These are all great, and very affordable options, thank you! I had requested the studies weekly magazines just yesterday and the others I am looking into. Thank you!

I have a few that have just made me scratch my head. When my oldest was maybe 4 or 5 months old she would chew her hands (not actually suck her thumb) and I had a lady at the grocery store tell me if I put tobasco sauce on her hands she would stop. I told her I would think about it. When my 2 nd was a few days old we were in target and someone made a special trip over to tell me babies died "all the time" in moby wraps and I was neglectful for carrying her that way. And when my second was about 7 months old I was at the grocery store with a cart full of groceries. The older lady in front of me was clearly studying what I had in my cart then finally said "honey, she still needs formula at her age" I told her she was breastfed and she puckered her lips then said "i don't see any baby food either" I told her that she just ate off of our plates. She looked at my 28 lb 7 month old and said "she's just going to starve" and moved to the next line shaking her head. I always get the comments about no hat or socks. My kids are really 1 step away from nudist thugh so most days I'm lucky they even have pants on at the post office.

Ours is by the number of books, I don't really know if audiobooks count as I've never thought to include them. My girls do listen to audiobooks most nights while falling asleep but they are still expected to actually read some.

Not really history but something that would be cc aligned for 1st grade. Mostly just something very superficial. I haven't sold my husband on long term homeschooling and he is wanting me to put our girls in the lottery for the charter school we like for 2014/2015. The social studies is the only area that I think we may be lacking. We are using sonlight for our core, aas and Singapore. I need something just for a day or two a week just in case. I don't think it will be an issue because we won't put one in school without the other and my4 year old who shouldn't start school until 2014 is already on a late kindergarten level. By then I expect her to be around a second grade level and I know would not do well in a kindergarten classroom, she would be bored out of her mind. Just trying to keep the hubby happy.

We are in the exact spot. We are actually on a break until August so during our "break" that's what she's working on. She is doing a row of the mental math worksheets from the back of the IG a day and we are reading the life of Fred series as well. Either way she is only spending about 5 minutes a day doing those, it's really just enough to keep refreshing her.

I have celiac disease and I've been using a lot of zucchini this summer. My kids and I have fallen in love with lasagna made with thinly sliced zucchini instead of noodles, mini pizzas made in a slice of zucchini instead of dough. I'm also very curious about the pie.

My daughter will be 7 in october she is in 1st grade and I am struggling with math. I don't even really think its math but just numbers in general. She struggles with number recognition, counting by 2s and 5s, Identifying many numbers (11, 12, 13, 15, then several others) we have been working on identifying and remembering numbers up to 100 for over a year now. She will get it then the next day it's gone again. Some days it doesn't even take a day but I can tell her what something is and then 2 minutes later she's telling me she "forgot" again. It is driving me insane, I know she hates math and is getting frustrated. She has memorized her addition and subtraction facts up to 10, gets greater than and less than, seems to understand place value but it's just the actual numbers she can't remember. Reading, spelling, etc she breezes through but we are struggling with this. Any suggestions in programs? We have done a lot of number charts and it just doesn't stick with her. And we use Singapore math this year and did Mcruffy last year.

Thanks for the replies. I packed her up And we went but called the center right at 8 when they opened to see what they would prefer we do. We live too far away to call before we left the house. The therapist told us to "absolutely come in" they had a whole separate sick area so we used a different entrance and everything. She said because of scheduling they really don't want you to cancel the day of for any reason and they will make it work. I was not trying to be a "selfish" mom I was really just frustrated and the hubby and I had different opinions on what should be done.

Im so upset. My middle dd has been waiting for a speech evaluation for almost 5 months after going through a 5 month process with the school system which ended in them telling us she's delayed but not delayed enough for them to offer services, so we have a private evaluation this morning. She was throwing up last night. I am so upset, it has been almost a year and canceling will mean another 5 month wait. She hasn't been sick since about midnight, still says she doesn't feel great this am but says she doesn't actually feel nauseous, my youngest was sick yesterday so I'm fairly certain it is actually a virus and not just something she ate. do I bring her to the evaluation (what the hubby wants us to do) cancel (whatbim leaning towards) the appointment is at 8:15 so we don't really have time to call and see what they suggest. Wwyd?

Thanks for the input! I think we will give wwe a try. To the poster who suggested continuing with handwriting would you suggest I just get the 2 nd grade workbook then?

I had hyperemesis with all 3 of mine, all we're girls. I had the most luck with a zofran and phenergan cocktail that my midwives prescribed.

There is an advertisement in our bulletin for a lady who teaches NFP classes but I've never heard it mentioned or pushed. The only time I can ever remember it being mentioned by a priests when dh and I were going through our marriage prep.

We started 1st grade with our oldest in April, she has about 10 pages left in HWOT handwriting so I feel like I need a backup. She struggles a lot with writing and understanding how to write in whole sentences so I was thinking about writing with ease. I thought that would give her the opportunity to keep practicing handwriting and also touch on how to write complete sentences well. Anyone recommend that? Fwiw we are using sonlight core a and the core a science, Singapore and life of Fred math, FLL for grammer (which we love) and all about spelling we will start in august. My thought was to do WWE and FLL on alternating days.

Our priest have always made a short statement at weddings and funerals basically saying they are glad for those wo came to the event but that in the church only those who were currently practicing Catholics were able to accept the holy communion. To the op the last funeral mass I went to was my grandmothers, our family is pretty split as far as denominations. Everyone went to the rosary and those wo didn't care to just sat quietly while the rest of us said the rosary. Same for the funeral, they just sat while the others went for communion but everyone did stand together when appropriate.

We occasionally do. If the lesson is a lot of review or a concept that clicked instantly and we finish the lesson very early I may move ahead a bit if the next lesson seems retry basic. I never teach 2 completely different concepts on the same day though. But today for example we are starting a new math program since we just finished her kindergarten work. It was really basic stuff she knew well and after I did the lesson I left her to do what was supposed to be 2 little workbook pages, I checked back 10 minutes later and she had finished all the pages that were meant for this week and started on next weeks lessons.

None of these, although I do like a lot of these.

I'm scared of cats. Kittens or grown cats it doesn't matter they freak me out. We have had one lurking outside our house for weeks and I have nightmares that it sneaks into my room. Flying, although that's not so unusual. An asteroid colliding with the earth, clearly I have a lot of anxiety. Traffic, just the thought of drivingin a high traffic are gives me the sweats.

I had it pockmarked when I found it and my comp crashed last year andi lost my bookmarks. They are little books that reinforce the math facts. I just remember looking over it briefly online it it seems like it had brightly colored pictures and the characters were all numbers (like Mrs. 9 and the like). It had stories like "mr 7 and mr 1 went to the store to visit Mrs 8." I know that isn't an actual sentence but it was kind of like that. Any ideas?

I would definitely take a non blue dye test, I have gotten false positives with those (I guess the dye bleeds more). That said I have a very dear friend who didn't ovulate on her own, went through over a year of fertility treatments to conceive both her girls. She also had PCOS, never ovulated on her own. When her youngest daughter was just over three she got a really bad case of the stomach flu (or so she thought). Now she has a sweet little 4 month old boy. Her doctor "couldn't explain it" but she certainly ovulated on her own and got pregnant on her own.

Thanks for the replies. Both of my kids are very used to readalouds like this so im not worried about it being too much for my 4 year old, we've actually already read a few of the books that are included in core a. I do plan on getting the pre k read alouds too thou. I found that if i add the core a instructor guide to my cart i can go into the cart and delete the language arts guide as well so just get the core a guide with no language arts. Now im debating whether i should try the LA.

I am finding the whole sonlight curriculum kind of confusing. I was completely set on pretty much buying everything until I started reading some of the recent post on this forum and it seems that is definitely not the way to go. I really like the history and science in Sonlight as well as the read alouds. I am not interested in the bible curriculum though. It seems language arts is getting pretty poor reviews. I have a 6 year old who is starting 1st grade and a 4 year old starting kindergarten. My 4 year old is very bright and learns very quickly, my 6 year old is also very bright but she does take a bit more time to pick up on things. I was planning core a for both of them. So would my best bet be to get Core A IG with readers schedule and skip the Language Arts IG? I can then just buy the books I need separately (probably from the local used bookstore). Then do the whole Core A science package? What does everyone recommend for 1st grade language arts? I see Sonlight does use Explode the Code some which we have been using for kindergarten, she just completed book 3. If I stuck with Explode the Code and added in something like FLL and WWE would that be complete enough for 1st grade language arts?

This kind of goes with my last post about Life of Fred but thought I may get more responses and suggestions starting a new post. I have 2 girls, a 6 year old who will be starting 1st grade in a few weeks. She has about 3 lessons left in McRuffy Kindergarten and has overall done very well with it. I also have a 4 year old who I would say picks up on things very easily and who I have decided to start kindergarten with. She has been chomping at the bit to do more than the preschool workbooks I have for her. We are doing Sonlight Core A for them together and but they each will do their respective language arts. Math is where I'm stuck. My 6 year old doesn't enjoy workbooks, she has SPD and probably ADHD. My 4 year old would probably enjoy workbook work, like I said she picks things up very quickly. While working on McRuffy with my oldest my 4 year old has randomly blurted out answers her sister wasn't sure about. I think with just a little bit of formal instruction she will grasp concepts very easily. I was thinking maybe the singapore math essentials for my 4 year old Just from what I have seen from samples it looks like it is pretty basic and doesn't offer long drawn out lessons which I think is fine for her. Like I said she picks things up very easily and if there were a concept she didn't get I do have the entire McRuffy K curriculum I could turn to for more explanation (I just really don't want to). Will I feel like I need more if we only use the math essentials? It seems cheap enough where I wouldn't feel so shorted if we ended up having to get something else (likely it would just be the mcruffy workbook) and does seem like it includes most of what she would need to know, especially since she will be starting kindergarten work 1.5 years early. So I don't feel a rush to have her understand everything at this point, if she does great and if not that's great too. And for my oldest I have gotten several suggestions MEP, Singapore, Rightstart etc and all seem to have their advantages and disadvantages. She adds and subtracts pretty well a this point, understands less than, greater than and equal to and overall does ok in math, but it does take her a bit longer. She can't handle a lot of extra stuff, it needs to be pretty basic for her or she gets sidetracked. While she overall did well with McRuffy this year the last several lessons I had to just stop doing a lot of the manipulatives because she would get sidetracked with them and they were distracting her from what she was actually learning. She does ok with a short very basic workbook page daily, or if I make our own worksheets with just basic math on them (just additon, no extra stuff type of thing) she can breeze through those. So any suggestions besides those for her? Something open and go for me and without a lot of "fluff" for her? And foreign language? My oldest wants to learn spanish, she is in a spanish coop class 1 day a week and wants to learn more. Is Rosetta Stone our best option? Any other recommendations for a 6 year old?

I feel stupid asking this but what does MEP stand for? I have heard this recommended before and I can usually figure out the acronyms but for some reason I cannot figure out MEP.

Yes, it's the squares I think would drive her crazy. She actually understands the idea behind number bonds, we are using McRuffy math now and the idea of number bonds has been introduced. She gets that if she can figure out 4+2=6 then she can also figure out 6-4=2 and the others. She is a kid that I really need to keep it simple for, she has SPD and very likely adhd. She is very bright but if I bring boxes and squares into it then they will end up being colored in and the idea that she is supposed to do anything with them will just be lost. I have not seen singapore in person, only the sample pages. I had planned on ordering but when we sat down to do the placement test for it there were maybe 6 of the number bond problems in the placement test. Seeing that I just assumed that we would find that in the workbook as well. Is that not the case? I wish we had a great homeschool store closer so I could see more in person, the one here pretty much just carries abeka and Bob Jones University, the "good" store is over an hour away. We do plan on going in the next few weeks so hopefully they have lots of options I can look at.

Singapore is what I had originally planned until I looked through the books closely. She would hate the "number bond" in the little squares, it would be absolute torture for her. I think I need to just go sit down in the homeschool store and look through several different books.