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  1. My 5 year old is nick named spaz so I understand. We are using All About Reading and he loves it! I tried using something else and he rebelled and started saying he hates school. We went back to AAR and we are back to enjoying our school time.
  2. Honestly? I don't do Ancients at this age for those kinds of reasons. I personally love HOD's history scope and sequence for this very reason. Since your situation is the way it is right now I might consider taking a different sequence with history right now. She is sooo young to chance hearing things like what you referenced. You can censor it but honestly having to sensor would drive me crazy. Praying for you and your dh and family. I'm sure things are tough right now :grouphug:
  3. We are using All About Reading and my 5 year old loves it! We started with it when he was 4. I highly recommend it.
  4. Yeah the $ is higher than what I might spend on something else but I LOOOOVVVVVEEEEE it so much and it's exactly the kind of education I want for my boys so truthfully I'll scrap and eat PB&J for a while to afford it. Right now my cart is $726 and that includes both boys stuff but I'm at $1200 total for the year with the other stuff I've buying in addition to HOD. I spent $1500 last year on BJU DL for both boys so it evens out for me. If I'd continued with BJU DL for both boys this year it would have been a $2000 price tag so $726 is looking sweet to me right ;)
  5. I've almost nailed down all of next years curriculum but I'm still not sure what to do about my then 7th graders Reading/Literature curriculum. We are using BJU DL Reading this year and it's ok but honestly the price tag is SO HIGH for individual classes that I want to go another route. If it's the best option I'll make it happen somehow though. We will continue with HOD as our history and science so I've been pondering DITHOR. I just don't know if that would be the best option for a kinesthetic learner. I'm actually not sure there is a great literature/reading curriculum for kinesthetic learners period :glare: Opinions? What are you using for your kinesthetic learner?
  6. And without pen and paper I would be estimating until I found paper or wrote on my hand. :001_huh:
  7. It was my son that started regrouping at the 8. He got the right answer but I also think there is more of a chance to make mistakes doing it that way. He says he learned it in BJU math. I don't know if it's regrouping tricks they taught him or something else. I'm with Liping Ma on this one. I think it would be fine for smaller numbers but a problem this size is asking for mistakes. But I am phobic of math so what do I know :lol:
  8. Ok so I want to know if I'm crazy or not. Math is not my strong subject at all so I thought I would ask all of you how you would do it. 81,327 -45,189 Would you start in the ones column and regroup each column as you come to it or would you start with the 10,000's column and regroup starting there? I would start in the ones column and regroup each column as I come to it but there is another person in my house that would start with the 10,000's column. What say you hive?
  9. A lot depends on your child and their skills and personality but honestly I'm going to say yes. Having a 12 year old that wasn't raised on HOD it's very evident to me that the skills weren't learned outside of HOD and it's been hard teaching him those skills this late in the game. We are on the late end of the age range too. Knowing what I know about the skills learned in each guide I personally wouldn't put a child in at the younger age unless they are advanced. Middle or late seems to work for us. I think that if you start HOD later in the guides you just have to be prepared to move into it slow and know that your child might not be quite ready to hit it full load. That's how we did it and we're making HOD work for us. Just this morning I decided to read aloud the Reading About History box. I was missing the discussions that were teaching my son to look at what he read critically. He's been checking off the boxes and not really delving in deep to the topics. Small change to make that I think will reap exactly what I want. I LOVE the books we use in HOD. I plan to put my younger son in HOD from the beginning. He starts LHFHG next year for 1st grade. I've spent years, literally, looking at HOD and owning manual after manual. I wish, wish, wish I could have started the older on it from the beginning. I love HOD that much. That's just my 2 cents worth.
  10. Is there any other place besides directly from AG that one can buy AG? I usually buy directly from publisher if possible but also like to know what my options are this time of year when I'm buying next years curriculum. Thanks!
  11. I have a love hate relationship with co-ops and even the tutorial I am currently teaching at! :001_huh: The heart of the lady that basically lead this tutorial is so in the right place. But the parents are a different story. We have 3 classes and I am reminded every week why I homeschool. It appears to me that most parents drop their kids off once a week to get a break. There's nothing wrong with that but I've been tasked with teaching their children and sometimes I wonder if they care if I teach anything....:glare: Personally I hate losing the day each week. I would prefer to school M - Th and have a light math only Friday but I can't do that if we are doing a co-op or this tutorial. My older son is so social and he struggles with wanting to be around kids his age. When he doesn't get to see other kids more than once a week at Tutorial he starts getting depressed. I haven't found one group that fits my social guy and my needs. I doubt I'll be teaching at the tutorial next year and I'm going to put my energy into organizing a middle school group for him so that he can really connect and get to know other kids his age. Hows that for an answer :tongue_smilie:
  12. Kirstin, I really don't know what to say to help. My 12 year old had a terrible time learning to read but he reads good now. It's only been in the last few years that it finally clicked for him and now his spelling is not good nor his understanding of grammar. It seems it never ends with this one. :001_huh: I did want to tell you that you have made me consider something with BJU. My 5 year old is using BJU and I never thought that it might make him start focusing on the end of the word first. I'm considering switching him to AAR 1 but if I don't I'll be watching that. Thanks for the heads up and sorry I can't help you more. I agree with the PP's. Check all those things first. When you know what is exactly wrong it's a bit easier to find what might work. Time was also the key for my son. He couldn't remember much of anything before 11. I would definitely check for audio and visual issues but know it might just be time that he needs. Praying for a resolution for you!
  13. Merry, I was just telling my husband the same thing. I told him that even though I wanted to get done with grammar while he is middle school that I completely believe we will still have to work on it in high school. This kid just refuses to follow any kind of traditional timeline. I'm ok with that. The goal is to get grammar before 9th grade but if it doesn't happen I'm ok with that too. Thanks for the reminder!
  14. Bob Jones distance learning classes. He's in 6th grade but actually doing the 5th grade reading class because it has a "spy" theme and Mrs. Walker teaches it. BJU Reading 5 sample video This same child had a HORRIBLE time learning to read and he begged to do this class instead of the 6th grade so I let him. It was an easy decision to make to encourage more reading from him. The whole of Language Arts is just a nightmare with this kid. Some days I just want to :banghead: Age is helping. The older he gets the easier things are. I think it's just a matter of him being ready to learn these things. He's on a much later time line than most other kids. I absolutely love CQLA but the one thing that is drawing me to AG is the fact that AG is what it is. If I try AG right now and it's not working well we can shelf it and pick it back up in 6 months. It's the same when we come back. And very direct. With other LA's and CQLA the level of requirement keeps ramping up if I try to place him near his "grade" level. If I place him in a lower "grade" or level on a LA then his self esteem takes a hit. AG requires the same no matter his age and that makes using it with this son much easier than trying to place him in another LA. I've definitely not made a final decision but I'm leaning heavily towards AG, MC and keep with AAS to help his spelling...yet another struggle for this kid. Thank goodness for spell check :001_unsure:
  15. BJU has a great elementary spanish curriculum that is so much fun. The course also has the dvd classes that can be bought to go with it. My 5 year old loves the dvd classes. HTH!
  16. If you can afford it I recommend doing the DVD's for both grades. We love BJU dvd classes and we are very fond of the science in particular. I plan to use, at a minimum, the science for my younger son almost all the way through his schooling...like someone else said...unless I get thrown a curve ball.
  17. I'm in the same position. I've got a 6th grade son that wears me down honestly. I came here to do a search for CQLA and possibly Analytical Grammar. I love the looks of CQLA and AG now. I've been looking into AG this evening. I'm still undecided but if I do AG I will probably do Meaningful Composition which is the writing component of CQLA. I think we could do MC during the Review and Reinforce weeks of AG. I also know of a few people that use CQLA and AG both. I think I'm going to try to talk to them soon. Well I know this doesn't help but I just thought I'd throw out that I can completely sympathize with you and I'm following this thread! :bigear: We use AAS for spelling and LOVE it and BJU Reading this year. He's loving the reading class right now. EG is going ok. I like it but I honestly want something that doesn't take years to teach grammar. I like that AG can be done over 1, 2 or 3 years. It makes me feel like there might be hope that we can get him up to speed before highschool. :blink:
  18. Depending on the kids age you might be able to combine in Heart of Dakota. It does schedule math and LA but the curriculum isn't dependent on it. You can use whatever math and LA you want.
  19. :leaving: But I am now finally set on our core. A few different subjects are open for research and changes but the core stays the same now.
  20. Agreeing with Boscopup. The thing about AAS is it's so much more than teaching a list of words and even the rule behind why they are spelled that way. There are things incorporated in the lessons that help cement spelling for kids. I would start at level 2 and go from there. The great thing about AAS is that you can find it used and it resales for a good price. I started my 12 year old at level 1. Yes it's expensive but worth every penny for me. His spelling is/was (getting much better because of AAS) atrocious. We do a step a day right now. I'm sure that when he gets a few levels up we'll end up slowing down but right now we fly through it. Again I still feel it's worth every penny. HTH!
  21. We do every card behind the review tabs every day. They don't get moved to the mastered tab until there is no hesitation on remembering them and they also aren't missing them when working with the same rule in their other work. One of the strengths of AAS is the review. If you aren't doing the daily review and using the cards at all times I highly recommend doing that. It's doubtful to me you can get all of what AAS offers without them. It takes me only a few minutes to do the review. HTH!
  22. How about Diana Waring stuff? The lastest stuff isn't quite out but will be shortly. The audio's are out ? if I'm not mistaken.
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