We’re beginning unit 3 today. I’m so happy with the way the year is progressing. I began to stress this weekend because all the books I wanted to order were “special order” or “out of print”. I tried to see what the library had and their site was down. I posted my frustration on a TOG yahoo list. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TOGLooseThreads/ It was quickly pointed out to me that I could use internet links for the Crimean War (the subject I can find nothing on) or the boys can read the Teacher’s notes. I then checked to see and have a lot of “Sonlight Books” – which are really just great books we used in that curriculum that I can substitute for the ones I can’t find. For instance I can’t find THE book on Hudson Taylor that I needed for this week but I did have two on him “Shanghaied to China” (even listed as a choice in TOG) and “God’s Adventurer”. I also have “Hero Tales” which has a section on Hudson Taylor.
The library website came back up. I’ll be able to find plenty of books on the topics we are studying – except The Crimean war. I remembered that we’re only studying the Crimean war for ONE week…it won’t matter if we don’t have lots of books for that one week. I still have Chris’ book lists from Read It Again books to check out…. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReadItAgainBooks/
The younger ones have really enjoyed me reading bigger fiction books and biographies to them in the last unit. I’ve decided to keep that up. I’ll read “Shanghaied to China” this week and maybe one on Eric Liddell next week…or maybe I’ll read the “Boy in the Alamo” even though we are past that spot in history because I still plan a trip to the Alamo in the next month or two.
All in all there was no reason to panic. It seemed the thing to do at the time.
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