And one for the man-loving horse-fanciers, or horse loving man-fanciers!
There are other new ones too.... I am not yet enamored with Eomer. I don't think I am gonna have a new love there. Ladies? What do you think of him?
Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Or you can get your own Dwarf axe and head out there some night after dark and.....
I'd say both. We wouldn't want to be shine-snobs.
But I still may contact the owner. People in the neighborhood have put their brush and leaves back there on that lot for years (20+). It's a fire trap also...
Bye now.
That's why I'm giving my kids a year and a half to do US History. The younger one has a 10 book set which he's about halfway through (he's in the middle of the Civil War) and our daughter is using an AP US History text and study guides, but is not going to take the AP test. I may have her do the CLEP tests, though, because this text exactly mirrors the time frames covered by that program.
In Feb. or March, they'll both start their classical sequence with the study of Ancient History.
We thought about pursuing a classical homeschool education starting this year, but we got intimidated. ;^)
And one for the man-loving horse-fanciers, or horse loving man-fanciers!
There are other new ones too.... I am not yet enamored with Eomer. I don't think I am gonna have a new love there. Ladies? What do you think of him?
He needs to brush his hair.
Dunno....I'll have to see him in action first.
Home economics?
Yeah... that would be fair! There is just something about him that looks odd to me. I can't put my finger on it.
Most of the times we see him, he has his face covered by that nosepiece thingy on his helmet. The only times I've seen him without the helmet, his hair is all mussed up and he looks rather grim. I'll have to see how he interacts with the other "friendlies."
Would it make good fire-wood? Or do y'all have to worry about laying in wood for the winter in Richmond?
Oh Don't be! The first book I read on the subject was "The Well Trained Mind" and THAT was intimidating! But we use some ideas from it, especially their reading lists and suggested curricula for Grammar, Spelling, Vocabulary and Writing, etc.
Our kids are both going to use a different Classical curricula called TRISMS. I like it because it is all laid out for us and the kids do the research, etc. We don't have to re-invent the wheel. The younger one(7th gr.) will do a World History sequence in a year and a half. It is called "History Makers", and it will concentrate on the study of History by looking at Scientists, Explorers and Inventors. Our daughter(9th gr.) will begin the high school sequence with "Discovering the Ancient World" and will study all kinds of civilations like the Sumerians, Babylonians, Ancient Japan and China, and the usual Egyptians, Romans and Greeks. Both programs employ the use of historical fiction in the reading program to bolster what is being learned from the research into the period. You can check it out at www.trisms.com. The instructions for making the link are no longer on the post wimdow, so I don't remember how to do it!
But if your kids are young, the main thing is to just expose them to lots of stuff! As I said, "The Well Trained Mind" is intimidating, but you don't HAVE to do all of that for your kids to be well educated. In fact, they said it is likely that not everyone would do it all and that's ok! See if you can get the book from your library. The authors are Jesse Wise and Susan Wise Bauer. It is a wonderful sequence for putting everything in its proper historical perspective.
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