We did 25 lessons in less than 3 weeks. You can speed up or combine as much you want to. You don't have to do one lesson a day and you don't have to repeat the definition 3 times at a time either. Tweak it until it works. It works for my 5.5 yr old the way we do it and he IS retaining it even at this speed. J

This sounds very interesting. I can read French but can't speak much now. So I will try this method. J

Double agree! :iagree::iagree:

Thanks for sharing your resources. Ds is studying human body at co-op this year and we need to find some books to supplement. J

We just dropped Spanish class today. We planned to start it today but I was so tired and cannot add another away from home thing! So we are home with no outside commitment on Tuesdays and Thursdays. J

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Thanks for sharing this. I was looking for a typing program for ds7.8. He doesn't like BBC dancing mat typing.

Abeka math 1---too much color and too distracting and unorganized History Pocket Ancient ---I hate it and never used it. I will sell it. Sonlight Science 1---borrowed it and never did the experiment, never finished it The Three Rs---didn't use it.

We are still doing Core 1. I am not looking at books at the level of Lord of the Ring. We have at least a year before we start Cor 3. So a long wait. Unfortunately, we borrow our Sonlight core books and I returned them as soon as we finish a core, so he can only read books that we just finished reading aloud, which is not very exciting when the story is still fresh in his mind. I did buy Wizard of OZ and Dr. Dolittle sequal so he read those. He is now reading Wind in the Willows, which is a SL read aloud in Core 2 I believe. He also read Detectives in Togas by himself before I start the read aloud. I requested its sequel, Mystery of the Roman Ransom, which he is excited about. Thanks for the suggestion to look on Amazon for similar books. I plan to check the VP books. Thank you! J

Angela, I am intrigued by Meet the Masters. Can you describe how you use it? Is it once a week? Do you need to get on line to do everything? It looks interesting. J

I think we will do world history with SOTW/Sonlight for three years. Then we will do American history using Sonlight for 1.5 years. I don't know what we will do after that.

There will be a Spanish class offered at our church by a former missionary to Mexico. It is one hour a week for 13 weeks and is $65/kid. So both ds will be in the class. I don't know what we will do after this session because I have no long term plan for Spanish yet. We are doing Song School Latin and Mandarin now. I think this class will offer exposure at least. J

It looks so interesting! I will come back to listen to it. Thanks for sharing, J

Ds has enjoyed all the Sonlight readers. He finished Readers 2 advanced and we cannot do any Sonlight readers before going to Core 3 because the readers are tied with the American history in Core 3. If you are a SL user and your kids (age 7.8) read the Lord of the Ring series independently, what would you use or have your used before doing Core 3? By the way he almost finished the Narnia series. We are going to study Core 2 along with SOTW 2 as the spine. so we are looking for medieval period readers and also classics like The Princess and the Goblin. Please chime in and share you list of books for a boy turning 8 in November and can read at an advanced level. Thanks, J

Monday evening: cub scouts 1x a week, Tuesday 3-4pm: Spanish 1hr 1x/week Wednesday 5:20pm: choir and kid's Bible study 1x/week Friday all morning: co-op 2 x/month Saturday morning 10:30 Piano 30 min 1x/week Sunday school 1x/week So with the exception of co-op on Friday morning, nothing else starts before 3pm for us during the weekdays for outside activities. Still this seems too much for me.

We LOVED to listen to the CDs of this series. They ar FABULOUS with a British narrator.

My sons love Detectives in Togas. It is good to know that there is a sequel and I requested it from my library just now. Thanks!

This is really good to know. My dc love WWE, especially the narration. Today when I asked ds to only copy a sentence and there would be no narration, he was very disappointed and I went ahead and did the narration part for him. By the way, it was Wind in the Willows. I asked him to read it in the past but he wasn't interested, but now he asked me where the book was and eagerly started reading it. I think we will keep doing this. I do believe in dictation.

Thank you so very much! I appreciate this complete list of things to read and watch on DVD, etc. I am checking some of these in the public library now. Blessings, J

Angela, Thanks for taking the time to answer in such great detail. Sounds like you are very organized. If or when I decide to add IEW for writing, I will definitely come to you again. J

Sounds like you want to stick to SM for both kids, but are also tempted by MM. It doesn't hurt to get one unit of MM to fill in the gap before you want him to start SM formally. On the side note though, my 5 yr old used Abeka math 1 for a while and I was bored to death and moved him to Singapore primary math 1 US edition and he is doing great. He is now 5.5 and is finishing up 1B with AMAZING mental math ability because he loves to do math "in his head". For a while I was tempted to do MM because of the rave reviews these last couple weeks and even lost sleep trying to decide if I would switch both ds to MM. I am GLAD I stopped reading about MM and just continued with SM and it is working well. Next week we will start IP 1B for ds5.5. Ds7.8 is doing SM 3A now. I own SM 4 US edition already, so I am not going to be swayed again by what other people say and focus on teaching my ds math facts and SM. ETA: Sorry I didn't see you last post. I am glad that you settled on SM which you already have. I can understand how you feel now. This thread seemed just like one I would have posted and would have arrived at the same decision.

It is great to know that there are online classes for LfC. I will keep that in mind. Thanks for sharing this. J

This is an old post. I still would like help with book lists to go along with Astronomy. We started last week and all three generations here in the family are involved in it. Grandpa wants us to do a model not only in size but also in distance from one another in the right proportion, which means we will utilize the park near us and place a huge round tent as the sun and then can only go as far as Mars. He is scientist and wants things to be accurate. :lol:I would greatly appreciate it if someone can share a book list that can open without me having to join a group. Thank you very much. J

We are all learning through Song School Latin. I told dh that I noticed some moms on our forum study Latin before they teach their children. I am seriously thinking of learning it myself too. Thanks for this timely post. I will check it out. J

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