http://www.hslaunch.com/mypage/profile/9112 Scroll down on here to the Uncatagorized section and I have two titled Math Checklists..... you'll want to check out the Beechick books to fully understand these if you like them.

I made a lesson plan using free typing sites online :) You're welcome to download it and use it! http://www.schooldaysgoneby.com/2013/07/free-typing-lesson-plans.html

Are there any group buys forming for the self-paced history? If not, I might be interested in forming one if there is sufficient interest.

I found these to be pretty great sources of info. http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/recreation/species/ http://youngfloridanaturalistsguide.blogspot.com/2009/10/handbook-of-nature-study.html Here, click on teacher resources, nature & land, or other choice in the subject box. http://www.swfwmd.state.fl.us/publications/search.php?id=13

Anyone? I'd love to know of sales for Greek, literature, early learning for toddlers and preschoolers, ...... I have a lot more listed now but need some for these in particular for myself, and would love to list all the others I can find.

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Where are all the sales you know of? I'm putting together a blog post to get them all in one spot! I've got several listed so far, and want to add all I can find to direct mamas (and dads!) and myself :tongue_smilie: to the best deals. :001_smile: Here's what I have so far. What can you add?

I'd personally call Carrie and Mike. They know the books inside and out and can help you find just the right fit :) As for inaccuracies in the CHOW, that deals with the first chapter or two which speaks of origins, and is totally skipped in the guide.

I have been researching and searching for a good one for us, and I really like the look of Purposeful Design Spelling. It seems to have less busy work and more...for lack of better word, purpose. It looks really good.

I use Heart of Dakota and have 4 kids I split my time between...will have toddler, K, 3rd, 6th this fall. I have my schedule on hslaunch.com ...just search "hod" or "school days gone by"

1. Dropping the school room and using living areas with a couple of those 9cube cubby shelves. 2. We Choose Virtues parenting cards, poster, and having the flascards or clue cards handy in my purse at all times. 3. Math Mammoth 4. Heart of Dakota 5. R&S English mosyly orally and never skipping the oral review in the TM

thank you! i will be sure to tell her :001_smile:

The biggest and most important part is just how opposite these programs are...one is secular with some accepted-as-fact biblical history events and the other is totally Christ centered. The history cycle means little at this point. They don't really get time when it comes to that large of a span, but having a year with LHFHG will be great b/c it's an overview of history, chronologically done. So it gives them an order of events, and some connections to many familiar stories from the Bible and things they'll be somewhat familiar with enough that it will help them make connections and have some pegs to hang later info on. SOTW is basically a secular history based, historical fiction book for the first one. LHFHG will build your child up and direct him to God, and SOTW is full of ancient false gods and you're left to add in all the missing bible connections. Yes, I do realize some biblical history is included, but it is very much not christian and missing much of history (creation, for instance. and other events secularists don't recognize as fact, and it's not told from a christian worldview) I love LHFHG, and all of HOD. We're in our 4th year and 6th level of HOD. Keep in mind HOD goes into the history cycle as you progress through the levels. And it will go on through high school!

Rod & Staff english does this sort of teaching VERY well. We do it mostly orally as there is a lot of busy work if you don't.

I blogged about our first WWTB writing assignment today as we wrapped up the unit as well as the first several watercolor paintings! I know many like to see a little sample to see what's to come :) http://www.thomasschooldays.blogspot.com

Def heart of dakota!

If you look at the page for each level, there is a list of manips for the A and B parts. Here's 1: Here is a list of manipulatives that are needed or recommended for grade 1: A 100-bead abacus (for 1-A and 1-B; especially the chapter on place value and chapter 7) Please read more about the 100-bead abacus on the FAQ page. An old-fashioned alarm clock or other analog clock where you can turn the minute hand and the hour hand will turn as it is supposed to (for 1-B). A ruler that measures in inches (for 1-B). A ruler that measures in centimeters (for 1-B). and 2: Here is a list of manipulatives that are needed or recommended for grade 2: An old-fashioned alarm clock or other analog clock where you can turn the minute hand and the hour hand will turn as it is supposed to (for 2-A). A ruler that measures in inches (for 2-B). A ruler that measures in centimeters (for 2-B). A bathroom scales. It is best if you can have one that measures in pounds and in kilograms, or one with pounds and another with kilograms; however I realize most people wouldn't normally buy two bathroom scales, so if you decide not to get both kinds, it means you will just need to skip some activities in the measuring chapter (for 2-B). Base ten blocks to illustrate place value with hundreds (optional). The worktexts have pictures that are just like base ten blocks, and most kids can understand the concepts from the visual representation, without a physical manipulative; however for some kids the actual blocks can be beneficial (for 2-B). A 100-bead abacus (optional) Please read more about the 100-bead abacus on the FAQ page.

I didn't read other responses yet, but Heart of Dakota would be great and affordable!

If he needs to start from a lower, more foundational level of mathematical concepts to learn the bar models well, I'd look into Fan Maths Process Skills or Visible Thinking in Mathematics. I like to order my Fan Maths here b/c I can usually get better shipping rates than the singapore site and sometimes cheaper books. Otherwise, Singaporemath.com has both books and Rainbow Resource may have Fan Maths.

I think MM teaches them in a wonderful way and is really challenging my kids! I do supp with a Singapore math book called Fan Maths Process Skills which is specifically for teaching the bar models and has average to very challenging problems. LOVE it as a supp to MM!

Fine, Institute for Creation Research. There are fine, wonderful, intelligent scientist at both, many of which were evolutionists at first until they were able to view the facts without their own scientific religion of evolutionary worldview.

And we all know the big bang was observable. Oh, and our monkey uncles. I saw mine jjust the other day :001_huh: Excluding by definition dosen't exclude the truth, it just excludes it from being called the secular definition of science. Without literal creation, we are without adam and eve, and therefore is no gospel. So to believe God used evolution for his creation is without a doubt, denying creation, adam and eve, original sin, and our need for a Savoir, which totally invalidates Christ's death at the cross as well as our saving from eternal ****ation. It also insists that death occurred prior to adam and eve, if you still believe in Adam and eve, meaning the "first bloodshed" of their sacrifice after their sin wasn't truly the first. And that the curse of sin, which caused death and made what was good, not good, is in fact not true because there would have been death prior to adam and eve. You've destroyed the whole basis of the Bible by suggesting the very central core of it is false, your own system of beliefs crushed, if you are old earth creationist. The Bible and Evolution do not fit one another.

Incorrect. There are numerous highly degreed scientists at Answers in Genesis and they believe in Creation. And they have scientific reasoning and evidence to do so. I can't imagine any real scientific mind being able to take the evidence and still believe in evolution just because they were told it's true in school and hence are able to make the evidence in their minds, even if it makes no sense, to fit evolution...I'm no scientist but if you want facts, scientific evidence, Answers in Genesis scientists are certainly the ones to go to. They are able to blow the evolution scientist out of the water.

HOw do I enter those babycenter codes if my child is already using a paid account?! I want to extend it!! And if I want to let my older ones use the reading eggspress I can get them the free trial and then enter the codes like I'm purchasing a full account?

No idea, but I have the same wondering questions! My DD is our oldest and at the age of just turned 4, we started to homeschool with a K program. I tried to teach her phonics and before I could even spit out what the letter sound was, she would tell me...this happened for a few letters, one letter per week that I'd bring out...after a few weeks, I decided to check out the whole alphabet to find what she didn't know. She knew them all. I pulled out a book and she read to me. She was 4, we didn't even have tv so it wasn't some PBS show that taught her. We did have LeapFrog fridge phonics, but that was it. By the time she was a late 5, she had an interest in Chronicles of Narnia and read through the whole series at the age of early 6. Probably a book a week from reading at night. I knew it was advanced and when I had to put her in 2nd grade public school a bit, there was a book exchange for Christmas so I got a book that was well below her reading level, wrapped it, and sent her to the party with it at school. She came home with both the book I sent and her book, "The Cat Has Mittens", which was given to her. It was a I Can Read level 2 book. Oops...mine I sent was a short chapter book like one you'd see in the end of the emerging readers for HOD. LOL. I didn't know!! My son is 8, smart kid, haven't done a whole lot of formal schooling with him but have worked on phonics some and he's in the emerging reader set doing wonderfully. He needed explicit instruction. I kept feeling like he was behind though, b/c DD would have read through those in K as a 4yr old. She has really skewed my idea of reading levels for each age/grade. The only down side to this is I didn't do phonics with her b/c she was already reading, so her spelling suffers. She can ace spelling program placement tests, and in 2nd grade placed in most program's grade 6 books. We started HOD that year and have been doing studied dictation...I still did the spelling programs too, which she aced every week. I finally gave those up and see the most progress and crossover from HOD's dictation :) Just relating...that's all...LOL. Fun to remember, thinking back to her little days. Oh, and I must admit since I didn't teach her to read and can't take credit for it, I was scared to death to teach my 2nd child to read...it was like he was my first to teach and I had first time jitters!