very well said

this is hilarious! (i had to read it to my family)

we used to live on Wolf Creek Drive in Anchorage!

for years, ours was GrayDash Academy (my older son's middle name is Grayson, my younger son's middle name is Dashiell) when we moved from Alaska to Washington state, my older son went to a private high school for 2 years our school (with my younger son) was called Morningside Academy (just because we liked the word!) after my older son came back home (to self educate), we just started calling it Free School (as in "we are all free again" from the school's constraints!) nothing official though and i've been wondering what to write on my older son's diploma this year he is a recent graduate :)

this is very nice :) thank you for posting it

oh good - you should be safe then (mine's still sitting in our schoolroom closet - i don't recall having that guarantee) hopefully they've made the necessary corrections to the advanced level and you and your son will love it!

my son is very physics-oriented (from years of serious lego-building :)) most of the experiments worked just fine and were fun sometimes they were a bit boring though the projects were usually broken up into segments (pertaining to what lesson you were on) my son preferred to do them all at once since he was able to figure out what to do next (does that make sense? i'm tired)

sorry to be discouraging, brandy yes - maybe they've made the necessary changes (they didn't have an advanced version when i bought it)

i bought it last year after talking with the author at our homeschooling convention unfortunately, we found that the curriculum contained many errors my son (11yo at the time) was the one who pointed most of them out! finally, after being frustrated several times, we ended up discontinuing the science program (by the way, we had the intermediate level - i cannot speak for the elementary level)

what a wonderful time you had with your four boys, some lovely poetry, and tea . . . ! thank you so much for sharing it here i have 2 boys (12 and 17 now) and we still do "sunday family tea time" each week one person presents (we rotate between the 4 of us) and the one who presented the week before is in charge of treats we love the time together, we all learn something new each week, and our public speaking skills continue to improve :)

i'm using TT7 with my 6th grader and my 11th grader is doing chalkdust calculus we love both programs! imo, the math curriculum just has to fit the student then it will do its job

we have traveled with our family to: -brazil -china -vietnam (twice, my husband has a business there and has been there more often, my younger son was even in a traditional vietnamese wedding - he cried all the way through :)) we are hoping to move for an extended period to another country though (ideally we'd like to live part of the year in the u.s. and part outside) buenos aires, argentina is our first choice we are going there in may to check things out we're also planning to travel through europe this fall in order to visit more countries that are on our list i am really enjoying this thread thanks to spradlin02 for starting it and to all other posters for contributing to it

we tried this program at the beginning of this year but stopped using it it wasn't very challenging for my 6th grader (whose passion is engines/motors) we also found several errors in the text as well

we school afternoons and evenings (because we are night owls and like to sleep in!) we are very flexible, adjusting to our schedule when needed working in various outside activities (tap, art, french) and fairly extensive travel i have 2 sons (6th and 11th) they also spend a great deal of time on independent projects (they each have a passion that they are very dedicated to) but still manage to get all of their assigned academic schoolwork done too my youngest has been homeschooled since preschool my oldest was homeschooled preschool through 8th, went to a private school for 9th and 10th, and is back home this year at his request he is basically self-educating (with some help from dad in calculus) (he is taking the SAT at this very moment!) we still take summers off because we all like the break we feel as if we are always learning though (our whole family) everything else we do counts as "unschooling"

my son took the psat in both 9th and 10th (and will take it next month as a current junior) he had tested out of algebra I and was taking geometry in 9th grade he took algebra II/trig his sophomore year and he did very well on the test both years i think it was terrific practice/prep for him and i would highly encourage your son to take the psat this year