I, too, thought of SWB. She talks about that in TWEM along with why it is valuable to have a reading/discussion partner.

You could always online chat with "Anna". Also, we bought straps from them that we have used to secure things to the roof rack (be mindful of the weight limit). A bed frame sounds like a few long pieces.

I don't have the diary. I use the Annotations for ideas about introducing sections or particular pages. We have some mathy games we intersperse, also. We also have MM and she does bits and pieces from those, but they more rote by comparison and not as popular.

Wow Wendy. That sounds so frustrating! What a lucky boy to have you looking out for him.

Progressive Phonics also has free readers online. We enjoy those, they have funny, rhymey stories and, not surprisingly, progress phonically. There is a really cute series at our library with titles like Cab Crab. Outside of that, I comb through the library's easy readers for books that match where we are phonically. Don't worry about leaving out "school" books. The more familiar he is, the better - unless he doesn't want to read things he has already "read".

Our local university offers boarding camp with an educational focus (and scholarships are available). Perhaps see if this is an option at universities in your "neighborhood"? We are in the Midwest. The focus changes from year-to-year, I think. There are language camps at Concordia, in Wisconsin. There is also an exchange program that world with homeschoolers, but that would be out of the country. Perhaps some searches including area of interest would give some more options.

I wasn't going to answer - you've got responses on both sides already - but since you say "zenmeban?" which I learned about in your other post, here goes: Get it. He'll read the guide if you leave it out, and that won't hurt anything. He could do it all if he wants, you could pick some of it to do over the next year as an intro to topics, or you could end up doing none and reselling it.

Do you want to challenge them? Probably not SOTW unless you do quite a bit of supplementing with additional reading and writing assignments. Do you challenge them in other areas and want to give them a nice, light introduction to the arc if history? Perhaps SOTW it's for you! At those ages you may be able to skim through more than one book a year.

The Big Book of Art by Collins is chronological "from cave art to pop art", sadly the pictures are not full page.

So he is using the c-rods to discover solutions his own way, gets the right answer, and then seems to be able to translate between what he did and what the book authors did. I wouldn't mess with that! Perhaps I'm reading between the lines, but he does some problems without c-rods, right? So if something seems tricky this is his go-to tool. I'm not sure I understand your concern.

Most of the money is pounds and pence and I just mention the parallels to dollars and cents and exchange rates) and then carry on. It took me a year to find my comfort level with picking out activities that were okay to skip. That may just be me, but as the years go by don't be afraid to edit the lessons if needed. We're been using it for years 2-4 so far.

I couldn't vote for more than one thing, but I like the multi-pronged approach of repeat calling, combined with a hex, and a comment about how setting up a poll here is more satisfying than trying to get satisfaction from a recalcitrant company. Call and calmly tell them that 1. you ordered and paid for this thing ages ago, 2. they sent it to the wrong address, 3. the occasion has passed and now you are just left with a bitter taste, 4. you want then to refund you're money AND send you the hoodie. They may not go for 4., but maybe they will give you a discount, or maybe you just walk away with your money. Take notes and repeat your call when you have some frustration to spend. Over and over until you are satisfied.

Those issues are both normal. My almost-6 dd does them both. She is often fine with "th", but then will start sounding them out again. Also, she will read contractions as two separate words. The "th" she will self-correct, the contractions I just point out. My olders did this too and it gradually faded away.

Dmmetler just recommended the Cambridge Latin website to someone else in another post I was reading (vague, so vague). You might try pm'ing her to seewhat here experience is (I'm pretty sure they are in the states..vague again)

School is top priority. Assign yourself and the kids a bit of cleaning everyday. Keep refining your cooking plan for ease. Pay attention to what bothers you "most" for a week or month and then address that with a long-term plan, and repeat the process. This all looks very black-and-white on the computer screen. In real life, of course, it is messier.

Hey, while you are writing maybe you can add a paragraph for me about how "CNN Airport" is often played indiscriminately at airports and that during the holiday season there are a higher proportion of families with kids flying. Including shows about call-girls and related professions is, perhaps not considering their full market...

I get hungry mid-afternoon, and I really have trouble making smart food decisions then. Even if I have a plan, which helps at other times of the day, I just can't seem to reliably resist whatever I can lay my hands on during that time. If I am busy, or out of the house I do much better.

I do that for one of mine. It may have been a mistake on my part originally, but it is working out. I sort of shuffle 2 or 3 topics together, but the method you are suggesting for your dd would work well - better, actually, since that us how it is designed. I need to be able to circle back once in a while to remind/reinforce topics like time.

Penzey's Spices has a great Pepper Bean Salad recipe online that would go well if you want something else. Very colorful and do-aheadable.

I've considered a "Lego-only" vacuum. It might go well in that room!

FLL and WWE, yes. SOTW yes, more or less. I don't know what SW is. You certainly don't have to do that, though. This year (fourth), I've decided to intersperse other things with WWE and stretch it out. We are a bit "ahead" in FLL, but I have a couple things waiting for that time slot. We will finish the SOTW cycle, though.

I bring home a lot of the SOTW books and strew them around. Ds compulsively reads everything, dd usually skims. I try to pick our read-alouds from those lists. Occasionally I will highlight a book and we read it or I strongly suggest they read it. Fundamentally, though, I view them as extra books, over and above the lesson materials, so if we never did any of them it would (theoretically) not be a big deal.

Perhaps not worthy of a task, but he could make a "picassohead" if his tablet supports flash, and if it doesn't that might be a whole 'nother topic spin-off.

We are. DH just left on a business trip, if we didn't start we would sit around and starve. School gives us routine that includes food.

Neat idea! Lots of goods suggestions, too. What about downloading Duolingo and spending sometime working on a foreign language. App shopping itself would be an experience, perhaps point out costs and hidden costs. Down the road you may want to check out Makey Makey as an extension to the tablet.