Both of my children went straight from 8/7 to Algebra 1.

I started planning for next year two years ago. :tongue_smilie:

Week #5

Our fourth week is up.

My son and I signed up for the first time. He's been doing a lot of research for his book (he wants to write a story about Armageddon), but I haven't been doing anything in particular to prepare. Should I be stocking up on frozen pizzas or something? Maybe I've gotten in over my head here! :tongue_smilie:

I wrote one three years ago! The more things change, the more they stay the same...

While watching a Teaching Company geology lecture: "Yeah, yeah. The earth is a swirling swirl of swirliness. Got it."

Our third week is up. :001_smile:

I do the chants the first way, but then I do a quick vocabulary quiz. "Tell me the dative plural of bridge." I keep a master notebook just for recitations, and I use that as a crib sheet. At the beginning of our Latin studies, we also chanted the cases until they were second nature.

We did. It only took a few minute each day to run through them. (We didn't use Prima, though, just LC 1 & 2.)

I just posted our second week.

I've decided to participate this year. Our first week is up!

:lol: I just finished telling my kids that real hippies don't have to tell you they're hippies.

There are 30 weeks in each level, and each week has five days of lessons. Each day's lesson (or workbook assignment) tells you what to review/recite that day; conjugations, declensions, vocabulary, verses, etc. I don't remember any audio work being scheduled, though.

We just did the quick, one-year run through, but my 8th grader used A Short History of the World by John Morris Roberts. I supplemented the American history sections with primary sources taken from Great Issues in American History and The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation.

We have always done our lessons in the kitchen, but I haven't been able to keep it from looking tacky! (I tried keeping things in boxes and baskets, but the kids only use the stuff they can see.) I have pictures from three different houses HERE, HERE, and HERE.

My son did TL 1 in 7th grade, and didn't have any trouble. I'd say he liked it more than math, but not as much as Latin. :)

I don't know anything about the citizenship issues, but I flew with my oldest when he was ten days old. It was harder on me than it was on him.

You probably already know about these, but you could have them do Couch to 5K, 100 push ups, and 200 sit ups. I'm thinking of having my son do these along with his regularly scheduled activities.

Poor guy. Maybe he could also remove the bands for language classes? Of course that would probably just drag out the treatment time. :( We have had to work my son's orthodontic treatments around his theatre schedule. "No, Mom! That's tech week!" :tongue_smilie:

We don't have a school room, and our stuff is definitely scattered. I just wrote a blog post (with pictures!) about where we keep the books. :)

I have no background in Latin and am probably doing it all wrong, but I'll tell you what I do anyway. :D For translation exercises, I count each sentence (Latin to English, English to Latin, doesn't matter) as five points. I don't know enough Latin to pick apart every little bit of a sentence, so I've just been taking off two points for mistakes involving the simple subject or predicate and one point for any other mistake within the sentence. An example: Translate the following sentence into Latin: Christ was killed that men be saved from death and sin. Christus interfectus est ut homines e morte et peccato eperentur. "Eperentur" should be "eriperentur," so I took off one point. For straight vocabulary questions, one word equals one point. Each declension chart-type question (decline "mensa, mensae") is worth five points. Each conjugation chart-type question (give the present indicative of "exeo, exire") is worth three points. Waiting for Ester Maria's reply! :bigear:

We're using the first edition of Scales, Intervals, Keys and Triads: A Programed Book of Elementary Music Theory by John Clough. The latest edition is available on Amazon.

:001_smile: Sweetness! My kids are close. They do many things together (at the moment they're out drawing a mushroom army on the sidewalk - please don't ask me why because I don't know) but I enjoy watching them read. They're always reading bits of their books aloud to each other, which of course leads to conversation, which of course leads to more books being pulled off the shelves. It's a simple thing, but I love it. I didn't expect them to get along because of the age/gender difference; my brother and I fought constantly, and we're still a little prickly around each other. I'm not sure what exactly helped them have such a good relationship, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that homeschooling hasn't hurt!

This is our 9th year.