I think we are the opposite of most people. I love Saxon math from Saxon K - Saxon 76. We pair it up with Singapore though. Drill and kill works great for us. :D But once we hit Prealgebra, Saxon wasn't working any more. The concepts became too incremental. My girls needed to see the bigger picture in order to understand what was being taught. They could do each little piece, but they weren't able to put it all together and apply what they were learning. Once the basics were covered we've found it more beneficial for our family to move to a mastery type math program.

Has anyone used the Kolbe high school Latin guides for Wheelock's Latin? The guides split Wheelock's over two years. Were they helpful? Are they similar to the other high school guides, including quizzes and exams (with answers?)

Oak Meadow has an 8th grade Civics program.

I would disagree. I do prefer to learn in shorter, smaller chunks myself, but none of my children like to learn this way. They prefer to work on more subjects over a longer period of time. The couple of times I have suggested we move to a block system, doing three or four subjects in the fall and three or four in the spring, I have been met with complete resistance. :)

We prepare our children with the intention of each having an AA, AS or BA at the time of high school graduation.

TOPS Science Song School Latin Watercolor painting (Live Education)

I'm afraid my plan won't be very useful to you as dd is doing US History over two years with her sister. We will be using the Teaching Company lectures - History of the United States, two Howard Zinn texts - A People's History of the United States and Voices, and a writing text called Reading and Writing American History as our spines. We will fill the course out with lots of additional readings: biographies, American literature, a 21-volume set called Annals of American History that is all primary documents, Johnson's A History of the American People, Boorstin's three volume set - The Americans and a whole bunch of documentaries and movies. They will also be taking the CLEP U.S. History 1 exam at the end of the first year and CLEP U.S. History 2 exam at the end of the second year.

We might as well round it out with an 8th grade planning thread. :D I don't see any way to fit everything I would like to include in 8th grade. Math - Chalkdust Pre-Algebra English - Galore Park English Year 9, Lingua Mater Americana, 6-8 American Lit books History - American History - my own plan Science - ??? I can't decide Music - Connect the Thoughts: Music Theory 2, American Composers, & Musical Theater Composers plus guitar lessons Creative Writing - The Creative Writer 2 (if it is out, otherwise Perrine's Lit book) and Connect the Thoughts Creative Writing 4 and 5 Things that probably won't fit: Geography - Oak Meadow World Geography & Mapping the World with Art Spanish - Breaking the Barrier 1 or ???? Piano lessons

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Have they checked with UCF? They have dual enrollment as well.

It is up to each school. I don't know what changes were made over the summer, but last year PHCC students could enroll at St. Petersburg College for classes that weren't offered at PHCC. UF only requires the student to be living in Florida. But you have to have Florida residency, so 12 months in the state. It would be a long drive from Hernando County though, a solid 1.5 hours at least. We have several friends still in the area so I'll keep an ear out for rentals and pm you if I hear anything. :)

The community itself is very homeschool friendly. We love Hernando County. It is only the CC that was beginning to make changes. I've homeschooled in several counties of Florida and have always found it pro-homeschool. Hernando county is our favorite place in Florida and where we hope to retire. As to the CC situation, I've heard that the CC to the south, St. Petersburg College (with a large campus in Tarpon Springs,) is homeschool/dual enrollment friendly and I know that to the north Santa Fe CC and UF are certainly homeschool friendly.

We decided to move over the summer because our local CC (Pasco-Hernando) just switched from allowing dual enrollment for 9th grade+ to dual enrollment for 11th and 12th grade only. And there was a definite anti-dual enrollment / anti-homeschool feel to the changes. Where we are now (Alachua county) allows dual enrollment at the university for 9th+ and dual enrollment at the CC for 11th+. The university has been very welcoming to dual enrolled students and the CC actually caters to them, so I don't see any issues locally for the time being.

My dd plans to double up next year too. Our plan is to start Geometry over the summer and then spend four days on Algebra II and two days on Geometry through the year (planning to finish both credits over the following summer as needed.) The current plan is to use Chalkdust for Algebra II and Life of Fred for Geometry.

3rd grade - daily breakdown 1.5 hours on core classes - Math, English 2 hours on electives (at home) - Science, French, History, Literature 3 hours on electives (outsourced) - Art, Gymnastics

Has she checked for a free online virtual school in her state?

I did books 1 and 2 (K and the first half of 1st) twice for my son. I think it helped me as much as it did him. :tongue_smilie: It was nice to really hear the improvement in his reading the second time through. When he needed prompting I would usually say, "What is the first sound in this word?" rather than giving the sound.

Has anyone used the Teaching Company lectures - History of the United States (84 lectures) as the spine of their US history program? Or even as a supplement? I am wondering your opinion of the lectures. Were there any areas you considered weak or glossed over? Any major topics left out? Any areas that were exceptionally well done? How much will I need to add to fill out a history program? We will also have two textbooks from differing viewpoints and additional reading - mostly primary sources. We may also add in movies and additional lectures as they are available at our local library.

I've never seen a girl's name on a competition leo before. Both gyms we've belonged to have a buy-back program though. If it were up to me, I would prefer the basic tank and the gym name on the back.

I would just give her a test a day from 6/5 until she scores below your pass/skip level (for me that would be 90%) and start her there.

Not in K-6. I tend to choose most everything in those grades. But then, I've never really had children that love bunny trails or going deep into academic subjects. :tongue_smilie: In 7th and 8th I let them pick their own electives though. And high school will basically be student led, but parent approved.

Thanks for the link. Some of the movie trailer / TV ads that pop up on the most basic sites are very scary to my younger kids. Especially the animated ones, where a zombie or something suddenly pops onto the screen.

I've also been telling everyone that lives local to dual enroll at UF (or Santa Fe CC) and get those classes out of the way for free. :) UF allows dual enrollment from 9th grade on. We moved here specifically so the kids could get most of their BA degrees free. UF also accepts up to 45 credits in CLEP/AP (as does FSU.) Most of the state CCs and universities allow free dual enrollment for at least the last two years of high school. Add in the Bright Futures scholarships and really the state university system is a very good deal in FL.

Hake Grammar maybe?

No, it doesn't look like too much.