How are you using Beast Academy in your homeschool? is it your main math or a supplement? If it’s a supplement what is your main math? Do you do so many pages or for so much time? Do you work the problems together with your kiddo? Stay nearby while they work the problems and if they have trouble you work together? They are totally on their own?

We tried fix it first. He enjoyed it for awhile and then started hating it. We got about half way through the first book. Retention wasn’t very good. Perhaps if we had finished the book l could have given a glowing review but it didn’t work out for us. We went to MCT. Started with the first level. We are only a month in. We follow the schedule Satiri Smiles made http://satorismiles.com/2011/06/10/mct-island-schedule/ hopefully that gives some clarity on scheduling the later levels

They are. I’ve done a few buys with them before.

It’s out of stock at the link :(

It's like the sample. they have a make your own version: http://www.timberdoodleschedules.com/free/ ignore the parts that say login and register and just click the thing that says "schedule your free kit now"

I know rainbow resources carries http://www.characterwritingworksheets.com/ I've been eyeing the president one but the kiddos are still having to much fun with draw write now

Home is where the wifi connect automatically. bedding

How are you liking All Aboard the Animal Train? Can I PM you about MFW and SL?

Thankfully my mom only calls about once a month. When I hang up I have an urge to hug each of the kids, read them a book, and then tidy the house. It's weird since I hate cleaning. We had a light dusting yesterday. DH will be home very soon. We will be taking the Amtrack auto train to the Legoland in Florida and very slowly driving home. If we didn't have a the trip planed with him in May I would start looking at the hotels near us.There is an extended stay type one that not only has a pool and free breakfast but if you stay during the week has free dinner! I'm dreadful at following the rabbit trails of complicated curriculum. I'd love to hear more examples of short and sweet options. The kids go to a CC like co-op on Fridays. Thankfully it cost less than a hundred to enroll the two older plus hanging out in the nursery with four other moms as we keep an eye on a dozen or so four and unders. It was amazing for me to be with other moms. But we didn't do anything academic with it, the curriculum rubbed me the wrong way so I didn't do much with it at home. Which meant my kids had no idea on the memory work stuff. But 20 weeks worth of simple science and art projects for the cost isn't bad. Eldest like hanging out with the other kids. Middle son hates it. youngest son is hang off my hip and baby is her happy little self. This all end in two weeks. I might join them for a park day, but wont be doing the co-op next year. We also go to home school swim lessons. That a lot of fun. I like the group of mom's there more. It's currently for the two older, as soon as I potty train youngest son he will start as well. When we started the boys had back to back classes it has fluctuated to the point were there was 2 hours between their classes. We let it be our one lunch out splurge. If I can find a place that does classes during the day versus just evenings I might add tae kwon for the boys in the fall. I don't know it also comes down to life with DH at home. Before he deployed he was leaving the house at 4 in the morning and wasn't home till 7 or 8 at night (I hate to admit it but him deploying was an improvement in some areas). Rumors are his job when he gets back will have him away from home for fewer hours each day but with unpredictable hours most likely leaving closer to lunch and home late, or the four days and four days off, or nights, or same hours as before but once a week go work at a museum. With all those possibilities i'm just happy that none of the rumors included PCS. Eldest is almost 10, he has been through 5 PCS's already. I suppose that's part of my craziness: I'm not packing or unpacking.

I am pretty sure it is a case of spring burn out. DH is deployed. My mom keeps calling asking if I stuck the kids in school. I did look through all the suggestions mainly because I saw one when the 10 was really really struggling with reading that if his reading ever improved we might get it a try. But alas I didn’t find it. Or perhaps he he might like has since changed. Perhaps I should start a new thread and call it “looking for recommendations for snuggle couch time” or maybe “pool side curriculum” ?

My itty bitty is not so itty bitty at 7 months old.

Kids will be turning 10, 7, 4, and 1 this summer. I’m happy with the 10 year old doing Saxon 5/4 and beast academy 3 and MCT. The 7 year old is doing phonics pathways and some math thing on found on TPT that really really speaks to him. And I’m so ready to drop everything else and follow someone on else’s checklist for a year. And I don’t want to do a little from here and a little from there. Everything in one nice box please. All I can think of is Memoria Press. I know there are tons more options but I’m drawing a complete blank.

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Eldest is 9 will be 10 in the fall. We did fix it Grammar nose tree as our first exposure to Grammar. No retention at all. Any suggestions for what to do next. Was going to keep going with the series but that’s not going to happen. Open to a short and sweet daily something or a full blown writing/ language arts something.

Never mind misread what you said. You actually answered my question

Eldest is 9 and does not like to read. It's been a long painful road and we finally are progressing. There is assigned reading but I haven't forced free reading. A few weeks ago, before starting dinner prep, I gathered the boys around and read them the first three pages of one of my husbands Calvin and Hobbes books. He was hooked. He has been staying up late reading and re-reading through all the books. Last night I stayed up late sorting through all the curriculum we own and and on a whim purposefully forgot to put the guide books for Beast Academy 3 and 4 away. He is now gobbling those up. What else can I randomly leave out for him?

we use Simplex Spelling on the ipad http://www.pyxwise.com/products.html i have them do it independently.

Moved from Tacoma, wa to Savannah,Ga with a six week old. I think it depends on the baby. When he was born he was too small for the convertible car seat we had so we had to use the infant bucket. He Hated hated hated the bucket barely could make it to the grocery store around the corner with the way he screaming. I was so happy that when the road trip happen he fit the convertible car seat and didn't scream about it. We did the trip in four days. It was uneventful.

We don't use the library. Eldest is nine. I've been gathering books since he was little using the lists from memoria press, tanglewood and the mensa book list as guides. A few years ago we tried kindle free time to supplement, but it didn't work out for us. Last fall we tried using Epic as a supplement. I think its a better fit for our family. Side note: take a look at Barefoot Meanderings Pathways.The core of the list are public domain books which means you can find them free digitally.

I’m fine with teaching adding, subtraction, multiplication, divisions individually. But I’d really like to combine them for telling time, measurement, etc. is there something that has a group lesson on such topics, but has separate work to go with their math abilities?

9 year old is asking for more farming books. He likes Farmer Boy and Little House in the Big woods because they talk about farming and how they prepare for different seasons. Anyone know of other books?

You already mentioned layers of learning Maybe look at wayfarers: http://barefootmeandering.com/site/wayfarers/ Her preschool book list is really nice, a good portion is public domain books http://www.lulu.com/shop/kathy-jo-devore/pathways-english-lessons-through-literature-level-0/ebook/product-22317820.html

Wayfarers http://barefootmeandering.com/site/wayfarers/

Also from ikea: ivar bookcases The movers have destroyed too many Billy Bookcases. If we end up staying in our house for more than three years we will add some molding to give it a more built in look, else it’s easy to take apart and

How good of a reader is she? My eldest who is 9 Years old has learned to read but hasn’t made it to the read to learn stage. As much as I don’t agree with it’s slant I let him watch Brain Pop videos for history. He draws a picture and then tells me what he drew. Or tells me three facts that I write down and he copies. Sometimes we watch the video again together and have a discussion.