My 4 year old is playing TallyTots now. TableTots, also by the same developer is an interesting one which lets you customize the learning activity. We love them both and I believe they may be on sale in the App store now. Others we like: Kidoodle: Pirate Scribblebeard's Adventure Peekaboo: Find Hidden UFO Creatures Piece Me Circus Counting Caterpillar Animal Show the Lakeshore Learning apps (3 or 4 off them, free at the moment) Little Solver - Figural Analogies Grow Your Garden HD

I'm looking for a poem/saying for my kids, something along the lines of the duties/responsibilities of a child/student. Not exactly rules or anything restrictive, just something inspiring. I might want to use it as a motto. I haven't been able to find anything through Google... any ideas?

thanks! we just read the Pied Pier in WWE and also did the Owl and the Pussycat sometime back, so I thnk my boys will love this :)

for those who were asking - I created the assignment form in a program called Adobe Illustrator. Fonts used: Bebas Neue (free) and Bello Pro (paid). I also use kuler.adobe.com for pretty colour schemes. I dabble in graphic design now and again, so aesthetics are important to me :D

I was inspired by this thread to make one for us :D thanks for the inspiration!

I would love to hear some opinions too. How does it compare to other science programs-Apologia, RS4K, RSO?

We like WWE, Spelling Workout, GWG, Penny Gardner's Italics, and recently started God's Great Covenant (CAP).

could you tell me: 1. what age is this best suited for? 2. will it work as an independent assignment for a rising 3rd grader? 3. did you use the timeline/maps and how much do you think these add to the overall program? (I really, really like them, but they are bit costly once shipping is added on) 4. does the student book come with perforated pages that can be easily removed? thanks in advance :001_smile:

I like betterworldbooks.com. Free shipping everywhere and they currently have a 25% discount on 4 or more used books. May have to poke around the site for the code.

Those are helpful replies, thanks! I really need to get more notebooking into our homeschool day. :tongue_smilie:

This is gonna sound like such a weird newbie question but somehow I still can't wrap my head around the idea of notebooking. Where I come from (Singapore) notebooks are quite different from what I think you have in the US. To me, a notebook is a bound book - I think it is what you would refer to as a comp book? If my thinking is correct, then the kind of notebooks you refer to are actually like binder files, ie. you hole punch individual papers and put them into a ring file. I'm quite curious to see and know how you have set up your 5 subject notebook - do you mind sharing some pictures?

thank you ALL for the comments, they have been helpful and reassuring. :001_smile:

Hi, I'm a newbie here, about to start homeschooling my DS (grade 2 equivalent) here in Singapore. My question is about Rightstart Math. I haven't used it before, but am seriously considering it. I remember reading a recent comment about RS Math jumping around too much, ie. like the addition and subtraction topics being separate and a different topic is sometimes thrown in for one lesson and then re-visited only much later. Has anyone tried rearranging the lessons such that related topics are grouped together, without interruptions? I guess I'm wondering if using the program this way will have a detrimental effect overall? Thanks in advance for your comments!