I have Birds, Seashore, Flower and Animals books. We use them with Peterson Field Guides and Peterson Field Guide Color-In Books. We have a bird feeder and several different Peterson Guides. We've also enjoyed Christian Liberty Press Nature series.

nt

Peace,

Yes, there's the good and the bad of homeschooling - the many choices in curricula and how to waste money and time figuring out if you like it or not, lol! Peace,

That's too funny! Most people buy SL for the schedule. Blessings,

We're currently: singing America the Beautiful reciting - The Road Not Taken, Latin chants, presidents, Greek alphabet, states reading aloud Abraham Lincoln's World alt. days reading - Hamlet, My Faith My Life, Bulfinch's Greek Mythology

and you can get the answers if you join - it's free at Penguin readers. P&P

you know how to play yourself and you have the patience. I took piano lessons for the first 5 yrs with my older dc (back to back lessons, NOT in the same lesson). He's on yr 8 of piano lessons now. I can help my dc with basic piano but I don't have the patience to teach them nor am I advanced enough to teach beyond a VERY basic level of instruction. Good piano instruction goes beyond getting the notes and beat correct. It's about dynamics and touch too and that takes years of playing the piano to be able to teach it, imho.

Shalom,

He's currently reading The Fallacy Detective, 1 chap/wk. I bought Traditional Logic I and am reading it myself but I'm not sure yet if we'll use it anytime soon. I will also be ordering The Art of Argument and it looks fantastic from the online samples. Good Luck,

language arts inludes spelling, handwriting, and grammar.

I have SL 3/4 and 100 and have only used parts of it in the past. I can never stick to their schedule! It's just too much and I don't like many of their readers (gasp!). I want to used SOTW 1 & 2 in one year for my 6th grader (only one homeschooling then) with G.Foster books. I like the Bible field guide SL 6 uses. I would use SOTW tests as worksheets, SOTW AG for maps & discussion questions and IEW Ancient History Lessons for writing. Will SL 6 work for us? Does SL 6 skip around in SOTW? Should I just put my own schedule together? Thanks for your help!

nt

It just doesn't tell about it but tells and applys it in the stories and poems the dc read along with vocabulary, criticial thinking and more.

It's excellent!

http://www.oxfordtutorials.com/How%20to%20Read%20a%20Book%20Outline.htm

It's not CM style but we combine CLE reading with CM style reading of whole books through out the year. CLE reading grades 4-8 are only 15 weeks/gr. It includes reading and poetry into one reader and 5 workbooks and covers SO much: reading comprehension, vocabulary, critical thinking, lit. analysis and more. I highly recommend it! Join the CLE yahoo group to see samples.

website and look at the sample lessons of level A & B then decide:http://www.writing-edu.com/writing/swi.php

that has poems by grade level. I love it! Another good source is Poems Every Child Should Know free on Gutenberg.

I'll press on with Traditional Logic I on my own and see where I get with it before I attempt to do it with my dc. Shalom,

I have homeschool in the woods cd but don't use it much and would like to do as you suggest instead of googling an image and adding it to our papers. Thanks!

Latin, English, math, and vocabulary is all that we are currently using.

tokens have been eliminated - I meant coins/cash that you have to feed into the machine. It's much better to buy a Charlie card for certain # of trips than stand in line at a busy station. We usually drive and don't take the T because we live close (45 mi).

did it. R&S English counted as our copywork, lol!

Whether you do science formally or informally it's important to start young imho. I suggest doing science 2-3x/wk. with your 5/6 graders via textbook, living books or videos. Rod & Staff science is a good, inexpensive formal science program. Or try Schlessinger Media science dvd's from interloan library and pick one series at a time and use the teacher's guide and investigation guide (download) to make a complete science program. We really like the Physical Science series.