We will be starting our new curriculum in a few weeks. MFW Creation to Greeks. I am struggling with how to schedule everything as I have a few issues our family needs to work around. My kids are 11, 8, 5, and 4. Our 4 year old has medical needs and does daily enemas every morning. They take a littl...

I would call MFW's office and ask them. They are located in MO, the Hazells have homeschooled their own kids there, etc., I'm sure they have good insight. And they have always been super friendly and helpful when I've called.

Agreed! I ordered Exp1850 last Tuesday, and didn't figure it would be here till at least today, with Easter and everything. It arrived on Friday! So fun! (But now I have to restrain myself from pulling out every single book, since we still have 10 weeks of RtR left to do.

Hi, I just ordered (and received, super quick, yay!) Exploration-1850 for next year. I called the office ahead of time to make sure I needed what I thought I needed and got the order right. I was told that: 1. The flashcards are used over 2 years, but that they are actually glued onto student sheets...

Misplacing paperwork sounds like you're giving your kids an "authentic red-tape real-life" experience! Way to get into ECC!

Just want to say Welcome along!

(I'd do ECC and not worry too much about what to do next year until it's closer to the time to start planning for next year. You have enough adjustments and transitions coming your way!)

Isn't it awesome?! :) Have a great year - ECC is fabulous! One tiny piece of advice, if I may - don't skip the geography game. *nodding head* agree, agree, agree. Wish I had listened to myself more about this when we did it. We did play the game, but not as much as we could have if I'd been willing ...

Katrina, that's an AWESOME update on your son! Praise the Lord!

(and congrats on your curriculum decision, but that's small potatoes, isn't it? )

Katrina! I love you. I love that you're so willing to put out there all your questions and ponderings and indecision...it makes me feel so much better about my own questions and ponderings and indecision. :-) The curriculum police are not going to come and get you if you decide to do ECC last instea...

I'll tell you, we did more of a year-round type schedule this year than we have in a while - started last July, just so that we could take breaks when we wanted to throughout the year; I don't know if it was the schedule or just the season of life, but I feel more wiped out this year than I think I ...

Just tagging on to Crystal's last post - this year my kids in CtG learned how to draw a freehand Bible lands map, and that is one activity that they have loved. So even though the map assignments are quite a bit different in CtG from ECC, my kids have enjoyed them just as much. And hold on to your g...

What is needed for an extra person to play the geography game? Do I order student sheets for my DD6 or can I get away with just using the P/T supplement? I NEED to save money where possible but I DO want all of us to be able to play the game. I really don't think my daughter will use the ECC notebo...

:-) For longer writing assignments do you type for your child? My son will learn to type in the next 1- 2 years but I can see that on some assignments he may get bogged down in the physical aspect of writing but his BRAIN can do the work required. I think if I type for him on SOME assignments (only...

Hey Katrina, Just wanted to throw in, don't be discouraged if you don't really get it or love it even after you first try it. I didn't either (not sure I fully "get" it yet, but I like Tricia's analogy!), and had a couple different starts with it. It took us till nearly the end of 5th grade to finis...

Editor's Note: The Language Lessons For Today series by Marie Hazell addresses many of the concerns in the previous Primary Language Lessons and Intermediate Language Lessons books written for teachers in 1900. However, the conversations in the archives provide specific experiences with individual ...

With the fractions, we were having fun and one thing lead to another, but then I made it not fun because I was deteremined to finish what we started. Same thing with the cuisenaire rods. Thanks for the advice. I think I will be setting a timer for activities and simplifiying activities she doesn't ...

Book Day in K is supposed to be light...so what happened? So yesterday we completed our first unit for k Ss Sun and had our first book day. According to posts and tm it's supposed to be the light day. So, now I am wondering where'd we go wrong? Maybe it's because of the new teaching grid(?) but I f...

Whoever has been praying for us - I KNOW someone is, I can feel it - thank you! I am feeling so much better today, it's amazing. I've decided to take the rest of this week off - nobody (including me) can concentrate. I'm cleaning the house and getting my head together so we can get back to it next w...

Hey all, Thank you, thank you, thank you so very, very much. I know this will pass, I'm just so, so tired and I feel like it's all out of control right now. Getting ready to take everyone to the dr, so I only have a second. I have 3 weeks left of CtG material, AND 3 more weeks to get us to our "sugg...

You can make copies of the grid - 1 for each kid, if you want, or whatever way will work best for you. If your kids are old enough to move into semi-independence, you can make them their own copies, fill in their math/la assignments, and let them be in charge of their own grids. (With you checking i...

Carin, I always let my kids dictate long narrations to me, even after dd started writing some of her own - I would have her dictate most of it to me, and then write the rest on her own. But that didn't start right away, and we built up gradually. My general goal was 1 sentence on her own in 1st grad...

One other tiny suggestion might be when you are working on handwriting, don't have her do the whole handwriting page - just have her do 3 or 4 letter M's (or whatever), with the emphasis on doing them as perfectly as she can (not to pressure her into being perfect, just to encourage her to work dili...

That is fantastic and very encouraging! Thank you for sharing and congratulations to you and your son!

To the OP, I agree with the others who said that it's great that your dd is obviously not "pencil phobic" and is able to write such copious amounts. If I were you (and I'm not, I'm just some lady on the internet, so you do what you feel is right), I would let her do all the writing she wants in her ...

Copywork, dictation, narration, reading (and being read to), are the precursors to writing one's own thoughts. Your kids are learning to organize their thoughts into sentences and logical sequences; if they are orally narrating that is what Charlotte Mason called "oral composition" - it IS writing, ...