This one looks good! The supplier will critique, mentor and grade, supplies a textbook and CD. It is a semester course but allows a year to complete for junior high or high school fine arts credit. It's about $50.00 http://www.photographyforhomeschoolers.com/1052.html God bless, Dianna Williams

This one looks good! The supplier will critique, mentor and grade, supplies a textbook and CD. It is a semester course but allows a year to complete for junior high or high school fine arts credit. It's about $50.00 http://www.photographyforhomeschoolers.com/1052.html God bless, Dianna Williams DS 20 DD 13 DD 10 DS 7

Thanks for the link to Saxon 1 meeting strip!

This will be the 3rd 1st grade math I've taught and the 3rd program! lol I've used saxon, my dd(10) loved it - ds(6)not. Abeka dd(12) loved it, dd(10) not and MCP which my ds (6) loves! He just wants the problems! Hope this helps.

Thanks for sharing this. I realize you are interested in experienced users, but I have never heard of this type of scheduling!

I often just use worldatlas.com for the maps I've needed. It's free and online at your fingertips. I do have a map CD that I haven't even used the last 3 years. :)

I found when schooling little ones to have a 15 min snack, run around the house break between the two major time periods helped with concentration, especially if the history gets longer, due to the crafts or little tangents we went on.

I have the opposite of you! dd(12), dd(10) and ds(6) also chatty! Looks good to me! Good luck! We enjoyed this fun book that the kids did together as an art appreciation course: Art Fraud Detective. My eldest got it started and involved the others with finding the fraud.

My dd(10) loved SOTW1 when she was in 1st grade, loved the activities and the read aloud narrative was short enough for her at that grade, my ds(6) not so much. He wiggles around and aside from the activities, is really not into it. Will wait until 2nd half of 1st grade to start. Started ds(6) in hw program last year he did well and can't wait for this years to start Hope this helps,

I also give it about 3 mths. After spending the money, I really hate to waste it, but I do love the suggestion of trying to sell now while it's still early and getting the program you know works. I remember suffering through some really awful fits and waiting the following year to make the change. Would not do so now! Good luck,

Thanks for sharing. Still am figuring out my schedule.:) Dianna

Love the computer game! My dd(12) & dd(10) are both doing American History this year and would love to try that simulation book. We are also reading the Dear America: Oregon Trail book and the Gold Rush book as well as playing the computer game. Dianna dd 12 8th grade dd 10 5th grade ds 6 1st grade

Why not just increase their vocabulary so they will do well in SAT testing in the future. You could use their vocabulary words as spelling if you so desire. I would suggest Sadlier-Oxford. Am using it for my dd (12) in eighth grade. She is reading at a much higher level but am improving her vocabulary so she tests well later.:) Dianna

I love it! Have used it for 3 yrs now. I now have an 8th grader, 5th grader and 1st grader. I simply create a binder at the beginning of the year with tabs, List Words, Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 & Tests. The beginning of the binder has 2 pages: 1st page has the daily activities for that grade level, ex.: 1st grade: Day 1: Write each word three times, Day 2: Alphabetize the word, Day 3 Write a Sentence for each word Day 4 is the Test. 2nd Page: A copy of How To Study A Word found in the Natural Speller That way, each year I can copy the list words for their grade level and insert in that portion of the binder, (I number the columns by week so they know what list words for the week of school we are in.) change the daily activities (the oldest adds prefixes and suffixes to words) and I can easily check their progress, weekly! A little work for me before school starts and then they have 10min or so of work each day. Since I have used this program and not a workbook type of program like MCP, their spelling has improved. Simple, old fashioned repetition has really helped. Dianna Williams

I also nursed all my babies, each stopped on their own, 1 at 16 mths, 1 at 12 mths and 1 at 24 mths. I don't know why they were "done" but did impose different "gentle rules" as they grew older. The grabbing, gymnastics, and shirt raising were not allowed, neither was the "fake" nursing. My sister, in the dental profession, said that this could also damage the roof structure of the mouth causing a need for braces later. Hope this somehow helps. I always thought I would be nursing until college bound! lol Dianna