Here's the plan anyway: Science - 1st-3rd - not really important, nature study, whatever :D 4th - RS4K - Level 1 5th - RS4K - Level 2 * 6th - Oak Meadow Environmental Science (9th grade program) 7th - Oak Meadow Biology (10th grade program) 8th - Oak Meadow Chemistry (11th grade program) - online 9th - Oak Meadow AP Environmental Science - online 10th - Oak Meadow Physics - online 11th - Community College Biology 12th - Community College Chemistry *Because RS4K isn't completed my second dd is doing RS4K Biology I and Physics I in 4th and RS4K Chemistry I and II in 5th. I hope more will be complete before next child reaches 4th (or I may find something I like better!) Math * - K - Saxon 1A, Singapore 1A 1st - Saxon 1B, Singapore 1B 2nd - Saxon 2, Singapore 2A 3rd - Saxon 3, Singapore 2B 4th - Singapore 3A, 3B, 4A 5th - Singapore 4B, 5A, 5B 6th - Singapore 6A, 6B, Dolciani pre-Algebra 7th - online (back-up Dolciani Algebra I) 8th - online (back-up Dolciani Algebra II) 9th - online (back-up Geometry) 10th - online (back-up Dolciani Intro to Analysis) 11th - Community College - College Algebra 12th - Community College - Statistics or other math choice *The only real guideline I follow is to complete the work through Singapore 6 and work through the first year of Pre-Algebra by 6th grade - the K-6th framework is flexible.

I believe I purchased the 2nd edition teacher's book from Rainbow Resource. Have you tried them?

This is what I use as my "kick in the butt" reading. :D http://mentalmultivitamin.blogspot.com/2007/08/its-that-time-again.html

Here is what I would probably do: Saxon 3 - 5 written lessons per week - 3 meetings Saxon 2 - 5 written lessons per week - 5 meetings Saxon 1 - 3 written lessons per week - 2 meetings That way you are only doing two meetings per day. Your child in Saxon 1 is young so it won't matter as much if you don't quite finish the book this year. And some of the meeting is likely review for a 9 year old in Saxon 3. (This is all just my opinion obviously.) I currently have a 9 year old in Saxon 3, a 5 year old in Saxon 1 (doing three lessons per week) and a 4 year old in Saxon K doing two lessons per week - so I'm only doing two meetings per day. HTH!

grammar - First Language Lessons in K/1 followed by Primary Language Lessons in 2/3 writing - Classical Writing Primers in K-2 followed by IEW beginning in 2nd or 3rd spelling - Sequential Spelling beginning in 2nd or 3rd grade

Great Books Academy http://www.greatbooksacademy.org/

Thanks! I'm sure I can go to the county school board office and request a notice to homeschool form. I really like Barnes and Noble, but it's an hour away so we don't get there often. It sounds to me like next week is the week to go!

Florida residents- If you do the Barnes and Noble teacher appreciation days, what have you used as your teacher's card?? Thanks!

logic stage American history program (if it included suitable writing assignments/suggestions - all the better :D)

I have All Things Fun and really like it. I've never used WWE, but from what I know, I would guess that IEW and WWE would be about equal in amount of time needed. I found CW Aesop and Homer to be too slow and time consuming for us in the elementary years - and I was really only looking for a writing program. I used All Things Fun last year with a 3rd grader, but plan to use it in 2nd grade after working through the CW primers with my next one.

College of William and Mary curriculum http://cfge.wm.edu/curriculum.htm Royal Fireworks Press http://www.rfwp.com/

I use this website with all four of my kids and have been known to try it myself from time to time. http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/math-trainer-addition.html

I space out my fruity flavored chewable multivitamin and my chocolate flavored chewable calcium - one mid-morning and one in the late afternoon. :D

I think it is in the writing program that it really shows these books are mainly written to teachers (and teaching gifted students.) Sentence Island It discusses parts of a sentence: noun/verb, subject/predicate, noun/verb agreement, etc. There's no actual writing instruction. The assignments are all creative writing and might work well with a gifted student or one advanced in writing, but my eldest daughter found them frustrating and exhausting. Examples - write a dialogue in which the first person speaks in only one word subjects and the other in only one word predicates. Things like that. My second daughter would have enjoyed the assignments, but I did not want to spend the time on them at her age. A writer already, she would have devoted a week to each assignment. I found that the important information was covered in the grammar book. (So I sold it.) Paragraph Town It discusses things like formal/informal writing, compare/contrast, putting sentences in an order. But, again no actual writing instruction. The assignments are things like write a paragraph using formal language and then write the same paragraph using informal language. Or write a paragraph putting the sentences into a logical order and then write the same paragaph using no logical order. (Sold it.) Essay Voyage Again, not a lot of writing instruction - but I love this book. It has a geography focus. It discusses all of the important aspects of an essay, has great examples of essays written in the past, includes some grammar to go with Grammar Voyage and introduces a great deal of vocabulary. I don't use many of the writing assignments - which are things like write an essay about "names a place." Or write an essay about what you learned in this chapter. Or write a paragraph about "a place." Or compare two writers you have read about in this book. But, this is a great book in how to improve your essay writing once you already know how to write a standard (5-paragraph) essay. Academic Writing 1-3 These are different. Each one only has four assignments - term papers. It covers the basics of writing, editing and polishing a paper. It also includes a great deal on how to correct essay papers. What to look for, what to mark, what to tell a student to help her improve. I do intend to use these books in high school. HTH

Hi Renee, You just file an intent to homeschool form right now. You do not have to choose how to evaluate your child at this time. Within 12 months of filing your intent to homeschool form you must supply the school board with a portfolio review from a certified teacher, a signed form that states your child took a nationally/Florida standardized test or an evaluation if you feel neither of the other two options are viable (for children with special needs.) And you continue to supply either the test form or portfolio review (or evaluation) every 12 months thereafter. You can choose any of the options each year. Welcome to Florida! ~Melissa

You really don't even need the student book for the practice books. It is only one sentence per day. I dictate the sentence to the child who writes it on a white board and then analyzes it. You could just copy it to a white board rather than dictate it to save time.

60-90 minutes

When my dd took the second grade SAT they answered the questions in the book - not on a separate sheet. But I think Florida is required to take the Stanford 9 and not the Stanford 10? So it might be different.

I use and like Study is Hard Work by Armstrong. http://www.amazon.com/Study-Hard-Work-Accessible-Available/dp/156792025X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253718754&sr=8-1

Here is a book list that goes with it. It separates the book into sections of 12 chapters. Year 1:Term 1 is the first 12 chapters of the book, Year 1:Term 2 covers chapters 13-24, Year 1:Term 3 covers chapters 25-36, etc. http://materamabilis.org/further.html

I think it is a great program. I don't know if she has posted a sample of the DVD lessons, but they are even better than the written material. She talks during the drawing lessons and adds little tidbits of history, culture and art along with the actual drawing lessons. And there is more info added to the drawing lesson than in the written lessons I downloaded earlier. She includes the current names of the countries, the names of current cities and mountain ranges, etc. We aren't moving too quickly as I am combining it with history so only plan to work through the first ten or so lessons this year. The kids are enjoying it and it helps cement the geography of the areas being studied in history. I let the kids watch the lesson several times over a couple of weeks while they practice drawing the area. They see it as a break in their day and more of a fun drawing lesson, but I am noticing that they are retaining the names and spellings of geographical features as well. There is also a history lesson and additional activities to go along with each lesson. For fun, I let the kids make a Polynesian map of their rooms using sticks and shells. This program has been one of my favorite additions to our curriculum this year. :thumbup:

Thank you!!

Thanks, but level 3 has a course outline rather than a table of contents and doesn't include the actual lesson numbers. I was hoping to find out the total number of lessons, so I could look at the sample online and get an idea of approximately how many lessons should be completed each week. I emailed pandia press, but haven't heard back.

How many lessons are in History Odyssey Ancients Level 3? Thanks!

We have six people in 1100 square feet and that is just fine. We are currently considering moving back to our previous house which is somewhere between 900-1000 square feet - but very open. The only really issue with all of our homes is the one bathroom. We always say we would like a second bathroom, but it is never important enough to take on a bigger home. :)