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Maybe little angels? I haven't used it, but all the reviews I've ever seen have been positive. It sounds like what you are describing. http://www.stonetabletpress.com/About-the-Series.html

Ds was super happy to receive three of the Good Times Travel Agency books that our library didn't have. They were used copies to boot. He promptly read them one after another. Dh got the complete set of Star Wars. To top it all off, I was thrilled to discover I'd been given a Great Courses gift certificate.

I'm reading: Candy, a century of panic and pleasure Have a New Kid by Friday Where we got the bible: our debt to the Catholic Church Dracula (just started) Just finished: Thank you for arguing (great read) Robinson Crusoe Recent read that was great was The History of the World in Six Glasses

It's probably not worth the out of pocket price to buy both for a child that is already making good progress with reading. Before AAR was published, many people used aas alone and just added in the readers. Really, I think your plan is perfectly Fine. You could even keep on with abcedarin and just use letter tiles instead of writing in the small spaces.

I had the same experience with the free tog sample. Ugh, I can't imagine trying to do that all the time. I considered some things from winter promise, but after purchasing an ebook I will never look at their stuff again. The formatting on my ebook was so out of whack I couldn't even use it. I had to create a password to open it. Since the format was screwed up I had to contact them to fix it. Now I am stuck with a password they chose, and I have to go look it up every freaking time I want to peek at a page in that stupid book.

I think your plan is fine. If you want more structure and the Es is paying you could do all about reading and all about spelling. They would reinforce each other, but it would give you the two distinct periods to break it up. It would also allow you to move forward with spelling and reading with each taken at its own pace.

If you don't want to order you could use chalk, seashells, or check at a building supply store in the landscaping section. If you're more adventurous, take a bottle of vinegar to a gravel-covered area and spray until something fizzes, which would really be putting the acid test into action...applied science if you will.

I got the big set, but I'm a geek and figured I had money left in the science budget after buying the $5 pdf of bfsu. A small set like this would be totally sufficient. http://www.hometrainingtools.com/geology-field-trip-in-a-bag Depending where you are you might just find them too.. I would recommend getting a seashell or piece of limestone to dissolve with acid, if you don't have one lying around already.

We don't use the cycle. We do integrated I guess you would say. In your situation you should definitely do life science next year...lots of nature study. IMHO, physics and chemistry should be covered in one year (or the equivalent if integrated) during the grammar stage as physical science anyway. (I would split life science into a year of plant and a year of animals.). So just do physical science the following year and call it good!

Sounds like you are looking for math mammoth. The concepts are presented very incrementally, there is plenty of practice, and it is mastery. It has chapter reviews and cumulative reviews for each chapter. There is also some review built into the word problems. Concepts are presented pictorially. You could add manipulatives, but it sounds like you would be better off without them. The aio work text has instruction right in it. It is great for fostering independence, and it's unlikely to be eaten by a toddler.

I have the multi color non linking. I prefer the non linking but I could really go either way on the color. I think a good base ten set is one of the few manipulatives worth purchasing so I certainly wouldn't try to talk an addict out of buying it. I think this is what I have. http://www.rainbowresource.com/product/sku/010882. We've been well served by it so far. I use it in conjunction with c rods, abacus, and homemade place value cards.

My kids have all used making music praying twice as a family. It is great for a toddler to join in. There gross and large motor stuff, rhyming, mimic beat and tone, etc. I am Catholic, but I think most should be fine for any trinitarian Christian. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that would be problematic. My plans for my current 2 yo for next year, when he will be 3, are mmpt, mep reception, and self selected activities from a station I will set up using Montessori-inspired activities for fine motor and phonemic awareness. The are lots of books and Pinterest boards with suggestions. I am also pulling ideas from slow and steady, get me ready. I plan to work with him on getting self help skills in order, clothes, shoes, bathroom, car seat, etc. I looked at mp preschool and little hands to heaven because I want structure, but neither leaves enough choice to the child for what I am looking for. Between those two, I think mp preschool looked easier.

Did you see this? http://www.welltrainedmind.com/what-is-literary-analysis-and-when-to-teach-it/

I think the 8 yo would be better placed in the bible heroes theme course unless there is some kind of ld going on. Or maybe atff for the 8 yo if you don't want a religious theme. If she reads at or above grade and can handle mct grammar you might even combine the olders in swi a.

Yes, Math mammoth is easy to accelerate. I have not used it, but I would expect math in focus to be similarly easy to accelerate. You might even be able to get away with just the workbooks depending on what grade you're using and your comfort level with the subject matter.

I think this is the first I've seen that someone didn't like the vocab. What is it that you disliked about it? I'm considering just the vocab based on all the glowing reviews, but the dinky samples hardly give me a feel for whether it would fit us.

Yeah, I'm actually in favor of the US converting to metric. That's why I only tried to remove the money section and just supplement the measurement. The way the money is woven in a little bit here and there made it really cumbersome to remove. I did consider changing the pound to dollar but then there is the quarter issue, and it's just in such tiny pieces in so many places that it didn't seem worth the effort.

Mep is spiral, but is written for a classroom with British money and measurement. Due to the spiral nature it is difficult to remove just the money section. If you happen to be British though, it would probably be great. Math mammoth has plenty of review including cumulative review. The files are also editable so you can change the numbers to make a whole new sheet.

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No. We aren't outsourcing classes or doing instrumental lessons right now. My preferred math and science are cheap, cheap, cheap, and I have an awesome library system that is easy to use. Acceleration hasn't really affected prices for us yet. It's more that we are using things earlier than typical. As someone up thread said, buying multiple levels costs more. The flip side of that is that a lot of kids on this board can straight up skip levels too. Maybe that averages it out. I think the music costs should have been tossed out in the estimate. Most people pay the majority of that out of pocket regardless of their schooling choices, and it really skews the results.

We used a simple timeline in k. I put a bunch of key events on address label stickers, and ds put them on the timeline. He definitely benefitted from it and was always excited when I pulled it out for him to add events. This year in 1st he is using simple, one-page timelines with some of his reading, but we aren't keeping an overall written timeline for history. He is continuing to memorize timeline cards for our memory program though.

I've been very successful using the c rods with math mammoth. If you, as the teacher, think that way, it is super easy to adapt mm to use the rods. Mm is just so much easier to use in the day to day nitty gritty than miquon, plus you don't have to switch after third grade. The rest is not in reply to that quote specifically, just a general post. We are mostly doing the next thing for the main subjects. I'm kind of iffy on mbtp for language arts, but ds loves it, and I can't really think of anything else I'd prefer at this point. I'm looking for music and art. Right now I am thinking I can combine my olders in "I can do all things" for art. They are at the same ability for art. I want to combine them for music too, but ds has had much more sight reading practice. I'm thinking Hoffman academy for ods, but not sure if did could keep up with him in that...sigh...I really don't want to do 2 musics.

I would be open to more regulations like those listed above. We already do the well child visits. I could support a weekly check-in for homeschooled kids with previous cps cases. For the rest though, resources would be better spent on monitoring those kids that are not even old enough to fall under compulsory laws. A great many of the child abuse deaths are infants, and the majority are under 6. Unless we are going to require check ins for that population, it doesn't really make sense to single out homeschoolers for added scrutiny, with the exception of the previous cps cases. Required check ins for infants and toddlers would be more effective for preventing child abuse deaths.