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Thanks Ladies--great ideas!!

We are finishing our first week of RTR, and we all love it!! We're getting so excited to get to the period in history of our beloved Jesus, and it's right around the corner. Thanks to Marie for such an engaging and thorough curriculum!!

I was nervous about ECC too, but we loved it. One of their favorite memories was setting up chairs and "flying" to each new country. They also still ask to play the geography game occasionally (even though it's been two years!). It's really hard to get a feel for the year just perusing the books. On...

We used MFW ADV and ECC, but decided to try HOD this year, knowing that we could jump right back into the cycle with CtG or HOD's CTC. Basically, as a previous poster said, it comes down to philosophy. Combine or target the age group. I do like that my kids have done some independent learning (scien...

Thank you ladies. I am encouraged. My husband and I have talked at length today about this, and he has read your posts as well. We're going to go forward and trust God with our little guy (and all the others, too!). Thank you again...

I ditched MFW 1st for Abeka because of the same concerns you expressed here. We're finishing up now. Though he did fine and wasn't too overloaded (we just did the charts a couple times a week and a worksheet per day along with reading aloud), I regret not doing MFW 1st. It seems to have so much more...

Singapore Math testimonial Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:59 am Just got my twins standardized tests (SAT) back and wanted to share (with a touch of mother's pride) that my 3rd graders scored 94th and 99th percentiles, and we haven't even finished book 3A! Just an extra plug for those who aren't sure ...

Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 3:38 pm Hi--Crystal's description of the book basket is perfect. My kids have read hundreds of books this way, and it's one of their favorite times of the day. I love that every book has been pre-read by the author and that the list includes warnings if they decide to inclu...

Posted Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:51 am by BostonMom Hi--We just did our evaluations today (3rd grade twins), and I had the same happy result! I honestly could not believe how much they remembered!! Then I showed them their pre-test that they took at the beginning of the year with the same maps. They coul...

Hi--Singapore is a great program. My kids just finished 3A at the end of 3rd grade, and so will begin 4th with 3B. I don't think of them as behind at all. In fact, they both scored in the highest percentiles on their standardized tests in April (94th and 99th), and we hadn't even finished 3A. One of...

We have two baskets--one for "book basket" and one for "reading list." Every morning the kids do book basket independently before we begin school, then check book basket off their daily chart of independent work. They just choose one or two books and look through them (I don't make them read every p...

President Bush Wrote Back! Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:52 pm Just had to share how excited my daughter was when she heard back from the President. The last day of Adventures, the assignment was for the kids to write a letter to the President. She wrote and told him she was praying for him. He (or hi...

Hi--we used Adventures last year and our "reading" time was always read-aloud. We read short selections from Abeka readers--short stories and poems usually--but you could listen to them read aloud from the Bible or any other age appropriate book. The TM says that the "reading" time is intended to de...

Ladies, I can't thank you enough for your words of encouragement and your practical advice. I believe we're going to give Kindergarten a go at home, and the Lord is already equipping me through this exchange. I'm actually excited about it. Imagine that. Thank you, thank you. Janet--mom to Abby and N...

Hi--we used 1B and 2A this year. With Singapore, you teach a math lesson almost every day. For us, those lessons usually took only a couple minutes. Very quick. There were a few lessons that took longer (maybe 6 or 7 minutes?), like when we introduced renaming in subtraction. Some days are optional ...

I'm looking over (for the hundredth time, lol!) The sample pages of Adventures. In the schedule, where it has "American Pioneers and Patriots" with the page numbers listed... is this reading for the child to do by themself? Or is it read aloud by me? Or read aloud to me? I know there's a separate "...

We are finishing up Adventures next week and all of us are blue about it. We've had a great year, my 8yo twins have learned so much, and they have a beautiful U.S. notebook to forever show off their work. Even their grandparents are impressed (huge, trust me). We are definitely buying ECC for next y...