We have gone on many long road trips and always listen to audio books. We did a major bookshelf cleaning and gave most of them away, but these are some of the few that we kept because we loved them so much: All the little house books. Anything by Christopher Paul Curtis (The Watsons go to Birmingham, Elijah of Buxton, Bud, not Buddy) Vinyl Cafe stories by Stuart McLean (all) Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank and Ernestine Gilbreth Matilda by Roald Dahl Bomb by Steve Sheinkin

I remember when I wanted to finish up a level of wwe quickly, we did every other week of work, because it does get progressively more difficult.

What is JAG?

I agree. I bought wayfarers level one and it looks great. I haven't used it yet but plan to use it to some extent next year. Meaning, use some of the ideas and book lists, but not follow the schedule exactly. I have grades 2,4 6,8 and 10 plus a preschooler 😀

Ok, well nevermind then! Lol. It sounds like it would drive me crazy. I think I will stick with SoTW with added Islamic sources then. Thank you, that was very helpful.

I agree with trying ELTL instead of FLL/WWE. Your kids sound like they share some similarities with some of my kids, from what you describe, and I chose ELTL because I think it suits our style beyter, and we like reading a lot of good literature too, which goes well with ELTL.

What is Stories of the World like? Is it similar to SOTW but from an Islamic perspective? Is it high quality? Is it written more like a text book or more like stories?

I just noticed that okbud already posted the Kinza link. I also had a book back when I started homeschooling about teaching history from an Islamic perspective. I forget what it was called, and I can't define it now, but the author is Susan Douglass.

I also plan to use SOTW with Islamic stories of the prophets in place of those chapters in the book. There is a website called stories of light which has really nice high quality books and audio books about the stories of the prophets, and the year of the elephant etc. The author's name is Mehded Maryam Sinclair. (Www.stories-of-light.com) The Kinza academy info seems to have been moved to sister Elizabeth Hanson's website.(www.elizabethyhanson.com) There is also www.al-qalam.org/Childrens_Books.htm The author of these books is Elma Harder. She homeschooled her own children. She has a book called Concentric Circles, which is about early childhood education with an Islamic worldview. There are also books about prophets, Ramadan, and Islam in general, for children.

Thank you again!

Can anyone tell me the Rule/ Jingle/ Hint ?

Thank you very much! :)

I used Phonetic Zoo a couple of years ago, and I want to start using it again this year with some of my kids. So, I went to get it from my home school storage and found that I am missing the card for lesson 2. I can't find it anywhere. :confused1: Can anyone give me the word lists for lesson 2? At least for the first level? (preferably for all 3 levels though :001_smile: . Thank you!

It says grade three yellow kit. It doesn't say anything about a transitions kit, so thanks for that info. I should definitely look into getting that if we decide to switch.