You can view Magic School Bus videos with the G3 subscription if you follow the links here: http://satorismiles.com/resources/discovery-education-streaming/magic-school-bus/ :)

Ditto. We also watch the videos on my Macbook Pro and they are grainy. Some aren't too bad (Planet Earth) and others are terrible. The really awful ones are old and I realize that has an effect on the quality. We also have a fast internet connection and turn off all other wireless devices in the house when we watch streaming content. It doesn't make a difference. :glare: My kids don't seem to mind so we just deal with it. We have the G3 subscription and are able to download the videos.

oops, double post.

I use this: I made it with an Ikea lazy susan that I spray painted black and $.79 Ikea Socker tins that I screwed onto it. We love it and use it daily!

Thanks for asking this! I always wonder if we are doing enough (or too much). We're using: Writing - Writing Tales, Level 1 (we have used WWE 1, 2 & 3 but wanted to try something different) Grammar - FLL4 Readers - as assigned in our history curriculum (Guest Hollow American History, Year 1) and others listed in Sonlight Core D Spelling - Natural Speller and Spelling City I would also like to add reading comprehension. We use Spectrum books every now and then as well as printables from Evan Moor's Teach File Box. I often wonder if we should vocabulary.

I was able to find them through Satori's blog (thanks again!!). I was also able to view Planet Earth videos which are supposedly only available with DE Plus.

I didn't get a notification, but I logged in using my email address and the BrainPOP pasword and that worked. I signed up last night and was able to log in this morning.

Thank you!! Is it possible to watch the videos full size with decent quality? All the videos I have previewed so far are very pixelated when enlarged.

I just purchased this through G3 (thank you for sharing!!) and am confused about DE. I realize it is just the virtual streaming, but I can't find Magic School Bus videos that were mentioned. Are we limited to the Student Center?

I found this thread pinned on Pinterest! :) Thanks for all the wonderful ideas. http://pinterest.com/ksjet3/

I would definitely say it can be stand-alone if you just want to add math and LA. There are a lot of activity and resource suggestions. If you do all of the suggestions and read all of the books you will have a very full schedule that includes geography, history, science, literature, etc. I am teaching it at our homeschool co-op and barely scratching the surface. I like it so much that we are going to use it as the backbone of our studies at home next year with my children (young K, 2nd, & 4th). I have the pre-CD edition, but I did download the activity ebook which has the same content as the CD.

We're doing Alpha, but we moved past counting from 0-9 once dd could count that high. Lesson 3 in Alpha is memorizing the colors of the blocks so we're waiting until she recognizes the 9 block (and all the others) before moving on. I'm not sure if it's the same in Primer, but if so I would move on to the next concept. I think I recall Steve saying that mastery is when the child can teach the lesson back to you. HTH!