Debra Bell's AIM academy:http://debrabell.com/online-classes/ I also remembered just now (in my mad search for a secular French 2 class) that Online g3 is offering French 1. We needed French 2 though.

I was not familiar with this book and thought My children and other animals sounded like a must-read. Dibs on the book name! Maybe that will be the memoir of my homeschooling career, such as it is :)

Thanks. Some of these we are doing as read-aloud. How does your DD like Number the Stars? We just read The Giver out loud and I realized then the language was not particularly difficult and DS could have read it on his own.

Mine is doing Lightning Lit the first semester so there's the books assigned there. I am not assigning any more literature books but will insist on his morning "pleasure" (mine, not his ;)) reading time. For SOTW Middle Ages I have only a handful which include Adam of the Road, Castle Diary and forget what else. Not sure if I am assigning anything specific for science: sections from How Life Works perhaps and maybe some of the Horrible Science ones.

I don't know whether it's good, but thus far I've liked the communication with the teacher and the placement test: we are doing a class with AIM this fall. ETA: We considered the Potters' school but preferred a secular option

Pretty much this, except I choose his books (not for literary value necessarily but bc we live in a rural area and I have more access to library than he does by virtue of working) and my DS reads in the morning (he writes before bed).We are doing literature this next semester so that will be in addition to this hour.

This looks good. What age would you say this works for? Scientific American, for example, is too advanced for my 10 yr old. Thank you!

And this is why we don't do graphs. This is an easy Algebra problem that my DS, not gifted in math, can set up and solve. I'm too old to draw to scale!

UP- Foreign language plans are finally under control. Finding a secular French 2 class was shockingly difficult. Down--learning to divide and multiply decimals is proving to be a Sisyphean task in this house. He literally wakes and forgets what he learned the previous day. Maybe I shouldn't attempt math after 6 hours of tennis camp? I'm not having a sense of humor about it anymore...

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we've been using math mammoth to extend our study of fractions, decimals as well as ratio. Singapore is our spine. I juts bought and printed the decimal/fraction book and the ratio book (both in the blue series I believe)

It seems pretty straightforward and I see there are many many reviews of the teachers. Any experiences here? Many thanks!

http://www.singaporemath.com/mobile/Product.aspx?id=1480

I absolutely agree. Thanks for your post.

It's really not bad at all. I left NYC a year ago but still live in NY state, as do several posters here. And yes, there are extremely active homeschool groups here.

Hi, yes, fan math. I found them slightly (and only very slightly) easier than CWP for 4 but finding the 5th grade ones a bit of a mixed bag for us, some on par, and some quite a bit more difficult. I have to jump around in sections.

Edited because the list of works int he first post led me astray and I misunderstood the question :)

I think this is part of my point: scarce resources. In any event, this is making me sound like I care far more about the subject than I really do. OP, if all else fails, I tell self I wouldn't want my kid to peak in [insert grade] :)

Thanks. Sorry OP as I mentioned I've only played around a little. Drowning in math "supplements" :)

Khan has been useful for us in a few circumstances where we really had to stop and reinforce a particular algorithm such as, most recently, dividing a decimal by a decimal. Alcumus seems to be a series of problems, with no lesson or explanation attached really (I am talking of alcumus itself and not the videos which I have not used yet). We've made very limited use of both since we are so enmeshed in Singapore still.

If you use these, could you tell me whether you use them on grade level (so the book that has 5 on it used at the time you go through the level 5 work/textbook) and so on. We do CWP about a year behind the books of the same level, fwiw. Thanks!

I clearly need smarter friends ;) My point is, this focus on exceptionally gifted children is currently a bit out of control and partially motivated by a certain anxiety in finding a way to ration sparse educational resources. I wonder if anyone did a study on gifted kids in say Finland or Poland. It could be sour grapes on my part, not sure.

I am talking about us, here, and the resources coming from families, either in the form of prep or just a highly educated parent staying at home. I haven't met a truly gifted kid in person. All the ones that I personally know made the OLSAT cut off for purposes of admission into NYC gifted programs were heavily workbooked.

Interesting question and thanks for starting this thread. I was never tested as a child (grew up in Eastern Europe and I think this intelligence testing, differentiation, etc. is a thoroughly western/ capitalist concept) but I think both DH (corn fed American) and I have unrealistic expectations of our child. I manage to keep in check because he is a lovely human but it is hard not to fall into that trap. That said, here is my unpopular opinion: true giftedness is extremely rare, if present it certainly does not guarantee lifetime success and happiness, that content mediocrity is not a horrid way to live and if you are getting bummed out (as I often do) reading in here please remember there are tremendous resources dedicated to these children and it becomes a chicken and egg issue. I don't know at what point in history a person educated at the level I have been, that speaks the languages I do, etc. has spent as much time thinking and asking every three months about the next read aloud ;) it's a bit ridiculous if I'm honest :)

I was an international student back in the day, and did receive merit aid but for that I had to attend a school for which my scores were off the charts (quite literally ;) and not because my scores were that great, it was just a really crappy school ;)) and further my aid was private college aid, off a particular endowment. In my experience, an international student has to be really excellent score wise in order to receive any sort of aid. Eta: yes, sports too. My sister (also an international student) received some aid that way.