YMMV but.... I have been homeschooling almost 18 years and I can tell you, the years I had everything planned out in detail we got significantly more work done (even if we still took off after some rabbit trails) than the years we “just did the next thing.” But I will admit I am having a really hard time buckling down and planning for next year. I think everyone is just feeling the strain of being cooped up and feeling like all we do is school.

We’ve used Sonlight from the beginning, for 16 years now, although we’ve never completed a core without tweaking their schedule.

I almost never see it mentioned anymore, but we’ve had great success using Headsprout.

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Tell me about your clock.

Or do I just create them in one kid's default deck and move them using tags?

How do you merge? And if I did merge them and import them as one, what happens when I create another cluster of cards that I want to import to each kid's profile?

I'm really confused, and I'm not sure if I'm setting this up correctly. Right now my account has 4 profiles: one for me and one each for my three youngest sons. My profile has about 7 decks in it now--a couple I built and a few I downloaded as an example. I can export them and then import them to a kid's acct, but then they show up as separate decks or as a tree. Do I want them as a tree? I keep reading that the cards should all be in one deck as it runs faster and that ends up working better. I'm worried I'm going to end up with a tree with a 100 sub files and that doesn't seem right.

No. I did however "lose" a two-year-old at WDW once though.... I started to completely panic. My husband just stared at me like I had two heads. I was holding him at the time!!!!

Another option: http://www.superchargedscience.com/opt/usc-info/#astronomy1

Is there a way to save lesson plans on Homeschool Planet to reuse with another child at a later date?

We held back our oldest dd after 8th grade because she was emotionally immature (although she was dealing with a lot of family stress) and also because we didn't want her to graduate hs at age 17. We homeschooled her from the middle of 4th grade through hs. FWIW, she qualified for the gifted program in public school in first grade, and had been doing hs work in middle school when we made the decision to hold her back. Academically she was doing great. I think we made the right choice--for her. She just finished her freshman year of college, did great academically, but in her own words she had a much easier time dealing with living away, problems that arose, etc. than she would have a year earlier.

Thanks for posting this; it looks like a fun way to add some grammar to our day.

We do 2-3 chapters a morning together as part of our morning center time. We'll slow it down once we catch up a bit. They are in 3&5 so this is pretty easy for now.

I just found this resource and I'm excited about it, because it will read to you so that you know you are using the correct pronunciation. http://www.booklingual.com There is a new Cathy Duffy review for it, linked on the homeschool buyers co-op page.