It's her hair, so I'd not force her to do anything other than keep up with it. I would, however, suggest cutting some of it off and donating it to Locks of Love or some such organization.

I follow the suggestions in LCC when I can. Someone has to do the laundry ; )

My daughter loves the Mary Pope Osborn book. It's great, covers the very basics, and has great pictures.

Daily Subjects - Latin (Prima Latina then First Form Latin) Composition (Writing Strands 3) Math (Singapore) Chores (list) PE (Wii or DVD) Reading (half hour daily working towards an hour) Weekly Literature (Middle Ages suggestions from LCC) Logic (Red Herrings) Religion (Xian Studies 1) Nature Study History (SOTW 2 audio, Kingfisher pages, and map work - three days week) Art/Music (two to three days a week) One more subject, as yet undecided.

My advice is to let her just take it. If you have an eighth grade education you can pass it with flying colors. Your local community education service should have a practice test that she can take before the actual test to see if your sister has any "weak" areas.

Hey, I LOVE the shiny badge I gave myself. *wink* Let me hypnotize you with it's loveliness :D I wouldn't have minded it being over here on the General board, but I was miffed at the one on the K8 board and the other one on the Logic board. I have curriculum reviews to read, and thoughts of jumping ship to entertain!

Lewis intended them to be read in chronological order, not in the order published. He said so many times, and in many interviews.

How many of you are planning to take the summer off from formal education? How many are going to keep teaching through the summer? If you're taking it off, will you require anything of your children through the summer? In our home we are basically on target for a break come May 1st. We're behind in Math and Religion. I'm thinking of doing those two subjects daily, plus an hour of free reading.

None of this drama has anything to do with this education board.

Jane and Rene, thank you very much!

Does anyone have typed up a list of the chapter titles for SOTW vol 2? I'm trying to do a 2011-12 syllabus (which starts in April for us). Google is coming up with nothing I can copy and paste.

It sounds to me like we do home schooling very differently. It may be because I have one child. One thing I don't allow is sloppy work. If it's sloppy or a lot of it is incorrect it gets done over. For example, math is done five days a week. One day a week is dedicated to corrections. If my daughter has made few mistakes, there is less time spent on math. If she rushed through it and got a lot wrong, she spends a lot of time doing the work correctly. I like having the reward be a direct result of her efforts.

I don't believe in being an alarmist. Things are bad, but in the history of time they have been worse. All that said, my family does keep in mind that there could be a natural disaster or the like. We call our preparedness "When Zombies Attack", because really how will we KNOW when the zombies are coming :D So we tend to hace about a months worth of needed supplies in the house. We live debt free, own the house outright, and drive a Prius. I have most of the home schooling supplies I'll need and got them at very reduced rates (though if the Internet dies today I'll be in trouble with teaching math). So, yeah. Don't freak out, but don't get caught without TP.

We have two different times for reading. During school work my daughter reads for a half an hour. She can choose a book from the limited selection of books on one book shelf. These would be books that a child her age should be reading according to "Honey for a Child's Heart" and the AO website for her grade. Giving her a choice from the limited books gives her a sense of control. The other reading time is bed time, and she can read just about anything then. I have a home library built on the suggestions from "Honey for a Child's Heart". It's one book case and there are a lot to choose from. I will let her read some popular books. She just finished the last Harry Potter book and has moved back to the Percy Jackson books. Nothing about the bedtime reading is assigned or required.

Thank you! We change grades in April, but my daughter seems to be ready to step it up a notch :D

I posted this on the LCC list. I'd love to hear what you all think of this plan too :D Daily subjects - Latin (finish up Prima Latina then First Form Latin) Composition (Writing Strands looks like a winner for my daughter) Math (Singapore) Chores PE Reading (half hour daily working towards an hour) Weekly Literature (Middle Ages suggestions from LCC) Logic (maybe, my daughter LOVES it but it's hard to find stuff I understand) Religion (Xian Studies 1) Nature Study (Spring is coming!) Touch Typing History (SOTW 2, three days week) Art/Music (two to three days a week)

Ah, someone who picked up on the spirit of LCC : D Yes, exactly. I don't think Drew ever meant that every person in the world should follow exactly what he said to. In fact, he has said the opposite and is pretty happy when people adapt it to suit their needs. He's also happy when the LCC is exactly what a family needs and they follow it to a T. I've known Drew a long time and I would say from by observation of him that he wants people to get a good education and to enjoy thinking. That was true but is not anymore. He's back to home schooling. *snort*

Drew is still home schooling, and going balder by the minute with a preteen :grouphug: (because any of us who have a preteen needs a group hug) We're mostly LCCers. I was just thinking today that is the beauty of the LCC plan - we can take what we want and leave the rest with little to no guilt.

Logic would be fun for him, and is just a workbook so it's easy to add in. Mavis Bacon for touch typing is, IMO, something every child needs to be able to do if they can. What about model planes?

4th Grade Assigned (they all sit on a book shelf and she can choose from them) 1. Abraham Lincoln by Ingri D'Aulaire (also George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Columbus) 2. Bambi by Felix Salten 3. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell 4. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White 5. Heidi by Joanna Spyri 6. Johnny Tremain 7. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling 8. Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder 9. Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett 10. Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater 11. The Good Master and its sequel The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy 12. The Jungle Books 13. The Moffats series by Eleanor Estes 14. The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia Hale 15. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 16. Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright The books she picks up has changed a lot over the year. She had been on a huge Manga kick, mostly the Magical Girl type. Now she is all about Harry Potter and the Percy Jackson books. One Manga she has to have read a dozen or more times is "Youtsuba&!", which we LOVE. It's funny and rated all ages. I just put together the 5th Grade list - · Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling · The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain · Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson · Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery · Little House Books by Laura Ingalls Wilder · Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin Hope this helps!

Well, we're mostly LCC but I do view that as a response to WTM. That said if I were not doing WTM I'd likely be doing something between Ambleside Online and Waldorf.

Free Reading, Assigned Reading or both? My daughter is almost ten and a half if that helps.

We've never used a formal writing curriculum. I've been using Simply Grammar a bit, but that is going over like a lead balloon. What sould I start with? Everything suggested in WTM assumes there has been previous work done with the subject. Now, I did try Classical Writing, but it was too much work for me to do on top of everything else. Writing and Grammar are weak subjects for me, so I need some of a plug and play program. Thanks!

It all depends on my energy level, her stubborn level, and the week. If we are doing the bare minimal then it can take less than an hour. If we are doing a full schedule of everything I have planned then it can take four hours.

We're mostly an LCC family, but our home school is more centered around history than Latin. We are just starting to make the switch to a more Middle School schedule, or entering the Logic Stage if you want WTM-speak. Daily there is one hour of independent reading. My daughter can choose from a limited shelf of books what she wants to read for this hour. The books are ones that are listed both in "Honey for a Child's Heart" and on the AO site for 4th grade. We generally do Math next and I use Singapore Math. My daughter thrives on it alone because repetition isn't needed with her. Handwriting is our third daily "must do" subject. I'm using a handwriting book for left handed cursive and my daughter has beautiful writing. Handwriting has been hard for her because of being left-handed and cursive has been especially hard. Once the handwriting book is done we'll start in using the Simply Grammar book but without all the writing out of sentences. Latin is done MWF with my Mom and we are going through Prima Latina. PE is the last daily subject and that can be the Wii Fit or an exercise video or time at home school ice skating :D Weekly we do SOTW three times a week. On Monday my daughter listens to the chapter on her iPod, then Wednesday she read the pages in the Kingfisher history book and on Friday the geography pages get done. I had been doing the Evan-Moore Geography books that Drew suggests, but my daughter was having problems understanding where key historical events were happening. I don't see the point in doing geography twice, and the need to understand history won out. Logic we do but I am trying to find a great program. We did the fist Mind Benders book and did great until we hit the 3D ones. Even I don't understand how to get the answers. Religion is another weekly subject. We had been using AWANA for this, but my daughter has suddenly started to dislike it so we are going to switch to the Christian Studies books. Nature Study is weekly and we are reading a great book on Bird ("Backyard Birding for Kids"). We've set up bird feeders and read the book and it's laid back. Now, I did switch up what Drew suggests in history. I wanted a world view of history, so we went with SOTW. I also like all the books Drew suggested for history so I have turned that into a read-aloud time. Art is another weekly subject and I am following Drew's suggestions for that with great results. We listen to classical music once a week while doing school work. I have added on four subjects beyond what is suggested in the LCC. My daughter is learning Touch Typing, Manners, we're doing a Unit study on Islam, and I count socialization as a subject because we have to make a concerted effort to get it. Broken down at a glance we have Daily - free reading, math, handwriting (to be grammar soon), Latin, PE Weekly - history, logic, religion, science, literature, art, music, touch typing, manners, Islam, and socialization. That's generally two weekly subjects a day.