Yes, I think that's the goal really. A few months ago I watched a news segment (can't remember who broadcasted it, I don't have cable news...) about Netflix's plans for the future and they said that they wanted to go to streaming only in a short period of time. They said that DVDs are going to go the way of the VHS soon enough and it made more business sense for them to transition to streaming only. So, I was expecting this to happen soon. We are going to streaming only.

Thanks Carmen! This is great. I have actually been thinking about you and wondering if you had given up on HOD. We took a year off and did Sonlight but are coming back for CTC and Bigger Hearts. Thanks again!

I believe Carmen is asking if we should have a WTM social group for HOD users. If you click on "Community" at the top of this page you will see a section for "Social Groups". From there, you can see various groups that have formed here on the WTM forum. The Drawn Into the Heart of Reading group was a great idea but there hasn't been any participation. Coffeefreak set it up for us. I personally LOVE the idea and would really appreciate it if we could work on this group a bit. I have many books that I could use with DITHOR already but I don't always know what genre they fit into. It would be nice to have a place to go to find out if anyone else has identified the genre of the book(s) that I'm considering assigning to the kiddos. That group is called DITHOR Genre Ideas. You should be able to search for it and find it easily. I think I will plan some time this week to list some of our Sonlight books there. I have six SL cores and parts of a seventh, I think I could identify the genre of most of those books but there are some that I don't know quite how to label.

There is a DITHOR social group but it has had no activity. I am a member of the yahoo group but I hardly participate. It is a GREAT group, everyone is very encouraging and friendly but it drives me crazy because the messages are very rarely snipped and it's just too, too much to wade through. It is very confusing at times because I get lost in the excess. A social group sounds good to me!

I agree with everyone else. We have "hit a wall" about 3/4ths through Gamma and Delta. I have, at times, used other things to teach those concepts but we always go back to MUS because the kids really just need a break, not a whole new curriculum. Sometimes we have taken a week or two off from MUS but most of the time we just shorten each day's math time and thus slow the pace down. We then spend some time playing board games or something else math related. Now may be a good time for you and your daughter to pause and make a multiplication chart (if she has never done that before) or play with some math software or something like that. We love MUS and the mastery approach but it can get tough. My sons do Gamma when they are 9. I think that has helped alot. I'm sure if they were 8 that we would have to take longer breaks when it gets hard.

Thank you! I somehow missed that on the web site. I knew how many lessons there are but wasn't sure how to plan them out and at what point there would be enough for a full year. This will be our first year using BJU Science. My oldest has actually begun to read the text and prepare for some of the labs already, though school won't officially start for him until the first of August. But, I am so impressed with it!! I'm now wondering about trying it with my youngest. He will be a 4th grader next year.

Hello! I'm wondering at what grade BJU Science becomes a full year course, rather than a half year. In particular, is Science 4 a full year curriculum? Does anyone know? Thanks!

I will be praying for your DH and all family and friends. My grandmother is 89 years old. She is getting quite feeble. I cried about it for HOURS on Friday. She is my next door neighbor but she fell a week ago and has had to move in with my parents. I went and cleaned her house just because I wanted to be there, I'm just not ready for her to not be there anymore. When I opened her fridge to clean it out and thought of all the wonderful little things she has made for us from that fridge... well, I lost it. I wailed for hours and then felt alot better :crying:. I have always thought that if she lived a long life it would be easier to say good-bye when the time comes (not that we are there yet, but it feels way too close) but now I'm thinking that isn't going to make it better at all. I am sorry for your DH's loss. :grouphug:

I think it is very nice and could sign it whole-heartedly.

I am a Baptist and I believe I would take a long pause before signing the SOF that the OP has shared here. I would have to know exactly what the purpose of it is and may seek clarification on a couple of the topics. I have only signed one statement of faith ever and it was quite general. I have never seen such a specific SOF as this one. I'm not sure I would or could sign it.

I have always thought these differences resulted from the variety of Bible translations that are commonly used in the churches. We use the KJV, so our church would recite the Lord's Prayer slightly different than a church that is using a more modern translation.

Not all Baptists are Calvinists. :)

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We used Core 3+4 last year with 3rd and 6th graders. I would use the Core that you have for your younger two and use Core 100 with your 7th grader. He could read the history from Core 100 and sit in on the Core 3 read-alouds and read the Core 100 literature for himself. I was able to make Core 3+4 work o.k. for us but my younger son would have gotten much more out of it if we had done Core 3 for him. My oldest son ended up reading quite a bit of Core 100 and in the end, I thought it would have been better for us if we had done the Core 3 and Core 100 instead of the combined core for both of them. Core 3+4 is GREAT!! Oh, my goodness, all of us loved it, but I will be doing American History again this year with my youngest just because it did move so fast. I'm not sure what he retained. My oldest loved Hakim's books. I think they are perfect for 7th graders. You could probably get them from your public library. My library has all of them. Or, you could buy them as you go. You really could get by without the SL IG if money is a concern.

I am :bigear: because my 9 year old has the same interest! I was a bit floored when he began to talk and ask about radio, especially about broadcasting. I haven't had any good ideas YET but I have asked around a bit and my community has a ham radio club so I plan to see if he can go to one of their meetings. I heard that only adults can participate in ham radio but I'm hoping someone will talk to him and tell him about what they do, maybe show him their equipment and how it works.

Sounds like Winston Grammar. It doesn't teach diagramming but has the child parsing sentences. It looks like alot of fun. I picked up a used set of materials a few weeks ago just to take a good look at it. I decided to stick with R&S but if I wanted just grammar, I'd go with WG. http://www.christianbook.com/basic-winston-grammar/pd/24681?item_code=WW&netp_id=166187&event=ESRCG&view=details Another one to check out is Grammar Ace. Sonlight sells it with a student book, a teacher's manual and the Schoolhouse Rock DVD. We use it as a supplement when we need a break from R&S.

PP is more thorough. If your child likes it o.k. and is making progress with it, I would suggest that you stick with it. However, if that is not the case and it's a chore to do it, you could try TRL and after you have gone through that plus the Emerging Readers then your child will have covered all the phonics that he will need. If you plan to stick with ETC then I think that plus TRL would be fine. But, on their own, PP is much more indepth than TRL. I used TRL with one of my sons and he just loved it. We used the CD-rom and he really enjoyed phonics for the first time. I would have preferred to use PP with him but let's just say that wasn't his "cup of tea" :001_smile:. It was just too much. He also used ETC and the Emerging Readers plus dabbled in some other things. It all came together fine and he is a strong reader today but TRL is the only thing that he enjoyed.

My dr. had me drink a can of Diet Coke. It was hard to do because I had had zero caffeine and no soda throughout my pregnancy, but I did drink a half can of soda and it got my baby to moving. I agree about the mother's intention... I'd want to have it checked out.

Heart of Dakota's Creation to Christ with the Extensions for older students Rod & Staff English and Spelling IEW SWI-A (started last year, finishing up this fall) then Write With the Best as scheduled in HOD IEW Poetry Memorization Figuratively Speaking Remedia Outlining workbooks Hey Andrew! Teach Me Some Greek 4 Visual Latin Rosetta Stone Spanish (relaxed with this) BJU Life Science MathUSee Zeta/Pre-Algebra Key to Geometry The Fallacy Detective (will probably be finished before fall school starts) The Art of Argument some other Logic workbooks (Mind Benders, etc.) Simply Charlotte Mason Picture Study Portfolios violin lessons

Biblioplan was specifically written for WTM History with the inclusion of Biblical history.

I am reading The Fallacy Detective outloud to my 9 and 12 year olds. Both of them really like it. They are both able to understand the explanations and to follow along with the examples. We discuss each exercise outloud together. It is fun because we rarely agree on the "answers" and they love to find out who is right. They enjoy it so much that it is our current bedtime book and they never forget to remind me to read it to them before they go to sleep. We are learning from one another through our discussions. Just tonight my 9 year old said, "I love how this book makes us talk about things that we wouldn't normally think to talk about." I do have to explain some of the vocabulary to my 9 year old. There are some things that are simply "over his head" and I don't get bogged down in explaining things that aren't important for now. So far, I have not run into anything that has offended me in any way. There are some Bible verses in the first few lessons, not a problem for us. They do reference abortion, murder, communism, obesity, reincarnation, politics, education... but they also have references to dogs, fleas, novels, baseball, cold symptoms, and gardening. It's not all heavy and we find the writing style to be humorous and entertaining. My children already know these things exist and I don't mind talking with them about such things. The introduction to the book clearly states that they are writing this book to Christians. They write, "We have tried to interweave a genuinely Christian worldview into this book." However, I absolutely do NOT get the impression that they are trying to influence me... they are simply presenting things that I can relate to as a Christian, things that I am already thinking about and willing to think upon further. They aren't including such topics for the sake of telling me what I ought to believe about them. They are simply referred to within the context of examples of how people think about particular issues. They aren't focusing on the issues, but use the issues as topics for the purpose of illustrating both faulty and clear thinking. And, most often, they are pointing out fallacies in typical "Christian" thinking. I really see this as the whole point of the book... to help Christians to think about all kinds of things and to recognize their own faulty thinking in relation to those things. For example, if you are against capital punishment you need to know WHY you are against capital punishment, but they aren't telling me what I ought to believe about it in the first place. FWIW, our family does not agree (in fact, we HIGHLY disagree :D) with some of the theology that the Bluedorns believe to be true, neither would we be considered as politically conservative; however, we are comfortable with the book. We will be starting the Logic Countdown series this fall, and my oldest is currently using The Art of Argument. FD has been a fun and simple way for us to learn about the informal fallacies.

I'm so sorry. We parented a baby mockingbird awhile back and it was awful when she died, just horrible.

You are right, there is a bunny thing going on... I saw it myself and wondered... There is definately something to this...:bigear:

I have been decluttering the whole house this summer. One thing I learned from The Flylady is to not pull out or move around too much at once, only what you can easily put back up or away again in less than fifteen minutes. I have been working her 15 minute system all summer. You work at decluttering or whatever else you need to do for 15 minutes, then move to another task for 15 minutes, then another, and then come back to the first thing you were doing... this has really helped me to stay focused and not get burnt out. I have the house in really good shape now. I left our homeschooling materials for last, so I'll start on that next week. One thing she says over and over that is so true is that "you can't organize clutter". You HAVE to get rid of it. That's the hard part.

I'm not sure if I understand exactly what you are asking :001_smile:. Most of the history curricula that follow a "new" earth timeline include some resources that don't match their timeline choice. It seems that Ussher's timeline has become the standard. I believe that Diana Waring's history curriculum follows it. I am pretty sure that Christine Miller's books and MOH use it, too. I think Heart of Dakota follows it. You can see his Annals of the World here: http://www.christianbook.com/the-annals-of-the-world/james-ussher/9780890515105/pd/515105?event=CF I have this copy of Ussher's timeline: http://www.christianbook.com/history-chronology-ancient-modern-biblical-accordian/sebastian-adams/9780890515051/pd/515051?event=CF It is beautiful! I love it. It is easy to read whatever we want to read and then to look up the related persons and events on the timeline for a quick reference. If you really want everything to match up just right, you may want to consider a traditional Christian textbook approach... like Abeka or BJU. I haven't seen the Streams of timeline. I have the R&S one. It is o.k. I like it but it's not very exhaustive. Ussher's is very detailed. Very. You can see a sample of the R&S one here: http://www.rodandstaffbooks.com/item/1-17581/?list=Rod_and_Staff_Bible I may have misunderstood your question :001_smile:.