Ok, that clears it up, thank you very much :001_smile:.

Our school year "reboots" next week and as I was getting all our books ready I noticed The Ancient Celts, which was used in Year 1, is also part of Year 2's list according to Bookshelf Central even though I couldn't find it anywhere in my Reading Schedule. So...after digging around a bit I read in the book description at Bookshelf Central that The Ancient Celts is "summer reading" for Year 2. Summer Reading? :confused: Where is this listed/scheduled? Is there a "Summer Reading" list after every Year? I must be missing something. Help?

I just got mine today. The mail carrier even managed to cram it into our mailbox. Time to break out the Post-It Flags! ETA: I'm in IL :001_smile:.

Wow, that sounds very familiar. I'm an INTJ, too. I can completely relate to that description. And I already feel like I've shared too much :lol:. And this was my first multi-quoted message! I'm so proud of me :001_smile:.

At least $150 per year. I can't resist "free" shipping.

Like HSMom2One, I read the SOTW readings according to the Alternate Resource schedule in TOG. My ds6 got a lot out of it this year :001_smile:. They do end up out of order but I am mostly concerned with keeping my ds in sync with his big sister. I add in some of the primary TOG resources for LG for my ds6, but the SOTW readings alone are sufficient much of the time. I use the narration questions in the SOTW Activity Guide as well, but I have only used a handful of the student pages otherwise. I like to have them available though.

SL Binder tabs consist of 36 week tabs for each week of the school year for the schedule pages and then tabs for each section of the IG; Readers, History.

I don't have their Subtraction flashcards, just the Multiplication, but the flashcards sold by Rod and Staff are good quality and very thorough. Kinda pricey, but if I have to replace anymore flashcard sets (they keep getting misplaced :tongue_smilie:) I'll be buying from R&S.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Pollyanna, Little Princess, Secret Garden... All the Anne of Green Gables book could keep her busy for awhile. I feel your pain.

INTJ here

I think the other "mean thing" was listed in the overheads that accompany the audio as a pdf file. IIRC the overhead is linked underneath the item information for the MP3 download in the online catalog for Peace Hill Press. ETA: Here's the link to the overheads. (Oh, and mine skips that, too. I think they edited that out for whatever reason.)

History/Literature...no contest.

:iagree:

So, in other words, some people want their children's books "red-flagged" for sex, while others want their children's books "red-flagged" for bigotry? (And I'm sure there is also a category of people who want them "red-flagged" for both. This is the WTM boards, we need an "Other" option :001_smile:.)

Most Christian curriculums also have a Statement of Faith or Mission Statement on their websites. You can read that and decide from there. I'm not as conversant with secular providers so I don't know if they would have something similar.

I have used Core 3 with a 2nd grader (advanced) with no issues, so I think it can be done.

I don't have time to go through every single week it is scheduled in, and the only "Year" I own where TCoO is used is Year 2 but... From the "Glance into next week" pages before the first TCoO assignment in TOG: "Note the resources may use unsavory terminology(i.e. "savages", "uncivilized", etc.) when referring to the inhabitants of another land. Additionally, the explorers are often praised for doing God's will when in fact they were at times cruel and corrupt."

Yeah this. :iagree: Excellent post. TOG is a program that is very much focused on training up children in a Christian worldview. If the folks posting in this thread could read the Discussion notes in the TMs they would very quickly see that TOG is not a racist curriculum. Everything is discussed. I have not read or heard anything about the Somervilles that would indicate they are racist in any way. And the book in question is used for Logic stage students, not little ones. Logic stage kids are SUPPOSED to argue and debate and connect thoughts. I, too, will be reading TCoO to see how bad it actually is. But... I don't think the other posters are interested. They have passed judgment already. Based on ONE book. I think someone else mentioned in a different thread that this type of reasoning would "convict" many other literature/CM based history programs. I'd like to know if they take the time to pre-read their history books and categorically reject any book that has even one HINT of denegrating Christians in history.

Sonlight uses The Landmark History of the American People as a Read-Aloud for Cores 3 and 4. It is kind of longish and not exactly like SOTW in tone, but I thought it had a pretty good narrative flow. My dd liked it at the time.

My dd is going into 5th grade (we reboot our school year in one week). We're going to start off with The Fallacy Detective by the Bluedorns.

I've used Singapore (Texts, workbooks, IP, CWP and PC games) with my kids since the very beginning. It is our spine. I have supplemented with Miquon and a smidge of R&S (I like some of their blacklines and I assigned some of their fraction lessons from level 5). I forgot about Life of Fred when I voted in the poll, but we use that, too. I don't know if I'd consider LoF Fractions, and Decimals & Percents complete though. I think more practice would be required for these two to be stand alone.

Oooo thank you! This was the info I was looking for :001_smile:.

Shameless bump :001_smile:

No regular "dates" here either. We talk all the time and spend every evening together. We will occasionally get Grandma to babysit so we can go grocery shopping without the kids. That's the closest thing we get to a "date".

:iagree: My kids are learning so much with this. This is primarily a Bible study, but there is a memory verse for each lesson. I just use them as copywork. The kids memorize some, but not all of them. 1st-3rd grades are teacher-led - 4th-6th grades are independent. ETA: And CBD sells just the texts and workbooks which is cheaper than the package deal from Covenant Home in the link provided, if the cost is an issue.