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   amandajhilburn
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   Kathi,

   I am not planning on using MFW. :) I just can't handle an all-in-one curriculum. I want to be able to choose things for myself.

   You can check my blog to see what we use. It is just a big 'ol mix of things :)

   http://teachthemdiligently-amanda.blogspot.com/

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   Cindie2dds
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   I am not planning on using MFW. :) I just can't handle an all-in-one curriculum. I want to be able to choose things for myself.

   You can check my blog to see what we use. It is just a big 'ol mix of things :)

    

   Oh, Amanda!  I've had to try most of them so I have thoroughly made sure there was no way I could have missed an "all-in-one" that might work.  I just don't work that way either, and I have had to learn it the hard way.

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   baileymom
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   csmamma - my DD, almost 14 will be doing MFW's 1st year of high school this coming fall...Ancient History and Literature...we printed the 'sample' off for her...and she's super excited (good sample!)

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   knitnspinner
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   We are currently using their Rome to Reformation plan. Overall, I've been pretty happy with MFW. This is our third year. We were SL users before that. While I've enjoyed many aspects of MFW and we have a great MFW co-op here in town, I'm planning to do my own planning next year. I love the SCM Organizer and I would much prefer to have that then the MFW Teacher's Manual. (same price really) Plus there were always books I wasn't thrilled with, and wished I had bought others.

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   JennNC
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   We were very long time MFW users. We left because as we got toward the end of the 5 year cycle, there were less and less engaging living books on the listening level of the majority of my children. My oldest would have been fine with it, but I have many more kids than just my oldest to think about and plan for...

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   knitnspinner
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   That's a good point, JennNC. I think I saw some of that this year, even in R to R.  My older two have enjoyed the history/stories, but my younger two simply endured. I actually moved them on to other activities for most of our history readings. I think it was encouraging their tendency to not give attention to my reading. They did sit in on the historical fiction(Bronze Bow, Twice Freed, Door in the Wall) but much of it went over their heads.

   I've looked through the plan for Exploration to 1850 and see several books down in the 2-3rd supplement that my younger ones will enjoy.  I'll check PaperbackSwap for those, buy George Washington's World/The World of William Penn, and pull some of the Beautiful Feet books we have on our shelves already. 

   I see more and more that while I like many of their "Deluxe" suggestions, there's too much in the "Basic" package that I want to weed out/substitute. Having said that, I'll admit that if I had not found this site/the Organizer, I most likely would have bought the MFW all-in-one again.  Mainly for the security that I felt having a TM on my shelf, I guess.

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