I think it depends largely on what you are doing for reading and handwriting. They are very intertwined at the early ages. If you are using a good synthetic phonics program, swo or just wait is probably fine. If you are doing lots of sight words and "balanced literacy" or perhaps she just picked up reading without phonics, then a spelling with a heavy phonics emphasis might be a better place to start. Beyond that, consider how much total writing your student has. AAS $$$, reading lessons through literature $$, or writing road to reading $ would be good for phonics+spelling. AAS could be done with less writing and is probably the most open and go. With WRTR you will invest time instead of money.

Can't you purchase the bookshark version with charter funds?

The Shiller math songs for kit 1 is very good.

What is on your list for reading about executive function? I feel like my dd could use some extra help in this area, particularly focus.

My rising 1st grader will be doing: 30 min per day, 4 days per week of Shiller math 1language arts lesson from mbtp each day (minus the spelling) 15 minutes of a spell to read daily 30 min of world cultures/geography 4 days per week 30 min of bfsu 3 days per week 45 min of wee sing weekly and 1 classics for kids show weekly 45 of geography through art weekly 1 hr of I can do all things biweekly 1hr per school day of reading

We continue our school year math 3 days per week; we only do that 4x per week during the school year. Then there is something for handwriting. Last summer ods did pentime 3 and dd did copywork. This summer ods is doing pentime 4 and dd is doing pentime 2. We also ontinue our memory work in anki as the cards pop up. They generally read in bed for awhile before going to sleep so I don't really schedule reading, but if a week or so went by without them reading spontaneously I would probably schedule that in.

Take a look at Shiller. I moved my dd into it after math mammoth failed for her. It is very concrete and interactive. The place value is especially strong. It starts with unit cubes, ten rods, etc, then moves to tiles (google montessori stamp game for a video of this) and then finally to paper and pencil. It goes through all operations at the concrete level before moving to abstract with any of them. I wrote a detailed response about it a couple months ago that you can probably find if you dig for my name plus Shiller. Download is available from christianbook.com and the manipulatives are easy to make or purchase locally so you wouldn't need to pay international shipping.

Roughly half. Maybe 60% if it is highly sought after and relatively expensive. I think (based on this board and homeschool classified) that the majority of sellers list it around 75% of new. I assume people are buying at that point because the listings don't stay up for ever. There have been plenty listed at 90-100% of retail. I don't think there's really any decent chance of selling those.

Seconding many of the books listed by Slache Others to consider: Secular-A life like mine, a school like mine, a faith like mine, throw your tooth on the roof, Art and activities from around the world (haven't checked this one out yet, but it is on my list) Evangelical Christian- Passport to the World Your A to Z guided language tour (skip the first section on languae origins if you are not a young earth creationist; seems relatively mainstream after that part) Color the World pages. https://www.education.com/slideshow/world-coloring-pages/

Galen and the Gateway to Medicine, Herodotus and the Road to History, Archimedes and the Door to Science, and Augustine Came to Kent are all widely used by homeschool lit-based curricula. I have a couple but haven't read them yet. Once Upon a Time Saints series is excellent for a slightly younger crowd.

We're on our third year with it. For us it is just a supplement, but you could probably build your studies around it by adding living books, narration, and dictation. There are some activities suggested for science. I use the tm, timeline cards, maps, and cds. I am consistently the only person who likes the cds whenever we have a thread on ccm. I tried to save money by skipping the maps, but I wound up ordering them later. It was just too time consuming to find unlabeled maps online. The ccm maps are really nice and have heavy laminating so you can draw on them. We've used wet erase to trace country outlines. Like rootann, we only do the timeline cards that line up with that year, so 1/4 of the timeline each year. I use anki to manage cumulative review. We do religion, timeline, geography, great words 1, science, and history. My oldest is on his third year. I'll have him do Latin and great words 2 on his second lap. The geography is just current political geography. I like the religion a lot. It is just the right amount to go along with a standard (progressive education) CCD class and our literature based history (which includes bible history and saints).

Call them. I had that happen once and they were able to cancel when I called.ETA: oh, I didn't see that it had shipped. Bummer.

It's like story of the world, but Catholic. Upper elementary would probably be ideal for independent reading. Read aloud to younger kids. Looking at your signature, it doesn't look like you're Catholic. Can't you go into your orders to cancel it?

We used level 3 last summer. It includes all the letters. I think just that single book is good for summer. Then we moved to the free copywork book from barefoot ragamuffin to maintain during the school year.

W started with 3 and it was perfectly fine.

Math mammoth actually teaches that as an intermediate step in developing the algorithm. After a couple days of doing it that way it shows them the shortcut of carrying/regrouping as you go.

As with most things, short, frequent practice helps. I would insist on handwriting work each day for an elementary student. When it becomes easy she will probably not resist. I get that you want her to have a positive attitude toward school and that forcing her to do stuff somewhat undermines that, but you will certainly want her to have automaticity by middle school. One or two sentences at a a time (about a topic she likes) with you sitting next to her and done thrice daily should get her going. Perhaps a small reward for completing it neatly with a good attitude would help at first. I do think most public schools require too much writing with low standards for neatness, but I also think this board (in general, not talking about any particular person) tends to swing too far the other way. There are frequent posts about NT kids whose parents are scribing for them in the logic stage because the poor little dears don't like writing. I don't think that's entirely unrelated to that fact that the overwhelming attitude here is "if they don't like writing, it's because they're not ready." Considering how advanced your daughter is, it will surely benefit her to get over this hump sooner rather than later.

It sounds like the underlying problem is that she is placed too low. Did you try the placement tests? They are here. http://iew.com/fixIt seems like it would be difficult to determine whether the instruction and practice provided is sufficient on its own if she's using it much lower than her ability. Edited to fix link

Tan released story of civilization ancients last year. https://www.tanhomeschool.com/store/the-story-of-civilization-vol-1-the-ancient-world.html. I would guess they'd release the next volume soon, but you could email to check. I am pretty sure I got something from homeschool connections about elementary courses coming soon. Fwiw, I have not been able to find something for the upper grammar level modern times. However, usborne and dk books have served us well. I doubt you will have any trouble with randomly chosen library books for that period. I read the OUP ancient near eastern world due to the many accolades the series gets on these boards. I found that I was a bit irritated toward the end. Most of the book talked about myths being passed down by word of mouth over many years, but suddenly when it got to the Hebrew the myths were "made up." It struck me as unfair from a secular publisher. I don't expect a Christian viewpoint, but seriously, why didn't the sumerians "make it up?"

I'm thinking of using bookshark for this purpose. I like that they have a mix of stuff ready to go.

This year my 3 yo has been doing the mfw pre-k task cards. We've been doing about 10 minutes 3x per week where he gets to choose the activity. He has learned so much from this and is very eager to do school. Plans for k4: Aar1 (he knows all letters and their primary sounds and is anxious to read) Miquon orange with giggle math Printing with letter stories (a freebie I got from iew and instantly fell in love with) tag along with the older kids for geography/cultures (the art, music, food, movies, coloring, and sticker books) My read aloud basket will contain books to coordinate with geography as well as all the level 1 read and find out science books. I usually put books from mp, bookshark, and fiar in there too. He'll also do his second year at catechesis of the good shepherd at our church.

Layers of learning- there are some for free on the site Iew bible heroes

You could introduce him to the idea sentence openers. Start with one, work on it a few weeks, then show him another. You can download the iew app lite version for free. The sentence openers are listed in there along with examples. Also, look at the unit on writing from pictures. There are some question ideas in there. Rather than just telling him to write a sentence to go with the picture, you could have him write a sentence that tells how it got that way, how a character is feeling, or what the problem (conflict) might be in the story.

I buy whenever the best sale is if it's something I'm sure of. For example, I just placed my mbtp order because they are having their once per year sale. The rest I will buy over summer, or maybe late spring if I need to do a lot of pre-planning to implement it. If I find used stuff I will pick it up any time between now and September-whenever I happen upon it. ETA I like to have a backup plan for anything I'm iffy on, but I still wouldn't necessarily buy it any sooner unless it is inexpensive.

Have you looked at math in focus? Maybe the more streamlined approach would make it easier to handle. They also have middle school. I know Singapore technically has partial middle school available this week, but who knows what they will do next week? Right start gives lots of teacher background, but I think you would do well to read through the miquon stuff too. After all, you already have it. I personally think the rods plus some hundred flats are superior to the abacus. Right start doesn't go as high in levels, but I don't think you should consider that a deal breaker. I have learned something new about teaching from every math we've used.