I have a handbag and I keep money in a purse in my handbag. My husband has his money in a wallet (which folds open).

Materamabilis.org is a free Catholic Charlotte Mason curriculum.

I'm afraid I can't help you with those.

Thanks for looking! Now I'm wondering what is wrong on my computer.

I am trying to figure out if it is a general problem or just me having the problem.

Oh, that's really neat. Someone did this for me a few days ago. I was thrilled!

I have the following list for SOTW2: The Middle Ages The Yamato dynasty was established in Japan in 300 and lasted to 710. • Emperor Constantine embraced Christianity and convened the first Council of Nicaea at which the Nicene Creed, a statement of faith was drafted in 325. • The Roman Empire divided into two parts, the Western and Eastern Empires, in 385. • The Anglo-Saxon barbarians started the invasion of Britain in 449. They had been asked by the king of one of the Celtic tribes, king Vortigern, to help him fight the other Celts. • Attila became sole leader of the Huns in 434 after killing his brother. He was one of the greatest barbarian invaders of the Roman Empire. • Skandagupta was a ruler of India during the Gupta dynasty. He reigned from 455 to 467 .The time of the Gupta dynasties was one of peace and wealth and it is often called the the Golden Age of India. • The Western Roman Empire fell in 476 when the Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was taken prisoner by the German King Odovacar. It was the start of what is called the Dark Ages. • Justinian the Great reigned the Eastern Roman Empire, later known as the Byzantine Empire, from 527 to 565. • Clovis reigned over the Franks and the Merovingian dynasty from 485-510. During his reign he converted and became a Catholic. • In 597, St. Augustine was sent from Rome by Pope Gregory the Great to convert the Saxons to Christianity. • The Sui Dynasty in China lasted from 519 – 618 and the Tang Dynasty from 618 – 907. At the time, the Tang dynasty was the most powerful empire in the world. • The prophet Mohammed founded the religion called Islam in 610 after seeing a vision in which the Archangel Gabriel told him to preach about one god, who was called “Allahâ€. • Tariq bin Ziyad led the conquest of Visigothic Hispania in 711. • Charlemagne unified most of Europe under his rule. While attending Mass in Rome, he was unexpectedly crowned “Emperor of the Romans†by Pope Leo III in 800. • The first Maoris arrived in New Zealand in 800. • King Alfred the Great, from the royal house of Wessex, came to the English throne in 871 and reigned to his death in 899. • The Norse explorer, Leif Erricson sailed to North America in 1000. • William of Normandy crossed the English Channel from France and defeated British King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. William was crowned King of England, and became known as William the Conqueror. • Pope Usrban II called on Christian leaders to free the Holy Land from the Muslims and launched the first Crusade in 1096. • Genghis Khan crossed the Wall of China and conquered Peking in1214. • The Incas were a Peruvian empire extending from northern Ecuador to central Chile in South America. • King John of England signed the Magna Carta, the Great Charter of English rights in1215. • Marco Polo, his father and uncle took three years to reach China in 1275. They traveled along the silk route. • The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th through the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. • Mansa Musa ruled Mali from 1312 to 1337. • The Black Death is sometimes called the worst disaster in history. It was caused by an illness called the bubonic plague that spread through Asia and Europe in the mid 1400’s. • Prince Henry was called the Navigator because he encouraged Portuguese Sailors to explore the coast of Africa. • St. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1431. • Ivan the Great became the ruler of Russia in 1462. • The Wars of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York took place between 1455 and 1487. • Gutenberg printed the Bible on his printing press in Mainz Germany in1456. • The Ottoman Turks captures Constantinople in 1453. • Bartolomeu Dias planted three crosses around the coast of southern Africa in 1488 • Vasco de Gama was a Portuguese navigator and explorer who discovered an ocean route from Portugal to India. • Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses to the Wittenberg church door in 1517. • Hernán Cortés conquered the Incas in 1519. • Ivan the Terrible becomes tsar of Russia in 1533. • Copernicus published On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres in1543. • Pope Paul III convened the Council of Trent in 1545 to discuss the beliefs of the Catholic Church and how they differed from the Protestant church. • In 1558, Akbar became emperor of the Mogul Empire when he was14 years old. • When Queen Mary died, Elizabeth 1 became queen of England in 1558. • William Shakespeare is born in 1564. • Mary, queen of Scots, was imprisoned in England in1567 • Sir Francis Drake sailed past the Cape in the Golden Hind in 1580 • Sir Walter Raleigh founded the first colony on Roanoke Island in 1585. • Spanish Armada was defeat by the English in 1588. You can find memory cards to go along with these at the file section of this yahoo group.

How can you tell that someone is close to getting a new square? Can one see the actual rep count anywhere?

I love it when the rest of my family is asleep, its quiet, and I get the house to myself. I am mostly the last to go to bed. My 4yo is an early riser, and I am still struggling to teach her to play quietly when she wakes!

Thanks everyone! I've passed on all the suggestions.

Welcome back! If you put your fists together, with your thumb sticking up, it makes a "bed", with the b on the left and the d on the right. I'd remind my daughter to "make the bed" when she got stuck with b's and d's.

Is it possible to save files to a disc and print them later or must one print the files right away.

I'm looking for a free font similar to Getty-Dubay Italic cursive. Does anyone know if this is available?

I also made Aesop's copywork for my then first grader. You can get it here and adapt as required. The fable is included before the copywork as a scanned page of Milo Winter's Aesop's fables.

This blog has some great ideas on Charlotte Mason Style Artist Study. They do an artist a term. I prefer to cover a few more artists in the early years, but my aim is exposure, rather than in depth study.

This is a list of mostly male Western composers, but we happen to own the CD's of these composers from a series my dh bought before we were married. Corelli (1653-1713) Vivaldi (1678-1741) Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 – 1767) D. Scarlatti (1685-1757)) J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Handel (1685-1759) Haydn (1732-1809) Mozart (1756-1791) Beethoven (1770-1827) Rossini (1792-1868) Schubert (1797-1828) Berloiz (1803-1869) Chopin (1810-1849) Liszt (1811-1886) Verdi (1813- 1901) Wagner (1813 – 1893) Gounod (1818-1893) Offenbach (1819 – 1880) Smetana (1824-1884) Brahms (1833-1897) Bizet (1838-1875) Mussogorsky (1839-1881) Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Dvorak (1841-1906) Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Elgar (1857-1934) Puccini (1858 – 1924) Debussy (1862- 1919) Strauss (1864-1949) Sibelius (1865-1957) Rachmaninoff (1873- 1943) Holst (1874-1934) Schoenberg (1874-1951) Ravel, (1875 – 1937) Mahler (1876-1911) Bartok (1881-1945) Stravinsky (1882-1971) Prokofiev (1891-1953) Orff (1895-1982) Gershwin (1898 – 1937) Copland (1900-1990) Rodrigo (1901 – 1999) Britten (1913 – 1976) Bernstein (1918 – 1990) Lloyd Weber (1948- As with the artists, we have a composer of the month. We read children's biographies and listen to the music of the composer. I can also recommend Classicsforkids. We listen to the composer's music while doing crafts or other hands-on activities. Sometimes during lunch as well. The book or books we read during the month. I also have the composer's portrait with short bio details stuck up on the wall. ETA: We have started adding the composer to our timeline (see the file section of the yahoo group linked in my signature). In a few weeks I'm going to start having dd write up a short bio of each composer and artist that we study.

Here are the artists we are studying. We do an artist of the month. I print out about 4 paitings from Artchive, laminate and stick them up on the wall. We read a children's biography of each. Western painting timeline (roughly grouped) Gothic Duccio Giotto Robert Campin Rogier van der Weyden Jan van Eyck Hieronymous Bosch Italian Renaissance Andrea Mantegna Fra Angelico Sandra Botticelli Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Raphael Titian El Greco Northern Renaissance Albrecht Durer Hans Holbein (the younger) Pieter Breughel the Elder Baroque and Rococco Caravaggio Rubens Vermeer Rembrandt Hogarth Fragonard Neoclassicism and Romaticism Thomas Gainsborough George Stubbs John Singleton Copley Sir Joshua Reynolds Francisco Goya John Constable Eugene Delacroix JMW Turner Impressionism Gustave Courbet Euouard Manet Alfred Sisley Auguste Renoir Edgar Degas Claude Monet Post-Impressionism Georges Seurat Vincent Van Gogh Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec Paul Gouguin Paul Cezanne Gustav Klimt 20-th Century Pablo Picasso Henri Matisse Piet Mondrian Salvador Dali Joan Miro Paul Klee Jackson Pollock Andy Warhol South African Artists Annette du Plessis Maggie Laubser Rexon Mathebula George Pemba Hugo Naudé Pierneef Gerard Sekoto Irma Stern Vladimir Tretchikoff William Kentridge Paul du Toit

I have a friend who will be starting to homeschool her son for 5th grade from January (the start of our school year). She needs suggestions for 5th grade Language Arts please. She would prefer a more school-at-home approach to start with.

Thanks for clarifying this.

Free Download Manager is open source software that does the following (as their blurb says): It works really well. If you have a slow connection and have the regular frustration of your downloads not completely downloading, this is a sanity saver! I see that they now also have free video downloads and upload manager, but I haven't used those yet.

What a pity!

There's no box when I click on the first link and on the second link, I see the box (front cover of the book), but nothing happens when I click on it. I wonder if it could be a copyright thing and the full view is disabled for our region? Can't think of any other explanation.

Should I expect to see a full view of the book? I can only see it in snippet view.

Not curriculum, but some really nice sites for the periodic table of the elements. Periodic Videos- Videos that demonstrate experiments for every element on the periodic table. These were linked on the board before. Webelements- click on the element and then on the microphone to hear about the element A poster of the periodic table of the elements with pictures.

You're definitely winning :001_smile: Thanks for the awesome links.