Per child? I am schooling 4 this year with one being in Jr. high and the costs are up there!

For several reasons I will buying all my books this year. Yeah... It will be a good solid $2000 for three levels. Running away scared.... And broke.

My only thing is that I would push your 7th grader writing wise. High school is creeping up and she will need to be writing full essays with a firm grasp on strong language, composition, etc. I'd make sure you got throw WWS with your oldest at least.

We call ours table time but it is the same sort of thing as circle time. Bible reading, hymn we are learning, map tracing, memory work, etc.

I homeschooled for somewhat cheap for years. I hated feeling like I was always settling for less than what I wanted. So we are going to make it work in our budget and get what I want. So if I want two math programs we're doing it. If I need to buy my TOG books instead of trying to navigate the library and get behind, i will. Etc. etc. I don't want to stress about it anymore. If I feel a child should be doing a certain thing, I am going to skimp somewhere else and make it happen.

Considering I can't stand the way HWT letters look.... No. It's not necessary. :D

AoPS

There are weeks where the reading is mostly Bible. If I was using it secularly I would skip a handful of weeks all together. I mean the last few weeks of unit 1 are all about the tabernacle, Jewish holidays, the books of the Law, etc.

Allergy/sensitivity shiners. They are the first symptom of an allergy or sensitivity.

Hands down it is the chocolate milk and juice IMO. I don't give two year olds ANY calorie drinks except on special special occasions. Their blood sugar needs to lower to want to eat enough. For a two year old a glass of chocolate milk is a whole breakfast's worth of calories depending on the two year old. Juice is e,pTh calories in general. So she is getting empty calories and ot desiring food.

Kristi, my 12 yo sits right next to me. RIGHT next to me all day for schoo. And a thought, get some of the sound muffling ear phones that mute all sounds around her.

Youth groups should not be for outreach but for strengthening the faith of young believers.

Thanks R. You are making me feel better. Something about 7th grade is making me second guess myself at every turn.

As of right now they say they have to use LL and that they have no problems to switch to anything else.

Now if I can just put aside my box-checker, worry wart mentality enough to go out on a limb and use something that looks like it will work for my son but won't have clear cut, check-the-box type review :leaving:

I think there is lots of merit in young ones memorizing! Aside from name, phone number, seasons, months, days of the week, etc. we do lots of Bible verses, continents, catechism questions, poetry (simple ones like in FLL)! And I wish I was doing lots more. Im working on a list of what I want my 4yo to do this spring and summer. It needs LOTS of work. There is so much more I want him to memorize with me.

AHH that makes sense! I was looking for the wrong kind of app. Now THAT could work!

We use it alongside our main math program. For my oldest that is Saxon, for my second oldest, that will be TT.

Yeah another AoPS thread lol On another thread I read last night someone said that AoPS didn't really review, it was more of a mastery method, assuming the child masterered the previous material and expecting them to use it properly without any review. For those using AoPS how true is this? My son is currently using Saxon. We did one of the sample Pre-Algebra lessons yesterday. It seems like it would be a good fit and after watching the videos, my son thinks so as well. By I am concerned about lack of review. The discovery method and videos look like they will be great for him, but after being in the Saxon mindset, I am afraid that lack of review will not be good for him. What say you AoPS users? Is there enough review? If not, do you supplement with anything to review? Thanks!

The way Math U See teaches it with the "decimal street" is genius IMO and all of mine have learned with ease using the decimal street.

True. The OP was concerned about the cost for only using it one cycle. If you were only going to use it for one cycle I'd buy print and resell.

LOL! My 12 yo too! SO funny! A friend of mine gave me Rosetta Stone Japanese. He is going to do it next year to get his feet wet and see if he still likes it. He will still be doing First Form and Second Form Latin to fulfill vocabulary development :)

I actually didn't like the way Sonlight sets up the discussion. I prefer TOG's method of the parents having to read the notes, have a sense of understanding of the concepts and be prepared for discussion instead of answers just following questions. It leans more to how I personally want to teach history. The notes are great. I do read the Bible sections ahead or alongside to children to be fully prepared for the Bible and church history type questions but I think of that as a perk not a burden. The notes are well-detailed, with specific sections of the World Book Encyclopedia, etc. Look at the samples online and get a feel for the notes. I don't think you'll be let down.

Buy it as soon as you can afford it. I know from my experience I would have avoided a lot of the fog if I would have spent many weeks with TOG before starting it, learning what order to read notes, where the answers to questions were, etc. I would get it as soon as you can. Flip through it for fun, get to know it backwards and forwards and you will save yourself a lot of struggle in the beginning.

Use your normal email. Just attach it, send to your kindle email (name@kindle.com), and write convert in the subject line. It takes only a handful of minutes to come to your kindle. Works like a charm.