Awesome!! Thank you so so much!

Which do you like better and why? Can someone explain to me how dictation and copywork from WWE is helpful? I don't get it...

I'm seriously considering this one...how old/grade are your kids?

I'm seriously considering this one...how old/grade are your kids?

Thanks so much for your detailed description! Do you feel like there is too much talk of saints and missionaries in the text? I think I've heard that before...also, do you feel it is meaty enough for your 11 year old?

We are staring our second year of homeschooling, and I feel like I'm more conflicted this year than last about choosing curriculum. I'm debating among the above for history...we did Biblioplan last year and I liked it, but not sure if I want to do the timeline, cool history questions, and mapwork again. Could get boring after another year of it. What are your opinions or experiences with History Odyssey, Veritas Press, Biblioplan, Mystery of History? I'll have a 4th and 6th grader. Thank you so much for any insight you can give!!

Thanks so much - off to order!

Just wondering if this is appropriate for my 3rd grader? It says it was designed for 1st grade? Our daughter didn't learn any cursive at public school in 2nd grade so it is all new to her. I started with donna young printouts, but realize I need a curriculum!

I want something to put in our portfolio after my child reads a book. We are doing study guides that I ordered through progeny press, but my daughter reads a lot of books for enjoyment. I would like to document these too with a short quiz or test of some sort. I think an AR test would be great, but unfortunately, doesn't seem to be available to homeschoolers. Is there another similar resource out there??

Funny!!

I found this cute website... http://www.gallopade.com/client/electionsForKids/index.html and an Election lapbook... http://www.homeschoolshare.com/election.php

If so, for what subjects? What size? Is it mounted to the wall, on an easel or it is small enough to be handheld?

Hi there :) I'm a newbie this year too. My daughter will be going into 3rd grade. We chose Saxon 3 Intermediate (she was using Saxon in ps and since we are familiar we are sticking to it). Intermediate has less manipulatives than the regular saxon 3. My hubby is a Chemical Engineer, a whiz at math, and really likes Saxon for our daughters. I'm not a whiz at math, so I'm going with his opinion. My friend uses Rod & Staff and loves it. We are using Story of the World too - along with Biblioplan. We are doing Apologia Science - Astronomy. I just got the book out today and it looks really good! Lots of activities and projects. I ordered Art Lab for Kids on amazon because it was recommended here :) For reading, it sounds like your son is advanced like my daughter so we are doing literature studies by progeny press. She picked out 3 books for the year so far. Child reads and has a study guide to go along with... donnayoung.org has all kinds of resources - we are using her printables for cursive. I don't really want a formal program, but want her to work on it at least once a week. She has a lot of different activities for cursive.

What is your schedule like? How many days a week do you do science? Do you read the text all in one day, the workbooking activities one day, and then the project the next? I have a 3rd and 5th grader so I was wondering how to space out the activities.

Newbie here... This us our first year homeschooling and I'm thinking my 3rd grader will do 3-4 hrs per day and my 5th grader will do 4-5 hours per day. We are very academic-oriented at our house and I feel that is roughly equal or possibly more instruction per day than they get in public school when you think of all the wasted time they have there. I was getting overwhelmed with it all last week and my friend sent me a quote that went something like,"remember our ultimate goal is not to prepare a child for Harvard, but to prepare him or her to get to heaven."

We got an electric piano - looks and plays - like brand new for $300 on craigslist.

Good to know :)

Thanks! Will do!

Oh, I need to go look at the wording. I was assuming every year...

I've spent hours deciding on a history plan and I want to do Biblioplan Ancients with spine of Story of the World. Ohio law says I have to cover US history and Ohio state history. Blah. The girls have done this since kindergarten. What is a simple US history curriculum for a 3rd and 5th grader that I can add so that I won't be teaching history all day long???

I think I've blown up this board with my questions in the last few days:001_unsure: I have been all over this forum and I just can't make up my mind. I was thinking Story of the World, but I'm not sure about the story and reading aloud. Both of my girls are advanced. Does anyone have any input on how a lesson from SOTW would go? If I go with SOTW, should I add the Kingfisher Encyclopedia and Complete Book of Maps and Geography? Is that too much? What are some other multi-age history curriculums? I need an easy-to-follow curriculum for a first timer!

I have a very bright 8 year old who just finished 2nd grade at the top of her class. She was not challenged at all. I am second-guessing my curriculum choices for english and spelling. I've chosen 3rd grade materials for her...bju english 3, spelling workout 3. I assume if the 3rd grade is easy for her that she will just be done earlier than planned for the year? Do you stop and order the next grade up? What do you do in that situation?

Ok, thank you :)

I updated my first post with what I'm looking for.

No? Hmm. Now what?