Wow, thanks Michelle, for a wealth of info for my Shakespeare study with the little guy! b

Hi, my ds and I will be traveling thru Lamb's Shakespeare this year. I wanted to develop a format for this to help us enjoy it as well as learn a little bit, too. Any suggestions would be welcomed! What I intend to do so far was to ID dramas and comedies and what that would be like in a Shakespeare play. Thought we would take parts and read those parts to each other. Maybe act out a little (can't see my ds doing this, but I'll give it a whirl). List characters and their qualities. Of course list any time, setting and discuss the main storyline. This is all new to me, so I welcome any help from experienced moms! b

Hi, Karen, thanks so much for taking the time to respond to my post. We finished up in April in Primary Division. Then I designed lots of different worksheets to review, plus going back thru the review pages for the rest of the year (preparing for diagnostic testing required here). Over the summer, we have just reviewed orally from the review pages. I thought we might start of the year just doing the transition lessons and coming back once a week to review in Ray's? b

We don't use a formal grammar text. We use Classical Writing (Progymnasmata) as well as the study of Latin (Latina Christina) and this gives us plenty of stuff to chew on for language purposes! DS is entering 4th grade this year and we are in Aesop A for CW and LC2 for Latin. b

Hi, Krista, you don't have to move fast enough thru LC2 to finish it by the end of the year. Break it down into 2 or 3 week lessons. The goal is to get the grammar forms down cold. That way, when he moves into the higher studies, he won't need to refer to notes, etc, it will be ingrained. Take your time, plan your lessons in a way that stretches them out and get the forms down. Review the vocab daily. I split my vocab up like this: verbs of each conjugation in separate groups nouns of each declension in separate groups adjectives of each declension . . . you get the idea! That way they are being rotated and ds is always refreshing his memory of the vocab. Also, I go to the back of the LC book in the vocab list and pick one of each declension/conjugation and have ds decline/conjugate. For example, if I pick the verb AMO I will say, Conjugate the verb for "I love." This helps him both with vocab as well as forms. And if he doesn't know the word, no big deal, we review it and then we still decline/conjugate it. We tried using LC1 with 1 lesson a week at first and that just didn't work. He wasn't able to retain it all. So, I broke it down into 2 week lessons, focusing on grammar and the exercises in the book the first week, then the second week we focused on derivatives and used Ludere Latine with that. All the while, constantly reviewing, 4 days per week as I described above. Don't fret about being behind your Scope and Sequence schedule. Take the time necessary at first and the speed will come as his confidence and retention builds! Hope this gives you some ideas! b

Right Start recommends with the younger ones only do about 15 minutes per day - even if not thru with the lesson. Once they are in 3rd grade, increase times to 30 minutes per day. b

Hi, I've been using Ray's Math now for about a year and a half. I've noticed that some folks have combined that with Right Start. I would appreciate any help on how to do that from those already experienced! Thanks! b