I ordered the day before you and just got mine today, so yours should be coming soon.

Thanks for sharing.

Just an insight into what the issue with the bedroom may be. In the Middle East a small bedroom next to a kitchen would be the maid's room. He may have seen that as an insult, particularly since the other student got a "better' room.

The samples are up at Peace Hill Press

I don't have the book with me at the moment (it's in a box in another country), but yes, there are schedules in there. I don't use their schedule though, I've never been able to make other people's schedules work for us. We add a lot of other stuff to Omnibus so I just make a big list of what I want to cover and then we just do the next thing.

Agreeing with Mandy. My VSL loved it and it gave him a solid foundation. You don't mention what age your student is, but if you have time, I would recommend going on to something like Life of Fred or AOPS afterwards, as these are also great for VSLs but take things a lot further.

My middle schooler does it independently too, so I'm not quite sure what you mean by making it more independent for high school.

Major earthquakes in New Zealand. It is midnight there now, but here is a link to the local news on it.

From what you have listed in your signature, it looks like you are considering this for a student who has just finished Sonlight core D. If that is the case then I would wait. It would be a huge leap, like heavier than core 100. My 7th grader is loving Omnibus, but he has several high school level courses under his belt already, and we left Sonlight because it was way too light for us.

The fourth volume of Mystery of History is in its final stages of production now so should be out within the next year. Even if it is a bit slower than that it will be out way before you need it.

Yes, there is only one homeschool group for the country, with about 100 families.

Hee hee, good try, but that is one I have not heard before.

We have been living in Qatar for the past three years and I've heard it pronounced a number of different ways depending on the country of origin of the speaker. Of all the options suggested above, the guy in the video is closest to how the nationals say it, but he is correct, it is very hard for English speakers to pronounce. (Which is why, when people ask where we live, I usually say Doha, because it's easier.) And yes, the soccer location was announced at the end of 2010.

What has not worked for my busy boys - B&M school (one lasted longer than the other) What has worked for my busy boys - homeschooling I guess that wasn't what you wanted to hear.

You could use LOF Beginning Algebra after MUS. It would definitely be a step up. You could use the LOF prealgebra books in 7th to get her used to the style etc without the content being overwhelming. I haven't personally used the prealgebra books yet, although I do have them. I have used from Apples to Decimals and percents and from Beginning Algebra to Trigonometry.

"Spending more time on it" is not only dependant on "time per day". One other difference is days per year. For example, in New Zealand children spend an extra 20 days per year in school that American kids. So from K-8 they have already had an extra 180 days (or full US school year). Continue that from grade 9-12 and there's another 80 days. The othe side effect of the longer school year (which also includes more breaks during the year) is there is less time over the summer (only 6 weeks break) to forget everything from the previous year.

I wouldn't do half a year each. You wouldn't be making enough progress on MUS that way. Miquon has about 100 pages per book, so if you just added one Miquon page each day to what you are already doing you would almost get through two books in a year. Some pages are very quick (5 min) and some have lots of calculations so take longer. The last two books are not standard third grade though, more like third grade on steroids in places. If they haven't done any multiplication yet there may be big chunks of it they cannot do. If that happens then you could just spreaad Miquon third grade over third and fourth grade. Same with the younger child. I would just add one page per day alongside whatever else you are using. That's bout 3 1/2 years worth at that rate.

That would depend on the child. What math have they already had and what are you hoping to achieve by using Miquon? Why do you only want to use it for one year? I have successfully used the last two books with an older student (without using the earlier ones) but I wouldn't do that with a young student.

The Intermediate books won't take you any longer than I and J, so you are only looking at about six weeks for those. Fractions may slow him down a bit as it does jump quite quickly after the basics. You may (or may not) need to supplement at this point, but if you do, there is plenty of free stuff available. I would budget on Intermediate plus Fractions plus Decimals & Percents for the year.

We switched to Kiss Grammar grade 6 level 1.

I haven't used Fred with a child this young - I have been using the Elementary series this year to fill in gaps for an older student. But I believe the recommendation for younger students is that they will read through the series more than once. So I would let him go all the way through to Jelly Beans if he wants to and then go back to the beginning. On the second time through he may be developmentally ready for the things he didn't get the first time through.

We are just staring it for the second time through. DS was 7 the first time we did MOH1 and he is now 12. It doesn't feel like doing the same thing again because he can do totally different activities this time around at a much higher level.

We started from Fractions and have got as far as Trig. For this student it worked as a stand alone from Beginning Algebra. The prealgebra books weren't out at that stage. I have used the elementary and intermediate books with another student and I wouldn't recommend them on their own. There are less than 250 lessons in Apples through Mineshaft before you get to fractions. Great as a review, but not the sole teaching for multiple years. I do have the prealgebra books and love the look of them, but have not used them with a student yet.

You would definitely want to add something else to it. I have an 11 year old and a 12 year old currently using that book (along with lots of other things), and even at the 11 year old's pace it would barely be half a credit to do the whole book in one year. I would expect a lot more from an 8th grader.