Good suggestion. I need to remember this. I probably expect too much. My k'ner will love you now! :D

Ours is up!! :) Ready for the weekend!!

I feel that there is enough review as well with the oral review at the beginning of the lesson and the review written section at the end of the lessons. My 12 yr old is another one who needs constant review to remember what he has learned, and with R&S he is learning and retaining very well. Also I do have him make flashcards for each lesson. This consists of a definition and example of what is being taught. For example, on one side of the index card, he would write "noun" and on the back he would write the definition and an example or two.

I love and hate it. Love that it works so well and hate that its so dry. Gets a HUGE thumbs up though!!! :thumbup1:

He'll just be a 9th grader. AR homeschool laws are very lax. We turn in paperwork at the first of the school year and 3-8 take a standardized test. That's it. As his teacher, I can list him in whatever grade I want within the limit and it is so. I won't hold mine back either. However I won't list my kner as a 2nd grader next year even though he will be doing mostly 2nd grade work. That just puts him one year closer to that testing requirement....and I don't want that. Also if he slows down later on, I'll have to bump him back down which would probably cause some self-esteem issues I would think. If by 7th or 8th grade he is doing a grade or two ahead, I might bump him up a grade a year....actually 7th grade but list him as an 8th grader and then the following year list him as a 10th grader when he would actually be an 8th grader. I wouldn't make a two year leap in one year although I could in AR. If he has all of his credit hours for graduation by 10th grade, he could graduate. He wouldn't need 11th or 12th grade. Although like a previous poster mentioned, he could take college classes while being listed as an 11th grader and 12th grader, graduate at 18, and still have two years of college behind him. Hmmm...thank goodness this decision is a ways off for me. I have a feeling my 6th grader will graduate at his age level and the next one in line is only in K!! :lol:

I imagine it would depend on your state's homeschool laws. In AR, a child can be listed in the grade either two years before or after the actual grade by age. So the earliest a child could graduate is 16. I would imagine (as far as AR law goes where graduation credits don't count until 9th grade) if your child were doing 9th grade work in, say, the 7th grade and you want him to graduate early, you would list him as a 9th grader. He would then graduate early. Like I said though it would really depend on your state's laws. In AR if I listed my 6th grader as a 7th grader and he went back to ps, he would be tested. If he tested into 7th grade or 8th even, they would allow it. If he didn't test above 6th grade, he would be put in 6th grade (or below! YIKES!). PS kids can also skip up to two grades if they test well enough. My teachers wanted me to skip 6th grade, but my parents wouldn't let me (I was a very young student...graduated at 17 without skipping any grades.) Clear as mud? :D I'm not entirely sure how it all works as I just have a 6th grader. However I do know many homeschoolers who have graduated early and moved on to college at the age of 16 in AR. Edited to add: I would still keep my child in the age level grade for sports, co-op activities, and other social events, and I wouldn't "officially" show him ahead until he was in high school. My k'ner is easily doing 1st grade and some 2nd grade work, but he will be listed at his age level grade for quite a few years.

I am interested in doing this as well. I found this free printable spelling rules list but it's only 3-8. I suppose 1-2 would be easy enough to make up myself. Here is another.

We do history and science as a group. I schedule it right after lunch since we all eat at the same time. While I put the littles down for a nap, my oldest cleans up our lunch mess, and then the older two and I meet in the living room for history and science. After that, they both jump back into their individual workboxes. Works perfectly for us.

Another vote for R&S. My oldest son was having a hard time before we started R&S. We were using a program that was pretty much self-teaching, only he wasn't learning. Now he sits with me, and I teach everything (word for word) from the TM. Then we go over the oral exercises together. Finally I sent him off to do the written exercises by himself. He also does the worksheets himself. Since we started working together (and it takes us a good 15-20 sometimes to just get through a lesson together before sending him off to do the written exercises), he is doing much better. I also ask him to make notecards on the points I teach in the lesson. Mostly that amounts to a definition and example.

My 5 yr old will finish up OPG early next school year and I'm trying to figure out where to go after that. He can write, but not well. He loves spelling. We play spelling games a lot. He loves ETC and we will continue with that for review. I'm looking at Spelling Workout, but would I need anything else to go with it? Would it work well with ETC? Any other suggestions?

I don't think I would use it by itself. It's a little slow and I just wouldn't feel comfortable with it alone. We use it to supplement/reinforce OPGTR. My 5 yr old does 3-4 pages of ETC and one lesson of OPG a day, and ETC is still behind OPG.

Wordly Wise--After two years of trying to like it, we just don't. I plan on pulling vocab/spelling words for my oldest son from our history and science studies. Rod & Staff math--my oldest HATED R&S math. Saxon is a much better fit for him. MOH

My boys would love your violent math lesson!! :lol:

I started English 5 right with my oldest this year and really like it. I plan on using English 3-8 with my kids. My young ones will start out with FLL 1/2 and then move to R&S English 3. My oldest also used Spelling but I didn't like it as well. He is a pretty decent speller so maybe it was just an easy level for him, but I plan on using vocab words from our history for spelling from now on.

Today is the last day of our school week. We have a busy, fun three day weekend planned! Our week is posted!! No pictures though. I ran out of time!! :001_smile: Happy weekend!!

:lol: I didn't even let mine know there was a midnight showing because I knew there would be begging and whining.

Ours is up! :001_smile: Link in siggy.

Oh I love this idea! I had planned on 3 hold punching the AG but never thought to coil bind the book! Thanks!

My oldest son and I both do not like WW. We've tried it for two years now. Looking for a change. What do you use for vocab? Thank you!!

Quick and easy stirfry!! Cut up chicken, use your favorite seasoning, throw it in the pan with some olive oil! Add whatever veggies you have on hand. I usually keep a bag or two of mixed frozen veggies just for this special occasion. Cook some brown rice to go with it and there you go!

:iagree: If there is a project to go along with a story, my boys will remember it forever (well forever so far anyway...:D). I just ordered the AGs for SOTW 1 and 2. We'll finish up with 1 and start 2 next school year. I'm excited to get them!! I didn't realized they contained so much good stuff!!

:iagree: We aren't that far yet, but we like SOTW so much that I finally ordered the AGs to go along with the rest of SOTW 1 for this year and 2 for next. Someone had posted some free printables that go along with SOTW book and AG. I can't find it now...maybe someone else can provide the link? It is a 2 day a week schedule. Looks pretty good too!

:D This is our house too. My toddler and occasionally my 3 yr old nap every afternoon that lasts between 1 1/2 to 2 hours. We do science and history during the first hour or so of that time and whatever time is left is spent quietly reading or playing.....separately.