yes, we are already doing this.

oh, and I guess the reason I'm asking this now is because 1) I hate watching her struggle. while she DOES the work, which is more than I can say for DS, I don't really think she enjoys what she is doing. and also, 2) Since the HO is on sale this month, I was planning on getting next years ebook now, but if I change what we do, ...

Basically, I totally revamped my son's curriculum due to the realization that my expectations were greater than his abilities. I got a different writing program, as he was struggling greatly with what we were using, he needs to go back a ways and get the foundation work in. I took him off of history odyssey and put him on story of the world, and i"m using this with WWE techniques to help him with his writing while using EIW for grammar/writing program. Now, my question is this... Is WWS with HO too much work? Should I take DD off of HO? She is not struggling with the work, simply taking ALL DAY LONG to get it done. We do History 3 days and Science 2 days; on Science days, we're done right after lunch. on History days, sometimes she doesn't finish at all, with all the writing and reading done. Should I put her on SOTW as well, expanded with the literature from CHOLL, is this enough for a logic stage 7th grader?

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I never read the comics but I have a fear of something happening to the baby. how far are we from the end now? 3 more? I wish that there was a way they could get rid of the governor and then move into woodbury; I know they keep saying the prison is "home" but its really so dreary. a real neighborhood would be so much better. most of the people at woodbury seem to just want a leader, someone in charge, they don't seem like they would threats to the group.

We started with LOF prealgebra; she got about halfway through the second one, got stuck on a bridge with questions that had less to do with math and more to do with economics that DH couldn't help her with, and I've got her now starting on saxon. It makes her cry daily. Why? "Because I already know all this!" ugh. I don't want to tell her to skip any parts because I don't know if she will miss anything obvious... Has anyone used the Math Mammoth prealgebra worksheets? I"m tempted by those.

Ok, I'm struggling with where to start, exactly. I got SOTW 2 in, so he's still doing the same time period in history, but what do we do? Read a chapter together and then... have him outline it? have him narrate a summary to me and then write it down? I'm not sure how to implement this, or what my goal is. I'm feeling very frazzled today, I'm afraid I've already failed.

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Thank you. I think you are right. he is "young" his birthday is sept 2, so technically he could be in a lower grade level. I've tossed around the idea repeatedly about repeating the 6th, and right now, I know I need to focus on the writing, and reading, and comprehension and that means going back to the beginning and moving forward at his pace. I'll be spending the weekend brushing up on techniques and the plan, and start this next monday, with reading SOTW 2 for history, and focusing on writing and grammar and math.

math is not necessarily something he's struggling in, I just feel like the way he takes instruction he would do better with the videos. He's actually on level with math, he's not quite ready for pre-algebra, so right at the fractions decimals and percents stage. We are using K12 Human Odyssey with History odyssey as the spine instead of story of mankind, but I will get SOTW 2 and allow him to read those stories and maybe find a way to use SWB writing method with that .... thank you for all your responses

thank you for your response. I'm still mulling it over, I just wish I could be TOLD what best to do. He was PS for 3 years, the HS for a year, then back to PS for half a year and back in HS, I feel like certain things fell through the cracks, and its taken me a year to realize that we can't move forward without moving back. I know it seems like its close to the end of the year, but quite honestly we are so far behind I'm *this close* to changing to a Jan-Dec format, because at this rate we wont finish this year until after summer anyway, and at this point I am not opposed to starting over with something new as long as it WORKS because what I am doing is not working. Not with this child.

I'm struggling with my DS 11yo. I feel like maybe what I have him doing now is beyond his level maybe? I am trying to make things not so much of a struggle. I got a different writing program and grammar, I'm looking into getting a new math... Now I'm thinking history needs to be changed. We are currently doing history odyssey 2 middle ages... I don't even know how to explain what the problem is. He isn't intuitive? maybe? I don't know. It just seems like its all above his head. I feel like I need to bring him down a few levels, lower my expectations, lower the pressure, let him find a groove maybe? His writing is bad. its really atrocious. his handwriting is worse. I recently purchased EIW for 5th grade, hoping that will bring it back to his level and help bring him back up. I purchased the NAC cursive software to help with his handwriting. I'm looking into getting Teaching Textbooks for math instead of math mammoth so he has a little bit better instruction and help when he is struggling. I feel like I'm rambling, I'm sorry I keep getting distracted. I feel like the reading assignments may be above his head. I know the writing expectation is too much for him. but what can I do for history, to keep him in the middle ages, to be more on his level, if level 2 history odyssey is too much? I think level 1 middle ages is geared for 2nd grade, so that seems like its too low, but would it be easier to use that and beef it up than to try to simplify what I've got?

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you can download everything you need. I think you can probably get away without printing all of the student pages too, if you'd rather them do all the work in like a spiral or composition notebook.

i used chemistry with my then 4th and 5th grader. it was fine for us. she gives a breakdown of 2-days or 5 days a week, i dont see why you couldnt change it easily for 4 days

which topic are you looking at getting? the elementary ones are geared for specific grades; if you're looking at biology, for instance, I would say no for a 5th grader...

Come talk to me. I have been thinking a lot about this way of teaching, and at this point, it sort of looks like we somehow just slid into it. Through a combination of me working outside the home, not checking on the kids, the kids not really doing their work... they aren't going to finish this years' work until after September. And I had already planned a K4 schedule with my DD after January, so now I'm wondering if this is how we'll be doing it from now on. how do you schedule your year? 6 weeks on, 1-2 weeks off? are you "ahead" or "behind"? How does this work as far as graduating and going to college? anything else you can offer as advice?

Where do you get the PDF for 5?

OH man, I hadn't seen this but if it based from the book the unhealthy truth and goes with that line of thinking I'm totally on it!

It just says "presale" but doesn't give a date. also says ebooks will be released after print books. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pandia-Press/386311168102133?fref=ts

They posted on their facebook page the other day about how it was to be released on Amazon... let me see if I can find it