Spiral Scouts? Although they do segregate by age somewhat maybe you could get around that part. I keep hoping a circle forms in our area.

Volunteer projects, internships, additional electives which might please the colleges they prefer?

Right now they are accessible to LegoMan who is my only child who reads fluently. Once TheMonkey is out of the "how fast can I tear all the pages out of this book" stage, I'm looking forward to strewing them around the house.

All About Reading. It's not cheap but it's fun, a great foundation, and super easy to use. An Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading is less "fun" but incredibly effective and inexpensive. With a kid that's picking it up fast anyway (went through that with LegoMan), I'd get OPGTR to cover any gaps and then once he/she is reading well, move on to All About Spelling to ensure that all phonics and spelling rules are covered.

I felt like I got a fantastic crash course and also lots if ideas for how to teach it and engage elementary aged kids.

Just another idea. Save your food packages like cereal and cracker boxes, tape them back up, and get a set of play money. There's some out there that looks fairly real including bills and coins.

The three Pippi Longstocking books and Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle were hits around here.

8'x4' white board Dragonbox app Latin for Teachers

Yay!!

If there's 3 weeks left, I'd imagine they will be restocking.

Please get a lawyer first thing tomorrow. Don't say a word to the insurance company between now and then if you can possibly avoid it. You sound like a sweet and genuine person. Unfortunately the insurance company doesn't have your interests at heart. Play hard ball. For your son's sake.

We tried the library system but between books not being available and the interface being rediculously hard to use, it just wasn't worth the effort.

I think this just launched so it's probably too much to hope anyone knows much. But at first glance they appear to have 60k children's books including many classics, Boxcar Children (LegoMan is addicted), etc. Fingers crossed at $10 a month we can get trips to the library down a bit and still keep his book habit fed. http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=9578129011

Fingers in my ears as I run away screaming... Ugh. Another Fred book LegoMan will no doubt require.

At that age I'd take his feelings heavily into account. If he wants to try school, let him try it. Give it an honest shot and don't worry about the waiting list issue. You can deal with that later if it becomes necessary. In reality this experience is probably going to shift everyone's perspective anyway. Even if he ends up coming home, the classes and activities you have him in now may not be a good fit going forward.

GSWL or Latin Alive (you can get DVDs).

Loads of spiral notebooks, pencils, and graphing paper.

I've been using it as a crash course for myself. I like it. She does a nice job explaining concepts both in the book and videos. I rarely feel like I need the videos but then again I'm just reviewing content.

Not a cheap option but Latin for Teachers is seriously awesome. I also am starting to work through Latin Alive myself while I teach LFC. It's going so amazingly well. I feel like I get it and so I can effectively teach it.

Are there any booklets out there with tons of single variable algebra problems (2 variable problems are fine for part of it too)? LegoMan is requesting such a booklet as he finds solving them to be fun. He already beat the full Dragon Box app (the 12+ version) so that's not an option.

Following.

ArtsyGirl loves reading eggs and through HSBC it works out to around $1 a week.

I really like LLTL and am looking forward to using it once ArtsyGirl gets up a 1st grade level.

I don't suppose there's any hope he's going to put out kits for those of us who are challenged in the household items department?

Not a book but I think Great Courses has some sort of A&P course (videos). Maybe see if you can get them used and cheap on Amazon ?