I think this one is the 7th grade book http://www.christianbook.com/easy-grammar-plus-workbook/wanda-phillips/9780936981147/pd/6981147?item_code=WW&netp_id=460021&event=ESRCQ&view=details

Yes, we stay home five days a week. Staying home keeps us on track. When we leave home (for doctor appt. or dentist) it really throws us off and we don't usually finish school that day.

Thank you, OhElizabeth. Anyone else have advice with regards to R&S? Where would I place my children? My boys will have completed Shurley Eng. 3 and Annette, Season 1 & 2 of AG. I was hoping to combine them all in the same level, if I could what level or should I just keep the boys together and Annette on her own? Thank you,

If you want to continue with HOD, can you use it with just your oldest for now and do only the 3R's with the younger ones? Not sure which guides you are using but another idea for Beyond or Bigger is to use them loosely. Don't do every single thing. Pick and choose. Lastly I would write down the sentence for my 1st grader. I do this with my 7.5 yr. old 1st grader.

Ooops, I meant week 19, told ya I am tired :D

My kiddos run around barefoot. Rain or shine. Feet are much easier to clean than shoes :001_smile:. The only time they wear shoes is if it snows*. They ride their bikes, scooters, run, climb and pogo stick all with no shoes.

Week 18 is up. It's not really a week in review but more like rambling. I'm tired and can't think :tongue_smilie:.

This was how the house we use to live in was set up, when Lance was crawling, Ethan was 2 and Brent was 3. We had a gameroom upstairs with all the bedrooms. My other three children were 4, 5 and 6. I know you have some older ones so this may not apply. What I did was turn our formal living and dining area to a school room. My desk, some bookshelves and the little desks for the kids. In the gameroom is where we housed all the non daily homeschooling stuff. My children were not allowed upstairs so I had some toys downstairs (not much though ;)). The little children were allowed to play in the garage (bikes and such) with the rolling garage door closed unless I was in the kitchen and could see them, then I would raise it 1/4 way up. I always wanted one of those nice gates that were extra long. It was safe otherwise I wouldn't have let them ride their toy bikes or play with their jumbo legos in there. The door from the kitchen to the garage was always open so I could see or hear them. I would train your youngest dc to not go upstairs unless they asked or had an older sibling with them. On days when we where all upstairs the little ones were not allowed out of the gameroom. Later I put a little gate in the upstairs hallway and they were allowed to play in thier room which reminds me, I used a gate for their room when I wanted them to stay in there but they could look out because the bedroom door was open. We had a sandbox in the yard. A kiddie pool too. I was a paranoid mama, so I always made sure the water was very low and gates were locked. I also opened up all the windows so I could see outside. I kept diapers up stairs and downstairs so I didn't have to go far to change them (I had three in diapers at one time). Just remember life gets crazy with toddlers. When I was exhausted and one of my dc flooded the toilet I remember saying to myself, I can laugh or cry, so I chose to laugh (not that it was always easy). When another dc wakes with no diaper and lets just say the room stinks really bad, again I had to choose to laugh. One time while teaching Josh and Annette, in the kitchen I had this feeling that I should check on Ethan. He was in the formal dining room, so I walked on over just in time. He had the chandalier and was ready to run across the table and swing. As you can see, never a dull moment :tongue_smilie:

Here it is http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=344563

There are many co-ops in area. We stay home five days a week. My dd does go to a sewing class on Fridays at the church down the street, but it's not a co-op. I just don't see a need to go somewhere for a few classes. It would totally interrupt our day.

I do it sometimes in the evening. I'll go over the math assignment and they do it the next day. I got the idea from the David Hazell (MFW) he mentioned it on one of the cds.

Thank you, this is what I needed to know, I was trying to find out where she would place after finishing Season 1 and Season 2 of AG :tongue_smilie:. She is using the dvds, they are a big help. I plan to have her finish Season 3 in 2013. I think I can handle another Shurley English session if it can be done partly indpendent. If we decide to go with R&S what level would she start there?

When there are toddlers, school is hard (a good hard ;)). I know when I had little ones it was hard to get what I wanted to do in school done, let alone try to clean one of the rooms. I'm going to throw some ideas out there and maybe something will be helpful:D. I see you are using ECC, so here are my thoughts. Do ECC first thing. Get all the combined subjects done first with the younger children close by. This is what I use to do. Even if they are making a mess :tongue_smilie:(one can always have a 15 minute pick-up with the older kids helping a few times a day). Then get your two oldest working on their own and work with the 1st grader. Get your 1st grader started on a subject and if the little ones aren't napping at this time have some play time with them. I would also start a loose schedule or a block schedule. Have the little ones take a nap at the sametime each day. With your 7th grader, if you haven't already, I would get her a lesson planner and write her lessons for each subject, this way she can cross the subject off as she finishes. Same with the 5th grader. Write what pages from math, CLE LA and anything that your 5th grader can do on his/her own. For every subject that is done all the way, which means the books have to be put away too, I give a ticket. Once they reach 500 tickets, they can have an Amazon or CBD gift card for $30.00;). Some seasons in Homeschooling6; There were times when I would have some of my younger ones using Time4Learning because this was the only way some school would get done. I had to let a formal history and science go with my children 4th grade and under. I used audio books (SOTW, MOH, Diana Waring and lots of great literature via audio). So my two oldest were not always waiting for me we used textbooks. This was four years ago and my oldest two continue to use them. I am just now adding in HOD for history and science again. Knowing I can't sit there for every lesson thus using the computer for math or grammar (TT, MUS, Analytical Grammar with dvds etc.). Some of th changes above were not easy. I often felt like I was not doing a good job as a homeschooling mom. Two years ago I finally just started to relax. Not in the sense of hardly doing any academics but being able to let what 'I' thought homeschooling should look like. If we only did grammar a few times a week, then that was better than not doing it at all. I started seeing the things we were doing and not what we weren't doing. What I'm doing with HOD is rotating. Meaning one week I skip something but I'm not skipping the samething every week, this way we are fitting things in. I call this 'skip and rotate' maybe you can do something similiar with ECC. (((hugs))) Linda<><

Here are a what our days look like. For a month I wrote everything we did throughout the day during school hours. Day 89 Day 87 Day 85 Day 83 I basically use a block schedule. It looks something like this: Latin~with Josh, Caleb, Annette, Brent Math or Grammar~with Josh. I rotate with him, one week math one week grammar. He does both daily, I just rotate the teaching. Preparing School~with Caleb and Brent (HOD) AAR~with Lance Beyond School~with Ethan and Lance AAS/R&S English~with Ethan Math~with Lance Lunch AAS/Shurley English with Caleb and Brent For the most part I keep it as is above but there are days when I need to squeeze someone else in. If there is no room to squeeze another lesson in, then I'll skip a grammar or AAS lesson with one of the children.

We like Bibleman too :001_smile:. :lol:

I'll just get a cup of coffeewhile I wait:D.

Wonder-twins. Lance-Batman Joshua-Spiderman To tell you the truth I'm not sure about the rest of the kids. My younger sister's is The Incredible Hulk from the 70's :D.

I have finally taken the plunge recently and am enjoying it very much. I started Beyond with my 7.5 and 9.1 year old boys. Preparing with my 10 and 11 year old boys. My 10yr. old has had a few meltdowns with the workload but oh well, he'll get use to it. I purchased three HOD guides about three or four years ago and was all gung ho about starting, but it never happened. I sold my guides and went another route. I thought I'd never use HOD but here I am, using two guides and possibly three next school year. To not overwhelm myself or the children I did drop WWE, Simply Spelling (which is studied dictation), and MCP Plaid Phonics for language arts. I'm keeping our current math programs and continuing AAS along with HOD's spelling/studied dictation. I hope to continue with HOD for future years but we'll see.

My two boys 3rd and 4th grade are using Shruley English level 3 this year (we are half way through:)). My 6th grade dd has completed Season One of AG and will hopefully finish Season Two by Sept. of this year. Next year with my then 4th, 5th and 7th grade children, I would like to combine them all (if possible) in grammar using the same level. If we continue with Shurley, would level 5 be a good place? I woul skip level 4 and am wondering if there is anything my boys would miss if I did that. Next year my boys will use HOD CtC and Annette will use Res. to Ref. so I'm also considering switching to Rod and Staff English (not sure but thinking about it). If I did, would there be a level that I can combine all three as well? If so, what level? My dd does well with independent work, if for some reason there is no way to combine using R&S can the upper level (around level 5) be used pretty independently or is it pretty teacher intensive still? If she completes AG Season 2 where would that place her? Thank you,

Wow, I can't imagine using MFW High School programs with a 6th grader:w00t:. I also don't think MFW programs as basic. They always looked pretty meaty to me. Blessings,

This is what I plan to do when we get to CtC. If I happen to see a book at Half Price then I'll have a book for each child. I really would like to purchase two sets of books but I think for us it would be too expensive right now (maybe another year).

This is us as well, except a family of 8 in a 3bd 1bath 1,200 sq ft. Our kitchen (which is very small) looks like a school area. I didn't have a whiteboard for the longest time (when living in our 2bd 1bath 900sq ft house) I use to tape then tacked the legal or is it letter (the longer one :tongue_smilie:) on the wall and use that. When I started tacking the paper I would put a few more under and just pull the top paper off. When living in a small house it's hard for it not to look like a school-house.

Yay . Two families that I know of at my church uses PACES. One is a mom of 8 dc and the other 9 dc. The one with 9 dc has graduated a daughter who is in medical school and doing very well . Have fun setting it all up.

I agree with Nicole, I didn't see anyone being defensive. I see people giving reasons as to why it did or didn't work for them.

TT AAR Bob Jones Math (I used the 4th grade last year and loved it. I just couldn't continue because of the time involved and dvds for everyone is too $$$) Things that I did find earlier but just didn't stick with :tongue_smilie: HOD (although I do think at the time I wasn't ready to continue with a progam like this) MUS AAS