We are enjoying Cambridge Latin at my home. It is very different from Wheelock's.

I think the solution manuals for the AoPS books as well as the forums is all the help my son needs. I haven't looked at the calculus book itself, but I have up through precalc so far.

What do you need to work on? As far as reading, can she decode the words accurately? Is she reading all the words? How is her fluency? Does she comprehend accurately? Dyslexia doesn't automatically mean needing reding intervention. She'll always be dyslexic, even when reading on level. Dysgraphia often goes with dyslexia and is often the bigger problem. For just spelling, many people like All About Spelling in dyslexic kids. If writing is a problem, typing needs to be taught to help circumvent some of the writing issues. Typing can be difficult for some to learn. Figure out what YOUR child needs and then meet her there.

I would suggest you keep plugging away at math. As he progresses, he'll move from arithmetic a different kind of problem solving. If necessary, tell him that the math will open the doors to more science. Ther is a lot of science that can be learned without the math, but it appears that his math and science will match up with typical students.

You say your son wilts under the pressure of being timed. If that is the case, I would do the exact opposite and stay far away from anything timed. I would concentrate on skills and being confident in what he can do. In addition to a standard curriculum, I'd look at some of Zaccarro's elementary books as well as anything fun and different - logic puzzles, math riddles, balance benders, chess, probability. I think test taking tests to foster perfectionism (good and bad). I would concentrate on thinking skills over building any competition resume.

It's really annoying that my enter key is not working on TWTM forums (it works on anything else). I cannot hit enter to go to a new line and therefore I cannot leave a space between paragraphs or go to the next line after typing someone's name in a private message. Any ideas why this is not working? I don't have anything like number lock on and I can use my enter key just fine everywhere else - online and off.

I've not been interested in starting too young. I've started in middle school with Mathcounts.

I go through the text with my son. We do the examples together. For anything that he's not completely confident on, I also assign the videos (he has watched the videos less and less as we go through the book). I assign the review problems by time - do math for "x" minutes. I have him work on alcumus behind where he is in the book - this is great for reinforcement. The beginning of the book was hard for him to get used to, but he has improved a lot as he has gone through it.

As the above posters said, AoPS has great solution manuals. However, if this doesn't answer your question, they have great forums that can help explain anything.

I have the book and the first supply kit. "I" love the book and so do my electrical engineering friends. However, for whatever reason my oldest (mathy) kid doesn't care for the book so much. I'm out of town so I can't look at my book to see what chp. 5 is. We recently bought (at my son's request) this oscilloscope kit. http://www.appliedinspirations.com/ For some reason it has peaked his interest way more than the MAKE book. My husband who understands all the electronics has given his blessing on both the MAKE book as well as the above kit. I think my son will be working on it a lot this summer, so I'll be better able to give an opinion later.

My "mathy" kid just sees the math. It is intuitive. He describes himself as thinking in pictures and numbers, and he has trouble translating his ideas into words often.

I agree with the advice to look at the ratings and opinions of others. Our favorite course so far is Discrete Mathematics - not at all for most people.

Thanks for all the information. I'll be putting it to use as I start writing course descriptions as well.

I'm not sure I'd put your child in AP stats. However, in real life, I think stats is a more important topic that is not understood by too many people in many professions. I'm not sure you need the level of AP stats, but basic statistics is a useful topic to understand.

I'm not as familiar with DR's homeschool version, but my boys just finished watching the new adult version of Financial Peace. We have also always lived debt free, but watching the videos gave us the opportunity to discuss how others live and my boys love his humor. I think the DR videos are a nice supplement to build on our own commitment to how we manage our money. We do plan on watching the new youth videos with Dave and his daughter Rachel Cruze soon.

I'm mixing the above. For 8th, we started both Excellence in Literature and Window's to the World. When mom's more in a teaching mood, we do Windows, otherwise we like Excellence in Literature better for exploring and discussing literature. I plan on continuing these and then adding Elegant Essay sometime - probably fall of 9th. What do you want to work on - HOW to write an essay (Elegant Essay), Lit analysis (Windows) or Excellence in Literature is more exploring and discussing literature with writing as well (but not writing teaching as much).

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I agree with the above. Take a break, but cntinue math if possible. When you resume school, call it 9th grade. Continue in whatever math he's in. There is no rule that a math class has to start and end at the beginning and end of a grade. Start whatever science Lu want in high school, ignore the fact that he may not finish physical science. IF he wants to finish Core H, then call it part of a world history credit. You also don't have to finish a world history credit in one grade.

When to worry - lots of people have different opinions. Do you need direction in how to teach? Testing will help sort out how your child learns and help you to better teach. A diagnosis will open some doors such as Learning Ally (human read audio books) and accomodations for standardized testing. I have two kids with tourettes and dyslexia and I'm sure my six year old is also dyslexic. My oldest, I lucked into starting to teach him with a program recommended for dyslexics. I didn't have him tested until middle school as we need a paper trail heading into high school as he will need accomodations. His major problem is dysgraphia which often goes along with dyslexia. My daughter was tested at age 8 while in the middle of the Barton program for dyslexia. Testing helped me understand my kids better, but I was already teaching them appropraiately. I'm thinking I'll test my six year old this year since we just (unexpectedlly) met our big deductable and now insurance will pay for it.

It's great that you are finding things that work for him. I have two diagnosed 2E dyslexics and I'm sure my little guy is one also. As far as what works for "dyslexics", I think it is so hard to say as each person is so different. I've had good luck with starting writing with IEW. This is also something Susan Barton suggests. My oldest's problems are most significantly his dysgraphia at this point. The dyslexia interferes with reading, but not so much.

I gave my middle school boys the choice of a text or just reading science books. They picked reading and learned more than they would have from any text. I give some parameters such as must find a book on "x". They started with science encyclopedias and Hakim's History of Science and then branched off from their based on their interests. I pull in certian books/topics that I want covered and assign them, but this has worked well for us.

Cool!

I'm excited, but they are sure expensive.

Sure the burette is doable at home. The Illustrated Guide has three labs that use the burette. The first is 11.4 which teaches the basics of acid/base titration. Later in the book, you use the burette to titrate and calculate the concentration of bleach and then to calculate the amounts and types of salt in seawater. (You can use actual ocean water which is the most fun, or buy the salt from an aquarium store to "make" seawater.) editted to add: there is at least one other lab in Illustrated Guide that uses a burette, but I just find it annoying. For Illustrated Guide you need a 50 ml burette. I greatly prefer one with a plastic or ground glass stopcock over a glass-bead stopcock.

I put the above list together since I think there is a lot of confusion between if the chemistry sets sold by the Home Scientists are the same as his Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments. I think the chemistry sets that he sells are a reasonable, economical way to do chemistry labs, but they are not at all the same as doing the book - Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments. There are many suppliers of chemicals and equipment. but I know it is difficult to put together a list of needed supplies from just the book. I did it when the book first came out and it is a huge hassle to wade through the information.