No academic goals this year. This year we enjoy life and make memories for a lifetime😊

We used to buy from Christianbooks too. It was only a shop, which was posting to Europe at that time.

We are using it as well. Before that we had Galore Park Latin, which was great. Regarding the Maths - we did Singapore from 1 to 3 in a few months and after switched to MEP and we were using it until Pre-algebra. It's very good, deep and completely free. The Beast Academy online is fun too. In fact after it came out last summer my little one switched from MEP to Beast Academy, but he is not that accelerated in maths like my eldest son. For enrichment we are doing competitive maths problems from a few books like Zaccaro's math, Borac's, Yongcheng Chen, and etc.

Thank you for your input. I completely agree with you, but he had such enormous amount of the things, so I simply could not figure out our logistical issue. In the end the course was offered very late in the evening during weekdays and we had to drop this idea and were thinking to take online classes instead, but suddenly DS had to drop his main sport, tennis, and has found another his passion in chess. Now he is thinking that he has too much things to think about, and he is letting this idea go 😅 Now I have another crazy son who wanted to learn Japanese since 3 and we have already a teacher, so I am still in the same boat😅

From all your mentioned my kids love the most Murderous maths and The Number Devil. Also they liked Perfectly Perilous Math, Secrets of Mental Math, Books of Yakov Pereliman, Math for Smarty Pants, The Book of Think, & other books of a Brown Paper School, books of Brian Bolt. My eldest also liked Jacob's Mathematics and he even asked me to buy Algebra and Geometry. He also liked chess books and Cryptoclub.

My kids always had a lot of acivities, especially my eldest ds, 10.5yo. He did ballet for 5 years, tennis for 6 years (2 of them in a sport academy) - he has just dropped it the last month. He is also doing swimming (it's his 7th year), gymnastics (4th year), chess, music school(piano + vocal), olympiad maths club and is about to start a sport programming. My yongest did ballet for 2 years, then changed it for gymnastcs and did it for 2 years too. At the moment he is doing swimming (it's his main sport), attending a music school (piano), sailing academy, entrepreneurs classes and about to re-start pottery lessons and robotics. 8 years old.

Well done Alli. I have seen her on Facebook :)

Thank you everyone for your comments and my apology for disappearing:) I was lucky enough to get a gastric flu and successfully pass it around the family? DS is hyper and his free time is our biggest issue. To be honest he has non of it? Last year he had a full time school, 18 hrs of sports and 5-6 hrs of other activities + maths club. This year I reduced the sports hours by 3 hrs, as I am worrying that is too much for him, but now he is anyway filling it up with other intellectual activities. I agree that at one point we have to intervene and reduced it significantly, but for the time being everything seems so easy for him and it doesn't take so much of his efforts. Besides he is still young (10yo), loves diversity and having fun and we really like the idea to give him some more time to discover the things around. With the languages a bit different, it's a commitment for years. If it is up to DS he would not stop on those he already had and would take another couple of languages more. He loves history and geography, wants to learn everything about the world/countries, their heritage and languages spoken, but in the end he wishes to become a scientist, not a linguist and this is my concern ? But after reading all yours comments I have realised that Latin in fact could be omitted. So we have enrolled him in Chinese classes for this scholastic year, and then I guess we will see what to do ? Thanks again to all of you. I am so happy that many years ago I came across with this forum. You make my life easier? and I am not feeling all the time that I am crazy mother who steals the childhood from her kids?

DS10 is multilingual, but in reality only one of them is a mother-tongue language. The other two are somewhere in the minimum required level (70-80%). He is not interested in them, so almost no practising or using them on the top of his programs. I am not worrying or forcing him, just let him be. Additionally, he is attending French lessons, we are doing Latin at home and he was planning to begin German as from this October. So there already are plenty to achieve and accomplish with all of that. Ok. It will be hard for him, but still doable. He has a very good memory and loves learning. Anyway, we though it's fine, but definitely more than enough, but DS doesn't want to stop yet and wants to take Chinese too. I tried to enrol him a few years ago, but sadly there was a clash with his tennis academy and he couldn't attend those lessons in the end. Then he forgot for a while and now he is begging me again to begin Chinese and postpone German for a year? German is a must since he is considering German speaking Swiss Polytechnic Institute for his future studies. No way to drop French too. He simply adores it and dreams to sing in French. Latin might be a requirement for his carrier, although he doesn't like it much and ready to swap it for Chinese. My head is spinning. He has already way too much things to do. The only thing I can see it's to drop his school, but unfortunately it's not an option since the homeschooling is prohibited in our country. Crazy, I know, but we have to accept it and live with that ? Hope your give me a good advice or a right kick to wake up as I am lost and do not know what to do ?

I envy you so much. None of my kids wants to listen audiobooks for some reason?

Tanaqui, we were reading from your list too, so much appreciated for your input too ? Ds10 has finished The 39 Clues and reading Rick Riordan's series at the moment. Peter Lerangis' Seven Wonders is next. For non-fiction he reread all his history books, including The Story of World and he is reading The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurus by Steve Brusatte - it's really good one. I am reading it too between? Ds8 has finished a serie of Lucy Hawking's books about George and currently on The 39 Clues. Warrior cats and The Mysterious Benedict Society are next in the list, then Harry Potter for 3rd time? He is also reading The Complete Sailing Manual for his sailing lessons and Horrible Science/History and Geography books.

Thanks for sharing. My kiddo liked Uzzingo so much that he has done a quarter of all Physical science in one go ?

DS has Brilliant's subscription and he loves their courses, but they are so short. Indeed, it was so short that my kid finished it in a couple of hours.

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We have changed all our plans in the end ? Mornings - the beach & activities in the evenings Ds10 French at the French Alliance (2times per week×3hrs) Tennis - 4 times per week by 2 hrs + 2 hrs of physical training Swimming - 5hrs per week Piano - twice per week Chess - once per week plus tournaments Plus lots of reading (we already bought 30 books for summer which he wants to read ))) , programming(python) online, a course kf creative writing online, lots of maths and robotics with brother at home. Ds8 Swimming - 5 hrs + 2 hrs of physical training Karate - twice per week Chess - once per week Plus Japanese with a tutor, arts with grandma and auntie(they stay with us all summer again ? ) programming with Minecraft online, Beast academy online, a creative writing course online, reading and robotics with brother. Short trips, to Sicily in August and France in September.

My 9.5yo is working through the 3rd chapter of Pre-Algebra completely independently. It's a fantastic textbook and explains everything well. And Alumcus is a hit too. In fact it's like a cherry on the top :) We cannot attend online lessons though due to the time zone difference, but if I could to choose I would enrol DS for the program. He prefers to be a part of the team and tends to work much better when any competition is involved and he gets bored and sometimes he even gets lazy working on his own :)

Ds9.5 - as usual, a bunch of mostly non-fiction books: The Great Mathematicians, The CS Detective and A Brief History of Time. The last one is the saturday' reading with daddy since ds doesnt understand yet, but very desperate. Hawking was his hero :( One in a queque - a Little History of the World and a Young Sherlock Holmes. Ds7.5 - has just finished re-reading Peter the Rabbit and has started Kenny and the dragon + a standard bunch of books about sharks,rabbits, cats, cars and minecraft))

I would recommend Alice. It's a good transition to Python, a great fun for kids and it's absolutely free. Or programming with Minecraft with this free e-book https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi-issues/Essentials_Minecraft_v1.pdf

Thanks. DS had already asked to pay him an year subscription of The Great Courses Plus and I've put it in the list. Maybe we will pay it for them as an Easter present :)

He is going to be 10 next July. He read all books of Hawkings and loved them. Thanks. I will order this one oh, thank you for this one. I'll check if ds can take this course during next summer break :) You did not specify the age and what you've already read / watched... so i'll just offer a couple of random suggestions: Books about George by Lucy and Stephen Hawking (like "George's Secret Key to the Universe" and the others from the series). Documentaries by Brian Cox (e.g. "Wonders of the Universe", "Wonders of the Solar System") "A Black Hole is Not a Hole" by Carolyn DeCristofano.

We used Singapore and after jumping quickly 3 levels in 1 year we switched to MEP.

UPDATED! We won't have any camps this summer but rather programs that will run through all summer holidays. Of course there will be lots of changes yet, but so far I think it will look something like that: DS10 Robotics - 1 morning/week Tennis - 3 mornings/week French club - 1 morning/week Piano more tennis, gymnastics, swimming and chess. DS8 Science club - 2 mornings/week Sailing - 2 mornings/week Arts with granny Swimming, diving, gymnastics and chess And as usual lots of sun, sea and time with their granny, unfortunately with the only one as from this year :(

Dear all, Please share your resources (books, youtube channels, documentaries, and etc) with me. My kid is so fascinated and curious about this topic and wants to know everything about it. So far we didn't have anything serious, just a few documentaries and enormous amount of library books. Thanks :001_smile:

me too, together with all my family :laugh: