Thanks! My default shelves are only 11-3/8" tall. We can't fit 3-ring binders, and we'll probably not be able to fit these. I do have some shelves that it would fit, but they are not by our other school books. I wish they had the books in PDF so that I could print them out and bind them with my proclick.

I've been looking at GWG, and I have a silly question. How tall are the books, including the spiral binding? I'm worried they won't fit on our school shelves with the top binding!

I have looked at it. It looked like it would be to hard to tease out just the grammar instruction (ignoring reading, spelling, etc).

This is very helpful, thank you. I'll take a look at this. It looks like the lessons are 30-40 minutes long. Is that about right?

I'm actually looking for a replacement to ELTL. I've used levels 1-3 and am almost done with level 4 with my older kids. The writing lessons in level 4 have not been working with my kids. I've been trying to supplement it with a separate writing curriculum, and it's just getting to be too much to try to fit them both in. I love the grammar instruction in ELTL, but my kids need more hand holding for writing and they don't like the chosen selections used for narrations/outlines. I could make it work, time-wise, if we only did the grammar lessons and diagramming exercises, but it's kind of expensive to buy it and drop the poem, fable, copywork, dictations, copia, narrations, etc. The diagramming book you linked looked interesting. Is there a website with more sample pages somewhere?

I'm looking for a grammar curriculum for elementary school ages (starting around 2nd or 3rd grade). Things I'm hoping for in it: * More than one level * Diagramming included (it's OK if it doesn't start diagramming until 3rd or 4th grade) * Short lessons, preferably not 180 days worth * Not too expensive (I'll be using separate programs for spelling and composition and don't want to break the bank with the combination of the three) * Not heavily scripted. I've looked at FLL many times, and I don't think I can handle the heavy scripting of it. It's OK if writing/composition is included as long as it's either short assignments or I could easily skip those parts. I'm also OK with secular or Christian. I've looked at Climbing to Good English, and it looks like it might fit the bill. But samples are so slim that I'm not seeing how much diagramming teaching/practice is in the books. Thanks!

If you have a tablet, that would be the best way to use it. Without a tablet, you could try a black and white printer. I've not printed the color comics, so I can't guarantee that they'd look good printed in black and white. It'd be a lot of printing, as the workbook is 431 pages. Some of those need to be printed single sided (for cutting purposes). You could skip some of them (there are several bingo boards for helping with memorizing prepositions). As for ages, it does include diagramming and verbals, which may or may not be appropriate for a 2nd grader. You could figure that it's exposure and that you'll cover them again later, not worrying if they completely understand this time around.

The Dragons of Wayward Crescent series are good for that age. They lead nicely into The Last Dragon Chronicles by the same author.

Core Knowledge has some free readers in PDF form that are decodable. This is the first one: https://www.coreknowledge.org/free-resource/ckla-unit-06-kindergarten-skills/student-reader/ Units 6-10 for Kindergarten have readers: https://www.coreknowledge.org/curriculum/download-curriculum/page/2/?subject_filter%5B0%5D=30&grade_filter%5B0%5D=37

Is there a difference in how cumulative adjectives are diagrammed vs coordinate adjectives?

If you don't do math over the summer, I'm more inclined to say to wait. The first CLE book of the level will give the review they need after having a break, so you don't really want to do that first book now and then not have proper review in September. Play games or something to cement their math facts instead. Or get math books from the library and do math that way until the end of the year. If you do math over the summer, go ahead and start the next level. Don't worry about pushing them ahead too fast. I've found that if that happens, it just means you'll move more slowly through the material later on, and that's OK.

It's published by Master Books now. This is form their website: https://www.masterbooks.com/elementary-algebra-curriculum-pack-dvd So, yes, they did move the set III exercises. They are available in the teacher's guide (sold separately) and are usually not needed unless your student needs extra practice.

I want to say that I read somewhere that the newer version took out one of the problem sets. That set II and III are similar and the newer version moved section III to one of the supplemental books.

I have three kids in the age range for Mystery Science. They all participate, even if they aren't the targeted age. The youngest doesn't grasp as much in the mysteries meant for older kids, and the older isn't challenged by the mysteries meant for younger kids, but it's better than nothing. I went through the mysteries at the beginning of the year and choose which ones I wanted to use (going by the theme, such as "Invisible Forces"). I made sure to pick mysteries in all the age ranges, so that each of my kids would have some mysteries aimed at their level. We tend to do the introductory video Monday, the activity Tuesday, and then spread the extras out over the rest of the days. When you click on one of the themes, several mysteries are listed. I go through them in order (1-2 mysteries a week). If you click on the mystery title (ex: "How could you win a tug-of-war against a bunch of adults?" under "Invisible Forces"), a list of the time requirements is shown. These are actually links. So if you click on "Extras" at this point, it will take you to the slides at the end that provide extra reading, videos, etc. Most of the activities have been really good at using stuff I have around the house. I think the only one we had to postpone was one on how the eye works, because we needed to have a small magnifying lens. Because of this, I don't even bother looking ahead to the materials needed. I just print off the paper the day we do the activity and go ahead.

I've used this with my kids. I'd say it's good through about 5th or 6th grade. There are samples at christianbook.com . Studying Catechism questions is another good way to cover theology.

I bought it. My daughter likes it. My wish list: * be able to change the default syllable tags when "all tiles" is selected (the default is the AAR tags, my daughter has only ever used AAS) * be able to make a custom group for tiles; this would make it easier to use with other phonics programs

We're halfway through, so I don't know how helpful my input is. We don't do the crosswords, writing assignments, or quizzes/tests (that are in the teacher's manual). Basically we skip any of the activities that could require a pencil. We just read and every time we get to a review page, I go down it calling out a stem or a word and my kids give me the definition. My kids are retaining the words. I see them perk up when a read aloud contains one of their CE words. They do sometimes even use them in conversation. The other day, I overheard one of my kids, while reading say, "Sub means under, terra means earth, so subterranean tunnels must be underground tunnels." The analysis of words by their parts and the root sub are things my kids learned in CE. (I don't think they learned terra in CE, I think I mentioned that to them in reference to the Mediterranean Sea.) Previously one of my kids did Wordly Wise and the other didn't do a vocabulary program. Both of them are benefiting from CE, so I plan to continue.

You aren't getting the lessons, just the tile/whiteboard space. The drop downs to choose the lessons are to ensure that your student is only seeing the tiles that they have already learned about.

Thanks for mentioning the information videos. I noticed that in the advanced video, AAS was used for the example, but the syllable types didn't match what my AAS tiles have. My AAS tiles and books are old, are those syllable types new/changed? Or are those the AAR names? Why does the app not match?

Is this it? https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Worlds-Longest-Living-People/dp/1569243484/ ETA: Another similar sounding one: https://www.amazon.com/Healthy-100-Scientifically-Healthiest-Longest-Lived/dp/0345490118/

I'll take a look at that. I know my Algebra 1 class (many, many years ago) covered the quadratic formula and graphing quadratic functions, and those are after chapter 10. Right now I'm thinking that we'll go through the whole book (assuming AoPS continues to be a good fit), and if we decide to go back to school for high school, we'll cover the Algebra 2 topics not yet covered and call it good. I'm pretty sure that it will take him more than a year to finish the Intro to Algebra book, but he's young, so he has time to do that and get the solid foundation that AoPS provides.

Thanks! This is good information. :)

It's not so much that I'm planning on switching but more than we aren't completely sure what we're doing for high school (homeschool or b&m school). If we'll continue with homeschooling, I'd be fine with continuing with AoPS at my son's pace and giving him the math credit when he finishes a book, even if it takes 1.5-2 years or whatever. If he'll be switching to a b&m school, proper math placement will work better if he has completed a full Algebra II. I guess I was asking the wrong questions? The first one is what chapters count for Algebra I, the second would be if the rest of the book counts as Algebra II, or if another book or resource is needed in addition to AoPS to do that. I guess it's also nice to know where the "bail" point would be if it turns out that AoPS isn't a great fit. He's doing OK with their PreA so far, but since he's only in chapter 5 right now, it feels too early to say for sure.

I remember reading that a traditional Algebra I course would only used a portion of the AOPS Intro Algebra book. Can anyone tell me what chapters would make up Algebra I? If anyone has split it up like this, what did you use for Algebra II?

We have 45 four-day weeks for school and decided to skip the poetry book this year. We read through all of Grammar Town first, reading everyday. Then we started doing one day a week with Paragraph Town (either reading or a lesson from the teacher book). We do 2-3 sentences a week from Practice Town. We take about two weeks to go through a lesson of Caesar's English, spending two days on it a week. It works out that we only do one book each day.