He will be doing other reading as well, In our state 15 books are required for the school year. He is not very happy with that idea.

Homer, The Iliad of Homer. Homer, The Odyssey of Homer. Aeschylus, The Oresteian Trilogy Sophocles, The Theban Tragedies. Plato, Great Dialogues of Plato. Dorsch, T.S. Trans. Classical Literary Criticism.

Hey everyone! My middle child will soon be entering high school and I had looked online at several curriculums. One that stood out for me was Kolbe Academy. However I am trying to be as frugal as possible... I know what Lit and History they are studying in 9th grade, "The Greeks" All of that information is online, at the library and on Netflix. Can someone direct me to some cheap or free resources and ideas that I can use with the reading list they provide. Work books, online worksheets and testing, etc. Thank you!

My son is the same way, he frustrates so easily. We purchased our levels one and two used. We got a wonderful deal.

Awesome story!

I will certainly post the progress. I am glad that there is a possibility he will get through the first part quickly, only because he hates doing school work. He doesn't even like it when i read to him. If I was a betting women I would be he has PTSD from school. He becomes a different child with just mention of the words book, lesson, spelling, read this, what does that say, lets sit and I will read... you get the picture. I am hoping if it s a little easy for him he may build some confidence.

We have heard, Separation anxiety disorder, ODD, Mental retardation, "not able to bend" among many other things but what I have learned over the last month they are ignorant and have no idea what Dyslexia is to give a proper diagnosis. It is brushed off. It not recognized by the school districts or the teachers. If you just look at the Barton website she gives you the warning signs. The more we share with others "what it could be" it might catch on and maybe some day it will change.

id like to thank you as well!

Computer programming or networking. Indoors, You do not work with people really, is slow paced and a very mellow work environment.

Awesome!

I want to thank each and everyone of you who put me in the right direction. Isaiah is getting the Barton Method... Level one and two !! I cannot wait to start helping him, the right way. :001_smile:

There ya go :001_smile:

I hear mama.. no advice but I hear you :grouphug:

Thanks for the hugs. He is not into "science" like most boys would be, he loves animals! Big time! So we try to go out to our pond every day to see if anyone is out there, we go to fairs to see the live stock, things like that. Even reading to him, he hates, too him its like a sneaky way for me to teach... lol... so we do read but not daily. We are also doing SOTW and he likes that. He can normally sit for a chapter, do the map work, and color a picture about what we read about. He does go to a science and geography coop once a week as well. I have been writing words on an eraser board and using a method I found on you tube, say you write the word rain.. you write the R and N in black and the vowels in red. I then draw a picture of a cloud with the words running through it and add some rain drops in blue. This way he is associating a picture and colors with the words he is learning. I just read them out loud to him every other day and change the words. I am also starting to teach him two digit addition and use the same color patterns to show him how to do it.

My son does this all the time. He will forget names he should just know. His cousins, close friends he has played with forever, its weird. I wonder now because we feel he is dyslexic if that has been the problem all along, Short term memory issues.