[Illinois!!!!!!!!!!!!]

Hey! We're in Northern Lake County, Anybody else out there?

[Anyone post just to bump up their status from Just Visiting?]

I've got s long way to go- better take some time off school!

[Prentice Hall Science Explorer]

We've used these and we just read them and did experiments. My boys did keep their own lab books.

[LCC users, have you used SOTW as a read-aloud and how do you fit in science?]

We went through all of SOTW, it took us about 6 months per volume at 2-3 days a week. (we school year round)

I asked the questions from the activity books for the first 2 books and we did the mapwork. The last 2 books we just read as a read alouds. Its hard to say how much was retained. My boys didn't like how the series jumped around between countries. They like the Famous Men series a lot more, and as they got older have read a lot of historical fiction.

As far as science we have not used NOEO. We've used living learning books science when they were pre third grade. We now use a combo of textbooks from McGraw Hill as well as lots of living books for science in grade school.

[Latin-Centered Curr. users, can you post your schedules for K5, 1st, and 2nd grades?]

Well, You could look at these sites for independent and family reading in each level:

http://sonlight.com

http://www.motherofdivinegrace.org/curriculum/primary.cfm

http://www.materamabilis.org/

[Has anyone one seen this: ETC online?!?!?!]

Thanks for posting this. I do a lot of ETC orally and this is a great resource.

[Accredited High School Home school programs]

We use the American School:http://americanschoolofcorr.com

[Weekly Reports]

Ours is up too! I'm hoping to finish my blog this weekend- there just never seems to be enough time in the day!