

Common Place Book: Does it matter if we just continue in the same book that we started for Preparing or would it make better long-term sense to start a new one?
Copywork: I was reading in the CTC Intro about Copywork and how children are helped along by seeing and emulating properly written cursive. Do you as teachers typically write the Bible Verse or whatever the Copywork material is for your child out to use as a guide? I haven't done this at all in Preparing and have identified that dd is occasionally frustrated by not remembering certain letter forms (especially capitals). Just wondering on that one if I should have been doing this all along. It seems easy enough.
Finally... has anyone compiled a general supply list for CTC? I'm constantly having to substitute...mostly because I don't typically study the day's work until the morning of (the beauty of open and go


I'm giddy to start this new curriculum. I LOVE the history and have started pre-reading it...soaking in the information with so many ah-ha moments. I just wish so much I would have learned this stuff 25 years ago! I am jealous that those students many generations ago were given this sort of Biblical detail at the elementary level (& frustrated that my college history classes didn't even mention ANY of this stuff--and it was a Christian institution?!). My eyes are being opened more with each chapter, and the holes I have in my own education are being revealed (we are talking about big gaping ones!). I'm ashamed of my ignorance but praising God for this enormous blessing of homeschooling (and HOD!) where I am learning alongside my children this most important (Biblical) history. It is humbling.
With Thanksgiving!
Amy