I just wanted to make a note that I was unable to purchase Story Starters, The Storybook of Birds and Beasts, My Side of the Mountain and though we have a Canadian geographyworkbook, we have not used it this year as of yet.
The children enjoy our read-alouds of The Story of the World so much that world history seems to be captivating them. With the Holling Clancy Holling books, like Paddle to the Sea and Tree in the Trail, as well as the Canadian history DVD’s they’ve absorbed a fair amount of Canadian History. It’s been very good.
As well as the omissions there have been other things added to the children’s curriculum and some unexpected and pleasing occurrences in the school year. My second eldest was completing her Rod and Staff grade two book early on and I was going to have her progress to a grade three Pathway reader and workbook, but because we have combined Ambleside into what we do, she had read the reader long ago and the text would have been boring to her even if some of the questions would have been more of a challenge. So I bought her a novel study guide from Progeny Press for the book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. She’s done well in it, and I think it is right at her level. After she completed that I would have purchased another, but her older sister was working in Rod and Staff”s A Time to Plant and she was just breezing through it. I looked at the next grade up, A Time to Build, which is where she would be in public school, and it looked good, so that is what she’s working in. Her younger sister is doing her old work which is a grade five, and she’s technically at a grade four. Honestly I despise the grading system when each person has such differences in their strengths and weaknesses in each part of themselves. Each person is wonderfully and fearfully made.
I’m glad to see that the children are all progressing well wherever they are at, overcoming the hurdles as they come.
I enjoyed the copybooks and cursive writing books so much from Queen Homeschool, they were worth it. I’m looking to get some more for the children for next year as God allows.
Nurture and Admonition 