what about sentence family for a super fun intro to grammar. my 4 did it together and asked to do it again this year! Oh, just reread your post. Also, Stick Figuring through the Bible. Do you own the Christian Liberty Press Nature Readers? That would be a fun addition. They are so excellent! A 2nd grader could read them... but the content is amazing.

we are using BF with TT and I have never been so excited about history! I really think all 4 of my kids are going to love it. I have some SL 3 and 4 books to give my older ones to read too.

What about doing the Homeschool through the Woods Time Travelers cd's with both of them and let him read SOTW3? We are doing that this year and bought the BF primary guide and books for my younger kids and SL 3 and 4 for my older 2 for readers. I am excited! Mostly I just think all of my kids will love history more after using those Time Travelers and the TT's are so easy to implement. We tried the SOTW ag's and didn't finish.

I have an add-on set i can sell you if you need it. we are done with our MUS. And i have a set of random spares :( PM me if interested. ppd. Math U See 1 complete supplementary set of blocks in original box, excellent condition - $20 Skip Counting cassette and booklet -$4 1 incomplete set of blocks-$15 Red Mine incomplete set has: 4 Blue 13 Lt Green 8 Brown 5 Tan 2 Violet 4 Lt Blue 3 Yellow 4 Pink 5 Orange 0 Green 7

N. Charlotte in Highland Creek :001_smile:

N. Charlotte, in Highland Creek. Anyone?

I am excited to use this and this this year in our co-op. We are also using Peter and the Wolf and Carnival of Animals. Yippee!

Last summer I had my dd (then 9) use thedrill on the MUS website to get her facts down cold. it worked. She also did Timez Attack daily, but I think MUS helped more although she thought Timez was super fun. Then we did R&S4 all year which is great for learning mechanics, but not strong on concepts. So we just switched to MM and for the 1st time ever, she says she loves her math program. Woohoo. HTH!

we just started with it this summer for review but will continue. i bought the complete series. i am unsure what i'll move to afterwards, but i bought life of fred for supplement.

For one of my kids, ds7, there is actually too much practice in MM1. My dd10 needs the practice, but ds7 is mathy and gets it fast. so i race him, with me doing 2/3 and him doing 1/3 of the problems. I love that MM has the teacher explanation directed at the student and right on the page, with no TM. My kids can do much of MM themselves with only need to ask me for help every so often. The font size hasn't bothered my kids. For the 1st time ever, my dd10 said she likes her math program! (She has used MUS and R&S and BJU too.)

I have this I can sell you if it helps Rod & Staff Spelling by Sound and Structure 2 Teacher Edition ppd $7

Has anyone done those knowledgeboxcentral lapbooks? Is it worthwhile? I printed the free notebook pages. Do lapbooks add a lot more?

you absolutely want the practice books. they are great. i just got the cd-rom for review although we are switching to MCT. I didn't use Shurley writing bc/ I prefer WWE, so we skipped that. I think it took about 20 minutes and I did it with my 2 older kids together. Once they got the hang of it, they led the parsing for us. I also created flashcards for the matching facts and jingles. They helped. I added in Sentence Family and we learned more from it than 4 years of SG. I think it is more of a learning style issue. We are dropping SG and repeating Sentence Family more in depth plus MCT. But, I digress...

there is a Listen Tab and a listen spot under her picture. with the tab, i was able to download the mp3.

I actually was thinking Rightstart might be helpful bc/ the abacus is so visual and because the games are fun, fun, fun. My kids ask to do the games and the games get the facts into their heads without the drill, drill, drill of pages of problems. It would eliminate the trouble of many problems to a page too.

We used it for 2 years, didn't prefer it, but have loved Rightstart. I prefer the abacus strongly to the colored blocks of MUS. I think RS is more conceptually based. And I think kids test well with it bc/ it uses a normal sequence, if not better due to the conceptual focus and mental math aspects. But, that is just my opinion. Many love MUS. My older girls are not mathy and RS plus Math Mammoth have been so much fun here lately! I also love the looks of MEP, which is totally free online, but haven't used it yet.

Actually, I read about this one on this forum and plan to use it this year, plus it is free. American Presidents song by Genevieve Madeline Ryan

:iagree: We use Kumon and the R&S set too. Love both. R&S is super cheap but Kumon has a flair and the one where they cut and create the little animal puppets is great. Like I said, we love both.

the most fun thing we've done is Sentence Family. My dd10 loved it and has asked to do it again! We did Shurley prior to that and although I like the jingles, they weren't applying them outside of Shurley at all. check out the link to see what it is about. i guess i have a visual learner http://www.stmichaelschool.us/sentencefamily.html All 4 of my kids did it together and all loved it. We use FLL with my younger kids too, but it only goes through FLL4.

the cornell bird site has a bird coloring book to print. we use that with burgess and color the birds that we are listening to. Someone also made beautiful prints of the burgess birds and you can print and laminate them. google for those. Makes burgess all the more exciting!

Do you have a Wild Birds Unlimited store? I went to one and saw which books they sell, then was able to order one of them much cheaper and with an audio cd from Amazon. Mine in Birds of the Carolinas, bc/ that is where we live. I love having it specific to my area.

I have it. I think I am going to sell mine if you are interested. Here's the deal: I am NOT an artist. My son clearly has an artistic bent. Bc/ I am not, I thought if I bought something with video's it would get me to do it. It didn't. So my whole calvert program is in the box, unused. We did day one. not kidding. if you might be interested in buying it, make me an offer. I don't have dvd's, but we have a dvd recorder for them so could include a set in with the original videos if it would help you. I am a recovering curriculum junkie who just starting posting my masses of unused items. this one has been haunting me from its shelf all week!

I recently bought this and it is helping us so much! http://www.amazon.com/Step-Model-Drawing-Char-Forsten/dp/1934026964/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277262391&sr=8-1 plus, i bought a grade lower than my dd's level in Singapore Math 70 Must-Know Word Problems And I switched her to MEP and Math Mammoth. Ah, today she said, "I love my new math"!!! An answer to prayers! Since MEP is free, just using it will help. But the techniques of the model drawing book make a world of difference.

have you looked at right start?

I know this sounds crazy, but mine all do it together. The youngest has a wipe on marker and just tries to copy the words from the older kids' boards. The middle child copies with tiles. the olders spell on boards with tiles and do the dictation. At some point I'll do the younger two over, but they've gleaned a lot and are better spellers than their sibs were at their ages. They also have been able to retain the rules, even if the application will need review for them later. So, my expectations for each age differs, but they have done it together. Then again, we are only to level 3 bc/ we just started this year.