Prayers for quick relief and a good trip.

Congratulations to the beautiful couple! 💕

The Solution Manual for Jurgensen's geo is available on archive... https://archive.org/details/geometry00jurg/mode/2up

Thanks for posting the update-- please let her know she is prayed for.

Praying for your son, your family, and the medical team. And for you, mama. 💜

Hannula also wrote Radiant: Fifty Remarkable Women in Church History And there's Hero Tales by Dave and Neta Jackson ( there are four volumes) or I Heard Good News Today (Lehn) ETA: just wanted to add that all of the above ^ books have a general Protestant bent; people of other faiths are mentioned positively as well, but the main thrust is Protestant believers.

Also wanted to mention that as far as I know, neither Cindy Rollins nor Angelina Stafford is actually a *creator* or *advisor* of Ambleside Online (a member of the Advisory or Auxiliary). Possible happy former users and endorsers, but not the ones who determine what is AO. And whatever someone else recommends, I happily peruse other people's booklists and then choose what makes the most sense for the child in front of me at the time. That is one of the major benefits of homeschooling. I'm sure someone out there will think that some of my choices were sub par. Oh well. Best is such a relative term, isn't it. 😉

^ Rosie speaks with common sense, as usual. 🙂 Giving this a "like" the best I can.

I would say yes, especially at that price. I remember when the white Kingfisher was hard to find for reasonable prices. 😉 The essential bits of world history haven't changed. Modern history would need updating, but that's always the case with just about any history book. ETA: there are multiple copies of that edition on archive.org, if you want/need to see the whole book. https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A(Kingfisher World History) AND mediatype%3A(texts)

Sonlight (or BookShark, the secular version of SL), has nice reading lists that go with SOTW for jr high ages. You don't have to buy the whole shebang from either company... just look at the readers list and plug in books to SOTW as you see fit. It is very easy to find used Instructor's Guides (that list the readers in order and schedule out the reading) for a reasonable price on Ebay, etc. if you wanted/needed someone else to do the scheduling for you. Sonlight Core G (uses SOTW vol 1 & 2) Sonlight Core H (uses SOTW vol 3 & 4) BookShark level G (uses SOTW vol 1 & 2) BookShark level H (uses SOTW vol 3 & 4)

My favorite is a percolator (insert gasp of horror 😉 )-- but really--quick hot coffee, no plastic, easy to clean. Lasts forever if you treat it nicely.

Phonics Pathways is my favorite for beginning phonics... https://www.rainbowresource.com/000437.html Depending on the child, a five year old may just need to put the phonics aside for a short time and come back to it later. Some five year olds are ready, and some just need to go outside and run around a bit more. 😉

Praying for comfort and peace as you process through all of this.

You give me hope. 😉

If I am remembering correctly, the CLE Reading courses are designed to be a half year's worth of work, so that would leave plenty of time to just read whatever books you wanted to for the sheer joy of it. I've used CLE reading with multiple of my children in 3rd and up, and it does teach some lit analysis terms pretty painlessly. For my kids in elementary, I preferred that the work of analysis happen with the CLE reader/light units, so that the enjoyment of reading happened more with all the other books we read or listened to. I take a very light hand with literary analysis, especially in elementary. Years ago, I was influenced by SWB's talk on Literary Analysis... https://welltrainedmind.com/p/what-is-literary-analysis-when-why-and-how-should-i-teach-it-mp3/