I've recently found this site : http://www.mobymax.com/ and my boys are all enjoying it :) Best of all its FREE! I also have ETC online for my middle boy again , it goes up through book 6 and he has asked for it back since we quit doing it awhile back so I finally signed him back up ... through homeschoolbuyerscoop ... its only $40 for a year thru them :) https://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/explode-the-code-online/?source=60546

THIS!!! ...... this very problem is why I choose to use Biblioplan! I love MOH , but I also didn't like how it jumps all over the place ;) Biblioplan pulls it all together, still tied in with the Bible stories, in mostly chronological order, but by area :D I purchased an older version of Biblioplan, so I don't have the current ed. with all the new extra stuff. I only have the plan pages, the timeline pages, the maps, and the coloring pages (I don't care for those much as I've found much better ones online) HTH!!!

This is still available! ... but only for another two day! https://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/discovery-education-streaming-plus/?source=60546 Great price for such a resource!

Christian Light sells a workbook for diagramming :) http://clp.org/store/by_course/155 HTH!

First off .... I wouldn't say you NEED it ... but .. its got a TON of videos made for children on a lot of topics! No, the quality isn't the best on some of them, but so far (in just a few days of using it) we have watching a LOT of history related vids, a few science ones, found a few series we love ( Reading Rainbow , Prototype This , Magic School Bus , etc ) My boys LOVE to watch even short vids, it really helps "cement" what we are reading about. One thing I love so far is there are NO ads, and I don't need to worry about them clicking something totally inappropiate! You can narrow your searches by grades and or by media type , they have audio only files , and pictures , as well as videos ... some even have Teacher's Guides and or worksheets/tests that you can use as well! I'm pretty careful (paranoid?) about what I will let my boys use online, but I would be comfortable turning them loose with this site. However I've enjoyed watching most of it myself! .. We are doing ancient history this year and have found a LOT of very age appropiate and interesting videos on anceint egypt! HTH!!

This has been extended!!! ... the page on homeschoolbuyerscoop now says its good til 9-16 :D https://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/discovery-education-streaming-plus/?source=60546 Just thought I would share :D

Actually ... there is a site ... http://www.discoveryeducation.com/ However its normally like $375 a year! ... you can get a free trial , but for now (until Sept 16th!) you can buy a years subscription for only $99 from here : https://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/discovery-education-streaming-plus/?source=60546 You have to sign up, but the site is free and has a LOT to offer :D

Hi there :) I've used CLE math for 1st - 5th with my oldest boy and your totally right as the 2nd grade year goes forward more and more of the teaching is IN the student LU and less is required of the teacher/parent :) In all grades (above 1st of course ;) ) the first x01 unit of Math is review from the prior year, just to make sure a child is ready for the new grade. If you are schooling year round you could skip that unit. My son likes doing it because of the special "fun" activites :) If you liked CLE for 1st grade you should love it for 2nd grade ;) ... you can look at a sample for each unit on the CLE website, only 201 should be "quite a bit different" .. by the end of 2nd grade a student can be doing it nearly completely on their own. I loved that with my oldest because my middle boy is special needs and took/takes a LOT of my time and attention! HTH!

We use CLE here ... and love it! However in the lower grades (1st-5th) Bible is only 5 Lightunits , so 1/2 a year worth ... made to do 2-3 days a week. You can see more about each leavle, and samples here : http://www.clp.org/store/by_subject/2 R&S doesn't have a seperate Bible curriculum for 1st-4th as their Reading program is bible stories at those levels. Never used or even seen ACE, so can't comment there :) HTH!!

Bibloplan has book lists on their website :) Since they use SOTW as an alternate spine their year 3 list should work great :D Here is the link : http://www.biblioplan.net/p/year-three-recommended-book-list.html HTH! :D

wow ... great resource ... thanks for sharing! :D

I splurged for my oldest this year and got him this one ... and bought the CD set that has all the figures for all of history on it! ... between them it was over $100 .. *choke,sputter,gasp!* However it was what HE wanted, and I am actually jealous, its GORGEOUS! I think what you choose to use for a timeline would depend on several things .. What you can afford (of course) What level your child(ren) are at What your using for History and I'm sure theres more ... lol For my little guys I'm using the Bibiolplan timeline pages .. its a copy/paste .. premade pages with figures that go in marked spots. Since they are both still young this is great for them. They both asked to do a timeline since my oldest is. .. . lol HTH!! :)

My oldest started cursive at almost 8 ... I printed off a few free sheets from learningpage ... then used this book : http://www.amazon.com/Daily-Handwriting-Practice-Contemporary-Cursive/dp/155799756X/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1371699555&sr=8-2-fkmr1&keywords=even+moore+cursive He and I both really liked it ... the lines are big enough without being too big .. for him anyway :)

I will second this one .... this is what I have !! I had an older brother that I used for several years, when it quit working I decided to upgrade instead of trying to fix it. I got this one about 8-10 mths ago I think it was and its worked great. Very easy to use, and even if you buy brand name ink (which I recomend for the color ones) its not very expensive :) I've not used it to print on CDs , but it does do everything you wanted :)

I say use whatever works best, for the child, and for you. I have 3 boys, between them they are using 4 different programs for maths (special needs middle boy has 2) My middle boy does best with mastery, my oldest did good with mastery for 1st grade, and has done great with spiral since. My little one has gotten bored with mastery 1/2 way through 1st , so he got switched to spiral. I love being able to throw out what doesn't work, or even replace stuff that is working ok, and change it up when I feel it will help :D