The new access page looks great, I found the older one very confusing! Thanks for letting us know.

I was going to write the same thing. I have tagged a lot of thread about singapore science, usually about My Pals Are Here Science, so look for the tags. There are several families who are very happy with it. I'm planning to use it, starting in 3th grade (but that isn't helpful for you now:D).

Oh, Oh, can I have SWB (or her mother)? Please? I would LOVE to have her on my doorstep. She could teach my children English (=foreign language) *and* writing...and hold my hand :D. On second thought, Drew Campbell would also be very welcome!

There is a VERY GOOD Catholic homeschooling forum that you might want to check out: http://4real.thenetsmith.com/ The atmosphere is great and the ladies are very helpful. That's of course also true for THIS forum :D.

If you like Lucifer's Hammer, you will also like 'Dies the Fire' by Stirling.

Ahhh, I thought you meant subscribing to threads. No idea how to help you now.:001_huh: Hope someone else can explain it.

Hi, at the top of the thread you can see 'Thread Tools'. If you click on that you see several things, including 'subscribe to this thread' or if you are already subscribed you see ' unsubscribe'. Click on that, than you can select if you want e-mail updates or not, you can even file the threads into different folders, if you want. Hope this helps.

You could read this: http://www.memoriapress.com/articles/Latin-centered-curriculum.html to get a feel for LCC. And then off course you will want to read the book :lol:.

Thanks, Kleine Hexe! That saved me some money:).

Did you also buy the Ancient Creature Cards? Do you think they are necessary? Or just for added fun? Worth the money?

Hi Lovedtodeath, my husband also suggested that I start teaching her to read... I'm just not sure that that is the right thing, at this moment. I'm pretty sure that if she had no big sister, she would not be asking for school. And I'm a bit afraid I'm setting her up for failure. In the Netherlands children start learning to read when they are in first grade (6yo) and I recently did that with her big sister who went from zero to 3th grade reading in a few months. She witnessed that and will for sure notice the difference. Combine that with not having age appropriate materials, there are no homeschool materials around here, so I used classroom stuff which is obviously geared to 6yo's and not to 3yo's.... Arrrrgh. I have to find something for her.....oh, and something to prevent the 1yo to climb the bookcases would be great too :lol:

I'm listening :bigear:. I'm at my wits end with my 3.5yo, she wants to do REAL SCHOOL. So playdoh, lego, rice etc are not acceptable to her:tongue_smilie:. I gave her stickers, those ' magic' paintings where you paint with water and some Kumon books, she flies through it within 5 minutes and then comes back for more.....

In the Netherlands all children begin studying several foreign languages when they are 12yo. (Nowadays some start a bit earlier with English). When I was 12yo I started with English, French and Latin, at the same time. At 13yo German and Greek were added. I'm certainly *not* linguistically inclined, but I can't remember any confusion. [bTW, I did not study all these languages until graduation, so sadly I can only use English nowadays.] For homeschoolers the main thing to think about is the amount of time you want to invest in learning several languages and the materials you can get. ETA: Latin and Greek are only for those students who are on track to university and are linguistically inclined. I switched to the beta track :-).

I can't imagine using BOTH for a first grader, unless you have a very very advanced first grader. However, I can imagine using SOTW for the first grader and History of the Ancient World for mum. That would be perfect! History of the Ancient World is a fun and interesting read, I'm going through it for the second time, this time taking notes.

Amazing! Thank you!

Thank you! Very inspiring!

I would love to get the MCT poetry materials! Maybe I'll get them for my birthday. I'm eagerly awaiting Analytical Grammar, a friend is bringing it back from the US after Christmas! Yeah.

A couple of months ago I made a new friend. She is homeschooling her 7yo son and her 5yo son. She told me about the problems she has with teaching her 7yo son to read and she gave me permission to ask for advice here. Her 7yo is a sweet and intelligent boy. He loves read alouds, loves books and has repeatedly asked to learn to read. She is more or less unschooling her boys, but has spend quiet a lot of time actively teaching her son to read. They have made *no* progress. He can't recognize more than a few letters. Some days he can recognize his name, some days he can't (it's a short name). He also can't recognize numbers. She can spend a whole week on some one syllable word and the next day he doesn't even recognize it. She sometimes buys these cheap workbooks at the supermarket for her 5yo son. Her 5yo can easily do these, the 8yo needs to spend so much time figuring out what is in the pictures that he is not able to do the simple tasks. The mother is dyslexic, but her feeling is that there is something else going on. They did get his eyes checked by the family doctor. The doctor told them that his eyes are fine. I immediately thought about vision problems - tracking or something else-, but I have no experience with vision problems, other than that I have heard it mentioned on homeschool fora/lists I'm on. We would be really grateful if someone here could help us with the best course of action now. He so wants to read and it is affecting his selfesteem. Thanks.

:bigear: Very interested in this!

Carrie, I have taken two courses at the CLAA (Grammar 1 and World Chronology). I would *strongly* recommend you (and anyone elso who is interested) spend time at the CLAA forum to get a feel for the atmosphere. The director of the CLAA is very opinionated, not only about education and classics (which I liked) but also on science, child rearing, household chores, food, organising etc. Discussions often turn sour. I wish I had spend time at the forum before I enrolled, that would have prevented much disappointment :crying:. I have withdrawn from the CLAA. The courses however are excellent, although not finished at the moment, so when you move fast you have to wait a lot.

Angela, this is VERY helpful. Thank you! Forty-two, Thank you for your kind post. I'm going to think about what both of you wrote and will probably be back with some more questions:tongue_smilie:, but not today, the kids are ill and I'm also starting to feel weird :glare:. Have a great Thanksgiving!

Angela and Tammy, Can we talk about this some more? Please? I'm not concerned about *what* to teach. I have been working at learning Latin for a few years now, although due to difficult pregnancies I'm not as far as I had hoped. And my dd knows that she is going to learn Latin, I always told her that if she was able to read in Dutch, we would start reading in English and when she would be able to read children's chapter books in English, we would start Latin. I am however concerned about *how* to do this. I'm obviously a beginning homeschooler and I have not had much succes with memorizing poetry :blushing:. My dd finds it boooooring. She also gets really aggitated when I try to repeat something (as an intro to the new lesson) with math (Singapore), she gets concepts quickly and repeating things makes her MAD :lol:. In the Netherlands children start reading instruction when they are 6yo/1st grade, so we only started a few months ago and everytime she started to grumble, it was because I was going too slow and she became instantly happy when I doubled the speed (had to do that several times, she is now reading at a Dutch second/third grade level). So I'm quiet sure that if I told her that we were going to start with Latin, she would be overjoyed, but that joy would not last more than a day or two :001_huh:. I'm a 'just give me the facts' kind of girl and I really need some help in making things fun. How are you, Angela and Tammy, making this fun for your children? I know you mentioned bingo and hangman, I just can't see how to do that. BTW, I don't think everything needs to be fun, but I also don't want to kill her love for Latin once and for all by doing it in a boring way at such a young age.

Angela, I have been thinking about this same idea for years:). I just have not been brave enough to actually start it. Are you doing this now with your children, or is this something you wish you had done? I can clearly see the benefit of already knowing the declensions and verbs conjugations etc, I can also see the waste of time if you somehow have to stop memorizing and loose what you have worked so hard for. Part of me wants to start now with my 6yodd, part of me is afraid I'm trying to be too smart and will end up regretting it.

Really cute! Nice picture.

Thank you!!! The shipping from the US and customs taxes are killing me, this is going to be much cheaper. But I'm not sure this will save money...now I'm probably going to buy more courses :lol:.