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.

I am considering enrolling my children in a correspondence school this year. All materials and curriculum are provided and they follow the Alberta Program of Studies. I am still undecided about it. They use Rightstart math for grades 1-3. I am very happy about this for my son, who is starting first grade, but I am not sure how easy it will be for my daughter (starting 3rd grade) to transition to Rightstart. She has done some Singapore 2nd grade math, and Khan Academy. I have read about Rightstart math and it seems like a great program, but I am just worried about jumping into it in 3rd grade. Does anyone have any idea if this could work?

I don't know about FLL (haven't used it), but I would not do WWE4. I agree with trying out creative writer or some other creative writing program this year. If you still want something similar to WWE in some ways but also different, maybe you could look into English Lessons through Literature 4.

Have you looked in to Guest Hollow? They have a lot of really good science curricula to choose from and she could read most if not all of the books by herself. http://www.guesthollow.com/homeschool/curriculum.html#science Some of the books have Christian content and they are clearly labeled as such. I am just not going to buy those ones.

My kids have been working on memorizing the Quran a little bit at a time each year, but we don't push it very hard. It really does take a lot of time and you really should have a good teacher. I would like them to do it one on one and have not found a good teacher for this yet. They can still practice slowly little by little to make some progress in the mean time. We have used a website called Quran Explorer: http://www.quranexplorer.com/quran/ They just listen to whichever section they are working on memorizing. I usually get them to do it for ten minutes per day. Just listen to it over and over for ten minutes and try to say it along.

I use my stroller with the seat reclined all the way. I put in a rubbermaid bin and fill it with the books. This works for walking home and for transporting to the van if we are driving. It also works for groceries when walking. I did this even when my baby was small. He went in the baby carrier and the groceries went in the bin in the stroller. Our library limit is 30-40 per card.

I looked at a sample of Expedition Earth and it seemed to only contain very basic information about each country. We have a set a World Book encyclopedias- both the regular set and the set for younger readers (Discovery set I think it is called), so I will probably just use those instead of Expedition Earth. I know that doesn't reallly answer your question, but that is what I'm planning to use. I don't like using E books. I much prefer printed copies.

Thank you so much- this was very helpful! And, yes, please do a week in review of Wayfarers- I would love to see that! I am thinking of combining the Guest Hollow and Wayfarers geography by using the Guest Hollow schedule, but stretching it out over two years so that I can add in more of the literature from Wayfarers. Also, this way, the countries will be studied and mapped in sync with the corresponding literature for that country.

I am planning to do Ancient history this year with my kids in grades 1, 3, and 5. I am still trying to decide on whether or not I want to use a spine book. I am leaning towards using one so that I can feel like we have all the basics covered and not feel too pressured to get through all the extra reading we want to do. I would like to have the spine as an audio book so that we can listen while we eat breakfast every day. I am trying to decide between SOTW Volume One and A Little History of the World. If you have used both, or even if you have only used one but have strong opinions about it, please let me know which one you like better/ which one you would choose and why. Thanks!

Has anyone used the geography portion of Wayfarers? I bought Term 1 of Wayfarers Ancients, but I am still having trouble picturing how the geography looks day to day and how the literature reading fits in with the mapping and expedition earth activities/reading. Sorry, this is probably a pretty dumb question, but I am just having trouble seeing it in my mind. I am trying to decide between using Wayfarers or Guest Hollow for geography for my grades 1, 3, 5, and maybe 7. I think the benefits of Wayfarers are the literature (which I would use as our main read aloud probably), and the slow reading pace (1 chapter per day), which I like because I am a little worried about our overall workload this year with the number of ages and grade range I'll have this year. I really like the idea of learning about places by reading literature. The benefits of Guest Hollow are: I just really like the look of it. The books are short and look interesting for younger children as well as older children. The problem is, there so many books and activites, and I am not sure how much they would learn from just reading a few short picture books on each country. I know I could just skip some, which is what I am considering. However, the schedule has so many books and activities, I worry that if I left out a bunch of them, the study would be just skimming the surface, if that makes sense. What would you do?

Wayfarers does geography through literature.