I have a reason for spelling level A Teacher's Guide for sale if you are interested. It is a 400 page book - a bit of it has daily lessons for phonics review. You can Pm me if you are interested.

Is your dd only 4? I think you are more than fine CC one of the 4 days of school at 4yo.

You can search the Netflix website for those shows. Sometimes shows also show up on youtube, I think.

I don't know anything about Zaner-Bloser but my dd has a blast with HWOT. She is 6 now, writing well. But we started at 5. I think I will try to start earlier with my 4 yo boy, since he does not like to color or anything - we like the cd we dance and do all the movements in the songs. Handwriting is not something my dd complains about for school!! I would buy one teacher manual - they are all pretty similar for the early years - used. The workbooks you need new, they are fun for my dd.

My K last year (Gr. 1) this year loves to take the Abeka tests - I am not using Abeka Math for first grade, I sometime suse the workbook, but my dd LOVEs the tests in the testbook. For math you probably don't need the teacher manuals in the early grades. My dd took the tests last year for Abeka Phonics/LA first grade - and she loves taking tests, and yes, for LA I needed the teacher key, because the tests are blank, you don't know what to dictate. I would buy them if the kids like taking tests. I bought them used, though.

I have the wood ones - my 6 yo does well with them, my 4yo gets frustrated with them sometimes.

Does anyone know if the elementary science dvds are from an evolutionist pov or biblical. I lean to believe Disney stuff is not biblical but am not sure?

I plan by week, or group of 2-3 days. When something does not get done, I either erase and rewrite, or circle it and make an arrow to the correct day it happened. OR I just cross it out and write it again in the right spot. But I never write too much - just the book abbrev., page numbers on lesson numbers, something like this.

I think these are not Bible-based: 100 Easy lessons Hooked on Phonics Phonics Pathway I used Abeka, and now I am using PP, so am not sure how good the others are.

Wow, it is going well for you! Tomorrow will be the end of 4 weeks of school for us, too. So far so good... hmm.... :-) My oldest is in first grade. The younger ones are going crazy :-) Please explain these for me: PLL/ILL MFW ECC (the ecc part) LFC Thanks! Keep on doing good! People keep talking about classical writing - but I have not tried it. It is not for first grade, that's why I haven't tried it yet.

We use counters, multilink cubes, the number cards, the dot cards - in 1A. My dd likes manilupatives, so I try to use some as the lesson goes. She loves the card games for number bonds. In K we used multilinks and counters mostly. I bought them at rainbowresources.

HWOT teaches that d starts like a c (there are 5 letters that start like c, a, o, d, g, and c) - this is how my dd deals with it, if it starts like a c, is a d.

Abeka K starts with the vowels first, then adds the consonants, not in abc order. I didn't notice a problem in my dd with this.

To God be the glory!

I will be looking into all your suggestions. Thank you all so much!!

SO which Latin cur. teaches macrons from the beginning?

Suzzane, that link does not work, I cannot find John Jacobson - I did find his website, but the link to the kinds programme does not work on his website! So I do not know what the JJump is. I am looking for a DVD. I have Hullabaloo but my kids did not take to it when I took it out a year ago - maybe now would make a difference, but I also want some dvds.

I think it depends on the child. If she applies herself, my newly turned 6yo can narrate in order. But what helps her most - I use Mystery of History - is to read the lesson from there, and then go to other books that have pics and read from there, and show her the pics, and also she loves to draw - so sometimes I just tell her to draw something from what I read, and write a few words about it. Maybe some projects that have to do with the reading will help, something to produce with her hands - it may be she is not an auditory learner.

Hi, I have a 6, (almost) 4 and 2.5 yo. I am looking for some dvds that would keep them moving, and fit for the winter months when we cannot be outside so much. I do not have room for indoor equipment, so I am looking for fun dvds with music to workout. We do not have a wii nor do we plan on getting one. Thanks!!

We use I can Read and step into reading - bought used at homeschoolclassifieds.com or some other place. Once I got a whole set of 60 for $20 or so on ebay. Also she started to read Beginner's Bible - by Hanley. She used the Bob books very little, maybe a week or so (at 4 or 4.5?). She was not impressed with those. Now she is 6.

I took piano for 9 years from 6 to 14(hmmm... a long time ago). I got the Alfred's for my first grader - will start soon, looked good to me.

I downloaded the above mentioned resource and it is good. But for your ages I would try to memorize quotes of famous people in your history time-period. Maybe you can google the name of the person (I do not know what SOTW 3 covers) + quotes and see what you get.

Maybe she could practice more from Reading Pathway, the companion to Phonics Pathway, which has reading "pyramids" practice. I can't help with your question, as I started PP after my new first grader already was reading pretty well (used Abeka first grade in K) - so I am using PP more for spelling rules now.

Thank you, I bookmarked it to study later...

I think The Explode the Code would help. But I don't see any getting around her reading aloud to you, in order to help you know where she needs help.