I don't really understand that part either. I tried to enroll for homeschool program on a farm or ranch and was turned down because we were told that it has contact with animals. As for curriculum, I guess those with Christian view points are striked out. I couldn't remember specifically which ones now. I just remember sending in a list and most of them didn't pass scrutiny. So, finally I either buy them myself or drop that route. But I know generic curriculum like Singapore, RightStart are alright. Science might be a bit tricky, because our choice are pretty much limited to RS4K or RSO. I think definitely not CLE or AOP or Abeka or Sonlight or My Father's World. I wish I have more info of the do's and don'ts.

I made mine when we first started with DD three years ago. I use blue and red paper, made little squares and wrote the letters, also laminated them and stuck magnet behind too. You can have an idea how it look like from the phonogram CD website. That was how I started. It was very flexible because I could create as many tiles as I like. I eventually bought the set when I started AAS1 again with DS this year.

we were doing an online program. Unfortunately there was too much repetition of the same stuff, the same lecture kept playing day after day, DD was so annoyed that she deliberately bluffed her way to kill the time. I caught her tricking the program but swapping the subject and object to see if the system can detect it. And it didn't! I didn't like it, that she's goofing around and not taking it seriously. After all, we've to pay for the course!

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I think even when we are using another Maths program, the experience we have had with RightStart has proved indispensable. I find it almost second in nature to adopt the technique to explain a concept. And when we return to RightStart, we do not see a gap during the transition, as if we need to step back to familiarize again with the abacus etc. I remember teaching RS A with DD and DS was just a toddler. It was very challenging.

We had first day yesterday, too! We're still planning about history and science... but we jst do some geography, english and music .... guess we need more play and outdoor, DS said, 'I don't want to do school tomorrow!'

I like that... DD and DS always tell me how much they like to do school today. We have been very liberal and follow their cues. So... they never like B&M school (private) when I sent them in for try-out. They hate the homework and assignments so much!

I can totally relate to you. I don't know how many time we changed in the past few wks.. I think I'm getting the Back-2-School fever .. for working my brain too hard to glue together a curriculum.

Thanks. The website says it's revising Caesar's English, may be I should wait.

Looks like it'll be very much dependent on luck then. So may be we should check with families who have used the same K12 virtual school to get better first-hand info. Anyone used CAVA before on this forum?

Thanks for the heads-up!

Thanks.. I didn't read the fine lines. Wow!

Sounds to me, BA work better as a supplement rather than a stand-alone.

DS5 Spelling - AAS 1 Math- RightStart B History - SOTW 1 Art - Put out lotsa materials to use whenever they like, eg. acrylic, watercolors, paper, woodblocks Music - weekly piano lesson

I'm interested in BA too.... any thoughts would be greatly appreciated here.