* RTR is absolutely wonderful!

[LSH in MS]

Amazing FIRST WEEK w/ MFW!!

We are doing RTR and enjoying very much. I don't think I could teach so many children so effectively without MFW.

[SandKsmama]

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:36 pm

We're just having a such a GREAT year so far with MFW! I'm doing K for the second time through with my littlest one. In MFW 1st with my 6.5 year old, we're on Day 94. He is joining in his big sister's science and that is going well!

We are on Week 4 of RTR. It is absolutely wonderful! My 11 year old just loves it - she has not wanted to put The Bronze Bow down:-) I don't think there is one thing about RTR that we both have not been just delighted with. Making the Jello cell model was a huge hit. And both kids were thrilled with starting to use The Body Book this week.

Amanda

[WindriderMom]

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:12 pm

I am realizing how much I LOVE MFW. We are doing RTR, and I must say that not only are we learning "history" but I sense all of us are growing closer to the Lord. Our studies (we are in week 13) have taken us through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the work of his Apostles and Disciples. All in historical context and it is like the Bible has come alive for us.

I am especialy liking "Twice Freed" and the kids keep catching me trying to read ahead and chastise me. They want us all to find out what happens at the same time. We began Trial and Triumph and are awed by the stories. ALso the "Victor Journey Through the Bible" gives us so much insight, the kids like the maps and pictures as well.

Windrider,
because cycling make me feel like I can fly!
Mom to 13 yo dd, 12 yo ds, 8 yo ds, 5 yo ds
Homeschooling for 5 years

[DS4home]

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:08 am

I just wanted to share my kids enthusiasm about our science this year. In RTR we are studying the body. Well one day we were looking at the food pyramid and studying all about it. Over the next few days my son keeps asking questions relating to this. Ahh, Mom's thinking, something is sinking in :)

Well he decides to make a little poster of the food pyramid and post it in the kitchen to help us all remember what to eat. Nice, sure hun. Now his older sister sees this and decides she can make a much nicer one! So off she goes to find the book and make another model poster for us. Oh my, Mom's thinking, they are really getting stirred up about this!

Next thing I know, the kids have put together a chart with the days of the week and each food group. You guessed it, we are now tracking what we eat daily! OK, Mom's not so sure she wants to see this so up close and personal!! :) Can't we just keep it as a simple science reading and move on......

Kidding (sort of) but I do love it when they get into stuff like this. Now if I had suggested such a thing it probably wouldn't have gotten near as much attention. But when it's their idea...watch out!!

Now we are beginning to learn chess, and my son is just chomping at the bit to play a full game!

MFW just keeps getting better and better!
Dawn

[Tina]

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:36 am

The chess -- we never knew how to play chess before, and now my two in RtR want to play it with everyone! They ask to play with anyone who enters the house. It is fun. Even more fun when other children come over and they all say "hey, let's play chess!"

Thanks for sharing.

[pjssully]

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:13 pm

I am finished up our first week and I am loving it!!!! I am sooooo grateful i took the advice of some of you and started doing mfw despite our upcoming move. Anyways, we were reading about how the bible is organized in the "how the Bible came to us" and we got stuck on the four gospels--i had always heard there were four gospels but when we were coloring in our notebook activity, they listed ACTS as one of the gospels (it was color coded as a gospel, not necessarily said it was a gospel). Well we were stumped. So i brought it up to my bible study group that i attend once a week and nobody had an answer for me. BUT then, someone read at the beginning of her new testament bible that ACTS is sometimes looked as a "LINKING BOOK" which is why it must have been color coded as a gospel. SOOOO everyone in our bible study learned something new--and it was from MFW curriculum. HOw awesome is GOD! And how awesome it is that we have a curriculum that teaches adults along with our kids. I am looking forward to a year that teaches me more and strengthens my faith. thanks for all of you
pam

[mama9times]

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 7:39 pm

I have been wonderfully blessed by this curriculum. We started in Sept. and fell way behind with Thanksgiving and Christmas. When it was time to start back up in Jan., I was having a really hard time because of some troubles my older, already graduated children have been in along with our 15 yr old son. I had pretty much given up on homeschooling and told my dh to take them to public school and sign them up. He refused and decided that he was going to school them himself. He works 3- 11 pm, so he was able to do this. The first few days, I decided to sit in on Bible and some History. Then I started to take a more active role and now things are back to how they should be, plus dh is doing Bible with us now.

MFW got me out of a horrible Spiritual slump! The study of the Early Christian Church in the Roman world has really made an impression on me. Studying the two together make the Book of Acts come alive. What Faith those early Christians must have had!! The book Twice Freed is a real faith booster, too. We watched the Robe last weekend. It was nice "seeing" what we are reading. Next week we'll be starting Trial and triumph. I can't wait!

If my dc pick up on a little that's good, too. But, it's not just for my kids, but for me. too. I'm motivated to continue. I know now that this is what God wants me to be doing.

Thank you MFW for a wonderful blessing. You don't know what a difference you (through God) have made in this family.

[dhudson]

I will tell you that we really loved RTR (even my 2nd graders) we celebrated being a Monk and eating like we were in a medieval Inn and we still have the castle in the living room (it was too cool to put away). It really gave us a great foundation in understanding the reformation and why it was necessary for the pilgrims to leave for the new world. We found it fascinating.

Oh and I failed to tell the best part, my oldest used the verses he memorized in RTR to tell someone in Mexico (during a missions trip) about Jesus. He knew right away what verses to point someone to.

[Keer]

Hi, my name is Kirstin, and we just started using MFW RTR last week. We had just finished studying the fall of Rome in our previous curriculum, so we just jumped right into week 14 in RTR, and away we went! I've used a couple different history curriculums over the past few years, and while they got the job done, they never quite fit just right. I think I have finally found The Perfect One for Us. I was looking at it more tonight, and truly, if I had the time and the know-how to put together my own, this is all exactly what I would have done. I'm soooooooooooooooooo excited!!!!!!!!!

This year I am teaching a 6th, 4th, 3rd, 1st, and PreKer. I also have a very busy 21mo. I plan to use MFW K next year as well. Looking forward to getting to know y'all better!

[MammaBear]

We are just starting Week 6 of RTR with our family. I just wanted to say it has been great so far. I was a little concerned when I saw so many people not liking Augustus Caesar's World, but my kids have loved it. They are really liking making the models, and it has just been a good beginning. Thank you to the Hazell family for following God's leading to write this curriculum. Just in case you are wondering this is not our first year with MFW. We have used K, Adventures, ECC, skipped CTG to do something else (which I regret) and are now back where we belong with RTR.

I love how it fills the need for all my dc learning styles. My hands on dd, and my deep thinker reader ds, both get exactly what they need to retain the information. Thank you.

[jenkinsinpa]

We just came back to MFW....we had used K, 1st, Adventures, then left, this past year we did 1st again with my middle child, and now we are back toMFW using RTR...just started 2 weeks ago. I am appreciating MFW in a whole new way, now that I see what life was like without it!!!