I love the math and the handwriting. We are using Math 2 right now as a review. My son is ASD and ADHD and we use multiple math curricula though the year, I like having a fun slightly easier one to break up the Beast and the Math mammoth. With math 2, I can follow the script and both my pre-k and my rising 3rd understand it. Its well done - the lessons have a morning review at the start with calendar work and then the lesson is mastery with no additional review. The lessons are long winded and I edit or skip quite a bit since we have covered these already unless it has something we might not have tried. Each lesson is either related to the one before (for about a group of 4 lessons) or is a different topic - ie, estimation has 3 lessons then it moves to clocks, estimating is then reviewed briefly 5 lessons after that. The work pages are incredibly colorful and frankly just beautiful. I plan to use Math 3 with Mammoth 3 for 3rd grade (plus beast academy on weekends). My pre-k / k kiddo will do Math K this fall. She loves the hands on stuff and it's cheaper than rightstart 🤣. She is finishing up Singapore Dimensions Pk now but I don't think she is ready for dimensions k. Math K is slightly harder than dimensions pk but not as hard as dimensions k, so I think it will work well. They both use the handwriting and god I love that book. Its exactly the handwriting I needed. Short and sweet with a little art prompt on each page. We will be continuing with their handwriting. I downloaded the complete Level 3 LA and I'm really not sure about it. I think I may use some of the ideas from it or the pages but I won't be using it completely. There's so much language about how to be "christlike" and choosing high moral literature etc and I just can't, we are religious but it feels so forced. The spelling and vocab are too light as well. I will be using the Pre-k and K primer though with my little one - again it looks like it will fit her level perfectly since she's not ready for AAR 1.

We are working though Opal now. I started it at the tail end of grade 2 and we will finish it halfway through 3rd. I really like it. One of the stories is written by a white woman about a POC character so we did have to have a conversation about that and do extra reading. The workbook is pretty good with varying types of pages for each story. I like the teachers manual but only because I can hand that to his dad and make him teach, I wouldn't need it if I were the only teacher. Its very similar to reading street or a similar public school program, if you dont need the workbook - reading street can be found cheap on ebay :)

AND EDITING NOW.... 6/3/20 LOL There’s a chance I’ll totally flip this up and change everything... but right now I’ve settled on: Math: Math Mammoth 3, finishing Beast 2, and TGaTB Math 3 Grammar: Growing with Grammar Lit: Mosdos Opal Balto Novel-Ties My Fathers Dragon Novel-Ties Writing: LWT Building Writers B/C/D IEW People and Places in Community Spelling and Vocab: Steck-Vaugn Spelling Wordly Wise 3000, 1/2 of book 2 and 3 Handwriting: TGaTB Handwriting Science: Blossom and Root Science 3 Geography: Evan Moor Daily Geo, and Evan Moor US History: Blossom and Root American Extras: piano, art history/art with his incredible art teacher, swim Book Basket with books from the MBTP 7-9 and 8-10 levels

@HomeAgain do you think MEP might work for us? And maybe I’ll offer him the math selector quiz. He loathes copywork. It’s easier to get him to write something original and then tell him to copy it well.

First post here 🙂 I'll preface with both DS 6 and I are autistic. DS is more of a sensory seeking, clothing freakout, overwhelmed easily type. I like quiet and researching and noise gets to me fast. We are a pair! And we have my DD 3 running around wreaking havoc. We do "formal" work Tuesday/Thursday/Friday because I'm in school Mon/Wed. I want to get a plan together for next year and the ending part of this year because we hit a handful of snags and can't seem to get back into a groove. Currently: McRuffy Language Arts 1, we started this late and it's working well for us, I don't do all the workbook things because some is busy work and he hates that. Math is a mash up with some problems from Primary, some from math mammoth, and others from some teachers pay teachers pages. The thing with math is he will not play games, or use manipulatives, and he WILL NOT look at the actual book - I have to copy the problems to a whiteboard or into a plain notebook. I pushed too hard with math in the beginning because he was loving it and breezing through math mammoth and then there was just one day where he crashed and now the idea of a workbook makes him slither to the floor. Now, I'm ok with taking time off from math but he isn't! He wants to do math everyday and learn more but it would be so much easier if I could show him the pages! So I was considering starting MEP and getting him gently into math and maybe getting miquon with the rods? I want him to back up and find the fun again and at the same time make sure he has a firm grasp on the basics. Next year - I don't think we can do second grade McRuffy LA because the books get much longer and he is going to panic so I'm eyeing Reading Street or and then just planning on a ton of readers and library books. Any experience with Reading Street? Basically I want to read aloud and have guidance with the critical thinking type questions. Math - Horizons, MEP, or MCP, Science - probably nancy larson 1 History - SoTW read aloud and the Maps/Maps Activity Book Writing - this is where I have absolutely no idea. He hates to write so I want something that will spark his creativity... like a story starter but one that doesn't look overwhelming...writeshop? I need to get a strong idea of what next year will look like because there's a very good chance I will be in a PA program and won't be able to plan and prep once that begins.