Ah, the voice of reason! Thank you. Makes total sense. You will have to excuse me. I am in total freak out mode at the moment.

Thanks, Julie! I like the flexibility you are describing. :) I am actually looking forward to high school. Some pretty tough life stuff got in the way of schooling during my son's late elementary and early middle school years, so he won't finish the history cycle before ninth grade. I have come a lo...

Yes, you definitely need it.

DS has been working this paper this week and has declared it finished, even though he is about 100 words short of the 350 required. When I informed him that he needed to lengthen it he replied that he doesn't have anything to add to it and got quite upset. To his credit, he did work through the che...

When we did Adventures, I don't think I even read from the back of the state sheets. (I thought it seemed a bit old for my 2nd grader and Ker.) Instead, I found a couple of neat about-the-fifty-states-kids'-books, and we read from them. I also piled our book basket with some awesome library books th...

This has really been an encouraging thread to me. Most of you know that I am in the midst of an extremely difficult pregnancy right now...I'll be 22 weeks on Sunday. I have spent the majority of the last 17 weeks in bed. You can imagine just how much that has turned my family upside down! It has bee...

I saw this as a recommendation on the ideas board. We read and loved "Missionary Stories with the Millers" and so I am thinking about purchasing this book to go along with our study of Proverbs. I am just curious- for those who have read this book, is it a good supplement to first simply because it...

I'm really pleased with all of this positive feedback. I'll definitely order it.

I'm also looking forward to getting back to ICDAT next month. Once we get past the preliminary exercises we will be able to use the dvds, and the kids are looking forward to that.

I, too, am excited about the new student sheets MFW is offering. Anything that makes my job easier gets my applause. :) Having the K badges pre-made is fabulous (just as it has been having the ECC geography game premade). :) I'm looking forward to using both K and CtG next year. I truly love this co...

Hi, Annie! My best advice is to stick with RtR for the remainder of the year and then determine if you have accomplished more than what you were doing in ALL of the various subjects: Bible, history, science, music, art, nature walks, etc. It always takes time to readjust to a new curriculum, and I t...

My sentiments exactly! MFW has been a tremendous blessing to my family.

Even though I had already made a lot of the geography game, I went ahead and ordered three copies of the MFW pre-made one. Wow! It is fantastic. The kids love it, and it is soooo much prettier than the one I made. Great investment! Thank you, MFW, for the work that went into producing it. :) It is a...

I definitely think Cameron Townsend is the hardest of the set. As someone on here once said, "Great man. Dry read." :) I think you will find Amy, Gladys, and George to be much easier and much more interesting to your kids. I am reading George to my 9 and 7 year olds right now, and they love it. (Las...

My computer time has been nonexistent today, so please forgive me for not getting back to the chat until midnight! This thread has been most helpful to me. :) I so appreciate the time and thought each of you put into your posts. You've given me a lot to think about and have helped me get a better pe...

Hi, Lisa, Right now Chandler (fourth grade) is doing short copywork about two or three times a week (Hero Tales character traits, Scripture, some ILL) and doing dictation of sentences that I am writing based on his spelling words. He does one sentence a day about three times a week. He has done almo...

I think it looks awesome! Really interesting.....looking forward to using it. I can definitely see why it is used instead of Story of the World for Creation to the Greeks.

Tammy

I will be doing ECC with my two dd's, ages 8 and 9) and 1st with my 6 year old ds. Last year we did ADV and K and that was pretty tricky at times, especially with a very high-maintenance three year old. I've spent some time looking through ECC and it seems like WAY MORE work than ADV. And 1st seems...

Yes, this is a beautiful book! David told us at convention a bit about why he wrote it. (Marie was looking for this type of book, so David just went ahead and wrote it. )

I'm looking forward to ordering it along with the new geography game.

Blessings,
Tammy

My 11 year old hates spelling. Because he doesn't like it, it is the last thing that we do and too often gets skipped. Last year he was in tears during testing and scored about 2nd grade. He won't do much better this year, but in general info. he is H.S. level. Last year I used something else, whic...

What are you dc's ages? My dc love Fun with Nature and More Fun with Nature. They are coloring books that make great carry alongs. Hey, Kysha! My kids are 9, 6, and 4. :) We have a few nature related coloring books, and they are good, but what I am specificially looking for are resources that show ...

An update: :) After spending time Sunday afternoon with the TM, I realized how much I really want to complete ECC in its entirety. There really is just nothing (besides Antarctica) that I want to condense. It's all good stuff that I want my kids to learn. So....We are just going to continue to move...

I know you are right, Julie. :) I think I have been beating myself up about something or another since hsing began! In truth, my oldest should have done Adventures in third instead of in second. The content in Adventures wasn't too hard, but the length of school day was a challenge. He was still wor...

For Bible we are doing all of Hero Tales, Window on the World, the John 3:16 sheets, and reading the Egermeiers Story Bible. We have read some of Matthew and have memorized some of the verses. I really, really struggled with the Matthew study. My kids were eight and six when we started, and they wer...

I am about to have "MFW or HOD?" tattooed on my forehead! It is consuming me! Is there anyone who has done both or knows someone who has done both who could provide and insight into this choice? I'd be doing MFW Adventures OR HOD Beyond with my DD. I chose wrong last year as far as curriculum and I...

I've done K, 1st, Adv, and ECC. Adventures is definitely my favorite so far. We just loved the history and geography portions.