I'm excited to not be moving or having a baby this year. I'm excited about ELTL. It's a really wonderful curriculum. Even my kids love it.

If it were me, I'd print it in the verticle font, since that is what she does naturally, just to avoid frustration for both of you. Really, slant or no slant doesn't matter. I have not been able to change writing habits like that in my own daughters. They write how they write. I only insist they write as beautiful as possible. One daughter writes beautiful verticle cursive. I could never get her to slant. Another daughter writes cursive like a serial killer might, sloppy and jagged, but it slants! I'm teaching my third, fourth, and fifth children slant cursive from the beginning and that seems to be working well. The first two I started with HWT print :/ Anyway, my two cents.

I require the study of Latin, the Illiad, Odyssey, Aenied, Bible, and Shakespeare. Smart people say those are important, so I figured why not. I'm learning along with them. ETA we're also going to do a study of saudi arabia this year.

I get my kids paperwhites when they learn to read (they pay half so they are more likely to take care of it), fill it with free or cheap classics, and they read it at night in bed.

CLE math 1-8, then Saxon in high school with dive cds. CLE is pretty independent.

I used it with my second kid, then I moved on to phonics pathways for the third kid, and now I'm doing RLTL with the fourth kid. Teaching reading is so boring I need variety, I guess. All the reading programs I've used have been great.

End of week 5! I'm going to make a few changes to our work and schedule. I AM dropping R&S English, I *might* be keeping Classical Composition, but moving 6th grader to Narrative. 6th grader is also moving up from ELTL 4 to level 5. I dropped Tiner for 4th grader because it is above her comprehension level (so she says). And I need to add in memory work and a family read-alouds for all the kids, so I'm trying to figure out how to schedule that throughout the day. I'm dropping our family school (LDS curriculum I don't like). And I think that's all the changes I'm going to make this weekend...

The Golden Egg exists!!! It is called: ENGLISH LESSONS THROUGH LITERATURE :001_wub:

I'm worried whether I'm doing too much or too little or missing the whole point entirely.

I have no idea how different they are. I used R&S math 1 a long time ago and then switched to MM because I liked the conceptual stuff better than the traditional approach in R&S. I'm a recent convert to CLE math. I used it last year with my oldest, and this year I switched everyone over to CLE. I just like it. I prefer it over MM. I would say, looking at samples, that R&S leans a little more drill and kill imo, but I'm not certain. I'm sure it's a great math program, so if it works this year you should definitely stick with it. CLE just works really well for my kids.

I just crossed off two items off of each of my 6th and 4th graders' curriculum lists. I want to be a more relaxed homeschooler but find it difficult to let go. But I did it! I put the books back on the shelf. Maybe I'll even sell them. One of the books that I just *love* and my kids hate is R&S English. It needs to go away, at least the kids' text, so I'll stop being tempted to assign it. I think I'll keep the teachers manual for myself to go through if I ever get the time or fancy. I was just never taught grammar and I've learned so much from those books. We're doing English Lessons through Literature now, which has light but sufficient grammar included, plus we're doing Latin, and I know that is enough grammar. It is enough. Good bye, R&S English. I will always love you... I also crossed off Classical Composition. There are similar writing exercises in ELTL. I'm not ready to sell CC yet because I really like it. I do LOOOOOVE ELTL. If you don't own it and use it, you should. As well as CLE math. Is there a negative review of CLE math out there? I actually met someone yesterday at a homeschool party who was selling her grade 2 CLE Math because *her daughter didn't like it* (whatever :001_rolleyes: ), so I bought it. I thought I had scored because I needed that level. Until I realized I was doing grade 2 with my grade 2 daughter and I already own that level. Doh! :banghead:

My philosophy is that kids in early elementary are not going to get much out of a chronological history anyway, and that a focus on interesting stories and people would be a better use of time and money. A chronological study would better serve 5-8th graders and then again in high school. I think either of your options would be fine and that it doesn't really matter for young kids, as long as the books you are reading are interesting and capture their attention.

Christian Light Education Math 4 Life of Fred, intermediate series English Lessons Through Literature 3 First Form Latin Apologia Astronomy w/ notebook journal Famous Men of Rome & Famous Men of Greece, oral narration The Iliad and Odessey for Boys and Girls, e written narration 30 min. reading literature

I'm not looking forward to Saxon's layout, so I plan to switch after CLE 800 to Saxon algebra 1. Only 4 years of Saxon is better than 5,imo. I've read success stories doing it either way, I just prefer to stick with CLE as long as possible because we love it here.

If I need to vent I call my mom or my sister. They are great at listening and sympathizing. My dh is great at being a husband, but not so great at being a girlfriend. That's how I look at it anyway. I try not to vent here. It's too easy to be misunderstood or offend someone.

Welcome Wendy!

I would look at Rod and Staff math and English.

If you're just wanting the lists I would buy SWR wise guide or WRTR. RLTL's list is spread through 4 books, making it expensive if you're not going to use the readers included.

CLE math/LoF English Lessons through Literature Famous Men series Apologia science with notebook journals Memoria Press Latin

My 6th grader has two history/science books a day she reads from, usually a chapter each,and then answers questions or provides a written or oral narration. Then she has to read 45 min from a classic each day. 4th grader has the same except 1-2 books in science or history, depending on the day, plus 45 min from a classic. 2nd grader reads a chapter to me aloud and is an avid reader on her own so I don't assign a certain amount of time. I just fill her Kindle with classics on her level and she reads at night in bed.

7 am- wake everyone, eat breakfast, get dressed. Clean kitchen. 8 am-family prayer, scriptures (20 min) One on one time with dd11 while dd9 watches the baby and everyone else plays. (30-45 min.) One on one with dd9 while dd11 watches baby and everyone else plays. (30 min. ) One on one with dd7 while dd11 and dd9 clean kitchen and watch baby while everyone else plays. (1.5 hr.) If baby wants me, the big girls are released from their babysitting duty and work on their school. 1130 lunch, clean Two oldest go do their independent school. 1230 baby down for nap. Latin with dd11 &dd9. (45 min) Family school with everyone but baby-either history, geography, science, art or music. (45 min.) Dd9 &dd11 continue working on homework until finished (3-4 hours total) School with ds5 and dd3 (30 min.)

I've become so accustomed to zoning people out that I don't notice anyone's reaction anymore. I used to get negative comments when I had 4-5. I haven't had any negative, only positive comments with 6. I'm not sure why. Maybe I just don't register negative comments as negative anymore. I don't know. I do know I'm way past caring what other people think about it.

We went skiing in Garmish this past winter, stayed for two nights, to celebrate dh's return from an 8 month deployment. We've got a week planned on the west coast beach in October that I'm thrilled about!

CLE math is the answer to all math woes. It is SO easy to work with, both for the teacher and student, and easy to accelerate. I would take the free diagnostic test (under "downloadable files") here: https://www.clp.org/product/math_500_800_diagnostic_test_1659. To accelerate you could skip the quizzes and tests in every light unit, plus skip the first light unit of each grade level which is all review of the previous year, giving you a total of 117 lessons per grade level. You could also skip the reviews built into the end of each lesson if he knows certain concepts, and double up on lessons. I think levels 700 and 800 make up pre-algebra. I haven't got there yet, so I'm not positive, but I think that's what I've read. They have real-life skills thrown in there as well, such as balancing a check book, which is why it is spread over two years. You could skip those lessons to accelerate. But assuming you did all 117 lessons X 2 grade levels is 234 lessons, divided by 5 days a week, would take 47 weeks. Skip lessons, double up on lessons, and it would be quicker. Try this link instead: https://www.clp.org/store/by_grade/21 Click on Math 500-800, and then look for downloadable files.

Well our school day started at 8am,and then I sent my kids back to bed at 815 because of all the crying and whining and fighting. We tried again after 30 min and it was a successful school day. I ended up not schooling yesterday because I had forgotten that it was country line dancing day, so we did that, then I took the kids to the pool and fed them ice cream for dinner. Because I'm awesome like that.