eventually, it will cover all of the Language Arts that those other programs don't. However, I'm hoping to use some of the things from AAS and definitely the readers to help her practice reading fluency. Sorry that may not have been what you wanted to hear. I love PR, but it may not be quite as All in one as I had hoped. I'm ok with that. I don't mind supplementing. With all that it will cover later, PR still seems like a good deal to me. :)

This is what it means to me. Simply having been blessed by the Lord to have a quiver full of children. I had never even heard of the "quiverful" movement or whatever it's called. I simply based my user name on the Bible verse as I have 5 children and feel very blessed by God to have them.

I'm currently using the samples of WWS (we're on week 11) and I rarely ever use the IG. So I'm still thinking about it, but I'll likely only purchase the Student text.

Aime, :grouphug: I have no advice but wanted to say sorry you are having to deal with this. It sounds like a horrible situation. I can't imagine how frustrated you must feel. Sending prayers for a peaceful outcome. :grouphug:

I tried combining my 5 and 6 year olds for everything this year. It didn't work out, especially in the area of Math and Language Arts. One was really ready to move on, while the other was having trouble with grasping some of the concepts. In the end, I decided to separate them and it has worked out so much better for everyone. I always felt like I was holding the 6 year old back and leaving the 5 year old behind. I think it could work if you have children who are at the same place academically.

I saw those the other day and then when I checked back later they were gone. Glad to see they have them up on the site again. They do look really neat. And I agree that SCM has been doing a fantastic job bringing out new stuff. I bought Stories of the Nations and Stories of America Volume 1, my dd and I are really enjoying them. I can't wait until the spring when they release Volume 2.

At first I was reading a whole chapter in 1 day, but I found that my dd was zoning out. I decided at that point to break it up into shorter readings. That kept it short and sweet. Usually we'd read up to 2 narration breaks, sometimes just 1 if it was longer. I think we were covering about 1 chapter a week (sometimes a little more). We usually read 4-5 days a week.