Thank you! Bookmarked in favorites!

Great resource! Thanks.

Well... ya'll aren't much help. LOL. The name is either too academic or has the potential to be named after a dead dog. Or, we might move. Hhhmmm.... Liking that Happy Hamster Homeschool name. :D

Thanks Christina! I will have to incorporate some of those ideas. :)

:lol: Not Arizona. I'm just doing it for fun...

Bump.

My kids disagree what our homeschool should be called. A) Kingsley Academy (Kingsley's our cute white springer/lab mix.) B) 79th Street Schoolhouse (We live on 79th Street. :tongue_smilie:) What do you think?

Thanks for the advice. I wasn't anticipating such resistance. Maybe I should have let them take off more time this summer before starting "summer school." Maybe I'll take it down a notch until we really start. I haven't organized my curriculum yet, anyhow.

Thanks for the replies so far... Mystery of History, vol. 2 seems to be where the anti-Catholicism comes into play from what I've read. Horizons math seems appropriate for dd. Colorful and fun. Are manipulatives REALLY necessary? I'm wondering if they would just... sit.

Newbie here. I did a mini-summer school type course just to get my feet wet and came across discipline issues with dd, 7. When she didn't want to do something, she'd roll around on the floor moaning and complaining. I'm not sure how to handle this since I want hs-ing to be fun or at least tolerable. :tongue_smilie: What do YOU do to keep children cooperative? A daily star chart? Punishment? Candy?! :bigear:

Hi- I'm a newbie here and am a bit overwhelmed by all of the options. In brief... -We are Catholic (but I don't need our work saturated in religion since I'm planning to do a Bible and/or character study at the start of each day...) -My ds, 9, 3rd grade, is dyslexic- He's reading well now, but his spelling and writing look like a first grader's. He loves science. -My dd, 7, 2nd grade, is artsy and social. She looses interest in things quickly. -This summer I've been doing a mini-school (handwriting, math, a unit on oceans, and spelling sight words.) I've found that I stick to the "workbook" type work the best. The ocean unit, which I was going to do a lapbook for, has pretty much been a disaster. In short, I want something that is easy to plan and that the kids can work somewhat independently on, at least for some of the material. Oh, and money, of course, is an object. ;) So these are my ideas so far.... Math- Saxon 5/4 for ds. Dd needs something colorful (she's been working on a Tinker Bell workbook and enjoys it well enough)... recommendations? Writing- Thinking WWE. (Not sure what levels?) Reading- McGuffey's Revised. (Surprised they're not mentioned more on this site.) Language- FLL. (I figure I'll just start from the beginning with both, even if ds is sort of bored...) Spelling- Beyond Phonics: Word Pattern Stories (Anyone with experience with this?) Science- Princeton Hall (It's for a middle level, but the grade level stuff wouldn't be engaging for ds, and my summer unit study turned out to be a bit of a bust...) History- Mystery of History, vol 1 Music- Learn a recorder? Listen to classics? Any recommendations here? Art- Not sure... Health- ? Character building- ? Thanks for any suggestions... :001_smile: