The Corrie Ten Boom House Museum has a fabulous online 360 degree virtual tour of the outside and inside of the house. It is narrated with details of the story (including lots of spoilers and some scenes from the movie). I enjoyed it. My kids just wanted to listen to the book, but I did show them th...

I just stumbled across one of my old posts where I recommended the book Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman : http://board.mfwbooks.com/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=5561

Honestly, I don't even remember the book, so you'll have to rely on the post for my review of it. I'm not exactly known for my memory.

I hope I didn't send you into a mini panic. I think the manual does a good job of warning us. In week 14 it says in the read aloud block of the grid that there will be no read-alouds scheduled from wk 14 - 20 and says that you can pick from the recommended resources list. It also lets you know that ...

Thanks for the help. I've decided to do whichever ends up being more convenient at the time. From your responses and what I've been able to figure out, it could go before or after, but I'm sticking with Johnny Tremain for during the Revolutionary War study.

When I planned to do this weeks ago I decided to do Mr. Bowditch first. I don't remember why. Maybe time periods. I looked at the book basket list today and saw them both listed in the 18th week. I don't remember if there was much about the revolution in Mr Bowditch. Maybe someone can refresh my mem...

another idea. We do math year round. Also I think on some of the practices they are repetetive. So, if he does great on 2a, you might be able to skip most sections of 2b if it follows right behind 2a.

Agreeing that not every workbook page has to be filled in all the time, but try not to skip the teachings in the textbook . just chiming in to agree to not skip the textbook lessons due to the mental math and other "how to work with numbers" concepts you might miss. As far as how to deal with the p...

Postby hsmom » Tue Apr 20, 2010 11:27 pm I just received this book from Interlibrary loan. I am only about 60 pages into and I love it so far. It is written in the first person like an autobiography, though a google search says something like G.A's life story as told to Christine hunter. The cover ...

So we're in India right now. I got the book One Grain of Rice and read it last night. I'm pretty sure I saw the idea here, or maybe in the TM, to have your child do the math for the story. For those who haven't done the book, the math involves doubling 1 grain of rice for 30 days (day 1 is 1grain, d...

The other ideas are great, but I was wondering if you had used another math before? We've done Singapore for as long as my oldest remembers, but just mentioning the row after row of problems that he might encounter if we used a different math was enough to minimize the math complaints. The review ex...

Just a word of encouragement about Singapore math. I don't want you or anyone else to have the impression that everyone who uses Singapore needs to be very math inclined. I went through school getting A's and B's in math (alg 1 and 2 and Geom) but never really "got it". I just knew the right steps t...

I only required it a couple of times so far. (we're in 4b) I figure if he can say it out loud correctly then he knows how to write it. I usually just have him say those out loud. Now the opposite way (maybe this comes later) I would have him write it. I mean if they give it written in words and he i...

I was wanting to post on this thread, but kelly said all I wanted to say and more and did a better job of it than I would have done. Great post, I couldn't agree more.

I'm a little technologically behind the times, so this is for those of you who are like me. I had intended to check out some music for our fiesta tonight, but didn't make it to the library. I did a search for free music online. I had heard of Pandora but didn't know much about it, I clicked on the l...

thanks everyone. i just bought one of the dinosaur books from the old earth perspective. (I couldn't find young OR old perspective books at the library...only secular evolution.) I am not old earth or young earth presently. I just wanted to get a feel for the difference. I am in my last year in sem...

With my ds, I printed fact sheets. I think I used mathfactcafe to print. I used a chart that I think I printed out from the singaporemath yahoogroups file. If I remember correctly it had the numbers going accross the bottom (plus 1 column, plus 2 column, etc,) and the time running up the side, with ...

Just chiming in to agree here. I only have 2, only one is really in the program so far, we're loving MFW. No need to have a large family to make it work.

HSmommi2mine wrote: btw, boys , in my experience, don't grow out of potty humor so don't use that as a guide!

LOL, thanks for the heads up.

You know I think I may have that book somewhere, I don't know, I'll have to check my librarything.

Thanks everyone for the replies. I really appreciate you all sharing your thoughts. I brought it up to dh last night after I posted and he said if the question comes up we should just answer it. So I said, "how"? He was not quite so sure about that. ;) It all seems so easy in theory, but the word fo...

How long do you&your dc take each day to do MFW? Please include reading time , books basket (if you use) but exclude Math , Spelling and LA . Well, we've only done ADV so far, so my experience is limited. Also I have no idea how much time we spent on only the MFW part. We used the MFW recommendatio...

Does anyone buy the Home Instructor's Guide to use with Singapore Math? (BTW, I'm talking about the instructor's guide you buy from Singapore Math, not the one from the Hazells.) My oldest will start MFW1 in a couple of weeks. While I was researching Singapore Math and looking at the Home Instructo...

Well, I have to agree with the others. We loved Adventures. I used Spelling Power (3rd grader), PLL and Singapore. I just love Singapore and PLL. The beauty of the MFW recommendations is that they are very economical both with time and with money. No fluffy time fillers/ endless worksheets, but they...

Thanks for the replies everyone. I bet it was some of the activities in the other books that I had seen. I'm glad to know that MFW even gives a warning on some of the activities. You all have made me feel better about the issue. Thanks!

You've already gotten some great replies, and I haven't done ECC yet( we're hoping to be able to do that this year), but just had to say that I chose MFW because I am not crafty. If I have to come up with a crafty idea, it will never happen. My poor kids would never see construction paper or glue if...

We have RR and we like it fine. We got ours used, so not full price. I wouldn't pay full price for it. I'd say my kids enjoyed it. I agree that it's more for thinking skills than math facts. We've played around a bit with http://www.thinkingblocks.com/ (click try it) And that seems really cool, but ...