Oops, yes, my oldest is 2nd grade now. If we did VP History it wouldn't be until my girls are 3rd and 1st grade. Thanks for explaining everything!

My daughter is in the 2nd grade, as well, and right now for LA we are doing Dictation Day by Day (free!) for spelling and copywork. I'm also trying to get her reading fluently so we're using a free guide I found online meant for ps teachers. And then of course we just read a lot, she reads to me daily from a level 2 or 3 reader, and we memorize poetry and Bible verses. I don't teach grammar this young.

So I'm trying to navigate the Veritas Press website and I'm just a bit confused. If I click on History, then 3rd Grade, I see 80+ items. What is the core of their history? The self paced course? What are the other books listed for? And what are the other "core" like books for, like Famous Men of Rome, GF Caesar Augustus World, Streams of Civ, Pages of History, etc? How do I know what I would need? And are there lesson plans?

I am using Grade 1 for my kindergartener, too, and sometimes I use cuisinaire rods to do the problems or sometimes I have her use the Todo Math app to make it a little more fun. I have another more colorful grade 1 workbook she'll use sometimes, too. We're only on lesson 30 right now.

As an RN, if it were me or my daughter, I wouldn't be leaving that hospital until they did the MRI. Blurred vision, extreme headaches, and vomiting is just anxiety? Ugh. I'm so sorry they aren't taking you seriously. Go somewhere else. You are your own advocate.

I'm looking for a nature study curriculum that is available in printed format (not an ebook or online) that is open and go and either has a schedule or suggestions on how to schedule. I like the way Living Books Curriculum does nature study, with a theme each term, suggestions, activities, etc, but I don't want to buy a whole guide just for nature study. Is there anything out there similar?

How scary! Praying for your girl.

Fwiw, I have a good friend that has 4 grown sons who homeschooled them throughout all of their schooling. She told me she never did any formal science or history curriculum until high school. Up until then she just had them read all kinds of books and they'd do read alouds, nature study, but that was it. They were more than fine and are all very successful adults today. 3 of them are in the medical field. If I were you, I would buy all of the SOTW cds and just continually play the in the car, at home, etc. Go to the library and get historical fiction or whatever they'd like to read. Maybe have the older ones do a written narration once a week on a topic of their choice.

We are Reformed as well. We use a good children's Bible story book and use a children's catechism. We like the one from GCP.

So my 5 year old just completed AAR 1 in about 4 months. She caught on really well and did fine with AAR, but I don't exactly want to spend $400+ total on phonics, if I buy the other AAR programs. We didn't use the flip books or the cut out games, mostly just read from the readers and I wrote the new words on a white board and we did the fluency sheets. Occasionally we'd go through the yellow word cards. So if I don't go on to AAR 2 (which I can't right now because $$$$), what can I do next? I have OPGTR and Phonics Pathways. Are there any readers that go well with either of those? I did like how the AAR readers reinforced what she learned in the lesson, made it easy. So what would you do?

I have been using Dictation Day By Day for several weeks now with my 7 year old and so far we both really love it. It's in the public domain so it's free, I just printed it and put the pages in page protectors in a binder. I write the day's sentence on a white board, she copies it into her notebook, then we go over the underlined new words (and those spelled similarly). Takes 5 minutes. On Friday I have her spell the words on the white board. She's been a slow reader but she's picking spelling up really quickly.

My oldest daughter will be 8 in December and she still is not reading fluently and definitely not reading chapter books yet. We are working on it but I think it's more a matter of it just "clicking" for her, plus she's just not entirely interested yet lol. She'd much rather play or do gymnastics. I started teaching her when she was 5 but now I wish I would have just waited until she was ready.

I was going to say this, as well. Push for an MRI or at least a CT scan ASAP.

My kids are similar ages. We do Morning Time (memorizing Psalms, Bible passages, catechism, poetry) and I love to read "living" science books, like Parables of Nature and the Among the ___ People books. We also love to go outside and just see what we can find. When my kids find something neat (like right now we have a butterfly garden that is swarming with little caterpillars and chrysalides), I ask them, "What does this tell us about God?" And we'll have a discussion about God's glory being found in these little creatures, how God is creative, how He cares for even the little caterpillars. We also like to do artist study (I like the resources on AmblesideOnline) and composer study and read poetry. For that age it really is enough!

We are really liking Dictation Day by Day. It's an old book that you can download and print but all I do is write each day's sentence(s) on a whiteboard and she copies them. We go over the underlined (spelling words) and that's it. On Fridays, I have her spell the new words we learned. I like it because it's incremental so the words learned are frequently reinforced. I think it goes up to 6th grade? Not sure. Anyways, check it out.

Solidarity, sister. I have a 7, 5, and 3 year old and they have all lost their schmidt in public plenty of times!

Nature study. We have a butterfly garden out back that is swarming with caterpillars right now so we've had so much fun with that. I have her read the Christian Liberty Nature Reader and we read some of the Let's Read and Find Out books, along with the Among the ___ People books. We do a few experiments with our MFW curriculum, but she doesn't like it as much as learning about nature.

I'm looking for a workbook to supplement the Rod and Staff math 2 I have for my second grader. I want something with mostly word problems, concept math, etc to get her thinking more conceptually and stretch her a bit. Thanks!

I have a newly walking 13 month old and a crazy hyper 3.5 year old so reading aloud to my 5 and 7 year olds doesn't happen as much as I'd like it to. I have to save it for nap time or bed time but of course they're both sleepy by then and....ugh. Hopefully it will get better in the future. I didn't think we read much last year but I wrote out all the chapter books we read last year and it was over 20 so I guess we aren't doing too badly. They don't like to listen to audio books in the car, either. They just zone out and don't listen.

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My daughter is 7.5 and we just started Rod & Staff 2 math and there's no way she's even close to figuring this out.

Just curious. http://www.countryliving.com/life/entertainment/a38494/viral-math-problem-for-kids/?src=socialflowFB

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We got married at 21 and 23, both still in college (nursing school for me). We've been married 10 years this year. Depending on the maturity of the couple, I would recommend it. I will encourage my kids to marry young, if they find a suitable partner.

Most importantly, I want my kids to know, love, and serve the Lord. After that, it's all gravy. I'd like for them to be well read, deep thinkers, to be able to defend their faith, to have compassion and empathy for their fellow man. Getting into a good college is probably last on my list.