I'm not familiar with all of the things you will be using, but is there grammar in there or are you concentrating on just writing this year?? It looks like a good plan. Blessings, Pat

Here is our 5th grade schedule for dd (age 10): Language Arts - LLATL Purple, Language Lessons for the Elem. Child 2, Pictures in Cursive, Writing Trails in American History History - A Living History of Our World Vol. 1 or Sonlight 3/4 or a mixture of both Science - Science Mysteries, BF History of the Horse Nature Study - A Walk with Aunt Bessie Art - A Backyard Nature Drawing Guide and Art Fraud Detective Spanish - Power Glide Spanish Latin - Getting Started in Latin or English From the Roots Up Music - Hymns, Folk Songs, and Classical Kids I think this is it, she also has GEMS at church and piano lessons. Blessings, Pat

I prefer Queens to PLL because it is a workbook format. Also, the Queens books use the name of the parts of speech -noun, verb etc. Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe PLL doesn't name the parts of speech. You learn that more in ILL. I think Queen's assumes that the student will learn a lot of the proper grammar through copywork as CM always said. That is why there is so much copywork in their books, but I do wish that it was split up more evenly throughout the books. I love the picture studies in Queen's. All the parts of speech are covered, but you don't see prepositions , conjunction, or interjections until the Secondary books from what I can tell in glancing through the books. Some of the grammar instruction is in correcting Sentences and paragraphs . It is not a rigorous grammar book (like Rod and Staff) and at some point you may want to do an additional grammar study, but for a gentle introduction I like it. I think if you followed the series through to the end your student would be fine, of course they wouldn't be diagramming sentences (Queen's doesn't believe in this) but I personally am not convinced that is necessary to write well. HTH Blessings, Pat

Just a side note to let you know that you can get these books through Rainbow Resource now. Blessings, Pat

I've had many packages come all mangled and I'm not even out of the U.S.! I wonder what they do with the packages?:confused: Blessings, Pat

The suggestion by TT is to have the student use the textbook to work out the problems and then to enter the answer into the computer. I'm not sure how many actually do this. :D The program does automatically grade the answer and if it is wrong they can enter another answer or they can get the solution to the problem worked out step by step. Dd hasn't actually starting using TT yet so I can't answer to whether we like the program or not. HTH Blessings, Pat

You can find Lials on the for sale board here quite often. You don't need the up to date copy of Lials. I think the 6th edition is often recommended. HTH Blessings, Pat

I'm planning on using this with my 5th grader next year. We are also going to listen to SOTW CD's for world history. My dd wants to do BF History of the Horse too. So we will have a lot of history next year! :001_smile: Blessings, Pat

We are in west Michigan by Greenville. Blessings, Pat

We found it very boring and the lessons were so long. Just reading the lesson information, I could barely keep my ds concentrating. My opinion is that you can learn grammar without it being so overwhelming boring and long. Just my thoughts. Blessings, Pat

I also like LLATL (Learning Language Arts Through Literature). Blessings, Pat

I have never used them, but I always felt you would want a spine for the history and maybe something more in the grammar area. Just my thoughts by looking at them. Blessings, Pat

Math U See website has a worksheet generator that you can print out sheets for review. http://www.mathusee.com/e-sources/worksheet-generator/ Blessings, Pat

We have used an elementary guide from Veritas Press and a middle school guide from Progeny Press. I much preferred the Veritas Guide, but that may have been because it was elementary level. You can get the PP guides through Rainbow Resource (or at least that is where I got mine). Another option for lit. study would be Drawn into the Heart of Reading. It would cover elementary through middle school. Blessings, Pat

I have Early American and World Guide, but we haven't used it yet. Yes, from looking through it, there is more to it than the geography guide. It tells what pages the student should read and has study and comprehension questions (answers are in the back of the guide). It also has essay topics, drawing of people and maps. All of this goes in their student notebooks. At the end of each section they have Literature Connection - suggestions for Additional books to read on this time period and Video Connection - movies related to this time period. HTH Blessings, Pat

We use Spelling Power, but not as written. I just test dd orally on the words. The words she gets wrong or hesitates on she has to write out. I make her do these in cursive now because that makes her think about the letters more. I retest the missed words with her next list the following day. If she misses them she writes them again and I test again the next day. She usually has them down after one writing though. I keep a list going of all the words she has missed and retest those words along with each review in the Spelling Power book. Rarely has she ever missed the word on these reviews. I test all the words missed in a level on the final level review. So she will see the missed words several times. I suppose writing the words in a sentence helps develop sentence writing skills along with learning the words, but I personally find that busy work. Dd has enough other writing to do to waste her time on writing spelling word sentences. That's just my opinion though. Blessings, Pat

How do you make a siggy line? I have often wanted to do this, but not sure how??:confused: Blessings, Pat

When I was in college the best grades I received were when I took the time to take notes on the book material. I would split my paper and take notes from the textbook on one side and jot notes from the professor on the other side. I really knew the material this way. It takes a lot of time, but worth it in the end. Like other posters have mentioned that is a skill I did not learn in school. I had to develop it on my own. Your dd is very lucky that you are taking the time to teach her this. Though she complains, she will thank you when she hits college and she can take notes easily. Blessings, Pat

The question that jumped out at me is: Did you read the questions to your dd during the standardized test? If not, then maybe that is why she scored low and not necessary the math program. I would say that if she needs the questions read to her than TT is going to be better than MUS. Mr. Demme (MUS) teaches the lesson on video, but then the student does the problems on their own. My kids never used the manipulatives much, only a little in Alpha and Beta, then a little in Epsilon for the fractions. HTH Blessings, Pat

That does look yummy! The best cornbread that I have found is the Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix. I hope someone does give you a recipe. None of the ones I have tried have been very good. They are always way too dry. Blessings, Pat

I know our state standards say 4 credits of math and must include Algebra 1 & 2, Geometry, and one other in senior year. The Senior year can be anything, I know consumer math is acceptable. Most of the colleges I looked into in our area also want to see 4 credits in math. So I'm assuming this is why OP is trying to get the 4 credits. Blessings, Pat

How about doing a consumer math or is personal finance considered a math credit? Blessings, Pat

I haven't used the last level of the EPS books, but if it is like the younger levels it moves slow, but is step by step. If your ds can write a decent paragraph then maybe something like the program by Analytical Grammar would be a better choice. http://www.analyticalgrammar.com/teaching-the-essay For grammar I am thinking of using this program with my son if he comes home this next year. http://rainbowresource.com/product/sku/001838/1305544279-464173 (Grammar Made Easy) Vocabulary would be either Vocabulary for the High School Student or Vocabulary from Classical Roots. Spelling would be through studied dictation probably using Spelling Wisdom http://simplycharlottemason.com/books/spelling-wisdom/ Literature - I have no idea I hope others respond on this I would be interested too! Well I don't know if this will help at all, but I thought I would throw out there some ideas. Good Luck on your planning. Blessings, Pat

My son went from MUS Zeta into Alg. 1 at the public school this year. He is not a mathy kid at all and has maintained a B/C in the class. He has looked over Teaching Textbooks placement tests and determined they are doing some of the things from Alg. 2 right now. Maybe Teaching Textbooks Algebra 1 would be a good choice for your dd. It would be called Algebra but progress at a slower rate which may make your dd feel better about it. Just a thought. I pray things get better for your dd. Blessings, Pat

Yeah! You all did it! Such wonderful ideas! Now to decide which ones to get. Thank you so much!! Blessings, Pat