DD will be using HOD's Beyond for history, science, read alouds, copywork, poetry and spelling. FLL 2 for grammar. Math U See Beta for Math. RLTL 2/3 for phonics.

I schedule six 6 week terms for school during a school year (Aug to July). The amount of time between terms all depends on whatever other life issues are happening that year (such as a new baby, holidays, vacation, moving). Our breaks vary from 1 week to 2 months. I schedule Morning Time (read alouds, character lesson, devotional), Math and English(grammar, spelling, writing, reading) every day of every term. The rest of the subjects get scheduled on a loop during a term. Some terms we touch all of the extra subjects sometimes only a few extra. Due to not having time to plan my own thing for next year (a new baby and a toddler), we are going to try using Heart of Dakota for our looped subjects (we will keep our English and Math as normal).

We participate in a Homeschool Enrichment Academy. It is a K-8 program that they get to take either History or Science and Phy Ed in the Morning and different electives in the afternoon (art, music, spanish, basically whatever someone wants to teach). Parents can choose to teach and get a discount on tuition, but I choose not too. We send the kids for 3 primary reasons. 1) Social time with other kids. 2) I get a day off of teaching that I can focus on my preschool age kids and household stuff. 3) I can not worry about whether or not we get to subjects like Art Appreciation at home because I know they get it there.

We enjoy the Little Lights series https://www.christianbook.com/little-lights-biographies-7-volumes/pd/88577X

We are planning to have two parts to our morning time. One part inside, one part outside. Inside: Devotion (Big Truths for Little Kids) Storytime (lesson from HOD's Bigger Hearts) Character (either Laying Down the Rails or a lesson from Beautiful Feet's Character through Literature) Poetry (lesson from HOD's Preparing Hearts) Latin (Song School Latin) Outside: Either Walk or Nature Study drawing

I would take a look at the table of contents for the different books in the series to see what book best fits. Science in the Ancient World actually takes you from Thales to Leonardo Da Vinci. Also, if you contact Berean Builders they may already have a document created of how their science matches with Veritas Press Elementary History. I know they have one for how it matches Story of the World.

My signature says we are using LOE Essentials, but that has stopped and now we use Studied Dictation for Spelling. The whole program was just too much for me since we are preparing for a new baby!

I have used the game book and cards with different programs very successfully! I have designated Fridays as Phonogram and Spelling game day. I take a break from our normal phonics/spelling programs and just do games for that time. The kids love it! I love that the book is split into different varieties of games/activities (ie, active, paper, etc). My older boys are done with phonics and we still use the spelling games. My boys played spelling basketball yesterday and begin working on creating crossword puzzles using their spelling words. My daughter played spelling basketball right along with the boys, but I dictated phonograms to her instead. I love that most of the games can be used at all 3 of my kids levels at the same time. Enjoy!

My DS9 will technically be in 4th next year his year will look like this: Handwriting: Getty-Dubay E Writing: IEW SID A Spelling/Grammar: LOE Essentials 2nd Edition Level B Reading: 45 min a day of independent reading including various genres. Math: Math U See Epsilon and Xtra Math History: Overview of all history through VP's Pages of History read aloud by Mom and narrated by kids and 24 hours of Ancient History at a 1 day a week homeschool academy Science: Science in the Ancient World and 24 hours of Biology at a 1 day a week homeschool academy Read Aloud: Various novels we choose as a family as the year goes on and poetry and short stories from Book of Virtues

My DS8 will technically in 3rd grade next year. His year will include: Handwriting: Getty-Dubay E Writing: IEW SID A Spelling/Grammar: LOE Essentials 2nd Edition Level A Reading: 45 min a day of independent reading including various genres. Math: Math U See Delta and Xtra Math History: Overview of all history through VP's Pages of History read aloud by Mom and narrated by kids and 24 hours of Ancient History at a 1 day a week homeschool academy Science: Science in the Ancient World and 24 hours of Biology at a 1 day a week homeschool academy Read Aloud: Various novels we choose as a family as the year goes on and poetry and short stories from Book of Virtues Art/Music: Covered at a 1 day a week homeschool academy Bible: Slowly going through scripture with dad and scripture memory Art: Covered at a 1 day a week homeschool academy

DD6 will complete MFW 1st grade along with listening to lots of read alouds and some poetry memorization.

We have a few changes: My DS9 and DS8 changed from spelling with AAS and no grammar to LOE Essentials Edition 2 for both. My DD6 is pausing MFW 1st grade phonics and working through Progressive Phonics books. She needed extra practice of blends. All the kids go to a 1 day a week homeschool academy that has a class in science in the fall and history in the spring; therefore, we focus on the other at home. We changed from using MOH 2 and 3 audio for history, to using BF Geography to look at Geography and Science. We added Sing Song Latin in December because they were begging to learn latin. My DS9 decided he wanted to finish IEW Bible Heros as fast as possible; therefore, he is doubling the speed to finish in March.

Not sure if this will help, but here is our experience. I had the same problem with my first son and we supplemented with progressive phonics and Bob books also, but everyone was getting frustrated. I ended up doing a lot of eclectic stuff after that. I found My Father's World's First grade curriculum on homeschool classifieds for an inexpensive price. We used it only for the phonics and enjoyed it for how quickly it got him reading readers we could get at the library, but I felt like it was not as complete as OPTGR. In the middle of the MFW curriculum I found out about AAR and definitely wanted to get that program, but realized I had already spent too much money on phonics to buy the entire program. So, I bought the readers only. The level one readers were great, but it took a while to get into level two readers because they introduce multi-syllable words earlier than any other program. Eventually, after more fluency was mastered we did go back and finish OPTGR.

I really liked Consider This by Karen Glass. I also have been enjoying Teaching from Rest by Sarah McKenzie.

My kids really enjoyed adding the Magic School Bus books (chapter and regular).