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The information in the back of Creation to Christ suggests Hitty Her First Hundred Years for the fantasy book this year. It says there is some language in this book that is not politically correct. What do I need to be prepared to discuss in this book?

We're on week 8 now. I'm finding that the labels for individual study or teacher interaction are not necessarily appropriate for my student, but I am accustomed to personalizing the curriculum, so that is not a problem. Oral narrations have been pretty easy to jump into, but written narrations have ...

[quote="4arrows"]I will be starting CTC with my 10 yo DD next week and just wanted to clarify a couple things... 1. In the Reading about history box on day 1 they do research. Are they to write down the answers or just orally tell you what they found out? If you have them write it down, where do you...

Thanks for the reminder about these links. Some of these projects are just over my head. Maybe pictures will help! I keep forgetting to look ahead and buy supplies too. Last week I was supposed to have liquid glue and a sponge, neither of which are things I keep on hand. I wasn't sure gluesticks wou...

Update: I've been writing the instructions and the prayer ideas in dd's binder for her. This is not taking as long as I thought it might, and it allows me to be looking over the days work in the guide while she's doing her Bible study. I always have her do Bible study first, as I think that's a good...

I've done that some weeks. With five days scheduled in the book, I do two days the first day, two days the second, and one day the third.

I need a book about Frost's poetry for ME.

Because I want to know!

There was a stanza in this week's poem that I never could figure out.

My oldest two did R&S 2 last year. My oldest is in lesson 20 something in R&S 3. We just did capitalization this week. Guaranteed you could ask her what a sentence starts with and she's tell you a capital. She wrote to her new pen pal today for the first time and didn't use one capital in the entir...

My dd loves to paint, but last week's painting assignment did not go well (she was frustrated with herself, she just couldn't get her picture to look the way she wanted it), and this week she simply didn't want to paint. This was so sad...art is her favorite activity, and she'd been doing her school...

This is her first year doing poetry, so doing them all by herself would be overwhelming. We don't live on a farm so the pasture spring needed some explanation also. She'd never heard of the Golden Gate bridge or the Gold Rush or the peck of dirt saying, so there was a lot that was way over her head ...

We came across a passage just yesterday that is sort of like that. It was a list of items and there wasn't a comma before the "and". That gave me a great opportunity to talk to my dc about how the final comma is optional and many people don't use it. I prefer to use the final comma because I feel i...

I know that the dictation passages in Creation to Christ come from an old book. I'm wondering how much updating was done when it was printed. There are some commas that seem unnecessary. Some punctuation rules have changed in the last century. (Remember when we all put two spaces after the end of a ...

Perhaps I should rephrase this. How are you introducing these poems to your children? Do you just google the background information? This one about gold dust certainly needed some explanation! Not only the history but the old phrase about eating a peck of dirt. Very confusing to a modern fifth grade...

Has anyone found a good resource on the background on the Robert Frost poems in Creation to Christ? Today we're reading one that seems to be set in Gold Rush era California, but I'd like to know more about it. It would be more fun for dd to read definite information than to just hear me say that I t...