Wow Carmen! That's awesome!!! I think hand movements would really enhance it.

Thanks for linking this Kate!

Anywhere in between birth and death where it fits on our timeline. We have a wall timeline and from 1300 onwards it gets full. I've spread out the cards so they all fit into the period, but this means that the cards can be anywhere in the person's lifetime. For earlier periods I tried to put them at a major event. You can see a picture of and get templates for our timeline and cards at the file section of this yahoo group.

Thanks for the heads up on this!

Decided to delete this, because really, it's a minor inconvenience. {{Hugs}} to those of you dealing with some really tough stuff.

Have you looked at the Sonlight read-aloud list for first grade?

Geography * Geography Songs by Troxel (http:// http://www.singnlearn.org/khxc/index.php?app=ccp0&ns=prodshow&ref=136) * Lyrical Earth Science Volume 1 (http://www.lyricallearning.com'>http://www.lyricallearning.com'>http://www.lyricallearning.com'>http://www.lyricallearning.com) Science * Singing Science Records (http://www.acme.com/jef/singing_science/) Free resource * Lyrical Life Science Volumes 1,2 &3 (http://www.lyricallearning.com). Also on the Veritas Press site. * Schoolhouse rock – Science rock (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=schoolhouse+rock) Grammar * Grammar Songs by Troxel * Schoolhouse rock - Grammar rock Poetry * The Nation’s Favourite Children’s Poems Collection (BBC Radio Collection) narrated by Ronald Pickup, Tim Pigott-Smith, Andrew Sachs and Rosalind Shanks * A Child's Introduction to Poetry by Michael Driscoll and Meredith Hamilton * Listen and Color: Favorite Poems for Children by Dover and Thea Kliros * Poetry Speaks to Children by Elise Paschen, Dominique Raccah, Nikki Giovanni, and X.J. Kennedy * Developing Linguistic Patterns Through Poetry Memorization * Poetry Speaks to Children * A Child's Introduction to Poetry * Poetry Speaks for adults * Caedmon Poetry Collection (also for older children and adults)

We just chant the sentences as dd puts the cards I made (available at file section of this Yahoo group) in order. We've got the same pictures up on our wall timeline. From what I understood, CC uses the cards and songs from Veritas Press. ETA: Veritas also has these products for memory period.

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Here's and Aussie Slang Dictionary And just in case anyone's interested, a South African one too. We use quite a few of the same expressions that are used in Australia.

I got a fantastic deal on the UK Ebay site and our Snap Circuit Jr set has just arrived. Dd is having great fun following the diagrams and putting the experiments together. I'm finding though, that I can't always explain the "why" of the circuits. I've seen that one can buy a student manual. Is it worth getting?

I've put together a number of "science kits" (electricity, magnetism, water, plants, etc) with all the materials required to do the experiments in the Sonlight Discover and Do DVDs, The Big Book of Experiments, Janice van Cleave and other science experiment books that we have. It's pick up and go when the kids want to do something. Dd loves to play with these kits and has spent hours experimenting on her own. When she does this in school time, I expect her to write up at least one of the experiments that she's done.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

A personal trainer for the family who will teach the basics of all sports.

I'm just going to pretend I didn't see this......

We have a History Club too. And have always called it that! We've joined two other families and meet once a week for an hour and a half. The three moms take turns reviewing the chapter and presenting the activites from the AG (or other sources). We do a chapter a week, and follow the school terms, so have ended up taking about 18 months per book. The History Club has meant that we are accountable to each other and activities actually get prepared well and done by all. Each mom has a different crafty bent, so the children get to do things they would not have at home. The slow pace has not bothered us too much as we're doing literature based South African history in parallel.

My daughter was born on 31 Dec 1999. Just before 22h00. We've told her that she was one of the last people born in the last century, so we're going with Y2K being the first year of the new century. If she lives to 100 and a few hours, she'll have lived in three centuries. It's very easy to calculate exactly how old she is in years, months and days.

When we started SOTW, I did a homemade wall timeline. You can find a template and the pictures at the file section of this yahoo group.

I'm a couple of days late on this thread, but just wanted to let you know that the South African distributor for IEW (Oikos) sells only the SWI and continuation courses. One would therefor assume that IEW sees these as full courses that can stand alone. Interestingly, the only other products from IEW that they sell, is the poetry memorization and spelling.

I don't think its unreasonable for the children to visit the parents, bu it's a give and take thing. If the onus on visiting is always on the children (or any one party in a relationship), and there are no reasons for the other party not to visit, then one may start feeling resentful that all the effort has to come from one side. Especially if they only visit as an "aside" to another engagement in the area.

Has anyone used "A history of European Art"? I'm thinking of getting this for my own education. Are there other art courses that are better?

That would depend on what hemisphere you're in. It starts now for the Southern Hemisphere countries and regions that have it.

I have these bookmarked: Periodic Table of the Elements in Pictures SA Agency for Science and Technology scroll down to educational posters.

Younger dd has 5 such rectangular baskets that all fit neatly in a row under her bed. Older dd has purged down to a few favourites that sit on a shelf in her room. They each have a favourite to sleep with and 2 larger animals at the feet of their beds.

Thanks Rosie! I love both sushi and wine - so will add these to our to-do list. I appreciate the very generous offer of a camping spot, but with 4 adults and 4 kids we would be imposing! If we do get to Bendigo, I'll look you up! Are you planning on moving? I might have missed a post on that. I've never met any WTM'ers IRL. Few of the homeschoolers around here have heard of it.