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  1. I agree. The definition of Charlotte Mason has changed over the years. No one "failed" at Charlotte Mason 20 years ago. LOL. AO has been both a blessing and a stumbling block to the homeschooling community. Years ago, I put aside the curricula that I was researching and writing. I knew that I was not yet the person to write what I knew some day that I would be ready to write. I am getting closer to becoming that person. My time now is still supposed to be spent listening and collecting information and stories. The mom in the video above was something that I was supposed to watch. She feels like a failure, but she is not a failure. I am closer to Robinson Curriculum and Ella Francis Lynch and Ruth Beechick than CM. I have picked up some things from TWTM and especially TWTM forum, as well as Waldorf and Montessori and so many of the public school teachers of the last 300 years, and even Quintilian from almost 2000 years ago. I need more heart work before I write. But even now, my heart is so sad for moms that feel like this mom. I cannot rush this though, or I will just be another author that is a stumbling block as much as a blessing. I don't ever want anyone to post a video like this because of anything that I said.
  2. I liked this video. The mother is rambling a bit, but that is part of what I like about the video. It is real and raw. Saying Goodbye to Charlotte Mason
  3. These are not minor issues. It is the little things that matter when you are juggling so many books. When I am juggling a lot of e-books, I really benefit by a paper schedule, or some sort of checklist on a digital calendar. It really helps if the checklist shows a picture of your progress through the book. We have less comprehension of ebooks than paper books. We gain comprehension when we have an outline of a book, and when we can see our progress through the outline. Even if we don't have an outline, simply seeing a line of boxes that each represent a chapter helps us picture the whole of the book. I am going to be moving around a lot when I get back to the city, and I am leaving a place infested with roaches and the scorpions that eat the roaches. Paper is not my friend right now. I have an e-ink tablet that I can write on like paper. Every few weeks, I am just going to make a scribble page of the books I am reading. I will make a grid for each book, with a box for each chapter. I will leave a small amount of room around each grid for notes, but mostly I have will have another full page devoted to each single book to take more extensive notes. I organize my links into folders in my browser. I have a folder of the things that I am currently studying. When I finish something I delete the link or move it to another folder. Mostly everything in that folder should match my scribble page. In general, I think the scribble page is best as real paper, even though that is not best for me right now. The AO printable schedules really are critical to the people using that curriculum. Printing a whole book is not worth it, but sometimes printing the table of contents is worth it. Sometimes I "print to pdf" a table of contents, and use that on my e-ink tablet as a checklist and for notes.
  4. 17 The Bobbsey Twins and Baby May 1924 18 The Bobbsey Twins Keeping House 1925 19 The Bobbsey Twins at Cloverbank 1926 20 The Bobbsey Twins at Cherry Corners 1927 21 The Bobbsey Twins and their Schoolmates 1928 22 The Bobbsey Twins Treasure Hunting 1929 23 The Bobbsey Twins at Spruce Lake 1930 24 The Bobbsey Twins' Wonderful Secret 1931 25 The Bobbsey Twins at the Circus 1932
  5. Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin (1875–1961) It looks like this familiar author kept writing into the 1960's https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A"Bailey%2C+Carolyn+Sherwin%2C+1875-1961" Selected works: Daily Programs of Gift and Occupation Work (1904); For the Children's Hour (1906); The Jungle Primer (1906); Firelight Stories (1907); For the Story Teller (1913); Every Child's Folk Songs and Games (1914); Montessori Children(1915); Letting in the Gang (1916); The Way of the Gate (1917); Once Upon a Time Animal Stories (1918); The Outdoor Story Book (1918); Broad Stripes and Bright Stars (1919); Folk Tales and Fables (1919); Legends from Many Lands (1919); The Enchanted Bugle and Other Stories (1920); The Torch of Courage (1921); Flint, The Story of a Trail (1922); When Grandfather Was a Boy (1923); Boys and Girls of Pioneer Days (1924); In the Animal World (1924); Stories from an Indian Cave (1924); The Wonderful Tree and Golden Day Stories (1925); Boys and Girls of Discovery Days (1926); The Wonderful Window (1926); Garden, Orchard and Meadow Stories (1929); The Wonderful Days (1929); Children of the Handcrafts (1935); Tops and Whistles, Stories of Early American Toys and Children (1937); From Moccasins to Wings (1938); L'il Hannibal (1938); Pioneer Art in America (1944); The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings (1945); Miss Hickory (1946); Merry Christmas Book (1948); Old Man Rabbit's Dinner Party (1949); Enchanted Village (1950); A Candle for Your Cake (1952); Finnegan II (1953); The Little Red Schoolhouse (1957); Flickertail (1962).
  6. The M B Synge series gets another volume that I did not even know existed. http://www.gatewaytotheclassics.com/browse/authors_browse_one.php?author=synge 1924 The World at War
  7. Some more Lucy Fitch Perkins Twins books are new and coming soon. The title of the 1931 book is likely to be a topic of discussion, here and elsewhere. http://www.gatewaytotheclassics.com/browse/authors_browse_one.php?author=perkins 1924 The Colonial Twins of Virginia 1925 The American Twins of 1812 1926 The American Twins of the Revolution 1927 The Pioneer Twins 1928 The Farm Twins 1931 The Pickaninny Twins 1933 The Norwegian Twins 1934 The Spanish Twins 1936 The Chinese Twins 1938 The Indian Twins
  8. I am leaving this desert slum at the end of the month and I am going back to an east coast city. I still am not back in college, and probably won't be for a bit. I have been taking some unaccredited classes and self educating, but I am also playing around with writing some curriculum again. I am not who I was. I have changed. The world is not what it was. The world has changed. There is both more need and more backlash around public domain books and oldschooling methods. These are interesting times.
  9. Maybe we are not allowed in their classes, because anyone that looks at our faces will know how horrified we are at the stupidity and waste of some of what they are teaching. I have learned that when I get stuck in a curriculum, I need to pan out instead of continue to zoom in. It is like using a microscope. You have to reduce the magnification, not increase it, when you lose your specimen. I could zoom back into the recent editions of Spalding, now that I panned out, but why would I want to? The more we replace homeschool curricula that are not broken with public school methods that have proven to be inferior to homeschooling, we are doomed to have the same results as the schools. Yup, they won't let us take their classes, but what is meant for our harm does us good. In the early days of homeschooling, the big publishers refused to sell to homeschoolers. So we wrote our own stuff and kicked their butts, even though that was not the intention of most of us. We did it by accident, while we were doing our own thing. And now, that they want our cash and are offering some inclusion into their mess, we are dropping everything that is not broken, so thrilled to have their scraps.
  10. (1925) In Our Time (1926) The Sun Also Rises (1929) A Farewell to Arms (1937) To Have and Have Not (1940) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1952) The Old Man and the Sea So 2 1/2 more years for the next Hemingway book. Will the release of any book change your homeschooling plans? CHOW is now PD, but the Geography book is 1929, so that is also 2 1/2 years. Is anyone planning to use it that isn't using it now? https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67149
  11. Burgess Seashore Book is 1929 In 2022 we got books from 1926, so Burgess Seashore Book is 2025? I found this list of 1926 books. If I just update the numbers in the links, I get more links. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1926_in_literature#New_books 2023 1927 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1927_in_literature#New_books 2024 1928 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_in_literature#New_books 2025 1929 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_in_literature#New_books 2026 1930 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1930_in_literature#New_books 2027 1931 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1931_in_literature#New_books 2028 1932 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_in_literature#New_books 2029 1933 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_in_literature#New_books
  12. What have you found new for public domain books, now that we finally have some new books after 20 years? I am especially interested in series that will all be in the PD in the next couple years. The Louise Lamprey books are trickling in. Children of Ancient Egypt is the newest and Children of Gaul will be available in a couple years I think. I have used Children of Ancient Britain for awhile. There are more titles, but these three have the least competition. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book//lookupname?key=Lamprey%2C Louise%2C 1869-1951 Bambi and Winnie the Pooh are exciting. But there are is so much more out there. What are the dates for Hemingway. We have the Sun Also Rises, but what is next? What is pending for the major science fiction writers like Verne? What are the dates on Nancy Drew or something similar?
  13. I might not be entirely accurate that the method has changed, but in application, I proceed forth as if the method has changed. Romalda published a single "stick in the dirt" book that taught students to read trade books within a few months. The newest manuals prepare students to read a long list of Spalding published books and schedule them into the lessons. I have not checked in a couple years, but I cannot imagine how many pieces are expected to be purchased now. Romalda meant for there to be a SINGLE book. I am a minimalist. The new curriculum reminds me of the Star Trek episode with the Tribbles. It just keeps reproducing exponentially. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribble The more you buy, the more you think you need to buy, and there seems to be no end to that. Spalding is no longer a curriculum that a single teacher can purchase and implement. Now, it is something that a school board would need to vote on before they could transition the school to the monstrosity. I know I use words wrong. I have learned a lot of precise word usage from Ellie over the years. I am not sure exactly what is defined by "method", but I feel like we lost access to something more significant than what could be defined by the word "method". This is not the only loss to the homeschooling community. There has been a trend to replace single books with series of books. There has been a trend to replace books that taught mothers to fish with a box full of quickly expiring fish. There has been a trend to replace self-published curricula using real books with large publisher curricula using workbooks and textbooks published by that same publisher. $100.00 is not worth what it was worth in 1990, but it is important to remember that the AVERAGE mom spent $100.00. Most of the statistics that people still quote about the effectiveness of homeschooling were compiled from those families. The old curricula were not just cheaper, they were more efficient. They empowered moms instead of making them feel stupid. And the children that grew up using those curricula know how to teach their own children, now. Spalding is the tip of the iceberg of a trend. Have the "methods" changed? I guess it matters how we define the word. Something changed, though!
  14. The 4th edition is a really good book. I recommended it more often when it was plentiful and cheap. I recommend it less and less as the supply of old books is disappearing from the market. I hate it when books are issued in a new edition after the author dies, and the copyright holder prevents any republication of the author's true work.
  15. Strayer-Upton provides all the extra practice you need for any curriculum that does not have enough practice. Strayer-Upton is too long to finish and I didn't know what to skip and still prepare a student for the multi-topic reviews. But when using SU as a supplement, it is easy to find a page of appropriate problems to supplement a more concise curriculum.
  16. I never tried the above, because I already owned Math Essentials and it worked. This is the original stand alone book that the author used before starting the students with Algebra. Then he relabeled things so it looks like you need multiple levels. The videos are free, but you need to register to access them. https://www.mathessentials.net/product-page/2-book-two Here is the Algebra book. https://www.mathessentials.net/product-page/4-nna Free access to the videos without registration. https://nononsensealgebra.com/video-library/
  17. Hi Slache and Ellie!!! Spalding 5 and 6 did nothing but confuse me. I have learned a lot since I bought them, and I would be less distracted now, but before I knew what I know, I was lost lost lost. I kept spending more and more money, and for every question that was answered, I had 3 more. By the time I was done, I felt more lost than when I started. Mrs. Spalding wrote a great book. The people who took over after she died ruined everything. So far, no one had "improved" Alpha Phonics since Mr. Blumenfeld died.
  18. I like Spalding 4 better than I like SWR, but I like SWR better than I like Spalding 5 and 6. I like Alpha Phonics better than I like any version of Spalding and SWR. Have you seen Yes Phonics? It is free at Google. The word list is based on the old Ayers, so the number of words for the upper levels is much shorter than the expanded lists in Spalding and SWR. That can be a good thing, if you prefer to finish earlier and move onto something else. https://books.google.com/books?id=nFc_AgAAQBAJ&printsec=copyright#v=onepage&q&f=false
  19. I changed schools mid-year almost every year. Usually within the USA, but a couple times mid-year to another country. If I could just complete 75% of an assignment, I stayed calm. Aiming to prepare a student to be able to do 75% of the math problems is much easier than covering all the non-arithmetic strands that will each be a very small percentage of daily work. Saxon includes a full presentation of the non-arithmetic math problems, and for maybe one or two days gives several problems of that type, and them relegates them to a single problem a day, or even drops them. Personally, I would leave it to the teacher to deal with everything beyond the arithmetic. His strength is the arithmetic. You could actually get him ahead in the arithmetic or at least rock-solid. There is that 80/20 principle. It takes 20% effort to teach 80%, and 80% effort to teach the last 20%. Catch-up is about the 20% effort for 80% scores.
  20. I pulled a kid out of PS that did not want to be pulled. I had intended for it to just be 8th to clean up the charter school experiment mess, but a lot happened that neither of us expected. He did not want to go to highschool when the time came. There is no way in Hades any child of mine would be enrolled in a public school right now. Period! The world is crazy and keeps changing from one crazy idea to another crazy idea. I refuse to orbit crazy. I don't want to get all off topic about the particulars of what happened in the late 90's and early 2,000's to us. But here and now. NO! Just NO!
  21. When I needed to teach my preeteen to do math faster and more accurately, I used to put a pile of skittles on the table between us and race him problem for problem. First person with the CORRECT answer got a Skittle. He got faster and more accurate very quickly. When I needed to wean him off that crutch, I made sure his best friend knew how math got done. His friend mocked him until he promised that he just did his math without mommy and candy. But that is how the Saxon geometry problems were finally correct.
  22. Which Saxon book will he use? Can you look at a copy? Saxon Algebra 1 had one nastly geometry problem a day. If he gets only one geometry problem and only gets that one problem wrong a day, that is no big deal. I would focus on the arithmetic problems, because he will have far more arithemetic problems, and problems that build on that arithmetic. It is not the end the world if the he is behind the first few months of 7th grade. I moved out of the country after Christmas of 7th grade. I took French in the USA, and was thrown into Spanish in the other country. I failed the class. If I had been tutored I would not have failed. And I would have been caught up by the end of the year, because the lessons were not sequential. And if I had been tutored over the summer, even better. Latin would have been far worse to have jumped into. Thankfully I was spared that because the Latin-teaching school told my father that I become "too American" and they didn't want such a "flippant" child on their campus. LOL. Just focus on the arithmetic and he will pass and eventually catch up if he has the aptitude to do math at the level the school teaches. Saxon has a lot of review at the beginning of the book. He will be fine.
  23. I found a database that hosts all the public domain Loeb Classics. http://ryanfb.github.io/loebolus/ These books have many uses for us today. Obviously they are useful for teaching Greek and Latin, but the ENGLISH translations are sometimes the best available. Loeb Plutarch is known for being more easily understood that most other translations. These books can be quoted in high school and college research papers. I always received very high marks for mixing in ancient authors alongside current newspapers and articles. Quintillian wrote extensively about the education of boys, including the controvery of starting formal schooling at ages 6 or 7 years old, language learning, and composition. His writings were popular with classical homeschooler in the 1990's. L124N - Quintilian -- Quintilian I: Institutio Oratoria Books 1-3 L125N - Quintilian -- Quintilian II: Institutio Oratoria Books 4-6 L126N - Quintilian -- Quintilian III: Institutio Oratoria Books 7-9 L127N - Quintilian -- Quintilian IV: Institutio Oratoria Books 10-12
  24. My senior year of high school, I took a half-credit course on Bible stories that was listed as an English half-credit. We didn't really do much more than read the Bible stories. There is no doubt in my mind that it was an English course. We took World Literature in 10th along with World History, and British literature up through the colonial period was included . We took American literature in 11th along with American History. If we just needed more credits, but had passed all our 9-11 courses, 12th grade was the time to study what we were interested in. A full year of post-colonial British History was optional. I didn't take it. Leland Ryken has written a lot of books about studying the Bible as literature. He discusses all the topics covered in an AP literature course. The following links are just a small sample of his work. How to Read the Bible as Literature https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Bible-as-Literature/dp/0310390214/ref=pd_bxgy_2/144-3074654-2470766?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0310390214&pd_rd_r=96f210bc-55c4-44a6-808a-3db115cf4b46&pd_rd_w=FLuwk&pd_rd_wg=6SBwu&pf_rd_p=fd3ebcd0-c1a2-44cf-aba2-bbf4810b3732&pf_rd_r=B28FNQR5WANHVJFN9ARK&psc=1&refRID=B28FNQR5WANHVJFN9ARK Letters of Grace and Beauty: A Guided Literary Study of New Testament Epistles https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Grace-Beauty-Literary-Testament/dp/1941337554 Literary Study Bible https://www.amazon.com/Literary-Study-Bible-Bibles-Crossway/dp/1433568713/ref=pd_lpo_14_t_0/144-3074654-2470766?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1433568713&pd_rd_r=6977cea2-6b0a-4125-a487-81d8a09d9be8&pd_rd_w=WSxIo&pd_rd_wg=KzlT1&pf_rd_p=fb1e266d-b690-4b4f-b71c-bd35e5395976&pf_rd_r=TP2MW5Y3KGXVQKCNNAX0&psc=1&refRID=TP2MW5Y3KGXVQKCNNAX0
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