Maybe I am wrong but isn't suite a recently borrowed French word that didn't alter much? I don't speak French so I am not sure how it is pronounced in French.

COSI has homeschool workshops. Maybe one of those falls at the right time?

You hit the nail on the head Keri. That is how it happens in this family. I am with James all day. Daddy only gets 1 maybe 2 days off a week. So I become the chopped liver. There was this time time a while back that our son was becoming rudely obnoxious. He said he didn't have a mummy anymore. He didn't need one. We told him how lucky he was to have a mummy that stayed home with him and that what he was saying wasn't very nice. He continued on without any remorse. So when we got home I put him down for a nap and I "left" I went for a walk. It was an eye opener for him and he cried and cried for his mummy. He has been much more considerate since then. However I don't get invited to go places on the weekend, as that is daddy and his time.

I am not sure we are thinking of the same thing with these crates. They don't have sharp edges destroying the books in any way. And I can fit a substantial amount of books in them. When the crates are full they are too heavy for my son to lift and I don't want him pushing them around and scratching the floor. A laundry basket would not be an option, it is just too big and heavy. We live in a small house 640sqft of accessible area. I have laundry baskets for clothes, the tall upright ones and they take up too much floor space as it is. The crates on the other hand fit perfectly on a window ledge I have. And they stack neatly. We have 6 of them. We did try archive boxes for a while, they worked okay with smaller board books, but are too small for large picture books. They are also not durable and as portable for a small kid. My son is only 4, autistic and has SPD. But that isn't really relevant in this case. He struggles to put his books away because he pulls out dozens at a time and reads them rapidly and rereads them. We need more bookshelves but we lack space so they are packed tightly. So he struggles to get them all back in the right place. He tries, and they just topple everywhere. This is just something that is going to take time for him and that is okay. I also watch another boy in my house who is a lot younger and he pulls books out just as much, if not more. I don't expect my son to be cleaning up after other children all the time. Although he is very helpful and will stack the books into neat piles in his own accord. I am more about access of books, and respect of books, than neat and tidy shelves. Sure I would love more order, and we will continue to work on it. But I am not going to fret about it. His reading nook is also not really a room. It is a little 5x6 area where I put a rug down and surrounded it by shelves. It technically is a part of the kitchen. Move the book from that area 12 steps into the living room.... Which is all part of the same room is not like I have books all over a large house. I think that would be a completely different issue. And I do have a crate in his room for all his books. Just some days he likes to lie in our bed for his nap, and he has to drag in an armload of books to read in our bed. He just often leaves some behind....

I have a cheap plastic milk crate. The type that are popular in stores for college students. I put all the library books in there. I need to keep them separated or we lose them for a while. The crate is also easy to move around the house and to dig through. When we do library trips we do about 30 books at a time. But sadly we don't get to the library as often as I would like. I buy books at thrift stores or sometimes online. I try to save money by buying books in anthology sets for picture books. The books are all supposed to go into the bookshelves in the back of the house. My son has a little reading area back there.... It doesn't always happen. I find his books all over the house. Even in my bed! But once a week I make him gather them all up and put them back. Sadly the shelves are a mess. My son is 4 and my valiant efforts to contain the mess has been to no avail. We also have crates of books in the front of the house. I do try and keep these as more homeschool books... But of course that doesn't happen either.

I hardly think common Core would be an issue as the OPs daughter surely has surpassed all the benchmarks. So it is completely irrelevant.

My son loved the Preschool Prep readers. They are written in first person, which I think appealed to him a lot. Once he had read those he was pretty much ready to read anything he chose. We loved the buddy reading series We Can Read. We also like Green Light readers as they had some well watered down classics. And the I Can Read series had a lot of classic characters like Biscuit and Little Bear. When we were at this stage of reading I just let my son choose whatever books looked interesting to him.

Just helping verbs or verbs in general? Verbs are things you do/feel. When my son was little I would use his name and he would tell me if he could do it. Jamesy eats, drinks, sleeps, feels, loves, thinks.

Started using a timer. For a bit my son was dilly dallying and having trouble focusing on his work. So I started setting a timer for 5 minutes a page. He loves to race the clock. When he is finished the page he has free time, so run in circles for the sake of it. Then back to his seat when the timer goes off. Oh and if beats the time he gets a chockie. Which is just a piece of cereal. I use my phone for the timer and really I cheat sometimes. If I see he is working hard and he just isn't going to beat the clock I will pause it or add a minute without him knowing. If I he isn't focusing I will let the time run out and he doesn't get that chockie.

I do get why you don't want to jump ship though. For some kids there will never be any program that they like. How about stepping back from formal reading instruction for a bit. My son learnt to read on my knee. We buddy read a lot. Maybe just spend some time reading anything he would like. Pick some books from the library? The. Come back to the more formal work in a bit. Just a thought.

Would the thought of weekend school bother him. Maybe set a timer for his work and anything he does not get done during the week he would have to do on the weekend. Or maybe a few days with his privileges revoked might make him end the power struggle. Try and talk to him about it in a non threatening tone later in the day when he is being more amiable. Maybe it is the program. Something we always talk to my son about is that we all have to do things that we don't want to do. We explain the consequences of what would happen if I didn't do my duties. I don't like doing the dishes or laundry, or cooking dinner some nights. But if I don't my son would not have clothes to wear or food to eat. My husband sometimes doesn't feel like going to work but if he stood there and didn't do his work, or he threw a fit there would be serious ramifications. We don't sugar coat those things. I will bring this up just in case there is an issue. Could he have a vision problem?

My son was reading a book about Paris and he started telling me about a cr4p shop. He kept asking me about what they were and if he could eat them. It was a crepe shop.

How about 20 minutes of playing a game like blackjack or even addition war? I agree about trying to get those math facts down pat. I tutored a child that had the exact same issue.

I highly recommend CLE. The spiral will mean that she is revisiting a lot of content. I actually really like it because it is integrated, how we learn math in Australia as opposed to the separated American math methods.

We do a variety of things for several reasons. My son is advanced and rather than accelerate him we do a variety of programs for breadth and depth. He learns many methodologies. We have the time to do it. And frankly he likes math and he asks for more. He have a variety of books and he chooses to do math for fun in his free time.

Talk about awkward moment in a book. I won't say which as it is a spoiler. We follow the adventures of a boy character only to discover at the end of the book he is a long lost Princess and is really a girl turned into a boy. I remember him/her bewailing that he/she didn't want to be a girl.

YouTube Vedic math there are lots of good examples of problems being done this way. As someone previously mentioned. I also separate my dollars ans cents. I add the dollars then the cents.

My choice of best places to live is rural/small town with quick access to a major city.

I use the overdrive app. I have it on our iPad. And I get audiobooks from the library with this for free. It speeds up with good quality and without making the voices sound chipmunk-like. There are other ways to speed up audiobooks but I don't know how.

Time wise audiobooks are a savior. We get many audiobooks digitally from our library and use an app that allows us to play audio books in double time. Yes, some books need time and consideration to digest. But my son and I both have developed a tendency to listen to many, not all, books faster. To be honest I myself could never tolerate audio books until I discovered that I could speed them up. Now I listen to several a week. The beauty of audiobooks is that one can use them in the car, when going for a walk/run, while doing chores, or just before falling asleep. They don't replace traditional reading but they help us cover more content.

I love preschool prep readers. Both the sightword and phonics readers are good. You can cover the picture easily. It was what I had to use for my son so he wasn't always guessing. I can't recommend them enough. My son still reads them sometimes, even though he is a chapter book reader. http://www.preschoolprepco.com/h/s/bks.php

A short beer bottle. I am not even sure if the US has them. Most beer bottles I think I the US are long necks.... I don't drink beer so I am not completely sure on that.

Teeny hotdogs. Still a current term. Beanie weenies are backed beans with little hot dogs in them.

The candy fags became fads. But it thought that they discontinued them completely as they were candy cagarettes. I loved them as a kid. They were yummy. And yes, I pretended to smoke them. And I never once considered really smoking. I remember when I used to pretend I was drinking a stubby too when I had ginger beer in a glass stubby like bottle. I don't drink either. And I love Gaytimes. They are so yummy. I miss Aussie food. I remember Coon cheese was being sued for the derragatory names, despite it being a family name. I wonder if it was ever changed. Coon is just a term for a raccoon in the US.

In Australia we had an ice-cream called a golden Gaytime. Well... Do we still? I use the word gay. Fags were cigarettes. A faggot is a bundle of sticks. Retard meant to slow down. I Love words. Etymology just fascinates me. I hope my son will be the same. Thus far he likes words, and he uses a lot of vintage words. Because we read a lot of vintage text. But I hope to impress upon him how much words change, so he is sage enough to use the most appropriate words.