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Collector's Edition: 7 Favorite 19th-Century Children's Stories -- A Homeschool Crew Review

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In September I was informed that I would have the opportunity to review a book published by Grace & Truth Books, entitled Collector's Edition: 7 favorite 18th-century children's stories, and is a collection for children ages 8-14.

I was reviewing many products simultaneously, and as I was reviewing my list of products and how I was doing working through them, I realized I had never received my copy of the book! We notified the company, and they quickly got a copy to me.  That said, however, I have not had the book as long as I should have, and sadly have not read as much of it as I would like to have read for this review. Nevertheless, I believe I can give a good review with the amount that we have read.

The Collector's Edition is a paperback book, measuring 5" x 7", 1/2" thick, with 166 pages. It is part of The Children's Heritage Collection by Grace & Truth Books. This is a collection of stories originally published in the 1800's by the American Tract Society.

 As the title states, the book contains seven children's stories.

I wanted to use these stories as a nice time when I could snuggle up with my son, like at bedtime, and just read rich wonderful stories together.  Unfortunately, it's been a long time since bedtime reading has been a practice for me. Sometimes Daddy does that, but Mom has usually been reading out loud all day and doesn't want to read again at bedtime. Also, for JD, Mom reads out loud when it is a school assignment. He said, "It doesn't feel like snuggle, cuddle, reading time. It feels like schoolwork, a homework assignment. I don't want to do it." Basically, it also amounted to, "I'd rather read... (this other book)..." So, since I really did want to test out this book on him, it really did become one more book I was reading during the day. That wasn't my intention, but it is what it is.

Now also as an explanation, my son is very difficult to please. If you read through many of my previous reviews, they begin to look like a commercial for Life Cereal from the 1970's: "Give it to Mikey. He won't eat it; he hates everything!" That has been my son. My reviews have read like, "It's a good product. My son hates it, but I like it." 

That said, I present to you this positive praise: My son seems to like these stories. What that means is he is not groaning and complaining when it is time to read them. I tell him I am going to read the next story for the day, and he is like, "Okay." And if you were familiar with my son, you'd probably be saying, "Wow! They must be good!" I certainly am not experiencing anything like him asking for one more chapter, or one more story, but it is such a pleasant thing to have him not complaining, like he is with some of the other books I am requiring him to work through.

The content and messages in these stories are meaningful, without being too sickly sweet, or too preachy. I have really enjoyed these stories. They are quaint and sweet, and convey values I want to convey, but as a story where someone else is conveying the values, which is reinforcement of my values, rather than my son experiencing any more instances of, "Mom says..." or "Mom thinks..." I love coming across new reading materials the emphasize values I share.

I will not be reading the last story, "The Death of Emily", to my son. I previewed it, and he would hate it. He has a very tender heart. He knows death exists in the world, and has experienced death of grandparents (and can see death of his aunt on the horizon). He can read certain types of stories that deal with death, but not the type where you are lead to love the person in the story, and then they die. I've come to accept that this is the way he is, and have decided I don't need to force him to "get over it"; it is just who he is. There will be enough real death in his immediate future (aunt, other grandparents), and other stories dealing with death. It is okay to let him skip certain stories that I might have gone ahead and read with a sibling.  

The Grace & Truth Collector's Edition normally sells for $7.50, but is currently on sale for $6.50.  It might make a nice Christmas present for your nieces or nephews (or your brothers or sisters to read to your nieces or nephews), or it might make a nice addition to your own library to add to your bedtime reading books. For the price, this is a very nice book.

In addition to the Collector's Edition, Grace & Truth  also carries a wide variety of other books for boys and girls, young men and young women. Click the Crew link below to go to the Crew Review blog entry for Grace & Truth to check out reviews of their other products, or click on the Grace & Truth link to see their other products.

DISCLAIMER: As a member of theSchoolhouse Review Crew, I received a paperback copy of Collector's Edition: 7 favorite 18th-century children's stories from Grace & Truth Books,  in exchange for my honest, uninfluencedreview.  I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way.  All opinions I have expressed are my own or those of my family. I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC Regulations. This has been a Schoolhouse Crew Review.
To see more reviews of the Collector's Edition: 7 favorite 18th-century children's stories (or other books from Grace & Truth Books) by the Homeschool Review Crew, see the Schoolhouse Review Crew blog entry for Grace and Truth Books at the Review Crew's Blog.

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Think Back Thursday - Self Portrait

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This week's theme is self-portrait. I am so happy to be able to say I have my "ducks in a row" for this one. I don't have a scanner, so my apologies in advance for any photos that are lesser quality -- I have to create them by photographing the photograph with my digital camera. 
Newborn me: 
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First year:
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Preschool:
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Kindergarten -- apparently I was not happy that my mom hadn't gotten my bangs trimmed and I took things into my own hands. She tried to even them out, but I had gone straight up the middle with the scissors. (Every one of my children has found a way to do the exact same thing at one time or another! ::sigh::) --
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2nd Grade -- I remember this one --  I remember being so upset with my hair. She found time to swing by the 7-11 to buy special barrettes for me so that I would look nice for my photo.
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4th and 5th grade photos weren't great -- and I can't even find them right now. By 6th grade I was trying to look nice, and I pulled my hair back in a pony tail.
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 Fast forward through greasy complexion and greasy hair, to senior photo at the ripe age of 16.
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Thanksgiving with my fiance, aged 19, 
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Twelve years later, a growing family
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A few years later, with my 8 year old.
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Glasses, haircoloring, and a few more pounds...
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Still coloring...
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 Gone "natural"...
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And to today, a little longer hair.
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Curriculum Evaluation Three Months In

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So, in the summer I laid out my plans for what I would use for each subject. My plan seems to ever change, influenced by curricula I am offered for review, by influence and desire, and by real life. I thought I would revisit what I thought we would be doing, and how we are actually doing each subject. The "planned" materials are boxed and highlighted; the comments are between the boxes.
 

• ·         Bible – Apologia: Who is My Neighbor;

We're still doing Who is My Neighbor. I'm still loving it; JD still doesn't care for it, although he now does it more resignedly (doesn't fight with me, just does it because he has to, but doesn't express interest in it). It will be interesting to see if he ever changes his opinion. He sometimes does.

• Apologia General Science (daily);
• Nature Study: Homeschool Legacy: Birds of a Feather (four weeks);
• Unit Study: Box of Ideas: SALT
• Fun supplemental activities on ZooWhiz;
• Ambleside Online Science (not sure if we'll do these in addition to Apologia...)

We started out daily with General Science. He was really hating it, and I had other materials (to review), so we switched for awhile. We worked on Activities in a Bag and Birds of a Feather, as well as Box of Ideas: SALT.  When I was done with my SALT review, he said he had never wanted to know about salt and now knows more about salt than he ever cared to. That's sad, because there is more to that program that I had hoped to do. Maybe I can reintroduce it, a bit at a time, at a later date.
He also did not want to apply himself to Birds of a Feather. It also seemed to go at a faster pace than we were able to accommodate, with all that we are trying to do, such that I think each week of the four week program would take us a month. He is in Boy Scouts, but is not yet to a place in rank where he needs to work on merit badges, so I may revisit it at a later time when he wants to work on the Bird Merit Badge.
We have continued nature studies, although not as formally as I had hoped. We have a wonderful bird feeder outside our dining room, and we've been constantly working to identify the birds that are our frequent diners. I've started trying to photograph them more. I don't have many (many are so elusive!), but here are a few.

 Nuthatch, very fast and elusive, hard for me to photograph! Often upside-down!
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 Would love to know what this bird is, with the splash of yellow on its breast!...
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Purple finch?.... I'm not sure...

We also see lots of house sparrows, song sparrows, cardinals, mourning doves, tufted titmouses, dark-eyed junkos... I'm not sure what I am missing, but I'm sure there are more.

I'd like to see notebook pages being completed on various birds, or trees, weeds, insects, mammals, whatever, and I'd like to see me accomplishing weekly Outdoor Hour Challenge blog posts, but it is what it is.

We cycled back to General Science, after awhile, and are still in module 1 but are almost done. Will continue to keep the science varied in hopes of snagging JDs interest better. He wants more hands-on, but when we get to it, he's not always interested. ::sigh::

• Horizon's Pre-Algebra (daily);
• Supplementing with Math911
• Supplementing with Math Essentials Pre-Algebra

 
We were happily working on Horizon's, but we hit a spot where he just didn't have concepts down solidly. We had six months if IXL Math, so we switched to that for awhile. Then I sat down with him on the Horizon's, and he's finally getting concepts he was missing. We're just finished with intense work on powers and square roots, and are now into converting between units (grams, cg's, kg's, etc.), and it's just a matter of memorization at this point. Will keep on "keeping on".


Foreign Languages:

• First Form Latin (daily);
• Spanish I (daily);

 
We just aren't getting to the foreign languages right now. Will have to report back again at a later time.

Language Arts:

• Vocabulary: Vocab Videos;
• Spelling: words from Vocab Videos
• Writing: Susan Wise Bauer's Writing With Skill when he doesn't have a writing assignment with Lightning Lit;
• Writing and Lit: Lightning Literature and Composition (almost daily);
• Literature: Ambleside Online Literature and "free reading" (daily or almost daily)
• Grammar from BJU 7th Grade English (almost daily) (skipping non-grammar assignments)
• The Art of Argument (almost daily);

I am very pleased to be able to say that we have been able to continue working our way through Vocab Videos. I think this is such a valuable pre-SAT preparation program.

We have not done anything with spelling. He is such a good speller that it is hard to convince myself to spend time on this when there are other areas we are not getting to that are more important right now.

We have done a little work with Writing With Skill, but I also pulled out a book I had purchased for 6th Grade that we had not utilized, and we're doing more with that right now. It is probably easier than he should be doing, but since this area has been neglected I'm trying to bring him more "up-to-speed" in a more "painless" way.
Lightning Lit -- while this is an excellent program, I'm just not getting to it. I'll report back again later to let you know how we're doing.
Ambleside Literature "Free Reading" - What is "Free Read" vs. "Literature" on their lists tends to run together in my brain. We finished A Christmas Carol by Dickens (yes, the real one, not an abridgement). We are also currently working on Oliver Twist. We are reading Man of the Family, by Ralph Moody, and All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriott. There are so many books waiting on my shelf. ::sigh:: We finished Ever Hopeful, Hanna Lee and started Turn Homeward, Hanna Lee (unless I have them confused -- we read the first one and are working on the 2nd one, whatever the correct order).
BJU Grammar - haven't been working on it. Time to look at it again and decide if I should be, or if it is too redundant with what we are already doing. Maybe it is time to transition to this one from the 6th grade book.
Art of Argument - falls into that category of stuff I consider so valuable but am still just not getting done right now (this and foreign language, as well as more formal nature studies, and... ::sigh::: read on).
Oh, biggie that will help on "Writing" assignments -- I started JD on a book called Kids can Type to help him learn "touch typing" (where you don't look at the keys). He's happy with it and working hard on it.  He is also massively working on a mostly daily journal, so that is most of his writing work right now.

Social Studies:

• Ambleside Online History readings (almost daily) with time lining;
• Ambleside Online Geography readings (weekly) with map work;

At some point I had to just stop looking at the weekly Ambleside reading assignments and just work where we are. So many programs fly through certain historical periods, and we needed to just park in the Civil War right now. There are so many more Civil War books that I want to get to before we move on. We just finished a "non-AO" title on Antietam, which I squeezed in just before this weekend (today) when JD went to Antietam with his Boy Scout troop to camp two nights and volunteer with the annual illuminarios that they light every year on the first Saturday in December to remember the Americans who fell during the nation's one bloodiest battle in history.
Music:

• Ambleside Online composers, including biographical work; notebooking; mapwork; listening to music;
• Ambleside Online hymn studies;
• Ambleside Online folk songs.

We were working on DeBussey most recently, and my son really disliked his particular music. He doesn't normally react that way to classical music, so it was rather interesting, but he felt DeBussey's music was dark. We did not do any biography work at that time.
We have now transitioned to Bach. We have probably touched on Back in the past, but I plan to hit it more deeply this time. We also started a biography. We listened to a YouTube piece of Bach music done on -- are you ready for this?...  crystal water glasses! I wish I could embed it here, but my Adobe Flash crashed and I can't get to it right now. I think I need to reboot.
We did hymn study in October, but not September and not November. In December there is an AO planned hymn, but I know JD wants to do Christmas songs (the ones in the hymnal count as hymns, right?), so we'll be focussing on those. 
Folk songs -- same deal. Skipped September, was gung-ho in October, but slacked off in November. With a bunch of TOS reviews due, followed by Thanksgiving, I just kind of went into a vegetative state. Is it time for my summer break yet?...
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And that is why I did this little evaluation. It will help me try to get back on track where I need to, evaluate change and make decisions where I am not solid, and encourage all of you to do the same.
Hopefully I will report back again in March. Hope you found this helpful. Feel free to comment, especially if you know the yellow and red breasted birds I posted photos of. Thanks.

Belgium 'Spies' Reveal Themselves On Website.....Anyone surprised they are Belgium?

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Security fears have been sparked in Belgium after employees of security agencies reportedly posted their personal details on a social networking site.

Belgian newspaper De Standaard says it has found an entry on LinkedIn which appears to belong to a senior analyst employed by Belgium's Co-ordinating Body for Threat Analysis (OCAM).

The agency operates under the country's Interior Ministry and facilitates terrorist intelligence exchange between government departments.

Another entry on the same website appears to belong to an employee of Belgium's state security agency, Surete de l'Etat (SE).

http://news.sky.com/story/1018759/belgian-spies-reveal-themselves-on-website

Johnny Lewis Was Not On Drugs Before Death

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A Sons of Anarchy television star who reportedly murdered his landlady before falling to his death, had no drugs in his system, according to an autopsy.

Toxicology results on Johnny Lewis found no traces of cocaine, alcohol, marijuana or any other types of drugs in his system. Officials checked for anti-psychotic drugs as well as psychedelic drugs.

The 29-year-old was found dead in September in the driveway of a Los Angeles home. Police later found his landlady's body inside the property.

http://news.sky.com/story/1018808/johnny-lewis-was-not-on-drugs-before-death