Let me know what you find out on Thursday about those classes. I have not read the book "The Well Trained Mind" but have heard good things about it and may try and locate it at the library this week. Those books looked great...it's hard to know how much to buy and where to stop especially when you want to buy them all and get really caught up in a period of history.
I'm thinking some kind of introduction to Latin would be good and I really want to find a good program to teach Rebecca how to type...it's much better than this hunt and peck system she has going on right now.
Mrsnad
Dad had the kids use a program he got at Staples to learn typing...trying to recall the name. It was a woman's name..."So and So Teaches Typing". Mavis Beacon? They liked it.
I learned from a much older computer program. There was no color, and it had the very original name of "Typing Tutor". It worked, though! I have a few bad habits now that I should probably break, but those came much later.
If you have a library that can get books for you from other places in its system, you could do the classical thing pretty well. Another way to do it is to buy used curriculum. "The Well Trained Mind" website has a sale/swap board where folks are selling stuff all the time. I got lots of the kids' books at half.com and even from ebay! TWTM uses one book in particular as a 'spine' for the Grammar and Logic stages; "Kingfisher Encyclopedia of History". It's gots TONS of info about different civilizations and their time frames. A lot of the writing is done by outlining the articles in that book. Then you use novels, biographies, autobiographies, etc. for your other reading and writing assignments.
You also gots freepmail, mrsnad ;o)