Maybe not what you're looking for but Adventures in Odyssey has a special US history audio collection through HSLDA. It's a male voice, but with kids and voice actors through out, and it's done really well. I use it for my 4 kids ages 5-11. https://store.hslda.org/adventures-in-american-history-p321.aspx

Thank you!

Thinking this might be fun for my younger kids to follow along with SOTW. But not sure such a thing exists. Anyone? :)

Just when I think I know what I'm going to use for next school year, I second guess myself! What do you think are the absolute necessities to cover language arts for a 3rd grader? Thank you!

Possibly check out SRA phonics and Explode the Code (starting with book 1, not book A)? I"m not sure if that's an official answer for you or not, but look into those :)

My 1st grader is younger, and I'd like to do phonics review with her over the summer. I'm wondering if anyone has a recommendation for a workbook that could be reviewed/completed just over the summer, not an entire years worth? TIA

I've seen them, and haven't purchased them because I have all the same questions as you. They seem like a great supplement if I knew what to actually do with them.

I love these sets so much! Well, I don't own them, but I wish I could buy several to read to my 8, 6, and 5 year old kids!

Thank you all for the wonderful suggestions! Lots to look into.

For DS Math-Saxon 3 Language Arts- Abeka (spelling, phonics, etc), LLtL 3 History, SOTW 3 first semester, The Light and The Glory for Children 2nd semester Science-Apologia Flying Creatures of the 5th Day Bible-Reading a more advanced youth Bible DS struggles with writing, so we haven't yet started cursive. Though it looks like we'll be adding that at the beginning of the fall. ETA: Also, reading books ,books and more books! Great classics, biographies, etc.

My husband (an absolutely brilliant programmer) highly recommends code academy as a starting point.

My 8 year old son (2nd grade) was/is a struggling reader. I felt like I tried everything, then picked up the Ordinary Parents Guide to teaching Reading. We skipped the first several lessons, since they were focusing on the letter sounds, and I knew he knew those. This has helped leaps and bounds with both his reading/phonics understanding, and his own confidence. We aren't done with it yet, but we've been able to move on to him reading parts of books. We'll be done with the book in the next few months, so I'm no longer concerned about him being behind. Good luck! I hope you're able to find something soon that works for you and your child.

It's too much for my 5 year old. My older two love it. Anything similar to Apologia but dumb downed that anyone can recommend? I've only just started school with her, so we are working on the very basics, I'm just planning for fall.

Also, did you do their Supplemental science and enrichment? It looks like a great add on.

Thank you @cherryblossom! My concern about time is that I also have 2 older kids I'm HSing, and a 2 year old. The older two (6 and 8) are becoming a bit more independent, but of course still require a lot of my time. What did you buy, and choose to not buy? Where did you buy the read alouds, etc? I look forward to your review!

Any opinions? I'm looking into it for my just turned 5 year old (for the fall, she'll be 5 1/2). I think I really like the program, but I'd love to hear your experience with it? How much time did you/do you spend a day working on it? It is a bit costly...

I'm curious what you all are choosing to do daily, a couple times a week, etc?

I think I'm fairly vanilla/plain jane. My 6 and 8 year old do math and language arts (reading/writing), I read them science and history books and we discuss it. Basically, lots of extra reading with no formal tests, but lots of discussions. I have been very ill this year, which forced me to hire a woman to take over as mom for now, and no amount of money in the world could pay her enough for what she does. She homeschools the two older kids, then does arts and crafts with all 4 of them... I asked her one day if she'd be interested in building a fairy garden with them, and she turned that idea into a major craft that all the kids (ages 2-8) are loving. She takes them to the park for PE, she's a talented musician, so she does music with them, she brings a parachute and other fun goodies, makes them healthy lunches, and they are so preoccupied, nobody has time to argue or complain. The kids are all cleaned up, exhausted, and happy by the time she leaves (not happy to see her leave, just happy with their day). They aren't going to want me back when I'm better!

I've been buying for the coming school year... but I'm another spoiled by Amazon Prime. Sometimes I even get items the very next day.

I am homeschooling my 6 and 8 year old children. (Their birthdays are at the end of the year). My 6 year old (daughter) is a fast and motivated learner. We started school at the beginning of August, and within 3 weeks she successfully completed a years with of Kindergarten work and was ready to move up to first grade. So thats where we at her with her, and she is doing absolutely great with all subjects... no struggles at all. We are using LLtL 1&2 for both of them, and I'd like to move both of them up to the 3rd level next school year (8 year old son is 2nd grade). Do you think this is too much to expect of a 6 year old?

Thank you, Ladies!

I'm sure this has been discussed but I'm not finding the answer. Could someone please post the Level 3 Literature List that goes with the book? (I'm already preparing for next school year)! Thank you!

This is exactly what I planned on doing had my son been up to speed with reading!

Unfortunately, my 2nd grader is very behind on reading. I thought we were getting caught up, but realized he was just memorizing certain things. So I've scrapped almost everything, while I focus on reading with him. We did a quick review of all the letters and their sounds (he's got that down), and then started on, I believe lesson 26 of the OPGTR. Some lessons he could fly through, so we would do several in a day, other lessons take more time. He loves math, he's really good at math. But I didn't want to continue on with other subjects while he struggled to read. I'll be using the summer to catch up on other subjects (we still do them, just slower than we were going). I have no problem with doing summer catch up. I know he'll learn to read really well, we're just going to concentrate on that as our main focus for now. (He is really loving OPGTR, and actually ASKS to work on it. Where as before, there was so much resistance, and tears). So I've put the writing away for now. We'll pick it back up around April or May. Oh, we do Abeka language arts, so there is some "writing" just no fancy copy work right now.

Forgive me, what is MTC? You all speak so highly of it, I'd love to check it out!