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We own the entire Viking Quest series and have read through them all and LOVE them. I'm looking for a good viking replacement for Mystery of the Silver Coins. Two possibilities are Beorn the Proud and Rolf and the Viking Bow. Does anyone have an opinion of these two books or any recommendations? Tha...

If your dd doesn't like the The Early Readers Bible, it's easy to just skip it and move straight to Owl at Home. My dd had already read that Bible and transitioned easily to Owl at Home, having no problems with the comprehension questions. You will just finish the Emerging Reader set early. We had n...

The Bible discussion that day that Carrie included actually lead us to discussion as to why that statement and more about the chapter was not biblical.

I could have written your post right down to the last period. We are on week 14 in Preparing and my dd has the exact same oral narrating problem. I mean exactly the same! She handles the work load very well and writes excellent narrations. But, like you, I also think it is because she gets to re-rea...

Yes, I noticed that after I posted. Thanks

I'm curious as to when the new guide will be printed and distributed. Will it be before September?

when is the actual guide going to be printed and distributed?

I have a dd who will be in first grade next year who will be beyond the emerging readers. Would DITHOR be too much for her? She will be a fairly young six, Late June birthday.

If my 12 year old son has had four years of Shurley English, would he be good going straight into Rod and Staff 6? He would be in MTMM next year. I know R&S has diagramming that he has missed. Would it be too hard to jump in? Thanks

My suggestion would be to use the Handbook for Reading with the phonics 1 worksheets. Use HOD's suggestions for other Language Arts. He could also read the emerging readers set alongside the Abeka readers. We did this for 1st grade last year with excellent results.

The Reading Lesson is not going to be as complete as Abeka. It teaches to about a 2nd grade reading level and doesn't cover all the sounds like Abeka eventually does in 1st. FWIW, I used Abeka's Handbook for Reading and the basic phonics flashcards with the Letters and Sounds workbooks.

Thanks. I'll check that out.

This is probably a question for Carrie. I've been plugging book titles into scholastic book wizard and noticed that they consistently grade books at a higher grade level than the same books in your book shop. For example, The Courage of Sarah Noble is graded 3.4 here as opposed to 4.4 at scholastic....

Thanks to those who sent me the email. Rev to Rev looks outstanding

Mom2Monkeys wrote:Lol. I was going to ask if it was against the rules for someone to forward the email to me! If it's okay, someone mind doing so? hmschooling at gmail dot com
I also joined the list and didn't get the email. I'm being very impatient! So excited!!

Me too. dlpeteabcd at comcast dot net