If you don't mind, I have a different question about workboxes. Are they best for younger kids? What about teens?

My blog is sadly neglected. However, this coming year will be our first year of high school, and I do plan to blog it. So check back, if you like :)

I assign the reading, and the questions. We do the discussions orally. I don't use the SAP pages much at all.

INFP, but the P part is very close to J. When I was younger it always came up J, now it more often tends to come up P.

Oh, take some virtual rep for this!

You got me, Rose. I wish I had an answer - especially now.

I'm not offended.

I want to agree with you ... well, I *do* agree with you. However, I find that if I leave it at "secular" or "pagan," then generally two things are assumed about me: 1) that I have a reactionary attitude toward Christianity, and 2) that I'm liberal. I've been yelled out of Pagan social groups because of my political choices, so I carry around a need to just throw it up front. A much better way of handling it might be to remind people to not make those assumptions.

Yes, and I would only tell my doctor if I really trusted him/her to not freak out. I would also have thoroughly researched the drug myself, and would find out for myself what the potential drug interactions are.

"Facio" means both "I make" and "I am making." The imperative "make!" would be "face" to one person, "facite" to more than one. I think :) I wonder if you'd want to use the participle, "faciens?"

It could have been much worse, but I'm sorry you have to deal with it at all :(

I couldn't figure out if I should reply here, either. Goddess/Universe/Spirit does *not* mean "secular" to me. I teach using secular and Christian materials. I am Pagan, not particularly relativist, politically conservative, using LCC. The secular label is useful to me in identifying curricula in certain areas, but otherwise it doesn't fit me. I used to think it did, but I was wrong :D

Nodding along violently. One of the many reasons I did not finish getting my teaching certification is that it occurred to me that I was training to pay to put my kids in daycare and in school, while I left them to go teach other people's children, to take that pay to pay for their childcare ... Made no sense. And yet the one option was honored and praised, the other was not. It is a rightful achievement to care for and teach other people's children for pay, but not to care for and teach my own.

My husband takes off work to take the boys in for me whenever possible. It's often a better arrangement for us, especially when the kids were younger, and I didn't want to drag all four into an office filled with sick kids when only one of mine needed to be seen. Now that I have a teen boy and an almost-teen, I want to be sensitive to the fact that they may prefer to have Dad along for physicals, than mom. Also, he is better at handling some issues with the doctors than I am, because I am a big, fat chicken; but also because we have noticed that doctors respond to moms and dads very differently. We don't do a great deal of traditional medicine. When we do see a mainstream doc, we have found that they are more likely to scold and lecture me, but they are willing to write him off as the "clueless dad." My dh also often takes them to the dentist. Again, often because I'm chicken :lol:

I want to mention that I personally save Our Island Story for older than K. YMMV.

Check out "Britannia" by Geraldine McCaughrean, and "Kings and Things," by H. E. Marshall. Also, I like the books by R. J. Unstead. They're out of print at a bit harder to find. Those might be for a bit older age range, but the two books above are both great for K-1st :)

We did 8th grade last year Math - Life of Fred Beginning Algebra Latin - some Latin Prep, but more Lingua Latina Greek - EG 1 and 2 Science - informal Writing/Grammar - Classical Writing Diogenes Maxim (did not finish) TOG history Year 3/4 my own literature plan, which included The Odyssey, Great Expectations, To Kill a Mockingbird, Poe, Kidnapped, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451 humanities (co-op) drama (co-op) very sporadic art and music appreciation sessions Extracurricular: Lego League, Boy Scouts, soccer, weekly D&D group

We mostly "free-range" science. I guess you could say that we unschool it. We're a very science-minded family. We go to museums, and watch scientific documentaries/lectures for fun. My kids love APOD, and the Wired Science blog. They often do Lego league. Here and there we've done a bit of more formal science, mostly chemistry, and paleontology. We catch caterpillars and raise them. We watch birds, and spiders. We grow a garden and manage it organically. The little boys love to freeze things, to see what happens. Sometimes I buy kits for them. We've had Snap Circuits. I love astronomy, so I talk about it, and sometimes we go stargazing. My oldest will start high school science next year, and I am not worried about how he'll do. He likes science, he's curious, he has good critical thinking skills, and strong reading skills.

What do you mean by "Most colleges want you to have taken the year 3 exam?" To get how much high school credit?

Again, it depends on the children. I cannot leave my younger two children at home together. My older two, however, never caused a moment's trouble or concern.

Not really *formally.* But I think we discuss worldview, and tie it to actions and history, every day. We're big talkers and analyzers.

How is this going, learning LL with the LatinStudy list? Do you find the list to be very helpful?

We started with Dolciani, then switched to Fred and used it as a stand-alone.

Hello! We are entering into our high school years this fall, too! Starting this year, I'll be teaching high school for ... the next nine years :lol:

We don't really have a schedule. For 6th grade, we used the following: Singapore math and Life of Fred Fractions/Decimals and Percents Cambridge Latin Unit 1 Elementary Greek 1 Tapestry of Grace for history, using The Story of US and Story of the World as spines Classical Writing Homer for writing/grammar my own literature no formal science, but science labs at co-op humanities and drama at co-op computer programming Our weeks looked like this: Every Monday, I write his reading assignments down on our whiteboard. I also write a list of subjects to be done for that day. He marks them off as he does them. Monday morning he usually did math, Latin, and Greek, and then we spent the entire afternoon at a D&D group. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday he scheduled his own days, paying attention to the white board. He does mostly independent work. I would call him when I was ready to work on Classical Writing with him. We had weekly history and literature discussions. Fridays we had co-op classes all day. Here he had weekly homework for Latin and Greek to turn in, and often lines to memorize for drama or a project for humanities. We also had a weekly recitation at which he was expected to recite a poem or other work. He has his computer programming session with his tutor on Sundays.