The children are loving learning the My Father's World hymn (they learned Amazing Grace and a couple other hymns last year) . I'm just curious if anyone continued singing hymns throughout the K year to correlate with each weekly topic. So far I plan to teach them "Take my life and let it be" for th...

Sounds about right for the first few weeks. (I did 1st and ECC last year). I agree with above posts that it picks up as you go through the year so, enjoy your "shorter" days while you can

I'm having a hard time keeping the student sheets (two sets of ECC and one first grade) organized. What's the best way to keep everything organized and close at hand? I 3 hole punch them and put them in a binder, one for each student. For the 1st grader, after they completed the page I just stuck i...

I also forgot to mention my 1st grader sat in on Window on the World. At the beginning of our year I attempted to combine them but a couple weeks in and it just was not working for us :( Things went much more smoothly and less hectic when I did them separate. On a "perfect" day (haha, yeah right!) s...

I just received our books, and we are really excited to start next week (we school year round). Reading through the teacher's manuals, I'm kind of confused as to how to do the 1st grade curriculum if my first grader is also supposed to be joining in with My fourth grader doing ECC. What does a day ...

What a really neat idea! I might have to try this when we start Kindy again next year

... and yes, the pictures did show up.

I hope I understand your question correctly. We are finishing up ECC. We have used MFW since our oldest started in K. I have already order and received CtG and have spent a fair amount of time going through the manual etc. I cannot speak for MFW directly but, I believe a Biblical worldview is to loo...

Just to update: Our package arrived on Monday. We barely made it through dinner when the kids and I couldn't stand it any longer and ripped open the box LOL. The books are awesome. DS (9) grabbed the Dinosaurs of Eden book and spent the rest of the evening going through it. DD (6) was mostly interes...

We did that MAF plane project a few weeks ago. I told ds he would have to wait until Daddy got home to help him put it together. It took them 45 mins - to an hour to get it together!! Apparently it was worth the effort though ds still has it hanging in his room. And a week or so ago one of the neigh...

LOL - I cry at all of them

Thanks ladies! I figured that was what we would end up doing.
~Kristin

:~ So we won't be starting Adventures until October. Is it laid out at all with understanding Holidays at all? Like close to Thanksgiving they start learning about that? Has anyone started late before and did you adjust to not be off with learning about that kind of stuff? Does this make sense? The...

kacairo1 wrote:ECC suggests collecting cancelled stamps as a way to help learn geography. I found a Dover beginners stamp collection book for $7 but I'm not sure where you buy cancelled stamps. Anyone know?

I was going to try EBAY. There are sellers that sell in lots. Some are very reasonably priced.
~Kristin

I have an 8,6,4, and 1 year old. My 1 year old naps from 12:30-3:30pm. My 4 year old rests (occasionally naps) from 12:30-1:30. My 8 and 6 year olds do not have a "rest time" per say. They take short breaks while I do one on one work with the others. (maybe 15 mins or so). They have their "free time...

Just wanted to chime and agree with the others that I love Homeschooling with a Meek and Quiet Spirit by Terri Maxwell. The Maxwell's actually have a lot of great books and CD's about homeschooling and family life. We have just about all of their stuff. My husband really enjoyed reading the book Pre...

What is on the sheets? The daily activities, such as state sheets, notebook pages (for vikings, christopher columbus, etc), lyrics to the songs learned (star spangled banner, etc), also the Jesus Poster cutouts and timeline pieces. - I'm not sure what your reasoning for asking is, but they are defi...

WOW- What an amazing testimony!! Can't wait until we get to do ECC next year. This exactly the kind of education and character we are trying to raise our children with. My Father's World has been a huge blessing for us in that respect already and I'm sure it will only get better and better.- Thank Y...

I NEED HELP COMING UP WITH CREATIVE WAYS TO MODEL THE BIBLE NOTEBOOK TO MY 1ST GRADER......ANY IDEAS OR BLOG PIX I COULD CHECK OUT? THANKS :) We did 1st grade last year. I just made a little notebook for myself and did my own drawing while my ds was doing his. He came up with the caption and I wrot...

We like to take pictures of the kids holding one of their favorite projects. We let them pick a special lunch(usually they pick McDonalds 8| ). We also bake a cake and eat it while we have a movie night that evening. A side note to say that today was actually our first day of school - Adventures and...

If so, any tips on a right handed mom teaching a left handed 3 year old boy? My oldest ds is left handed and my MIL gave me a good tip on how to help them as my husband and his brother are both left handed. It worked with them and works well for us. .... Sit across the table holding their hand (you...

Hi Carissa! My dd was allergic to eggs up until this past August when she was tested again and we receive the joyful news that she had grown out of it! So I have about 3+ years of experience trying to get a decent breakfast out for the kids without egg. :~ We have always used the conversion 1 1/2 tb...

We used Rod and Staff for Health this year (1st grade), although it was 2nd grade according to R&S. I found it was great and easy enough for a 1st grader. HTH! Thanks, Kathi and Kristin. This does help. Sometimes a little book of work is useful since I need to show two work samples per quarter. oops...

We are finishing up 1st right now and we are love, love, loving it. My son especially likes the Bible notebook and reader. We did MFWK last year and it was great too! We used and are currently using both of the preschool sets with some Rod & Staff mixed in as well for my 4 and 3 year olds. Did I men...

To celebrate Valentines Day we had "PINK" blueberry muffins for breakfast. Pb & J sandwiches cut into hearts for lunch. Heart shaped lollipops for a treat. Later we are going to make some cards for Daddy

That's about how long it took my ds 7 to copy the Proverbs verses when we started, but we are about 100 days in and he seems to be moving a little faster.
~Kristin