tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423724372309648244.post2189569653290236497..comments2009-09-06T20:13:44.752-05:00Peggy Sue Bristerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02410068271119791701noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423724372309648244.post-24093528905165578772009-09-06T20:13:44.752-05:002009-09-06T20:13:44.752-05:00Yes, that&#39;s the book. I got 3 off Amazon. I think I paid less than $7 each used.Peggy Sue Bristerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02410068271119791701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423724372309648244.post-50309878580617580312009-09-06T19:56:32.865-05:002009-09-06T19:56:32.865-05:00<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Book-Virtues-Treasury-Great-Stories/dp/0671683063" rel="nofollow">Is this the book?</a> ~ if it is, it looks like they also did an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_from_the_Book_of_Virtues" rel="nofollow">animated series</a> on PBS for a while! (Ha, and look at the list of people who did voices for it.. the guy from Quantum Leap is in there!)<br /><br />900 pages? I think my printer would go on strike LOLMolytailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10990389309037847365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423724372309648244.post-50276419439881713802009-09-06T19:43:17.240-05:002009-09-06T19:43:17.240-05:00The Book of Virtues is something I learned about through one of my homeschool newsletters I subscribe to. I don&#39;t remember which one. But someone had a &quot;study guide&quot; that they had created to go WITH the Book of Virtues.And the study guide was 900 pages &amp; FREE. I am all about something free, so I went to Amazon and checked out what the book of virtues is and liked it. SO I downlaoded the study guide and bought 3 copies of the Book of Virutes. One for each of my kids and one for me. It is a book that has poems, stories &amp; short stories, essays etc and each section of the 900 page book is about a different virtue, like compassion, loyalty, friendship, honesty, etc. It tells stories that reinforce that virtue. It is suppose to be a character building lesson, each of the stories. I ended up printing off this 900 page study guide, yes I printed it. It cost me about 90 dollars worth of ink and all I ended up using of it was the first 20 pages that show you which stories to read each day. The lesson plan at the beginning of it. That was a lesson learned. But I like the book of virtues. And since it is something I have added to our curriculum as extra, I actually do the reading for that instead of making them read it like I normally would.Peggy Sue Bristerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02410068271119791701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423724372309648244.post-48573542498570422942009-09-06T19:26:05.779-05:002009-09-06T19:26:05.779-05:00Yay for winning one of the auctions ~ hope you win the other! I&#39;ve never bid on ebay before..<br /><br />We&#39;ve checked out Abeka in the past ~ had planned to use the Arithmetic 6 with my daughter, but it just wasn&#39;t a good fit for us. I hope Calvert works for you guys - that&#39;s one that I&#39;ve heard of, but am not familiar with at all, really. <br /><br />And yep, most would term that as &quot;school at home&quot;, if you wanted to put a label on it. I have a friend back east who also uses Abeka and follows very much the same sort of pattern ~ works wonderfully for them. I&#39;m supportive of families using whatever methods they find work best for them ~ homeschooling comes in many flavours, just as families do. :-)<br /><br />I&#39;m definitely a &#39;piece it together&#39; type - I pretty much have to be, given that one of our kids has multiple disabilities and we need to get quite creative with what we use and how we use it when it comes to his stuff. :-)<br /><br />What&#39;s this &quot;book of virtues&quot; that you mentioned? *curious*Molytailhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10990389309037847365noreply@blogger.com