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  1. For math:

    Saxon Math 2 and then 3 (we'll finish both before 3rd grade)

     

    For language arts:

    Rod & Staff English 2

    All About Spelling levels 1, 2 & 3

    Writing with Ease level 2

     

    He does cursive already (learned in 1st) so his copywork for WWE is done in cursive. Actually, he does his R&S English in cursive and the dictation for AAS in cursive.

     

    We're just getting ready to try DITHOR but for now he's been reading up a storm anything he can get his hands on.

  2. Either used just read through or using one of the programs that schedules it. Sonlight Core 1 & 2 (or the combined core) and Heart of Dakota Preparing both schedule it.

     

    There are probably others but I'm on cold meds tonight so my thinking is mighty fuzzy...

     

     

    Also there is a book by Gombrich I looked at recently, "A Little History of the World" that may work for you. Our library had it.

  3. I'm probably not much help either but we're using R&S 2nd this year and have loved it. We're just starting unit 5 (of 6) this week. He does the oral section out loud if it seems it would help; often we just skip it. And then he does ONE of the written sections. So that may be writing the verbs for eight sentences on his paper or perhaps writing four sentences where he just has to fill in one word.

     

    He truly LOVES it. I was astonished, quite honestly. Retention so far has been good. We'll definitely be continuing on with R&S English 3 next year. No reason to switch when we like it so well.

     

    We did do Growing with Grammar 1 & 2 before this but it just did not click for him at all. Retention also seemed really low for him, but it may have been both his age and/or just the ease of those levels. (And I wanted to really like FLL 1 but it was a terrible fit for him!)

  4. is putting one out. Not all the books are done yet but here's a link to the Bible page on their site:

     

    http://classicalacademicpress.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3&zenid=949d5a50586166872552ce80dba8a062

     

    Two years of the four are done.

     

     

    Apologia also has four volumes that are more apologetics/worldview then just bible study, but may be of interest.

     

    http://www.apologia.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=42

  5. I have no advice at all but also wanted to chime in and say this is *exactly* my almost 9-year old son. He's brilliant, the work comes easily, and he couldn't be bothered.

     

    AND, it's my brother's personality to the "T". (Which we find amazing since our eldest was adopted from a Russian orphanage and my brother really is a blood relative.) My brother at almost 40 will work for a while and then quit. His partner covers most of the expenses for extended periods of time. They are complete opposites that way, which I guess works to my brother's advantage!

     

    I saw my parents urge him and threaten him and every other thing to get him going... and it never worked. My brother was sent to excellent schools and it did nothing to motivate him. He skipped school to go surfing. Or skateboarding. Even being sent to excellent colleges did nothing to get him moving in life.

     

    It's very frustrating to watch someone bright make so little effort!

     

    I just read a book called "The Element" by Ken Robinson. In it he talks a lot about people who loathed school but then put in amazing work and effort in something they truly love. It sounds good but on the flip-side we've watched our eldest draw for hours a day for literally years. He surpassed our art ability a couple of years ago. People always marvel at what he has drawn and he's seemed pleased at the praise. And then lately, in the last few months, it's petered to a halt. As far as we can tell, it's because he got good enough that the drawings were taking long enough that he couldn't be bothered any more. Work, you know... the thing he hates.

     

    DH is reading to both boys a book called "Created for Work" by Bob Schultz. It's opened the door to some strong discussions between him and the boys and we have hope that something will strike a chord with him.

     

    Hoping that someone chimes into this discussion with a glimmer of hope on how to get these boys going a little bit!

  6. I have no idea to your question but your question helped me figure out if she was done or not. We're in the last few chapters of LL 1 and I can't tell from the website if she's actually finished LL 2 yet or not. Apparently it's not all complete from what you are finding...!

  7. My son was very much like this at age 7 and he is also extremely right-brained. He's almost 9 now and he still does it a little. We do have him read aloud to me every single day, which has helped a ton. I just gently correct if he misses a word, etc.

     

    Also, he read out loud to himself for a while and then suddenly it stopped and he's reading silently. He draws for hours a day and until about age 5 or 6 he would narrate his drawings. Literally him talking for hours a day while he drew and colored. And then, that stopped suddenly too. It was so amazingly quiet...!

     

    Besides having him read some to me every day I didn't do anything else although perhaps I should have! I love the idea of using nonsense words. That would slow him down enough to pay attention perhaps.

  8. We do Greek and Latin with the 8.5 year old. This is his 3rd year of Latin and his 2nd year of Greek. We'll be adding Hebrew next year. (Or German if I can ever find a program I like! DH is close to fluent, but rusty, and we have a handful of friends who are fluent so we'd like to take advantage of that.)

     

    They are core to our curriculum along with math, English (grammar, writing), and memory work. History and science are both done daily but are both literature intensive and brief (about 45 minutes total).

     

    We're using Lively Latin Big Book 1 and do one worksheet a day plus flashcards. It takes us about 10 minutes a day, five days a week.

     

    In Greek we're doing Elementary Greek 1 and we do one lesson/worksheet a day plus review flashcards and the memory verse. That's also about 10 minutes a day, five days a week.

     

    We used to do both languages back to back when it was just the alphabet for Greek and some introductory work. Now I've found he does better with more of a break between the two. We do seatwork in two sessions; Latin is in the first, Greek is in the second.

     

    Our younger son will probably start Latin at age 7 and Greek at age 8. So a different schedule then older brother but he has different gifts and needs. He probably won't get the third language until much older as well.

  9. but I see my library has it so I've put it on hold. Does he talk about why he picked the poems he did? I'd love to see the "why" behind what was chosen.

     

    We often memorize poems from poetry books we happen to be reading. I haven't laid out a plan of poems I want the boys to memorize so we are very free form around here! My eldest son picks about half of them. If he says "Oooh, I like that one!" then we add it to the list. :) If he likes something it's much more likely to stick.

  10. Wow, I sooooo needed to read this thread today. My son is just about to be nine and we have had the worst year. It has been complain, whine, fight, repeat, all year. I thought we'd totally messed him up and just this week said to DH "You need to put him in school and let someone else deal with him."

     

    The 5 yo actually said to me, today, "I'm glad I'm not defiant at school, Mama!" Me too, me too! Seems we might get there one day anyway.

     

    Now I have a bit of hope that if we grit our teeth we'll make it through the year! LOL

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