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  1. Thanks! I appreciate the response. As far as my goals, I think I am probably in camp 2 from what you described, Ester Maria. It may change to camp 3 depending on our future. But, for right now, camp 2. He is the oldest. Although he is a very quick learner, I would rather wait until later so I can include some of my younger kids in the study. The other thing is that sometime in the next 2-5 years we plan to move overseas for a very long length of time, somewhat permanently. However, we haven't decided absolutely where yet, so I am not sure what kind of modern language to start at this age. I guess one of my concerns is that my children would be confused/frustrated by learning a new modern language at the same time as beginning Latin. Moving, especially to a new country/culture/language, is a hard adjustment and I don't want to throw too much at them at once. But, I see you advise that even 5th is not too late to start, so that really does give me a broader window of time than I thought. Thanks! :)
  2. I was a little curious about teaching Latin eventually. I thought WTM recommended starting Latin around 3rd grade. My ds is 5 and I wasn't planning to start him for a few more years. However, I've noticed many others have started earlier than 3rd grade with Song School Latin, Prima Latina, and Latin for Children. I was wondering the advantages to this and what program was preferred for 1st- 2nd.
  3. I have never seen Saxon, other than the cover. I have looked at elementary A Beka and 1st grade and up seem good. I looked at the K because we considered sending my ds1 to K at a private school that used it. After using Singapore Math Earlybird, I was not impressed with ABeka K. SM Earlybird is so simply laid out and uncluttered. *I* got overwhelmed just looking at a page in ABeka K math. It looks like someone gathered a bunch of patterns, addition, subtraction, clocks, and various other things and threw them at a page. It's so random and cluttered. Anyway, that's my thought on ABeka K math. I went through ABeka math and managed to pass Calculus 1 and 2 in college, so your child will learn. Just make sure they understand. That was and is my struggle. I tend to be a memorizer not a thinker.
  4. I'm kind of interested in what others say too. I did MFW K as Pre-K with my then 4 year old. Now he is reading CVC and blends, and even some long vowel words. I'm interested in sticking with MFW 1st to move along with the phonics/reading for him (and because I like MFW), but go light on the writing. Anyway, You really could do MFWK for both of your kids and they could both get a lot out of it. My 3 year old tagged along and learned his letters and sounds. We read all kinds of books from the recommended list as well as books other users recommended on the boards and then some we found. We did different hand-on activities that both kids enjoyed. My older son was almost reading when we started. I added in some other readers for him, but he still loved making words/reading words, writing them, and making the little story books. You could for sure edit out the phonics stuff if you wanted to as well with K. I also added in Singapore Early Bird math. You wouldn't have to, but I liked Singapore, so we did. I also looked at SL, but decided to just choose some of the books that looked interesting or I thought would be good. You can read reviews on most books on Amazon. I loved MFW K and will probably use it again next year with ds2. And just curious since I am rather new, what is SWR?
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