It does not seem to have questions, only answers, correct.

Here, I put up pictures of the student and teacher pages from a random lesson: http://holdingstuff.blogspot.com/2014/07/k12-ho-v1-student-and-teacher-pages.html One thing to note is that the student/teacher pages divides the book into 180 lessons (20 of which are "Your choice" - work on projects or whatever). After some pondering, I decided to follow their schedule but with only 4 lessons a week. This means we will go through the 2 books over the course of 2.5 years, and then spend the 2nd semester of 8th grade on US government and civics, I think.

I'd look at small class Bs - Roadtrek, Leisure Way, Winnebago View, or Airstream Interstates. Hitching and towing just adds complexity...

We're going to do Teaching Textbooks plus Jousting Armadillos next year. I really like the inquiry based stuff in JA but it is supposed to be a little less intense than AOPS, and plan on doing it with my daughter (it is designed to be group work in places, so we'll be a group...)

look for the SFBayHomeschool and AWL-Announce yahoo groups, in addition to the BAHFT one. for (secular) classes, ATeam (google Ateam homeschool) and Academic Antics are both in mid/south SJ. Good luck and welcome to the area!

I got a new copy of the companion "Student Pages" for about $15 on Amazon and am planning on working through those. I have only glanced through parts of it, but there are reading guides, comprehension questions, guided writing assignments, and some maps skills in there that all seem decent. It does mention the online activities, but I explained that to my daughter and we'll just skip. http://www.amazon.com/Intermediate-World-History-Student-Semesters/dp/B001BKJ6XU/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1405397768&sr=8-3-fkmr2&keywords=k12+human+odyssey+student+pages I bought the Teacher's Guide, too.

My 7.5yo is probably-gifted, probably-dyslexic, with a good sprinkling of ADHD, if I had to guess. I was so burnt out from having the first kid evaluated that we haven't managed it with the second kid quite yet. Here are my best/only tips for K/1st grade: Brainpop, both Jr and Regular. It is his no-reading-required encyclopedia. He can research and follow rabbit trails without asking for my help, which he loves. Audiobooks. Tons and tons. He has an old iphone with all the Magic Treehouse books, in addition to a bunch of others, set up on a speaker dock in his room, and can navigate that himself. Rightstart Math. (He took one look at a Singapore book and melted.) I prioritize a little bit of reading instruction (Dancing Bears, here) and the occasional math lesson (RightStart), and then I let him fill his brain with whatever his theme of the day might be. Sometimes I suggest that he could draw a picture of whatever he's studying, and add words as it becomes appropriate, but I don't do more than a gentle nudge in that department. Sometimes he'll build a great Lego model of whatever his theme is that day. There are many, many days when what he is studying is Lego Star Wars, but also many when it is Ancient Rome, cells, or the Civil Rights Movement. I figure it will balance out eventually. (I know my sig says OM. We use it in a very low key, background sort of way.)

Also, given that my kid does not pick up on spelling from reading, at all, ever, I'm not terribly concerned about him absorbing British spelling. He could read a word spelled correctly 6 times and then write something with that same word spelled 3 different, incorrect ways. It is kind of amazing.

hm. I know we've encountered "kerb" and "mum," along with a handful of other very British words, but I haven't noticed anything else. I wonder if this is because it has been Americanized, or if I just skimmed over it. I'll dig my B and C out in a bit and see if no one else has an answer.

We started by doing 10 minutes a day, but that usually worked out to 2 pages a day. ~140 pages in the book, if you do it 5x a week = 14 weeks. Not so bad. We don't usually manage more than 3x a week, but that's just us. My 7.5yo went from barely chugging through it and calling himself a non-reader to picking up "Level 4 - Independent Reading" readers at the library about 3/4 of the way through DB A. He's still randomly dyslexic seeming, but he's *reading* now. We started with A, so I can't speak to the fast track version. We kind of like the goofy stories.

This is the only stuff I can use: http://www.calbenpuresoap.com/seafoam-laundry-soap.php I get 2 jugs of the liquid soap at a time, and they last me for almost a year.

We are considering the same thing - curious what others have to say.

I would vote for Winston. Analytical Grammar did not work for us, and MCT was a disaster, but my child really likes the cards as visual cues in Winston and it has been our most drama-free grammar attempt yet.

I remember seeing a post that mentioned a book that was good for people to use to get caught up/brushed up on all the elementary+ math skills, possibly in reference to HS level unschoolers, but I cannot find it anywhere. Does anyone have any suggestions for a resource like this? Alternatively, does anyone have any suggestions for an adult who would like to return to school and needs to get ready for college level math?

I would get the first (more expensive) one. The big thing for me is that it has a set place to put the slides and then little knobs to adjust the slide position, but on the cheaper one you just scoot the slide around haphazardly. I like being able to scan the slide methodically and note down where things were sometimes. Also, it has the 100x oil objective, which can be useful (or, so I've heard... i haven't actually used ours yet), but that's functionality that the other one is lacking) As a heads up, I have been underwhelmed by the amscope digital imager thingies. I think the one we have is 3 megapixel and it makes me want to throw things (hard to set up, display time lags, focus issues...). We have started just using an iphone adapter and it is much more fun. http://www.skylightscope.com/ is the one I have - clunky, but works.

Timely - we are just starting with RS-E and hit check numbers for the first time yesterday. My poor dd's head nearly exploded. We played the check number game (A63?) today before trying them with subtraction and things got a little better. She's starting to see the point, but it was ugly for awhile there.

This is our second year homeschooling, and we have used OM from almost the beginning. Given this thread, I am starting to wonder... what I'm missing, exactly. For those who don't find OM enough, what more are you hoping for? What is it lacking for you? My issues with it so far mostly involve the lackluster science before grade 5, and the lack of scaffolding for writing for 4th and 5th, (well, and we ignore OM math completely) but these have all been pretty easy to fix/overlook for me.

I just got this the other day, and I think it looks pretty good: http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Problem-Solving-Genius-Strategies/dp/0967991595/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1380000147&sr=8-1

OM4 Science drove me crazy. We skipped SO much of it. There was a trimester, I think, where you're supposed to read old fashioned vet animal stories for science and I just. couldn't. do it. I'm really liking OM5 Science, though (we inoculated petri dishes with bacteria samples this morning). I find that I'm supplementing lots and lots of things in OM5, but I still really like having the framework (we add in LofE, IEW, math, and History of US, plus plenty of extra books). I like the wacky project suggestions - ie build a wooden boat with hand tools when reading about Columbus. My kids *love* the projects, and I wouldn't think to do many of them otherwise, I'm afraid. I like the history questions and prompts, and the extra book suggestions. I do go through at the beginning of the week and fill out my own checklist, because otherwise it is too easy to skip/overlook things. I guess I view it as the History+ part of our curriculum, and that + makes it worth it to me.

I might be way off base here, but we were in a similar position last year. If the gaps are just little areas where she needs to be shown a process, ignore me, but if they are random conceptual gaps that don't seem to be working themselves out over time, I'd like to suggest taking a look at RightStart. Honestly, I wish I'd just bought RightStart D or E and Transitions at the beginning of last year and gone from there - we spent a year slogging through Saxon, thinking it would be rigorous and balance things out, but... no. We're getting a nice fresh start with RS, and she's actually enjoying math now, too.

We're only on week 4 of OM5, but I'm having to do quite a bit of coaching to help my dd tackle the writing. Maybe that's what we're missing - writing instruction. Hm. The writing assignments cause flailing if I'm not very proactive with her about them.

We just started Foundations B today. I'm doing Essentials with my 10yo, and hoped I could combine lessons for both kids, but nope. Essentials was making my 6yo freak out, and he thanked me when I told him I ordered him his own English program for younger kids. I think Foundations will be a good fit, though. The graphics/colors/built in games (we played phonogram tic-tac-toe today) all appeal to my 6yo. We skipped A because he was reading CVC words. Essentials has been interesting with my 10yo, for the record. She has had several lightbulb moments about spelling so far, and we're only on lesson 4.

We're trying Logic of English for a somewhat similar situation. Just started, so I can't say how well it will work, but might be worth a look.

We're using it for 4th. We do most of the history/social studies, language arts, and art lessons as they are presented. We don't do much with the science lessons, and the math is kind of... not sufficient for my kid. I've probably spent more on supplemental stuff than I did on the curriculum, but this was our first year homeschooling... All that said, we plan on using it next year for 5th grade history and English. I like it, but I'm a bit restless about curriculum.

Have you looked at Lindamood Bell stuff, particularly Visualizing and Verbalizing? (You can get the kit to do the program at home for much less than it costs at one of their centers.) I'm reading through it all right now, and not being able to understand or narrate what is read is mentioned quite a bit so your last sentence really jumped out at me. Can you ask him if he is able to create images in his head for things he hears?