It sounds like you're both really frustrated. If it's a struggle, pushing harder never works. I'd step back and do something structured and non-challenging with the goal of giving her time to mature. Check out EPS The Paragraph Book. There are four of them and they each approach writing step by step. They won't have her writing essays, but they'll get her thinking about how and why we organize our writing at a paragraph level. There's plenty of time for longer assignments when she's older. Here's a link to one of them. http://www.christianbook.com/the-paragraph-book-4/dianne-tucker-laplount/9780838826744/pd/372674?dv=t&en=google-pla&event=SHOP&kw=homeschool-0-20&p=1179710&gclid=Cj0KEQiAsdCnBRC86PeFkuDJt_MBEiQAUXJfLQPi4CmCS76zG97cvBPz0VSyonnF-EO8I7vMPDNyoAcaAuQo8P8HAQ

I'd just print some word problems off and change the names to Harry and Professor Slughorn and Voldemort or whoever. You could have rate problems on different brooms with varying wind currents, Ratios of muggles to wizards or earwax flavored jelly beans to orange flavored... Or you could give her a regular problem, help her solve it, then ask for her to design a harry potters themed word problem on the same topic.

Oh - you could totally read the book in a year. One chapter a week would do it. I just can't imagine missing out on all the other stuff. But you know what it's like... I want to fit in every interesting and useful thing that I can! I can't imagine taking out the written work or videos or the work with primary sources. But at some point, we have to stop and admit that not everything will fit. I'm sure you can make it work!

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We live in a smallish town, neither rural nor urban. The most practical free range thing I've done is step back from transporting kids places. You want to go to the cinema? Great idea, but I'm busy. Find out when and where and how to get there. You want a ride to ballet or tennis? Sorry I'm busy. Take the bus or bike or call your grandma and see if she can give you a lift. You're upset we're out of your favorite cereal? Here's 5$, go to the shop and get some. We only have one bus and one bus route, but the kids know how to ride it. We're within 10 min of the downtown area. My younger daughter prefers to ride her bike and my older grudgingly walks.

We're using it over two years. I can't imagine squeezing it into one. I usually do something like this: Monday - read chapter Tuesday - outline chapter or answer the key questions in paragraph form Wednesday - corresponding crash course us history episode and portfolio Thursday - American Experience video Friday - American Experience video cont Monday - DBQ essay Tuesday - finish DBQ Wednesday - Portfolio timeline/map/biography Thursday - Stanford Reading like a historian Friday - Stanford reading like a historian If doing only one year, you'd need to cover approximately one chapter per week.

I started my daughter at book b and soon realized she's more advanced than I had thought. I made a deal that if she got the dictated sentence or list of words correctly (including punctuation and capitalization), she doesn't need to repeat it. I also sometimes swap words I know she struggles with for some of their words.

We used to buy $100 vacuums and go through them yearly. About 10 years ago we bought an expensive $700 Miele canister vac and we have yet to be dissatisfied or even need repair on it. I think with vacuums, you get what you pay for. If you have the money for a longer term investment in a vacuum, you may be happier.

We've had expensive and cheap cases and never broken any phones... Though the cheap cases have cracked or fallen apart. The otter box defender was too bulky, but I am really happy with my latest case - the otter box symmetry. It's sturdy and slim and attractive (I have the blue floral pattern). I got it from eBay for cheaper than the regular price and I'm very pleased with it.

I don't know about vinegar, but we've never had success with dandruff shampoo like Selsun Blue or Head and Shoulders. The winner for us has been T/Gel coal tar shampoo (or generics). It stinks terribly, but really works.

This is for an 11 yr old tennis player and a 13 yr old ballet dancer. Both practice 6 days/week. What is the hardest part about your kids schedule? Not being able to eat dinner together. Not as much free time as I think they should have. How does nutrition factor into your kids routine? I'm constantly trying to make sure people in the family are fed, but everyone seems to be on a different schedule these days. Do you feel confident that you are giving your kid the right fuel? Yes -- at mealtimes, but they often turn down healthy snacks and head for the simple carbs to throw in their gym bags or eat on the way to a lesson. Do you worry about how much sleep or down time is enough for your kid? Yes, I suspect my older daughter stays awake quite late. She's still getting 8-9 hours of sleep, but her ballet teacher has complained that she sometimes appears to zone out and stop focusing. What is your biggest worry with your young athlete? My biggest worry is that they have devoted their lives to tennis and ballet with the dreams of professional careers and I worry that they will become disheartened when they learn the unlikelihood of making a living from it. I don't want to dash dreams, but I want to be realistic. I'm hopeful they won't regret the sacrifices they've made and won't have trouble refiguring their lives at the point they no longer continue with it. Tennis isn't a big deal to scale back with, but ballet is all-or-nothing. You can't take just one or two classes a week and hope to progress or continue on pointe or be cast is a performance. Any and all thoughts are welcome! Thank you :-) Edited to add....what questions would you want to ask a nutritional expert in regards to youth athletics? My tennis player loves to eat. If she's exercising a lot, should I just let her eat as much as she wants? We've always had to out a stop on it as she's been known to consume pounds of blueberries or clementines or bowls of pasta. Or more disturbingly, I found her eating pieces of tossed-out leftover birthday cake out of the trash can. What is more damaging: overeating or being made aware of your excessive eating and being told to stop?

We have two copies - a green one from Addison Wesley 1999 and a reddish brown one with a picture of the green one from Pearson 2006. They're the same.

We did a continent by continent approach and used a lot of folk tales, excerpts, and several larger works. We found these videos really helpful, though they're aimed at intro college or late high school, so deal with adult topics - http://www.learner.org/courses/worldlit/ I can't remember offhand everything we did and read, but if you want to PM me, I can email you a syllabus of videos and books. It was a fun year!

Keen shoes in the winter, keen sandals in the summer. I am boring but comfortable. I have only one of each and they are the shoes almost 100% of the time. I do wear tennis shoes to the gym and slippers around the house, and (fake) crocs to garden but that's all I wear.

In Oregon, it's meat (like tri-tip or hamburgers or sausages or marinated chicken), fish or vegetables cooked on an outdoor grill on your back patio.

We used an anonymous donor to conceive our kids. He had a 4 digit number. When I delivered my daughter, it turns out it was the same as the room number. And then a few weeks later when the birth certificate arrived, I was shocked to see the time of delivery written in 24 hr time -- also the same number. (Like -- Donor #2109, hospital room 2109, born at 21:09)

For those of you not using calculators until algebra 2, is that including radicals? I remember being taught an algorithm for finding the square roots of numbers in pre-algebra, but I don't remember it any more and haven't come across it in any of the books that my kids have used. Do you use charts for trigonometric ratios? We started using a calculator as needed in pre-algebra, and I can't imagine how long math would take if we didn't. Still, the calculator hold-outs are pretty impressive.

Just think about people heading off for the "climate cure" in sanitariums and health spas around the world. I'd absolutely take a relaxing vacation! A third world country or a rushed sightseeing extravaganza or high adventure travel might not be where you're at right now, but a lie-on-the-beach kind of vacation sounds awesome!

We liked "It's not the stork" by Robie Harris. It's age appropriate (listed as ages 4+). It's definitely a read-aloud kind of book because you might want to expand or clarify as you go.

Apples and pears has worked great for my younger daughter who is a terrible speller. But I didn't start it until she was in 4th grade. I really don't know if she'd be so successful if we had started it in 2nd grade or whether her success is because she's now (in 5th grade) at a point of academic maturity where she is ready to learn and aware of her spelling. You might keep that in mind.

This is a kindergartner or first grader? I'd go for geography. You can do map puzzles, draw rough maps of continents, play map games. As you learn about each area, you can do a bit of history, look at some art, read a folk tale, cook a regional meal, maybe listen to music, play a game or watch a few minutes of a children's program in that language. It'll be a fun overview of the world in a kid- friendly way. The next year I'd start history with Ancients.

6 or 7 to braid three strings together. 10 to braid hair. Also 10 to put hair in ballet bun or even nice looking pony tails.

How about Jousting armadillos or AOPS pre-algebra? They should be different enough from Saxon and offer a good challenge for a bright 6th grader.

But why would you want to try to skip a child ahead? Unless she's off-the-charts and skipping her way, bored and unchallenged through algebra, I can't see any reason for it. The disadvantages of missing out on a year of geometry and two years of algebra are that she'll have had less time for algebra 1 and 2 and geometry to sink in, she'll be placed with honors level juniors who are more mature and have taken the traditional three years to cover algebra 1, geometry and algebra 2 (probably using a more rigorous program than Saxon), and if she is successful, she'll have less math available to her for the remainder of high school (and if unsuccessful, may need to repeat both geometry and algebra 1). Besides making you (or your child) feel good, I can't think of any advantage. It's not a race. Better to be the most successful Algebra 2 (or geometry) student with solid skills getting an A than the mediocre freshman in precalculus. I should add - I was that struggling student, failing and unprepared in calculus in 10th grade because of middle school acceleration. That was my last math class ever and I was bitter and hated math for years because of it.

Apples and Pears for afterschooling my 11 yr old with some spelling issues. It has really helped!