I see on the website of https://www.spanish.academy/ that it is "trusted by The Well-Trained Mind Community". Is this true? What does this mean? Does anyone have experience using them?????

Anyone? Any help for this question? Thanks. :)

I can tell on the website what books are needed for Sonlight G History/Bible/Literature, and for Sonlight G Science. Can someone please tell me which books are used for longer than 3 weeks? Thanks!!!! These are the books I'm wondering about, in case a list helps you. Which ones are used longer than 3 weeks? Sonlight G - Science Encyclopedia of Planet Earth Evolution: The Grand Experiment Icons of Evolution What's Science All About? Sonlight G – History/Bible/Literature The Kingdom Strikes Back (GH01) Usborne Encyclopedia (GH07) The Monk Who Shook the World (GR23) The Golden Goblet (GA01) The Trojan War (GA04) Master Cornhill (GA05) Favorite Poems Old and New (GA06) I, Juan de Pareja (GA07) The Second Mrs. Giaconda (GA09) A Single Shard (GA10) Beyond the Desert Gate (GA11) God King (GA12) The Hidden Treasure of Glaston (GA15) The Silver Branch (GA18) The Great and Terrible Quest (GR06) Flame Over Tara (GA13) The Shakespeare Stealer (GA14) The Samurai's Tale (GR01) The Bronze Bow (GR02) Adam of the Road (GR03) Shadow of a Bull (GR04) Mara, Daughter of the Nile (GR07) The Beduins' Gazelle (GR08) The Mystery of the Roman Ransom (GR10) Hittite Warrior (GR12) The Ides of April (GR14) A Proud Taste of Scarlet and Miniver (GR17) Black Horses for the King (GR18) Catherine Called Birdy (GR19) Theras and His Town (GR20) Son of Charlemagne (GR21) Greek Myths (GR24)

Question: How much do you correct and have dc revise their writings? For example, do you have dc fix errors of forgetting to indent paragraphs, omitted words, misspelled words, omitted punctuation, and capitalization errors? We've only done week 1 so far. I had my dc write their summaries, hand them to me for corrections, make revisions, then show me a final draft for approval. Is this too much work for each lesson?

Question: How much do you correct and have dc revise their writings? For example, do you have dc fix errors of forgetting to indent paragraphs, omitted words, misspelled words, omitted punctuation, and capitalization errors? We've only done week 1 so far. I had my dc write their summaries, hand them to me for corrections, make revisions, then show me a final draft for approval. Is this too much work for each lesson?

Urbannaive, thanks for that detailed reply. :) Your details are very helpful to me. :) That was a long reply that took a lot of time probably for you to type out. I want you to know I appreciate it. Thanks.

What do you mean by a "lesson" that sometimes takes you 2 weeks? Did you mean that 1 week's worth in the book takes you 2 weeks, or did you mean that 1 day's work takes you 2 weeks sometimes? Do you work step-by-step side-by-side with your students? or do they work independently from you? I was hoping this would be an independently done curriculum, that I'd occasionally assist with as needed at the time they're working on it, but mainly I'd check their work later in the day.

Yes, it is for my 7th grader, but also for my 6th and 5th grader. By their biological age we assign their grades. But as for their ability level, they are all equal in their level. As I've glanced through WWS-level 1, I do think they are all ready for it in their abilities.

What has helped you implement WWS? Did you spiral bind the kid's workbook? Did you get it hole punched to fit in a binder? Did you stretch the 4day schedule into 5 days? Did you work side-by-side with them at first? How much time did it seem each lesson took? ( I want to allot enough time in our day.) And any other comments or tips would be much appreciated! Thanks,

I don't know which level to start my kids in. Please help me. Background: * We did FLL levels 1 and 2, where they memorized the definition of a noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, the list of being verbs, list of helping verbs, list of prepositions. This was straight memory work. They did not master application of these definitions or lists. * We attempted Easy Grammar (they weren't learning from it, for whatever reason), Growing with Grammar (same story - didn't learn from it), and FLL level 3 (same story didn't learn from it). * Last year we did Rod & Staff Grade 3 grammar - they were learning well what they were taught, mastering it, but it was tedious and took a lot of planning from me (deciding which lessons to complete, which exercises to skip, how to schedule it). I'm looking at CLE LA. Actually I ordered all of grade 4 for them. Now as I'm looking at the books, I wonder how much of this they've forgotten and how much they'll remember as review. CLE puts things in a different order than other grammar books. They also include more teaching - spelling is included, cursive writing, phonetic pronunciation notation is taught. My kids don't know cursive, nor pronunciation notation, and 1 is a horrible speller. They also don't have experience with writing assignments (the other grammar programs didn't do this). So.. should I start my kids back at grade 1??? So that they catch it all??? And whiz through it all fast?? Or where do you suggest they start?? (I was originally going to start them at 310, then go on to 4th grade after that book. I'm very willing to change from this original plan.)

Thank you. :)

SWB, Is there any progress on writing this book for the North American History? :D

Rightstart curr.

I would LOVE a SOTW book that combined just U.S./Canada/Mexico history!, and at the same reading level as the other SOTW books. :) I so wish I had this book already this year!!

Thanks!