I really want to thank the WTM team for offering these courses! How I wish I'd had the chance to participate in hs math and science like this when I was struggling through as a home-schooled student. Our oldest is a 3rd-grader, but I sure hope the courses or their equivalent are still available when he is in high school!

Thanks for sharing this. I really like this idea, and think it could work well in our family too. I'm just wondering if you could elaborate a bit on the second two days of verse study. What kinds of questions do you ask/answer? How did this work when your older two were a few years younger? We have younger children (8, 6, 3, and baby, (and I used to teach higher level subject matter)) and I'm ALWAYS in danger of over-estimating language they understand when it comes to explaining or discussing Bible passages. I know it will look a bit different for every family, but am curious about any more specifics you can give me so I can see about shaping it for my littles.

Thanks! Bless you! I think I can do this now. :)

Thank you, thank you! I am a very busy mom of littles, but my 8 yr-old is an avid reader, and I just have not had time to research enough good books for him. This is a life saver.

Thank you for this recommendation! I've been looking for just such a resource as this. :)

"I should add that I followed a flow chart that someone created from the group, I printed it out so I knew what I was doing each week. I would read that chapter at the beginning of the week. " Where might I find this flow chart you speak of? :)

I'm considering buying/using the BSFU book 1 this year with a 1st and 3rd grader. How teacher intensive is it? Could I do all the prep during a couple days in the summer, and just have maintainance prep during the school year? And now necessary are the other readings? Would it be a flop if we didn't do them, for example? Thanks!

Thank you Aidan for this post! And thanks everyone for your advice. It is not so practical for us to make a weekly visit to the local library either, and then I have to scrounge to find decent books. Usually we wait two weeks to get books through interlibrary loan. Planning gets a bit tricky. So I'm going to be following this thread! Perhaps someone else mentioned this too, but I've found the activity guide for SOTW is such a great resource for book lists to augment history (as well as WTM). You'd still have to plan in advance but I've found there are some great books there that Sonlight doesn't carry. Between SL books and WTM/SOTW recommendations, there is such a great world of books!

How does NLS work with multiple grade levels at once? Also, how many different areas of science get looked at in one year? (I think it doesn't just stick with one area of science like the ES does, correct?)

Thanks for responding, Aiden! I found another thread with feedback comparing Elemental Science to Nancy Larson Science. Does anyone out there actually use just the WTM recommended books for science in the grammar stage? As in: the Usborne 1st Encyclopedia of our World, and More Mudpies to Magnets, etc? Does that work, or are there lots of new and better books now? I really wish I knew how it compared with ES or NLS as to the time I would spend organizing it, and the "enjoyment factor" for the kids. Anyone have opinions on this?

I'm switching from Sonlight's prepackaged curriculum to something else this year. But I don't know what the "something else" is yet. :o Things that are important to me: 1) the science progression described in the WTM (Life science/anatomy, then earth science/astronomy, then chemistry, then physics), 2) teaching and using the scientific method, and 3) MINIMAL planning and set-up! We will be starting the earth science/astronomy this fall. What do you recommend, people? :) Have you used any curricula or group of books that fit this criteria? Would the book recommendations in WTM do this? (I wonder if anyone has used those specifically and how it went? Do the science projects take lots of set up?) I'm thinking we'll do science two days a week this year. I have 1st and 3rd grade boys, and we'll do science together. Please share with me what has worked well for you! Please feel free to redirect me to threads that already exist on this topic. . . I have too many littles to research this forum as much as I'd like. :) Thanks a bunch!

Thanks everyone for your helpful responses. I just joined the forum yesterday and I can see already this is going to be a homeschooling life-saver for me! I know, I was totally impressed that there are kids learning Latin all over the place! But the comments I got were more along the lines of "Ha! And the point of slaving away to teach a dead language would be what?! Brown-noser!" But I realize I need to follow this advice:

This is changing the subject slightly, but I'm posting here b/c you all have obviously used/taught Latin and I have not (yet). 1.) Are there any good (maybe witty?) comebacks besides the 4 reasons listed in WTM, for when I get questioned or ridiculed for deciding to teach Latin to my 3rd grade son? 2.) In your experience, can parents who have NEVER studied Latin actually teach it using MP's Prima Latina materials? I'm feeling quite unsure of myself, but really wanting to do this!