Hi, I was wondering if anyone using Latin Prep1 would mind sharing how they scheduled the curriculum with the work book over the year. My 5th grader is going to use it this year. Thanks!! Eve

I am using it for the second time. I like that it is scripted and easy to use. We use SWR for spelling so sometimes I change how I explain the sounds of the multi letter phonograms, but that's it. I really like it and would definitely recommend it. We did skip the first 26 lessons and just used taught the letter sounds directly.

We've used Miriam Webster Elementary Dictionary, or just our standard College Webster Dictionary (if we couldn't find the other :) )

I agree, RightStart Math Games Book.

What curriculums / grammars have you used to teach Biblical Greek. Please include how it went and what ages your children were/are.

We used OT guide, Egypt, Greece, and Rome for Ancient History. I also got a unit study on China "To the Great Wall and Beyond" and selected the applicable time period out of there to cover China. These worked well and I am planning on doing the same the next time we go through it.

I started with WRTR through Spalding 4 years ago and finally found and tried SWR last year. I wish I had found it earlier. Basically it makes WRTR homeschool teacher friendly. I love it.

Math: Rightstart A Reading: Ordinary Parents Guide to Reading / Teaching SWR Phonograms / Occasional Bob Books Writing: Cursive First Read Aloud: Various books chosen at the beginning of the year Sci: Apologia Botany - I do this will all 3 kids 8,5,4 Art: once a month art class Bible Time and Hymns: we have daily family bible time and they learn a hymn every two months, along with selected memory verses for the year Chores and lots of play time. So far so good. I just think it is amazing to watch kids learn to read.

RightStart is very easy to use and effective (for our family at least :) ). I have no complaints.

I love Right start. It is very easy to use and effective (at least for our family :) ).

We like it but I skip the first 26 lessons, and teach the sounds of the letters to my kids using flash cards and a small dry erase board. We use SWR for spelling so sometimes I modify a lesson to fit that. But I really like this book. It is EASY to use. And depending on the age of your child, you can easily do part of a lesson one day and the rest another. We bought the flash cards to save time (I am glad we did this).

Most of our HS budget is on books. I usually compare rainbow resource, amazon, and half.com. But I recently found out about paperbackswap.com. Here you post books you don't want anymore and then when someone requests the book you ship it and get credit for one book of your choice. I have found several books that I needed for our history curriculum here. So they just cost the cost of shipping my book to someone else (around $2). Where even at half.com if the book costs $0.75 you still need to pay about $3.50 in shipping.

I started with Ray's but it didn't work for me or dd, I found RightStart and LOVE it. I have used it for Level B,C, and D, and now I have started Level A with ds. It has been easy, fun, and effective to use.

Hmmm... if you can't renew it, then since you probably would want other people to return it on time, maybe you should do that. Instead of paying the fine, maybe you could find the book and buy it your self online.

We aren't high risk since our kids are not in school everyday. So it saves us money and time not to get flu shots. Actually last year was our first year we didn't get the flu shot and we were the least sick. This may also be that we no longer had anyone 2 or under in the home as well though :).