I'm with you! It's such a pain to eat this way & it's expensive too. :( HATE IT!!!!!! If I could somehow just take a pill instead of eating I'd do it at this point. I hate food.

Thank you! I'm sort of leaning towards just getting book 3 and adding books from the library for topics he particularly enjoys, but I'm still not sure.

I think SWB's Writing with Skill is supposed to be out this fall. It's very specific in its instructions and it does not ask the student to come up with subject matter. It does require some instructor interaction though--how much would depend upon the student.

With ds, first grade using FLL 1/2, then continuing into 3rd grade with FLL3. With dd, I started out with FLL in either 1st or 2nd grade, but didn't finish b/c nothing was sticking. We ended up with R & S in 4th grade & nothing stuck. We then switched to MCT partway through 4th grade & she started understanding/applying what she learned almost immediately.

MCTLA?

My dd was doing some odd speech things at about that age. I took her to the school to be evaluated b/c my mom, a retired special ed teacher, insisted. The therapist said that what dd was doing was age typical but to come back if she was still doing it in a couple of years. It was nice to have the peace of mind that I couldn't do anything about it right then, but that help would be available if necessary later on.

Memoria Press has some.

:iagree: One must discover Narnia with Lucy!

We have been using FF this year & I like it. It's thorough, moves at a reasonable pace, and incorporates plenty of review. Dd, on the other hand, hates it with the fire of a thousand suns and feels compelled to tell me so every.single.day. She's not the most content of students, but she's never been this consistent about her griping so we're switching to Latin Prep 1 as soon as it arrives.

Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks.

I'm considering getting GP's Jr. Science for my ds who is about midway through 3rd grade. I'm wondering if I should get book 2 for him to use for the rest of this year & then get book 3 for next year OR if I should just buy book 3 and stretch it over a year and half with additional reading, etc? Will he miss anything significant if we skip the 2nd book and go directly to the 3rd? The 3rd book looks doable based on the samples, but is that representative or would it be too hard for an average 3rd grader?

Thank you Aime! I love the dying a slow painful death. Sounds like something my drama prone child would say so I asked her & she about fell off her exercise ball laughing. :D I did order Latin Prep from Horrible Books today. I just got the 2 main books--that way I'm only out $32 if it doesn't work. I think we'll be ok though. Dd was sold when I commented that British humor is generally rather sarcastic. ;)

Thank you! Dd will love this!

I'm using SOTW 3 for my 3rd grade ds & the book itself is fine. He understands and enjoys it. However, I bought the activity book mainly for the booklists and that hasn't been as useful as I'd like. A lot of the suggestions have an independent reading level of 4th grade and higher and that won't work here if we're going to finish the textbook in a year. If your child is a fast reader it would probably be fine though.

If I end up switching to Latin Prep do I need the workbooks? She's already done Lively Latin & about 1/2 of First Form Latin. Also, I'm assuming that it would be wise to buy the answer key for the text. Is that correct?

Thank you for the recommendation!

Thank you! You have given me a lot to think about. I do already have Henle. I bought it as a refresher course for myself but then never actually did it. I don't think I could do Lingua Latina. I only had 2 years of Latin & college was a looooong time ago! I can check Cambridge & Ecce Romani. I thought they were for the Latin expert too so never considered them. I'll look into both of the Galore Park programs. Dd adores dry wit/sarcasm so I'm sure she'd enjoy that part. Rosie, in the meantime, I'll try your husband's method on her. I think she'll find it frustrating, but if I'm wrong I'll have found another way to approach Latin. If I'm right, maybe she'll gain a new appreciation for memorizing!! ;)

In the first sentence bean is the subject complement/predicate nominative so it is part of the predicate. In the second, hurting her is a gerund phrase--a verbal phrase functioning as a noun--so it is the subject.

My parents have always had a wood stove and they really like it. I loved that I could go sit in front of it when I was cold & would be instantly toasty warm. When I was a kid my favorite place to take a Sunday afternoon nap was in front of the stove. But the other parts of the house are really cold even though they do still have a furnace that they use in addition to the stove when it's super frosty outside. There's also the dust issue. And the hauling wood into the house is messy. The stove does make for a cozy living room area though!

She hates the grunt work--memorizing vocab, endings, etc. She can't really do the translating unless she does the foundational stuff first though.

First Form Latin

We do diagramming because *I* think it's fun & it takes all of about 5 minutes a day. Once we get into super complicated sentences we'll probably talk about what we're doing & why, but right now the kids just do them & we move on. But again, I think diagramming is fun. To me, diagramming convoluted sentences is like solving a puzzle. I don't think it's the end of the world if you don't do it & I never used it in the ways SWB suggests when I was writing for college.

This post is for both the Latin lovers & the Latin haters. My 5th grade dd is among the Latin haters. She HATES it except for the translating. I make her do it anyway b/c I think she needs some foreign language exposure, and since I speak only English, there's really no point in me doing a modern language with her. I also do it b/c I went to a Martin Cothran seminar last summer & he convinced me that Latin is a Good Thing when he talked about all the different processes a person has to go through every time she translates. However, dd told me the other day that she hates the subject enough that she'd be willing to do more math if she didn't have to do Latin. Now she said that fully believing that I'd not let her do that, but I started thinking that if I let her drop Latin she might actually have time to do the Life of Fred books we already own... On the other hand she does enjoy the translating so I suppose we could do Minimus. I have Latin Book One also, but I've never been quite sure what I'm supposed to do with it. I'm guessing either one would require one on one time with me? Of course, we could just continue on with what we're doing, but I'm thinking that trading in Latin for more math could not possibly be a bad thing. Any opinions?

Ah, I don't need to think about buying it for another 2-3 years then. My husband, my daughter & my wallet thank you! :D

Oh, *please* do this!!