My husband is sitting here with me reading this and his comment was "I'm not a very good dad", so I need to brag on him a bit;) though he doesn't actually "teach" a subject or plan etc... he is our "principle" and I do call him during the day for help with children's behaviors!:) He does listen to m...

Hi Machel, I just want to chime in on the "you are not alone" part :) We are currently in the processes of selling our home and moving. We are starting our 5th year with MFW and my children are: 4th grade, 2nd grade, 1st grade, 4 year old boy( active and busy, busy ,busy,busy and did I say busy!!!!)...

Just wanted to say to Amy that I'm right there with you! And even though it wasn't directed toward me I want to thank Chris for her good words(I would say that type of thing to others,but I think I now need someone to say that type of thing to me!!!) I'm expecting baby number 6 somewhere between the...

Summer birthdays... For those of you with summer Birthday kids, especially boys, do you consider them in the grade they would be in with the cut-off (very young), or on the older side for a grade? Many moms suggested when he was 4 1/2 to wait a year with a summer Birthday until he was six before st...

Hi Nicole, I just wanted to share that we started using MFW for my oldest kindergarten(though we had to wait until December of that year to have the money, and he had turned 6 that October). I had been researching curriculum for several years prior and when I stumbled onto MFW I knew right away it w...

Thank you everyone! I'll be ordering the student sheets for her! And yes, I was already planning on her own sticker book and passport (getting those for my 4y.o. as well:)

Blessings,
Debbie

Hello Kate, welcome along! I've pretty much just stuck with recommendations from MFW, so I don't have any advice on "other" things to read/buy.....as you get started though you will learn what "works" for your family and what doesn't. We started using MFW with our oldest in Kindergarten(and we're no...

We used Adventures for my oldest son's 2nd and 3rd grade years, though we didn't really "stretch out Adventures", if we could of gotten to Adventures everyday we would of completed it in a years time. However, I learned that "life" seemed to demand we do other things rather often and knew we wouldn'...

Like, do you have your children recite The Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not (if you don't mind sharing)? NOT CURRENTLY, BUT WE HAVE. WE DO HAVE FLAGS--THEY ARE NOT VERY LARGE. MY OLDEST SON LOVES THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER--HE LOVED ADVENTURES!!!! Do you school morning...

My son loves the SPELLING BY SOUND AND STRUCTURE. Jake is such a creature of habit and just about flipped when I mentioned trying a new spelling and I know he likes what he is doing. Has anyone just stayed with this instead of switching to SPELLING POWER? I feel so up in the air about it all. We ju...

We will be starting ECC late summer/early fall with a 4th grader, 2nd grader, 1st grader and a 4 y.o. and 1 y.o. around for the ride(and new baby coming around October). We are finishing up our 4th year with MFW and love, love, love it! One of my favorite things about MFW(though I have many :) is th...

We did something different so I'll share just for the sake of sharing! My oldest ds had(and still has, though I'm seeing a bit of light at the end of the tunnel) trouble with writing--he just hates to write! He can write, he's been taught with MFW for all of his handwriting instruction. But he says ...

Just wanted to chime in that we are currently following MFW plan for teaching this way....last year my 2 daughters (20 mo. apart) were in K and pre-K and this year they are in 1st and K....my K're just does the 100 chart/calendar stuff and the reading writing from MFW A-Z (as we did the activities e...

It's very easy to just put in a call to order what you need--I did this last year! And children/families will differ on if the reader is consumable--my oldest did not care to keep to the reader as "his" (though I did give him that choice before I handed it down to his sister :) ) But my current 1st ...

There is a chapter in "On The Banks Of Plum Creek" in which Pa takes Laura to go see the men putting the railroad. It is a drier chapter and not as entertaining as AP&P, but it might be a good thing to read through while doing that unit. Just a suggestion. Any LIW fans out there that know what I'm ...

Just wanted to chime in, I have a 7 y.o. daughter doing MFW 1st--she thought it was "easy"(which I like!) until now....we just fininshed day 59, she still really likes it, it's just not "easy" anymore.....she watched and listened to her older brother go through MFW 1st 2 years ago, and she "wanted" ...

I was thinking about this awhile back--we have lots of cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, great-grandparents, long distance friends.....that we will choose from (we will begin ECC in July), but it crossed my mind a few weeks back that not everyone has all of the options we do and I wanted to ment...

My oldest ds is also in 2A and also does not like writing! I do have him write them out most of the time (but he does not do much writing in the course of a day--if he did I would not have him write these.....) usually we alternate--he writes one, I write one etc...

Debbie

My turning 5 tomorrow son is B-O-R-E-D with my homemade preschool sheets and is more than ready to move on. He would not legally be able to do PS K this year, but homeschooling gives us that advantage right? He knows all of his letters and most of their sounds (older brother did MFW K last year, an...

This is what we do also--do the next thing! We don't run by the clock (though we do usually think of "noon" as lunch time--not that it actually happens every day at noon) And we are on time(if not early) to appointments, dance class, guitar lessons, church.....but at home we have a basic routine--th...

We love you MFW--thank you so much for all you do--we appreciate it!!! I often tell people that MFW is the closest thing I found(in my homeschool curriculum research years before my oldest was ready to start school)to what I would put together if I had the time/chance to write curriculum........to m...

We aren't doing much of the science/Bible/Activity stuff this year as my "now" kindergartener did all that last year with her big sister(she was 4 then and didn't do the reading/writing/math parts of A-Z) so I may not be much help..... We do calendar and 100 chart/straw cup as part of our morning ro...

We are in week 17 of Adventures(ds almost 9--3rd grade),finished day 29 in first grade today(dd 6 1/2), and began lesson 5 in MFW A-Z(dd 5) ds 3 is working on back yard play, quite play, and "wanting" mommy to teach him "school "( has own 3 ring binder, coloring book, crayons and all :) ds almost 4 ...

My oldest learned to read using only MFW--no supplements. We are now almost done with MFW A-Z with child # 2 and she is doing very well also! Child # 3 will begin MFW K(the reading/writing/math--she did everything else with big sis this school year) around August! I am impressed that this program ha...

We are in Adventures and are using MFW recommendations(SbSS/PLL) we really like both! As for recommendations/advice I would suggest going with MFW recommndations and only switching if it just dosen't "fit" your family.......I agree with Crystal though, and I like that you can choose whatever LA you ...