I've been having issues all week with videos. :(

I got a free one last year when I order samples from http://www.studiesweekly.com/sample_request.php . I don't know if they are still including the globe or not.

We did Getting Started with Latin last year in 3rd my son enjoyed it. He is doing well with Lively Latin this year.

My son is asking for a Chemistry set for his birthday. We are using CKE Chemistry this year and they recommend Chemlab 1100, but that is all I have to go on. Can anyone recommend this one or have a different recommendation for me. TIA

I would describe WWE as expository writing and Writing Strands as creative. I'm doing both with my son this year and he is doing well. I was concerned it might be too much, but I knew he was ready for more. I have him using WWE in combination with history and the week on week off (appox.) of writing strands keeps it feeling balanced.

We moved on, I'm letting him use the chart and also have him playing some multiplication games for 10-15 mins a day.

I picked other. My daughter is a senior this year and will graduate in 4-years. We are so proud of her! She has worked so hard! She got through school with a volleyball scholarship, grants and loans. We have told her we will help with about half her loans. We had to help her with cash her freshmen year and will again this year too, but soph and jr year she had enough money. After the stress of dealing with a sport scholarship, coaches and the extra load, we won't encourage our son to go that route, so we are going to make sure to put money away for him.

We like Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky

I've always used MM, so I don't have any other math suggestions., but...With MM I wouldn't expect them to get entire sections done in a day or to do all the problems in a section. I have my son do every other problem, about 8 maybe 10 math problems a day. For sections 3 pages or longer we spend two days on it.

Math Mammoth, I don't think we every cried, but we have been on both ends of the spectrum with this. Some areas have taken so...long...to...get...through and my son struggled so much, borrowing in subtraction (he still messes this up if he isn't paying attention) and multiplication. But all the work is paying off now. He started long division last week and it is going smooth as silk. I was expecting to be in for another long haul, but, while he still needs some practice, it isn't going to take months to get through. :)

The main differences are that the old book was level 1 & 2 combined with no workbooks. They have now split them up and added an optional workbook and made them line up better with WWE, so there isn't as much redundancy between the two.

That website is great! I've already printed the game and cards! :)

:iagree: Exactly! Thank you for taking the time to write out what I was thinking. ;) You really need to be strong in mental math and know your math facts forwards and backwards, then long division isn't difficult.

Keep in mind my son is a history buff! It's by far his favorite subject and he can't get enough. K-We studied U.S. presidents, I didn't use a curriculum we just did our own thing. 1-US Geography/Star Spangled States (I had to modify it slightly for his age) 2-SOTW1 3-SOTW2 4-SOTW3, State history and he is taking an American history class 5-SOTW4 and American history 6-7-8 I'm not sure yet. I don't think he would like doing another round of SOTW. Has anyone tried History of the World with a middle-schooler that absolutely loves history!!? Or maybe I'll just have him work through SOTW on his own in 3-years and let him pick areas he want's to read more about. I still have a couple years to figure it out.

I was taught that the comma before 'and' is optional. FLL teaches to put a comma there, so that is what I have my son do.

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Spelling Workout, and my son was halfway through book c and feeling like a failure before I wised up. I see Writing Strands listed quite often, I hope that doesn't become my next failure. :confused: My son is on the 2nd lesson of level 3, so far so good.

She did respond to my email the next morning, but I had it figured out by then. We are going to start today with the first Intro lesson. I think my son will enjoy it.

I haven't looked into at all. I know they changed how ALE schools operate, cut funding and increased reporting (of course). Also, if your child attends an ALE (Alternative Learning Environment) you can't use anything remotely considered religious towards your core hours, which is kinda a joke anyway because you don't have to report your hours! So, CKE-Science is out! I'm still using it, but I'll have to get creative with my "instructional materials list." If my son didn't love the ALE school so much I would just bail and register as a home school. He only takes extra curricular classes there and he loves it and I love the teachers, so we put up with extra reporting. :tongue_smilie:

Compulsory age in WA is 8, unless that changed this year. They passed two new laws over the summer that changed a bunch of stuff.

3 days + 2 half days for our core curriculum time, but he also attends our local ALE school and sports...ect. So there is something everyday that counts towards our school hours.

I agree motivation helps. Yesterday, Labor Day, one of the neighborhood kids was waiting for my son to finish school so they could play. He got everything, I mean everything, done in less then two hours. Today, with the other kids back in school, it took four and half hours. :ohmy:

Ok, I got the email! It was just really pokey! Thanks :)

Did they send you an email or were you redirected to download it? I have feeling that error msg I got messed up the whole processes. I don't want to try again, because they already have my payment. I was using Firefox, so that could have been part of it.

I just purchased it about 30-45 minutes ago, got an error message after the purchase when it asked for my email address, went back to the page and reentered my info, but haven't received an email giving me access. The payment, of course, came out of paypal immediately! :glare: I sent them an email, but who knows when they will respond to that.