Thank you! Very helpful.

This is what I needed to know. Thanks, Julie.

Oh good, thanks. If I go this route, I want the entire package, new guide and all. I'm just simply wanting one CHEAP to peruse it enough to see if this is the direction we'll go since samples never do a program justice. :) But I didn't want one so cheap or so old that it didn't really give me the gi...

Analytical Grammar is another one that begins late and learns it all within 3 years. And that IS their plan.

I don't want to hijack this post, and I can repost if necessary, but any suggestions for handling the lack-of-focus? Especially in light of following a "school hours" schedule? Brief breaks to run a lap around the house? My dd often asks to "just play for a few minutes" when we are in the middle of...

I read your "thanks" last night and was going to respond to it, but I see Julie beat me to it. What Julie said are the most important things to learn. Seriously. "Housework" should wait. It should be treated like you would treat it if you had a full time job outside the home. Another thing that was ...

I agree with Cici! Especially since one week is hardly time time to do anything much less see how things go. It takes at least 6 weeks to get into the swing of the curriculum itself and a full year for homeschooling in general if you're a newbie. I pray that you do speak to your DH and perhaps pour ...

What a nice post! I'm going to add to it! I was extremely pleased with the 1850Mod TM! I am a paper snob and the paper and cover for this TM is AWESOME!

Julie, the weekly thing definitely makes sense as does all the tear up/tear down time. There's always issues that we don't realize, which is why I asked. And again, it all makes total sense. Romans8x28, Our convention this year (maybe last) now offers a lower fee just to hit the vendor hall and not ...

Makes sense. I had a friend who did this and it was exhausting!

Hopefully you'll change the travel schedules from year to year so you are able to attend our convention here and there. Although Phoenix in July is insane.

It's been a LONG time since we did this, although I still have my ant "farm". Order it! It was one of the coolest things we did!

Thanks, Melissa.

Trish, LOL...I think your secret is out!

Thanks, Melissa.

Thanks Julie. Those are some great ideas for Apologia. DD had a really hard time with General. So they're saying Mod #4 it gets more interesting? We stopped at 3. I also like reading along with the audio and the open book test scenario. I don't find EE really up to par for the age, but she did like ...

Thank you, ladies!

That "Wired" kit appears to be popular! LOL... I never thought to look at it, but it does look fun.

I still have the magnets from doing ADV.

Thanks also for the audio recommendations.

Thanks again, ladies! I do have the correct Encyclopedia, which is good. A savings there. Thanks Lucy. Also we're coming from oodles of narrations, so that's okay and the way it's set up. Yes, Lucy!! the Activity Guide WITH ANSWERS will be oh so nice along with a change of pace of outlining :) I am ...

asheslawson wrote:I just received my order last week. The DK Smithsonian Children's Encyclopedia of American History does have a 2003 copyright & the last page is #287, The Gettysburg Address (followed by the index )

YAY! I have it. Thanks!

draw and write through history? anything here? http://board.mfwbooks.com/viewforum.php?f=27 We used DWTH last year as we're repeating Rome (sigh), but it's different, so we're doing it anyway. But this will be used for the second half of RTR since I have the one that covers that era too. :-) Thanks...

I so remember doing the ants in K. We loved that one. And we still have the ant farm.

So far I've heard mostly good things on my search with WS. It seems simple enough, and won't break the bank. DD loves to write and I'm glad there would be help here on the site. That's a bonus. Not only that I don't have to change again next year if we like it. This is good.

Yeah....pics are good! I thought of a pocket chart, but I wasn't sure if it wrapped too much. We did the wall timeline back when we did "K" but I had a different room and space back then. ;) Konos timeline (my original thought...well, there's no way I'm spending that much money for that. !! ). We ha...

Yep, I was falling behind on correcting, and I was seeing where things weren't getting "caught" in time (math, etc.). This week, I decided to try and do our correcting right along with their bookwork.....make correcting a part of our day. I was wondering if that would help me to not get so behind i...

Well, I still have several chapters to read yet and we didn't really get much of anything fun in. It has been a rather trying week as my dh lost his job and my oldest ds's is still iffy. We did what we had to and then spend the rest of the time just dealing with the beast of what now. I hope everyo...

I had a few of the books for ECC before purchasing it and I still couldn't beat the price between my prime membership with Amazon, Amazon's 4 for 3 deal and what I already owned. MFW has fantastic pricing through their package price.

I would like to know which books some of you think are just not "missable". We did complete KT up to this point, but it looks like I'll have to pick and choose, because sometimes I just poop out. Ah...the pitfalls of being an old parent. :-) I may be biased, since I did ECC before it had KT, but I ...