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  1. My condolences. Praying your traveling goes smoothly.
  2. I did MEP year 7&8 with my boy who sounds similar to yours. He forgets the procedure easily. He did well and I think liked MEP (he decided to stick with it after year 7). We got through MEP 8 at the beginning of spring. At a lesson a day you can easily get through years 7&8 in a single school year. I do like the word problems and the fact that there are only "ten" problems per lesson. Some problems have multiple parts, but it seemed less overwhelming for him and I instead of seeing 60 problems for each lesson. He is reviewing with Khan Academy without my help for the remainder of the school year to see if he has actually internalized the concepts or if I have helped too much. As he is going into 8th grade I am not too concerned if we need to do pre-algebra again. To answer your question, you can easily begin in Year 7.
  3. The purple math does have a pre-algebra option. It's in a menu on the left side of my screen. It does take you to Mathhelp but you can still do the lessons for free. I am not sure how much you have to do of Master Math. Usually grade 8 is pre-algebra. Of the three I have only done MEP.
  4. A few free options: Purple Math purplemath.com Master Math mastermath.info MEP years 7 & 8 are prealgebra and could be accomplished in a single year if you do a lesson a day. https://www.cimt.org.uk/projects/mepres/book7/book7.htm
  5. Power Homeschool is another online option. Short videos and questions. They also have extra classes that might be of interest. https://discoveryk12.com/ Is free and covers core classes. If you want some enrichment type things to do (you in the evenings or hubby in a morning basket time) https://underthehome.org/ is also free online. Charlotte Mason style for grades k-5. Includes art studies and more. Just realized this is a very old thread.... should have coffee before responding.
  6. If doing more 'school' in the summer is going to cause friction and ruin the healing your relationship has done, I wouldn't bother. The teenage years are hard enough, don't make it harder for 8 weeks of academic improvement (maybe). I agree the pizzazz worksheets could be fun. You could also do the Hands on Equations and/or Dragonbox Algebra apps. You could review books/games/whatever on Amazon (or the like) for real life writing. Taking his reviews through the editing process would cover basic grammar. Read and discuss a couple classics together.
  7. I think in 5-10 years schools will honestly switch to virtual based learning as in "Ready Player One". Kids will be assigned an Oculus and the software will manage discipline and grading homework. One teacher will be able to teach thousands at a time. We've proven it can be done even if it didn't work out well in the initial trial run. Even if the kids still actually travel to a physical building so parents can work, the learning will be predominately online and the teachers will be mostly just babysitters who help with tech issues.
  8. Generations (Kevin Swanson) just put out an economics course for 9th graders (so could probably be simplified for middle schoolers). Definitely faith based though if that's an issue. https://store.generations.org/collections/curriculum/products/how-the-world-runs-set
  9. Oldest child will be getting married. Second child will just be working, but is planning a spring trip just for herself. Third child will be going to a church conference in a different state. Fourth and Fifth child will be going to summer camp. Poor sixth child can't go to camp because of the wedding so we will do some fun stuff just with him when the others are at camp. We will all be helping with a VBS. Not the calm relaxing summer I usually prefer!
  10. You could use Jensen's Grammar and Format Writing (2 single workbooks). They can be accomplished in a single year and cover most everything. Masterbooks now prints these (they have been around for years though so you might find them used).
  11. Your packages would just ship priority. You could look into their flat rate shipping envelopes. That might save you money if it's a large set. You can add insurance to any package. Tracking comes with everything now. I usually use media mail. Every once in a while the package gets totally lost. I keep my receipt just in case, I can't be responsible if the PO messes it up. I think you could ask someone to cover insurance if they want it, understanding that you won't refund money if it's lost. As for your homeschool store not taking secular items, I would be surprised if they were that picky. I run a homeschool library and accept almost everything knowing that the homeschool market is more dynamic than ever before.
  12. There are worksheets to go with the videos at Teacher's Pay Teacher's.
  13. Predominately we eat at 5:30. Sometimes a little sooner depending on hubby's schedule. It's early from my experience but we eat lunch early and have a snack mid afternoon. Maybe it would be later if my kids woke up later but they are up and hungry by 7:30 every day.
  14. Personal Finance or Business Finance or Consumer Math. BJU and Abeka and I am sure many other textbook companies all have at least one of these covered. The math will be definitely be easier than Algebra 2. You could couple Math.andyou.com (free) with Crash Course Statistics (free) for a years worth of material that checks a box. If you want a rigorous credit I would do a full year of statistics.
  15. Download a cursive font like Learning Curve or Learning Curve Dashed and create your own worksheets. The fonts are free. I also like Simply Charlotte Mason's Print to Cursive: Proverbs. You can skip the print pages and just use the cursive ones. It is a reasonable priced pdf download.
  16. I would suggest blood work. It can be very difficult to lose weight if you have thyroid/adrenal gland issues. If you can't lose weight on a reasonable diet then there may be underlying issues. I have thyroid problems and can't seem to lose weight (except for when I had Covid and simply wasn't eating much at all). So I feel your pain! Hopefully wiser people than I will share their wisdom.
  17. You could do Crash Course videos (free on youtube). There are, supposedly, worksheets to go with them, but I have not seen them. If you prefer print, the Stobough history books from Master Books would be *very* get er done.
  18. If you decide to join Facebook, the Blue Collar Homeschool group is great for parents of kids who aren't taking the typical college prep road.
  19. Do you have a local homeschool library? You could donate the stuff that isn't selling and try new things. Or find a local FB group and offer to trade your old stuff for different stuff.
  20. I consider FB as the equivalent to having an email address 20 years ago or a phone number 30+ years ago, its a standard form of communication. You can live without it, but it's very inconvenient for 'other' people to get ahold of you. I have a homeschool library that I post weekly hours on FB (they tend to change more often than I would like). I have a web page, but it rarely gets accessed and it is considerably harder to update than sending out a message on FB. I have friends who have bailed to other platforms, but almost all my potential 'customers' are on FB. Others can email the library or me personally if needed. My biggest annoyance is trying to remember how friends prefer to be contacted. Some don't read emails more than once a week, some don't keep their cell phones on, some don't look at FB often, a few only have IG. At least back in the Yahoo days you only had two options, email or phone call.
  21. You could pull problems from the Everyday Math series on this page (they are free workbooks) https://www.nwtliteracy.ca/index.php/resources/youth-and-adult-literacy#38
  22. The Living Math web site has a history of math course. Living Math Lesson Plans — Living Math There are also gobs of story based math book lists for all levels.
  23. Obviously. you have never eaten Army food. This makes perfect sense to me.
  24. I will always be mommy to my smf kids. All six of mine have the same initials and even when they are all grown, I will still be "mom", so I don't see myself outgrowing it. 🙂
  25. Rainbow Science could be a good option. Colorful, covers basic bio/chem/physics over two years. Although one of my kiddos read the book and didn't do much in the way of labs in a single middle school year.
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