I have been looking at her classes and was considering signing my son up for her PreAlgebra class for the Fall. I was wondering if any of you who have taken classes from her before could tell me about what to expect as far as the amount of homework. My son attends a co-op one day a week so we only do school at home four days a week as it is. The PreAlgebra class is the two days a week for an hour. He gets overwhelmed if his math work takes him too long in one sitting and he starts to make stupid mistakes towards the end so I am worried about how much homework she assigns and how much time it takes up during the week besides attending the actual classes. Thanks!

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Help! Trying to find an old post I had come across on here that had middle school level grammar books where I think everything was covered in a year that they need to know and then just reviews from there. I can't find it now but grammar for 7th grade is getting really tedious right now and I am thinking of something along the lines of this for next year. Any help appreciated!

I am pathetically lacking in the art dept. and it is just not getting done around here because I dread it. Opinions on which program is better, easier, etc? They are both on homeschool buyers co-op right now so trying to decide what to go with. Thanks!

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Hey everyone, I am going back over my kid's ITBS scores planning on how to strengthen their weaknesses for the year. One are of the test I was not really clear on. My daughter that was in 3rd grade last year on the ITBS Usage and Expression section scored 100% on 4 out of the 5 parts- the nouns pronouns and modifiers, verb, organization of ideas and appropriate use sections. So overall she did really well on her Usage and Expression score but she scored really below average on the 5th section conciseness and clarity. Can someone give me some insight in to what that section would contain? ust seems weird that she would do well on all but one so maybe she just did not understand those but I would feel better knowing in case it is something I am completely glossing over here at home. Thanks!

I guess my question is the same as Calendula - by doing it this way how do you get through that grade without making it last forever?

Hey everyone. This is my first year I am going to be branching out and using a variety of math curr. at once. My oldest has always thrived with Saxon but my two girls ages 8 and 9 just seem to be struggling and not really grasping concepts. I put in a purchase with the group buy for the light blue series for Math Mammoth but was also wanting to add in Miquon and MEP. I am also planning on using the 1st and 2nd grade MM and some MEP to go back and review concepts to make sure they are firm on things before we move on(one of them is in 3rd and one in 4th). I am kinda anal about using one curr. per subject and a big time stickler for making sure I get the book done by the end of the year so this is a stretch for me. I have read many threads on here by many of you who do similar combinations but what I really need is for someone to tell me how to do it scheduling wise. I want to use the strengths of each program to really use this year to make some basic concepts concrete and then probably go back next year to using just one curr. depending on which one we like best. But I also don't want to skip around so much that at the end of the year I don't feel like I accomplished anything. Sorry for the novel but any advice is welcome.

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We use the cards to review the events but we also use it to memorize the timeline of events using something they do in classical conversations a friend taught me. You can see the actions they use on a variety of YouTube videos like this one Eventually they can do the actions without prompting but when they first start you can hold up the cards as they go through them to remind them of the order. Of course you can do only the section of actions and cards for the part of history you are focusing on that year instead of the whole thing.

Hey there, I have three I am homeschooling 6th grade, 3rd grade and 2nd grade plus a 3 yr old. I have a schedule written out and they each have a copy of their schedule in their binder. When I make it up at the beginning of the year I schedule it based on who will need me for what subjects. For instance I schedule two of them for something they can do ind. while I am doing something with the other. We combine for history, science, geography at the end of the school day, I just have my son do extra work when we are done for each of those since he is in the logic stage. My girls for reading are right on the same level so we do First language Lessons, Writing with Ease ad Reading together. Most of what my son does by now is independent except for Latin and vocab we do together.

Oh thanks, I must have missed it before, I was wondering when they expired.

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Biblioplan has them and uses SOTW as one of the spine options so I would think it goes along with SOTW pretty well but I haven't used it. They have sampes here.