We use wunderlist. It may have push notifications. There are certainly in-app notifications. And there is a place to put notes on each task.

Yes, and for the first time as well. He's currently eating the WTM-board approved healthy breakfast :)

We use Latin Prep We do our flashcards with a program called ANKI. It schedules words for us daily. Exercises is done into a spiral notebook. Then we each keep a "grammar book". It's in a composition book. In the first part of the book, we put all notes about verbs - the conjugations, irregular verbs, how to do a negative command, what "passive" means and how to do the agent, and any other little bit of information about verbs, in the order we learn it. The composition book has a natural divider in the middle where it is sewn. There we start nouns, pronouns, and adjectives - the declensions, how to do comparatives and superlatives, in the order learned. The back of the book has everything else, including numbers, prepositions, adverbs. This book is reviewed regularly - almost daily at the beginning of the school year.

If you do choose to read only part, this book gives extensive excerpts that can guide you in what to keep and what to skip: http://www.amazon.com/Portable-Greek-Historians-Herodotus-Thucydides/dp/014015065X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365159554&sr=1-1&keywords=greek+historians

My son has worked through about half of the book. I think it's been successful. He's learned a lot. He has had debugging help from his father several times. There are two kits available from MakerShed and from Radio Shack that are expensive but worth the money, even if you have a lot of components around already. (I didn't buy the first kit, but spent at least as much money and a lot of time buying parts. I bought the second kit.) This blog is by a guy who worked through the book. My son found it helpful several times: http://handsonelectr...s.blogspot.com/ My son is now branching off to Arduino.

We're almost exactly where elegantlion is. We're following the WTM recommendations just about to the letter. So far we've done Gilgamesh, Old Testament through Job, and we're on Book 21 of the Iliad. I really liked my son's paper on the Old Testament, which was a comparison of the flood stories of Gilgamesh, Noah, and Deucalion. We are using the VanDiver lectures for the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid. I am also using the Audible recordings for the Iliad and the Odyssey, though I feel slightly guilty about it. We follow along as with the reader. We're co-reading the sections of the Iliad that are skipped in the recording, which is about half of it. (My son reads a paragraph, I read a paragraph.) We will not make it through twelve books this year, but our selections are pretty meaty.

My son ninth grade has been working independently (with an occasional assist from my husband) through the Make:Electronics book and has learned a lot. If you use it, buy the kits. I tried to assemble parts piece by piece for the first kit. It was difficult and expensive. I bought the second kit, and it is nicely put together. You can order the kits from Radio Shack or from MakerShed.

... and found the interface frustrating. We dropped it from the schedule.

The book is very clear. Get a cheap copy from the seventies. Should be about $3. Don't worry about a teacher's manual. This will probably be all that you need. If you get it, and you find that you need more hand holding, then look for a different curriculum that has a teacher's manual. Your old Warriners will still be nice to keep handy for reference.

I've recently read Richard Pevear/Larissa Volokhonsky translations of Crime and Punishment and of War and Peace. I liked them very much.

You probably could. The concepts are pretty clearly spelled out. I recommend that you get a cheap used copy of either Third Course or the Complete Course from whenever and look at it. I have copies of both, and I'd feel comfortable using them without a teacher's manual.

My son just recommended Kidnapped. It has some scottish dialect, but that's partly why he enjoyed it.

I have several on my nook. I like the notes system. They often have two sets. The letter notes are for things that might be helpful for someone who reads less than I do, and I skip them. But the numbered endnotes are often more substantive. I often buy the b&n classics version for my nook even when I own the book. They aren't expensive, they're searchable, the font can be sized, and I can carry them around all of the time. And when my son is ready to read them, he can read one copy while I have the other handy for reference. Most are not abridged. Wikipedia will tell you which ones are. They generally are older translations, and I don't generally use them for translated books. I find the Penguin paperbacks generally have better translators. I buy the nook version even when the free versions are available. The free versions are often full of typos and they drive me nuts. I figure I'm paying a couple of bucks for proofreading, endnotes, and convenience, and it's worth it to me.

I've worked through this one. The '66 edition has a lot of frustrating errors. I then bought an early seventies version and found it much better. However, Modern Introductory Analysis has quite a bit of trig in it. Look for the Revised Edition.

Do look at La Ropa Sucia before assigning. I think that the Spanish is too sophisticated for young readers, and the content is inappropriate. First Steps Español looks nice, though.

We're working through an old Dolciani prealgebra, and there is a bit of introductory algebra there, too. Starting at about chapter 10 of 15.

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The Geometry is very good. I have it and may use it myself. It's an old school "New Math" text, like the Dolciani series that some of us like a lot. I don't know about the other, but I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand. If it was put back in print by Bates, it's probably interesting. If you don't use them, keep them handy. You might use them for reference if you get stuck on a topic.

Science - not settled. Perhaps a second year of physical science, astronomy, and lots of fun read-aloud Algebra - Frank Allen or Dolciani Modern Algebra Latin - Latin Prep, finish 2 and start 3 Spanish - So You Really Want to Learn Spanish finish 2 and start 3 Writing - Writing Skills 2 and 3 Grammar - probably Growing with Grammar 8, maybe Warriners Reading - WTM list History - WTM style (1850 to present), Story of US read-aloud Logic - CAP Discovery of Deduction Scouts, Sports class, Guitar, Art class

The kit comes with a list of what you need outside the kit. None of it is too intimidating (except one sulphuric acid experiment that we're going to skip.) It might be OK for 4th, but I'm not sure. I used Adventures with Atoms and Molecules at that age. Many of the experiments overlap.

We're using it and I like it. We were having a hard time getting experiments done. Now they're getting done. My son is in 7th grade and we're using CPO Physical Science. The author of Jr. Chemhead is a little silly for my taste, and sometimes the explanations are vague, but the every experiment we've done so far has worked. And the items sent in the kit are nice.

We've gone from Singapore 6B to 60's era Structure and Method 8 with my 7th grader. It has not been too much review, and there have been plenty of new concepts. He is definitely being challenged.

I disliked War of the Worlds and Time Machine, and I loved the Scarlet Pimpernel. For whatever that's worth ;)

These caught my eye in the bookstore, partly because, OK, I admit it, the covers are gorgeous. But they're fun to read aloud. They were not written as children's books, but there isn't anything in them that a mom would be uncomfortable reading to a teen-aged son. The best of them were The Prisoner of Zenda, 39 Steps, and The Man Who was Thursday. Penguin Boys Own Books These books are all available in many editions, but the cute Penguin editions are available from The Book Depository. We also liked Rupert of Henzau and Greenmantle.

I've read big sections of it. It would be a fun book to have. Don't take the book as gospel; treat it like advice froma friend. He tells you why he likes these books, what parts drag, and what parts not to miss.