Castles, Cathedrals and Monastries. And depending on where you will love you will find museums about the Roman influence in that area. Dd saw already several Roman 'leftovers' Www.toporopa.eu might be an interesting site for your oldest. You can put English settings on.

O yes!!!! Some years it was the only Christmas feeling I got. Normally I recorded it and watched it the years our church didn't have service on Christmas Eve. ( or I watched it twice if I had a very bad Christmas...)

Mmm Something made me think crackers in English are somthing else then in Dutch... I won't consider crackers as christmas food ;) I have a question: I liked reading the history of Congo that much, that I wondered if comparable books are available about other countries. I think I would like to start with other African countries. My English is average or even a little below that to my standards so 'a book for the general public' would be nice. But first I will read the books about Ethics I recieved yesterday :)

The same video's is not a great start. So far I let Richard/the video doing the teaching, and after that I am a broken record: Richard said:...... Richard taught you:..... We will see, first passing the exam next schoolyear... Thanks for your post!

Thanks!

Yes, the Bettelheim book seems the right one based on the brief content. Is there a huge difference between editions? Is biochemistry a very changing science? How soon is an edition 'too old' in this field of science? Do you or anybody else know?

thanks! I use Understanding Geometry from CTC right now, but was still in search for statistics. MEP stands for that download curriculum from the UK, right?

Thanks! I had no idea how it was called in English. I will take a closer look at the links and thanks for the enrichment! We can use that :)

If dd will continue her foreign languages track she will not only have an integrated math exam, but also an integrated science exam. Practically it means she will have a 12th grade exam with some chemistry, several biology and a lot,of physics topics. For Physics and Biology I found textbooks covering our examtopics, but Chemistry seems to be a little bit odd to me. She just has to learn about chemistry in relation to food and health in a human body. Anybody knows a texbook/course about that? She has to learn more about sacharids, lipids and the chemistry of food in your body then about chemical reactions. She will learn about polymeres though. In grade 9+10 we will cover IGCSE Chemistry so she will have some more general chemistry under her belt before this. Integrated science is a 3 hour subject in grade 11+ 12 and Chemistry seems to be the smaller part, so i am not looking for a yearfilling project. I hope anybody has soms suggestions.

I can't add to this thread as we are not in Intro A yet. But just want to share you are not alone. I am pondering what you said and wondered if you used the video's. They are very important to dd. Dd still thinks Chapter 2 in Pre-A was a fun one, the most interesting one so far. I am not sure where we will switch, but no doubt we will switch to a more regular text. We don't do the challenging problems, and I have to supplement AoPs with topics from our Belgian integrated math sequence. My plan was to switch after Intro A, but now I doubt I should switch earlier ;)

Dd passed the 8th grade exams for English, so we will start German and Greek after the break.

I finished The epic History of Congo. I think it is one of the better books I read this year. Maybe I want to read something about South Africa next year. I am reading now a Dutch retelling for Teenagers from the Canterbury Tales. http://www.davidsfonds.be/publisher/edition/detail.phtml?id=3158 I have to admit it is the first time I got it where you all were talking about. Even an old Dutch translation was too hard too read. Somehow I got a problem with reading 'hard books' the last months. I hope that will become better next year...

You have to order through a Homework Consultant I thought. and I also thought the deal was until december 16th, I don't know if the deal is extended

Dd has almost finished a Childs' history of Art (hillyer)' we just read it, no crafts... We did stories of the great composers and christmas songs in the past. meet the great Jazz artists is almost finished. It is the first time dd likes music. In february we will start the annotated arch.

We do BJU Science without dvd's or online class since grade 2. I can imagine a dvd/online option can do some things better then me. But it is what we do: books and experiments/demonstrations. And it works fine for dd.

Heritage Studies 6 has 165 lessons only grade 1-3 are semestercourses I thought,I live in Belgium and have a different frequency of subject as we have more subjects.

It depends on how you count I suppose. I always say we did max. 2 hours school in grade 1-2. But that was 'just' academics. In the afternoon we crafted, I read aloud, etc. If you count those things as 'school' then we did more then 2 hours... In grade 3/4 we did more subjects and so more hours, In grade 5/6 we started working in the afternoon.

BJU Heritage Studies 6 is worthwhile, even without 'teaching' it. Dd learned a ton so far. It covers a different set of studyskills and dd wrote several compare / contrast essays about world religions. Now we are working on implementing the studyskill she learned at BJU into other subjects. beginning January dd has her history exam, I am very curious to know the results. I think dd is wel prepared through BJU, but time will see...

We are still thinking how to translate the Dutch 'Gezellig' into English...

You might want to take a look to IGCSE Physics, I like their Chemistry very much, but unfortunetly their Physics book doesn't cover the required exam topics, other wise I would use that.

Continuing the history of Congo: http://www.amazon.com/Congo-The-Epic-History-People/dp/0062200119 I LOVE this book. I started a book called: ' Me? No Pause!' About the menopause

Yes, that is the same Conrad You're welcome :)

Dd loves BJU science. I allow her to make all the reviews and outlines on the computer. We started handwritten, but it became too much at grade 7. I would start at grade 5/6 If you own the TM of BJU they show you how to adapt the curriculum to a semester program.

I presume you are talking about a 5-6 yo? I am not fluent in English. But wat we did was doing 1-2 subjects in English. Everything else was in Dutch, our mothertongue. We are doing the same for French now, after failing attempts with common textbooks. So you could pick a Spanish reading and a Spanish science/history book. The topics in her science/history text were already covered in Dutch. So in the beginning we did subjects double, first in Dutch then in English. After a while dd was able to do a unknown topic in English with help of a dictionary. After about threes years of listening, reading, fill in the blank dd starts to speak, to write her own sentences in the new language. I don't give any guarantees. But it is what we do with dd.