WWE is enough. I have supplemented very lightly with Winning With Writing, so depending on how heavy Writing Strands is, I think it could be done. WWW only takes about 5 to 10 minutes most of the time so far anyway.

Which core is it? This link is a list compiled by Last in Line blog that has discontinued SL books. Hope it helps!

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We printed off just sections at a time and put them in a folder, but I'm considering printing off half and having it spiral bound. I don't think my printer prints double sided, so I'll print one-sided on thinner paper, black and white with a select color pages. DD has been doing on average 2 pages a day, but sometimes even 1 and sometimes as many as 4 pages, depending on the material.

I did both Core B and SOTW1 together, but I did it with 2nd and 3rd graders. I think B might be too much for your K'er. I think SOTW with AG with read alouds and a few added picture books here and there would be the best. You might look at the SOTW AG, look at the book suggestions on Amazon and purchase a few. There are a few threads floating around telling which books people liked the best. The ones I remember the most from SOTW1 is the Gilgamesh Trilogy by Ludmila (something?). They were so good, and the girls wanted them for Christmas. The read alouds don't even have to match up with history. Take a look at SL Core A read alouds. Oh, and you can still get Time Traveler and the Usborne Book of World History. SOTW AG schedules the Usborne Book of WH, and your K'er will be engaged with Time Traveler. TT was the girls' favorite over the UBOWH. :)

Starfall.com comes to mind.

I also wanted to say that for our last DD, who is 5, we will start her in CLE because I'm so afraid of it being the same as with DD9 and getting behind or having holes because of changing curricula if we start MM and it be a bust again. I believe it is for mathy children, but I don't know if she's mathy yet. :confused: I will continue MM with our middle DD, though, I guess until it doesn't work. Hopefully we will just finish up the whole series. :001_smile:

We started in MM at the beginning of this year with a then 2nd and 3rd grader. I was exactly at the point you stated with our 3rd grader. I wanted to cry, and she WAS crying. We would move on to the next chapter, and she would forget the chapter before, and on and on. It was an absolute horror for her. She is not mathy. We changed her to CLE, and she retains nearly everything, and there are no more tears (complaining, yes, but no tears). OTOH, my 2nd grader is just now finishing up MM2B after starting on 1B last July. I LOVE it for her, and there are no tears for me or her! I love that she is getting deep layers of math over and over again. She can turn numbers around and around in her head with MM, the way she wants to. DD9 did not want to do this, and frankly I'm not sure if she ever would have understood the MM way. The low-key colors and black and white are perfect for DD7, as if she has a lot of color, she will write and make up stories about every.single.picture on the page, making math time too long. One thing that I noticed is I do not like MM sections on volume and weight. Yuck! Too many words for me to sort through with her. I wish that section was a little more cut and dry, ready for the student. Also, the time sections don't seem to be enough for her. I am going to use the worksheet maker to make more of those for DD7. BTW, this girl who loves MM seems to be quite mathy. I will show her the example, work through one problem, and I see her eyes light up like a light nearly every time. She loves the challenge of finding the answer to the puzzle. Interesting, she has loved puzzles since she was a toddler. Sorry so long!

This is the boat we're in, using FLL4 this year and then the year after, I don't know. Is it too much to hope that ALL will be out by July of next year? I know, no one knows. I can hope, though. :001_smile:

I don't like to have the activities scheduled out, because when we get to the time of doing them, we may not have time or the kids might not like it anymore. I just make sure I read through the sections (probably a section a day) to finish it in a year. Then we pick and choose activities that we have time to and which look interesting. What I do like to plan for are the extra lit/history books. When using just SOTW, I would like to always have a read aloud going. The AG has picture books, nonfiction books, and read aloud suggestions throughout. I might even purchase some read alouds that go along with the time period to make sure I have them. Can you go online to where you are moving and find their library system? Then you can go through all the books suggested and pencil in the library call number. This has saved me loads of time, as when library day comes, I just grab the book and don't have to mess around with call numbers or looking for books they don't have. I hope that helps!

We have used SL science for 3 levels. I agree with Merry, in that SL is definitely not PC. In fact, my levels have been new, and there are lots and lots (and lots) of notes regarding the different view points, even in the younger grades. In the levels I used, many of the notes are for the parents only. These can be used to discuss with your children or just skipped over if the parent doesn't want to discuss it yet. The notes will pick out things the Usborne books will say such as: "The book suggests monkeys have evolved with the phrase (insert phrase here), but many people disagree..." There are scads of notes like this, plus there are times when they insert Scripture, but not willy-nilly with weak links to the scientific material. SL notes will mention what macro and microevolutionists think, along with young earth creation. I could keep going, but I hope you get the picture. :001_smile:

Pippi Longstocking Henry and Ribsy The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks: My 5yo is loving this, but I've edited on the fly, as there are words like stupid and dumb, which is forbidden ;) and also the boys deceive their parents (relatively benign, but still, I didn't like it), which snuck up on me. We discussed it, and I'm not even sure if the girls understood that the boys were being less-than-honest.

What about the CLE math 400? I'm about to purchase it in a couple of months, and I have the level 300 TM, but didn't use it for anything but the answers. Is 400 the same?

Yes, that's me. :001_smile: I have a schedule with links and stuff on Excel. It's kinda rough. I'm trying to polish it up, but it just isn't getting done right now while trying to make the Core C supplement schedule. Maybe in June I'll feel inspired since it's our month off! I can share it with you now the way I used it. Just PM me your email if you're interested.

We just finished Core B, and along with the NotebookingPages.com ancient history set (which we used a few here and there), I made some pages to fill in any gaps that you can find on my blog. Here's a link to my free pages. Scroll down to "Early Elementary Ancient History" and see the pages I've made. Maybe some will suit your fancy.

My 3rd grader does this. She's 9. I am thinking of having her choose a certain number of words in her book and write them down as she reads that she's not sure of the pronunciation or the meaning. Then we'll go through the words and occasionally I may have her look them up.

I plan a week's worth of meals (dinners), but not like spaghetti on Monday, etc. It's just spaghetti and others for the week, and we pick what best fits our schedule for that day. I always have a few easy, fast meals planned and one that is more involved for the different days of the week.

DDs optometrist (not ophtho) got a prescription first, then dilated and adjusted the prescription slightly. I have no idea what that means, but her glasses were good for her. :confused:

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It depends on how old your kids are. For PK/K, you could spread Elmer's glue thinly on shapes, letters, numbers, etc. for a kinesthetic piece. For olders, I think I would do a mosaic of sorts with the different colors. Start with a piece of cardboard (not corrugated), spread glue thinly and do it freestyle or have them draw something first (maybe while looking an artists work like Picasso, Monet, etc.) and then fill in the different areas with sand. You could mix them together too for a different color. That's all I can think of now. :001_smile:

I think a lot of errors come in their exclusive book-type items, not the IGs. I have heard of a bit in the HIH book and especially in the Children Around the World book of CAW. There are a lot of typos in the Children Around the World book too.

We did it with core B this year, and halfway through I stopped printing off everything, but we did still do snippets here and there. I still think it was worth it for the pieces we used in our notebooks, though. It is a lot of busywork, but I'm not anti-busywork, especially when I have bored kids. I'd rather them do these than watch TV. If you do get it, I highly recomemnd the PDF version, then you don't have to copy and flip-flop all over the place while doing it (very irritating to me ;) ).

Very handy! Thanks for posting!

My 7yo dd is enjoying the 3rd grade SL readers. She just started, though. Also, I highly recommend The Flying Flea, Callie, and Me and it's sequels. They are really loved by my children.

Definitely, just reiterating what everyone else said, you can skip it and come back to it after 6. 5 and 6 truly are easier than 4.