I like lists. Motivated Moms has been very helpful for me, when I look at the list. She has you clean your sinks every day, but I don't always get to that. She breaks things down into small chunks. I'm pretty sure there is a sample on the website. Motivated Moms

What might be the purpose for needing the CD in Level 3? I suppose should look at Level 3. LOL Do you have Level 2? The first lesson in it is a review of most, if not all, of Level 1.

Check out Latin Prep. It does all that what you are looking for.

First of all, CLE is usually advanced in math, from what I have seen. Secondly, if your child is working to his capability, then he is not "behind". I have a dd that does not know as much math as I would like her to know at her age. So, we are moving more quickly through her math book. Another dd is approximately where I would like her to be, so I have her do one lesson a day. Since this is "your" homeschool, you can go as quickly or slowly as you choose. You can also call your child whatever you want in terms of grades. It's all subjective.

I have a friend who always reminds me about the schwa sound when I lament teaching my 6 yo to read. She tells me that I'm raising Texans and they speak Texan. Texans love the schwa and the long i. Of course, she pronounces the i with the schwa sound. LOL

I'm using this with my 9 yo. We started at the beginning. There were weeks when we went through 3 or 4 steps in one week. If your student had some knowledge of spelling rules, you *might* be able to start with Level 2. The first lessons reviews most, if not all, of the first Level. I am also using this to teach my 6 yo to read. The child is to use the first 26 phonograms in the first Level. Since the child is not taught about "silent e" or other consonant and/or vowel blends, it's hard to move into more difficult books for practice reading. My dd is near the end of Level 1. I plan to teach her the remaining phonograms before we move forward to Level 2. Then, she can work on reading more beginning readers, while still learning the spelling rules a la AAS. I hope this makes sense. I'm on the computer after 10 p.m. as well, and I don't feel like I'm as clear as I would like to be.

You can see them all at lulu.com by clicking on the preview button. http://www.lulu.com/content/133050 for the Aesop. I didn't know which book(s) you were looking at, so I just chose this one. You can preview all of the books, though you won't be able to see all of the lessons.

My Wednesday child was also born on the Ides of March. :) She is full of energy, excitement and wears her heart on her sleeve. She feels everything first and thinks later, though she can be a very deep thinker. I'm pretty sure that anyone who met her would not consider her to be melancholy at all. In fact, she's the child that my mother threatened me with when we would argue in the years I was a hormonal teenager.

I have trouble implemeting SWR. So, for spelling, I switched to All About Spelling. I like it very much. For m 6 yo, who I am trying to teach to read, I have used a few things in SWR, along with AAS. I am finding that as she gets closer and closer to learning to read more difficult words, I am using SWR on a limited basis. I'm sure it looks nothing like Wanda Sanseri envisioned it, but it's working for us.

I don't know if I would call how the women in Macedonia, or the way my former stepmother (who was Ukrainian), dressed similar to a runway model. The clothing I saw was very scant and revealing. Maybe it's just been a long time since I've seen anyone on a runway. ;) They do wear pantyhose under short skirts and very high heels, even in cooler weather. We were just so grateful to find gluten-free food there that I didn't mind so much what it was. Since Macedonia is also a Baltic area country, we probably ate similar foods. There were many one pot meals. Most of them were meat, ajvar ( a combination of tomatoes, peppers and onions) and spices. Sometimes, there were potatoes. We often had cucumber, onion and feta salad. This is called different things in different countries. I recall that it was one thing in Macedonia and another in Bulgaria. When we went to Macedonia, I wanted to bring something for the people that were working with my husband. Since we live in Texas, I purchased salsa that was made here and brought that. My kids picked up on the Cyrillic much faster than I did. It was more important for me to understand the numbers. I was purchasing food at the open markets and needed to know what money to give the people in the markets for their products. However, there are many signs that are transliterated rather than written in Cyrillic. One great thing about Cyrillic is that every letter has a sound. Not two or three sounds, but one sound. It's wonderful for learning, IMHO. We were in Macedonia and not Ukraine, but all the people were very welcoming and willing to listen if we tried to speak Macedonian. Most had some knowledge of English, though.

Were you referring to why my nutritionist recommended dark brown molasses sugar over the sucanat? I think it was her opinion that the sucanat was more refined. But, I honestly don't recall exactly. All of my notes from that conversation were lost in the great email debacle wherein I lost my password and couldn't retrieve it.

I had a LG in Europe and I loved it. It worked well and never caused me any trouble. It was small and I could not open it midcycle. The cycles were not as long as my one here in the States. I have a GE here. It's on the second floor and it makes some noise, but not a ton. It is louder than my last top load washer. It is not as loud as the "quiet pack" dishwasher that I have. ;) One thing that I like about my GE is that it has an onboard heater. I accidentally filled the lint trap and didn't know how to find it, so I had a repairman come. He said that the insides of my GE were the same as the insides of the Whirlpool machines. I figure that my $400 savings were well saved. I do like my front loader and would probably purchase another one if I had to buy another washer.

My nutritionist recommends dark brown molasses sugar over many of the others including sucanat and turbinado sugar. She says that it has more minerals in it than the others. I use it when I need sugar, but most of the time I use agave nectar.

My dad has been to Ukraine and his wife is from Russia. She's been to Ukraine. I could ask either of them if you had particular questions.

My 6 yo begs for FLL every day. In the past, I haven't done any grammar until they started a writing program. My 9 yo does grammar 1X a week and my 12 yo does grammar 2X a week. My 12 yo also does Latin twice a week. The 9 yo and 12 yo write every day. Some days it is copywork. My 9 yo does a formal writing piece once a week and my 12 yo does two pieces a week. One is a rough draft and the second is a revision. 2 - 3X a week for the older two. I read aloud to the younger two from a history book 4 - 5X a week. We rarely get to science. My goal is to have my 9 yo and 12 yo's doing this 2X a week. 1X a week

I've read a lot of these conversations with interest. I'm quite math phobic. I just purchased Lial's BCM for me, to possibly use with my 12 yo. In looking at TT and Videotext and CD, I've decided that one must include TT's Pre-Calc as part of algebra 2 in order to get a good comparison between all of the programs. They do go a bit more slowly than some of the other programs, and I do believe that a more fair comparison could be made if TT's Pre-Calc was included in the comparisons. FWIW.

We used SL6 for the first half of this year. I slowed it down so that it would take two years and added Lightning Lit 7. It seemed to work very well, though we still weren't able to much "analyzing" of the Core 6 material. It seemed to me that the Core 6 questions were more about reading comprehension than they were about analyzing. I did not have the language arts program for Core 6, so I cannot say whether this was broached in that portion of Core 6 or not. For your youngers, you may find that narrations are all that they need. Or, you might check out the multiple of resources that Lori mentioned. I think she got them all. :)

I'm waiting for this as well. What I really want to see is the table of contents. However, I imagine I can wait, since the book doesn't come out til summer. ;) I really want to use it for my 9 yo, who will be 10 in April. She's not had any formal grammar, other than that which she's had in Writing Tales. I'm thinking of using this next year while she works through Writing Tales2 and then going into Homer the following year, using Harvey's.

Palmer was a method that was used mostly in the 60's and 70's. However, it was used in Iowa in the 80's. I know this because I was taught it. The books are no longer being published. I last heard that they were in the public domain, but I haven't checked on that personally. It's a very nice script, but I found it harder to teach than I thought it would be. Instead, we use Cursive First.

I did one this week. Link in my .sig.

My favorite books had a blend in them that I morphed. I tended to use 1/3 sorghum or millet, 1/3 sweet rice flour (I bought mine at the asian food store) and 1/3 tapioca. Tapioca flour and tapioca starch are the same thing. Sometimes, I added a tablespoon to 1/4 cup of rice bran to a recipe to add fiber. I've yet to be able to make a whole grain gluten bread taste as good as my own gf bread. And, I was incredibly picky about gf bread. Apparently, I'm just as picky about gluten bread. It's an adventure, but certainly something that can be worked around. :)

Personally, I find that the xanthum works a bit better. I think it's stickier, for whatever reason. However, I have used guar for years, ever since we had to eliminate corn. Xanthum is sourced from corn and I decided not to take any chances when we eliminated the corn. After we brought the corn back, I never did switch back to xanthum. Tapioca flour also works as a binder, and you might be able to swing gf baking without some sort of gum if you use a goodly amount of tapioca in your flour mix.

My dd used this for a month in January. She really like it, though I think a lot of it was that she could do it on the computer. She tends to like anything she can do on the computer. She hit a wall when she introduced to several new things. The instruction was very standard and if she did not get something correct, then she was given the exact same instruction she had previously been given. This was not working for her, so she was stumped. I figured, for the money, they could come up with at least two ways to introduce topics. If your dd learns quickly and likes the Aleks, I see no reason to keep on keeping on. I know that there has been some discussion on whether or not it's a complete program, but I'm not sure I would concur with that after looking at the scope and sequence. I don't know if you know this, but you can use TT without the videos.

I have a front loader and I love it. I use regular detergent - dh purchased some Purex free and clear most recently. If I'm buying, I try to buy something more natural. However, I use a tablespoon or 2. I don't come anywhere close to filling the well. I haven't had any success using a powdered detergent in my fl.

Thanks y'all. After looking at many of the options that were recommended, I realized I was looking for something like Perrine's book. Also, TOG has a list of literary terms vocabulary with definitions available for download on the Loom. I just hadn't seen that before.