What an excellent idea. Couple of glasses of wine in sunny Spain should smooth things over... :lol:

:iagree: Ditto.

Good for you! :grouphug:

Hi. Thank you for the ideas. I can't leave dh for 3 months -last time I left for 2 months dh got sick and depressed and it was a mess (incidentally ds got sick too and hated South America). Dh made me promise I wouldn't leave him alone for so long ever again :tongue_smilie: But we have agreed to vacation in Spain as much as possible. Also, we do 2 days in full Spanish. Even when we do "English" days I tend to say something in one language and repeat it in the other. Oh, well. As for DHs not teaching the language... Now every time ds makes a mistake in English I start yelling "Native speaker! Is there a native speaker in the house!!??" It makes dh smile... ;)

Hiya. Not trying to hijack the thread but I am going through the same thing. Can you share with me what is the online scheduling system you use? Is it free? Thank you :)

WOW I just learned a few things I didn't know I didn't know. :laugh: Thank you so much for the details on SM. You are as of now my official SM guru! You've definitely gave lots to think about. BTW, I went to sgbox.co, and I couldn't make heads or tails of the info on the screen (the lack of pictures didn't help matters).

Pardon my ignorance but what are IPs and CWP?

Never heard of sgbox.com. Will check out. Ta.

You found it! Thank you so much. I checked it out and the shipping costs are lower. I am actually not in Europe but the Middle East (even farther than Europe :tongue_smilie:). I was checking Singapore's math site because we are going to the UK next month and I thought I could order, have it sent to a friend's house, stuff it in suitcase, bring back to the desert, etc. Anyway, I was appalled EB books were £21.99 a pop, which is like $33 each.... Besides the price I find EB has too many cute little pictures which are way too distracting. Thank you for sharing your experience with EB. I may go down the same route later on if I see ds catching up nicely. BTW, did you get the textbook and workbook and the guide all (you know, the whole set) for Primary Math? p.s. Never Mind -I just saw what you used from this thread: http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103921

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I sooooo feel your pain. Living in the Gulf with a husband who works long hours has wrecked havoc with our plans to make our child speak both Spanish and English. I spoke to my ds in Spanish for the first 3 years of his life. Ds is a late talker (as I was) dh was not happy and took ds to speech therapist who said that for the child to speak any language he/she had to be exposed to said language about 30% of the time. Ds still wanted dc to speak English but didn't have the time to teach him so I ended up sacrificing Spanish to English :001_huh: Ds understands Spanish but doesn't speak it. Of course I understand that, at the end of the day ds is British and has to speak English otherwise he can't get a place in a British school in the UAE (their rules). Now dc's English has improved tons but the Spanish failed to take off. My mother tells me off abut it. In the meantime Dh still too busy to teach dc his native language! How am I expected to produce a perfectly bilingual child????

Thank you. I tried Sonlight but they offer the Early Bird, not the Essential series. Sadly enough we were using MEP this year. It didn't work. It was too spiral. So spiral that ds moved quickly and then couldn't remember the days lesson and look bored. We tried a bit more mastery and drills and it worked better -even if it didn't move so quickly. I was going to MM do but read here that MM 1a was for first grade not kindy.

Singapore Essential Math K. I've googled until my fingers turned purple. Is it not available in the UK? I found it at Rainbow but the shipping cost for international shipping is 5 TIMES the shipping cost for the order :svengo: The Early Bird books are £21.99 each! from the Singapore website for UK and Europe. Any ideas?

Anybody else? :bigear:

The reading program is the Handbook, right? Also, did you just get the first 7 little workbooks, not the readers?

I'd like to get Jolly Phonics for my 4.5yo and next year K. I'm traveling to the UK next month so I need to make a list of what I'm ordering to bring back. Jolly phonic users: can you tell me list of JP materials to buy? I saw on their website workbooks and handbook, and dvds and cds and puppets (which seem excessive to me). I intend to use JP and How to Teach you Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. Good idea this? Or should I use JP own handbook instead? Please help. I am tired of :banghead:

Thank you for the reply. Now I know I am not the only one. Hopefully the problem will be solved soon because this site is like a life life for me :D

Hello. I am having a lot of problems with the website. It keeps taking me to a blank page with an error message saying the WTM website has encountered a problem with the database and to press the refresh button. This doesn't correct the problem. Is anyone else having problems???

OK. Nice suggestions. I will check the yahoo group and work my way from there. :)

Dear Karin -My ds is a late-talker who is extremely bright in science and anything mechanical, but he is also very intense. He hates it if something he does is not perfect the fist time. I never knew about the Einstein Syndrome until I read this post. Sorry I can't help you but I think YOU just helped me... :blushing:

This is something I am considering at the moment so I am bumping because I want to hear about Easy Classical users too! :lurk5:

:iagree: Good to know about Sonlight too!

As a follow up I just wanted to say thanks to you all. I think I may just ask a few questions about individual curriculums... but I do it in separate threads. :D

Thank you for the suggestions. I have BFSU. I bought it because it was highly recommended. I opened it and I was overwhelmed. I could not understand how to make lessons from the material. I was stumped! :confused1: How do you use BFSU?

Thanks! :D