Thank you very much, Julie. I am feeling a bit calmer now. It took me all day, but I now have a detailed course description document and a transcript. You were very helpful. I did end up giving her a B+ in Biology and Chemistry, and that actually raised her GPA just slightly. Now I have to write my ...

I'm 2/3 done with 1850MOD right now, with an 8th, 6th and a 9yo doing 4th. It has been fine. He's a little young for 4th, so he's been doing the suppliment as well and only recently started paying attention to the SOTW readings and filling in the outline. I always had him do the maps and any other a...

Thanks for the feedback, ladies. I really appreciate it. We had a really busy year, so I haven't been on here or the yahoo group at all. My oldest (8th grader) just had her Bat Mitzvah, which is a really big deal in Jewish families. She did amazing, reading from Deut. 6:4-9 and all of Isaiah 53 in t...

My dds loved the Roman Feast best, ds loved all the science models we made, both human body and astronomy. My favorite thing was that I was able to add in a little about the Asian countries and Australia that we never got to in ECC due to moving when we did the history of those countries. I always f...

Thanks, Tammy, I'm glad for your input. Yes, you are right, it is good training for her, but I don't want to make her resentful (which she tends towards naturally). I am the oldest child of a neglegent mom, so much child-rearing, cooking, responsibility, etc. fell on my shoulders. No cleaning, thoug...

My children just went to a birthday party with a princess/knight theme. We made some very simple costumes to wear and I didn't know what to do with them afterwards. Then it occurred to me that maybe we could use them during RTR. Is there anywhere in the TM that knight costumes would fit in? We love...

When I did K the first time we were blessed to live near a Teachers' Learning Resource Center where they had hundreds of die-cuts and all sorts of things for teachers to use, also the really big sheets of construction paper and laminating machines. I was able to laminate several different colored pi...

Thanks everyone for your responses. You've given me much to think and pray about. Thanks so much, Lucy, for explaining for us. MFW is so careful in how they choose all the materials. I never question any of the suggested materials lightly. It always helps to know the reasoning behind the choices mad...

We are getting ready to have our Roman Feast this weekend. We have planned our menu, including a roast peacock (roast chicken with peacock feathers bought at Michaels stuck in the back), and some recipes we found online. We are hoping to stop at an import store to see if they have anything interesti...

We have both in-print books. We read Jotham's Journey a few years ago, and I just got Bartholomew's Passage for this year. We are really enjoying it. My 7yo ds likes it because it's about a boy. It fits right in with our RTR reading also. I hope they come out with Tabitha soon. Between reading Bart'...

We read it as an extra read-aloud when we did CTG last year. My kids liked it. It does bring to life the struggles and doubts the Israelites would have had in the desert.

Posted Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:19 am by JoyfulDancer I am teaching all my dc Hebrew, with the goal of their Bar/Bat Mitzvah at age 13 (we are Jewish Believers). I buy my materials from Behrman House Publishers. I really like some of their newer materials, which come with a CD-Rom of games to reenforce ...

We haven't gotten to it yet, but I purchased a coloring book that goes with it. I'm going to try having them color as I read it. I tried to read it myself while nursing the baby at night, but it put me right to sleep. :) After reading all these comments, I'm thinking this may be one we wait on.

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:41 pm What we did last year was take heavy cotton string and attach it with tape to the wall. I started just doing the ends, but ended up having to add to the middle and other places as it got heavy and started to sag. For each timeline piece I would tape a paper clip to ...

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 8:41 pm I am using K with my 5yo ds. He is very bright (takes after his mom!) and was already reading a little (through no fault of mine) before we started. This is a kid who was correcting his older sister as she was going through K and 1st, and who just answered one of he...

Hi Beth, Reformed Temples are liberal in their teaching and ideology. They will be fine about having a woman rabbi, or even homosexual leaders. They focus more on community service and discussions of morality, social issues, etc, rather than the Bible or keeping the law. Instruments are allowed in t...

Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 1:25 pm Hm, I'll have to try that recipe. We don't have to worry about the casein, so I use a variation of my mom's: 1 c butter or margarine (can use casein free kind) 1 8 oz. block of cream cheese (try Tofutti soy cream cheese - I always liked that, but not sure if it will...

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:53 pm I have to share once again about the blessings of this wonderful curriculum. I am using MFWK with my 5 & 7 yodds. We are on Water this week. This morning I read through the Bible verses and then we were talking about needing to fill our souls with Jesus just like ne...

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:04 pm

I can say the same as Tina and Kelly. We are using it this year with great success. It is gentle and easy, and perfect for my dd. I pretty much do what Kelly does as far as schedule. Thumbs up for me.

Laurie

Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 9:25 pm

I go to Ambleside Online and use their hymn source links to find the one we need, but that forces us to sit at the computer. Here's the link, if anyone is interested: http://amblesideonline.org/Hymns.shtml

Laurie

Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 11:27 am I've come up with some ideas that solve two problems for us at once for the last 1/3 of MFW1. My dd has been getting quick and sloppy with her Bible Notebook pictures, and we have been wishing for more hands-on activities. I was thinking of ways to liven up Noteboo...

I have this problem with my oldest, who is 9.5. She likes to read what I call "candy" books, like the Babysitter Club books, and turns up her nose at the book basket. I started limiting her "candy" reading and assigning her one classic to read. Right now she is reading "My Side of the Mountain". At ...

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:30 am Since we live in NJ I was able to find quite a few good books about New Jersey . Here are some we really liked: * Blackbeard the Pirate and Other Stories of the Pine Barrens, Larona Homer (great book with interesting stories and legends about NJ) * This time, Tempe ...

We just got back from 2 weeks of vacation in FL, and are taking today to finish up some of the "fun stuff" from week 12 that didn't get done before. We are really enjoying Adventures. Making the quill pens and ink and writing with them was a huge hit here. We used frozen raspberries, which resulted ...

Here's a kangaroo book we enjoyed:

Young Kangaroo, by Margaret Wise Brown