Thank you Julie for your help.

I am thinking of using MFW’s recommendation of adding a year of geometry between Algebra I and II. My son is currently doing Saxon Algebra I. The geometry in Saxon has been his favorite part of Saxon. What are the benefits to taking a year for geometry? Why did MFW make the recommendation for a year...

That sounds like my DD. She loves to read and is reading well above her grade level. Did you use the notebooking pages for your oldest ds, or were they too elementary? Yes, I did use them. They weren’t too elementary at all for him. His advanced areas at age 8 though were reading and math; his writ...

Hi Brenda, That's interesting that you mention the option of using Adventures, because just in the past week or so I have been leaning very much towards doing just that! It seems like that idea came to me out of the blue one day while I was thinking over future plans. DD 8 hasn't really had any for...

I only wanted to add, to all of your wonderful advice, the copies I did do ahead of time for ECC: - Extra USA maps. They loved the coloring game early on and wanted to do it multiple times. I also did the 50 state test more then once to solidify all 50. Marie provided one copy of the USA [in the Par...

Thank you Julie! Very Helpful! :-) I was just looking at the CTG table of contents and remembering how much I loved MFW's Biblical focus. It is much different then the Creation to Christ program that he did. It is covering in one year the first 2/3 of the other. The rest being in RTR. They do know t...

Do you have any thoughts on where it would work well to start with a 7th grader who has done ECC, but has not done any of the cycle with MFW? ) Normally MFW would suggest that with younger siblings, it may be best to just begin history in order, possibly skipping CTG if everyone has Biblical histor...

New Testament rather than chunks in RTR, or extensive church history (especially if you use the now-optional church history book), rather than primarily the Reformation in RTR. World history isnt the focus in US1 and US2, but it is inevitably there when our US history intersects with the world, and...

I Loved reading this post Amy!

You have given us a beautiful glimpse into MFW Highschool. Thank you for sharing.

Hello gratitude! It just seems that it would work quite well for you to do EX1850, then 1850MOD, and as you mentioned, when your oldest starts high school, cycle back to CTG and RTR for your younger two, and then maybe you could do ECC again with your third for 8th, since it will have been a number...

Hi, gratitude. My opinion as just another homeschool mom: I think the MOST important year of middle school history is RtR because it simply isn't covered deeply at the high school level (I haven't used WHL, yet, but I have seen the S&S and see that RtR seems to cover that time frame with a lot more...

Hello MFW Ladies, We loved using MFW for many years. I am thinking about coming back to it in the fall for the rest of High school. I have been praying a lot this winter and spring about what direction the LORD wants me to take for the rest of our home school years. I need manageable days with my yo...

Thanks for your replies. I am using AAS also. I am just concerned that I am doing more than I need to, and with other younger kids and a baby...I don't have extra time. I wonder if just having my son read and do AAS will be enough? Does anyone else have anything to add? I can relate to not having e...

Thank you so much Julie! I would hear snippets about these tests here and there and kept wondering how much they had really changed. This information really is helpful to read. You have cleared up numerous questions I have had popping up more and more over the past few years. The links are all helpf...

As far as qualifying for the National Merit Scholarship (NMSQT), that is for high schoolers only, taken in the fall of 11th grade. The most important thing is that you can only declare your student's grade once. You can't make him an 8th grader for a practice PSAT and then decide to pull him back a...

Hi Julie, I welcome anyone else as well who might be able to answer my thinking ahead questions. If I remember correctly Julie your son, like, mine, is a summer Birthday that started K at just turned 6. My oldest is 3 weeks before the school cut-off, and at age 5 was reading and miles away from bein...

My first / second grader at the time was able to grasp the geography, other cultures, mission focus, and locating places on the maps. I would say the science was the only area she wasn't able to grasp. Then as I mentioned before there were topics in Windows of the World and the full missionary books...

Is it truly possible to teach a first and third grader at the same time using "Exploring Countries and Cultures?" Thanks, Amy Are you more concerned about time, content, level of work, or all three? When we did ECC I started it in the spring and I was doing it with a 4th, 2nd, & first graders. I fi...

:-) I am so glad it was helpful! I am more better late then early too, and especially with some children. My second born was my better late then early kid. It can be very different in one family. My oldest ds, age 12, started reading at ages 3/4. My second born, ds age 10, started reading at 8. He c...

My heart is going out to you Kelly. I have seen your posts on here for years, and can hear your tears in this post. I am going to come from a very different perspective here, so please bear with me. I realize where today's culture is with diagnosis, early school, 4 year old start or younger, etc. I ...

A wise K teacher encouraged me to start my summer Birthday boy at age 6 for K. Her reasoning, after 30 plus years of teaching, was his high energy, his emotionally not being ready for sit down work, and his lack of interest in pencil learning. She was aware that he had figured out 5 letter word read...

I'm feeling discouraged, and honestly wondering if we started too soon. DD is 5.5 with high-functioning autism and health issues (long health history that includes heart disease, a slew of "little" things, and currently undiagnosed bowel issues). We really started lessons with her just a few weeks ...

Last year was our first year with My Father's World. We used Adventures with a 3rd grade boy & 1st grade boy, with two youngers tagging along. The first half of the year was great... Then we moved and rushed through the second half. We really didn't give it a fair shake. Because of the move, I trie...

We put a picture on the first page and then as we visited each new country we would put the sticker for that country on the next page. I usually pretended to be a very stern customs agent who questioned whether they were really the same person as in the picture. I did lots of terrible accents. My k...

We did Properties of Ecosystems for the first 10 weeks of ECC. The activities though that Marie had in the first 4 weeks of ECC did pull them into the ecology study very well, and I am glad we did that part. Then I used Land Animals since it also has the mapping with it of each group of animals stud...