My daughter's came today

Not yet. I actually came to this board to see if anyone had posted about this.

I've been looking at OM for high school levels as well. I like that they also assign reading from other sources. Some of the high school English courses have a limited number of novels (which I can assign more if needed), but they also assign short stories, poems, interviews, research articles, historical essays, etc. Ah. It's a lot of work choosing curriculum as the kids approach high school. :huh:

I've used it several times with my kiddos. We all love it and are always happy with CLPs quick turn around on scoring. I do use the paper tests as my kids love filling in the bubbles. LOL.

Both my 8 year old and my 5 year old BEG to do LOF everyday!!! It was the best money we spent this year hands down. I'm finding we are migrating towards LOF as our main math program. It has my kids thinking mathematically and they are understanding the concepts. Good luck!

Love it. Thanks for doing this. I joined.

Ours is a bright sunshine yellow. We love it! Esp. on dreary days it makes it a bright spot in the house. I have the expedit shelves in my room and love them!!:001_smile: ETA: I also have bright red curtains, a green table cloth over the table and white as my accent paint color. It's a very bright and cheery spot.

That's what we did! Next year will be our first with a formal type of science curriculum (dd will be in 4th next school year). I loved looking at the NOEO and Sonlight reading lists for ideas. Good luck. :001_smile:

Mine is up and we are done until July! Whew. Now to just get ready for July's start date. ;) http://mom2koh.blogspot.com/

Finally got it all written down. It's a lot but we are all looking forward to it. We are coming back to mostly classical (with a wee bit of CM) from MFW. I missed piecing my own lessons together. Ummmm does that make me weird? :lol: You can see it here: http://mom2koh.blogspot.com/p/curriculum-2012-2013.html

Try searching living social or half off depot. Both of those sites had Reading Eggs for $37 recently! Good luck!

I know it's not an endorsement for the the full VP curriculum but we LOVE their literature selections. I use their lit guides and selections for our literature. Also, I use their history lit. selections as our go alongs for SOTW. Usually I can find a good deal of these through our library. I can't afford their full curriculum so use as much as I can. I've been very happy with it. If I could afford the whole curriculum I would use it in a heartbeat. ;)

We will be ending next week for the 2011-2012 year. My plan is to take the rest of May and all of June off. We will start the new year on July 9th. It gets way too hot here in July and August to spend too much time outside. We try to spend more time outside in the early summer and fall.

I start each school year saying we will do more with crafts and such. I set up the arts and crafts corner. We have tons of glitter, pipe cleaners and even googly eyes! But, the crafts never seem to happen! I'm the mom who's too busy taking her kids to activities after the school work is done. My kids would rather be at an activity than cutting paper for minutes on end. :lol: Great article! Loved reading it.

WE just decided to go to a year round schedule. We will finish our current curriculum in May. June will be off as I get everything ready then we will push forward with a 6 week on 1 week off. We will break for longer around Thanksgiving, and Christmas. I am also planning on 2 week breaks in the fall and spring. This also gives me flexibility to take days here and there for fun things (like get togethers with friends or a day with the granparents!). In the past more than a couple of weeks has totally thrown my kids off. I think more structure will help. Also, summers here can be brutal, so we are mostly indoors as it is. Why not school? :D