Thanks I will check that out Hoping to hear of some more resources!

Does anyone know of a good resource to learn how to read music for an almost 10 year old? I have no musical training myself so I'm at a loss. DD has self taught the basics of tin whistle but would like to learn how to read musical notation. I would love any reccomendations you may have! Thanks

Thanks for responses…any others have experience?

Has anyone used the MIF enrichment books? Would a bright kid use them at level, or a year behind does anyone know? Thanks!

Does anyone know how chopped up the versions are for those "Great Illustrated Classics" versions? my 8 yr old DD read Little Women and liked it because the font was large (she has some slight vision/tracking issues) But I hesitate to encourage those versions if they are really dumbed down. Anyone familiar with them?

thanks! sounds like the original teachers manual will be just fine for us.

I am using it and it does seem a bit meatier. They start to talk about homophones, they have the kids keep a silent E book and learn all the jobs of silent E, there are more phonograms to learn etc. It's still pretty "easy" but it does seem to be getting a bit more involved.

will be doing level 2 (town) with DD next year but what do I need for Caesar's english I? the website lists Classical Education Edition or original version? and do I really need the teachers manual or can I do without? (these books are so expensive I would love to save a bit of money if possible)

oops just reread and saw that you meant an individual state study, but most could still apply.

We are in the midst of one right now and I really love how it's going (so does my DD) We usually do 2 states a week 1. Read one of the state books from sleeping bear press (they have A-Z books for each state) 2. Fill out a notebook sheet (that I found for free by googling) with pertinent info about that state like population, motto, nickname etc. 3. My DD is also collecting each state quarter as she goes and putting it into one of the state quarter hard folios that I already had 4. I found a printable free set of colored photos for the state bird, state flower and state name that she cuts out and pastes on the page. 5. She draws the state flag on her notebook page 6. I also bought the scholastic make & learn geography e-book for $1 during a sale to use ( for example we did one for mountain, plain, canyon, valley, island, etc) 7. We also pull out the pertinent state card from a pack I found at target and look at that We are doing it by geographic area, so we started with the Pacific States and are moving East. It actually only takes 15-20 minutes 2x per week and my DD really likes it so that's what counts :001_smile:

lots of great ideas, thanks!

I am also doing both because my DD was really unliking WWE2-she does fine with it, but really struggles with condensing all her thoughts down to 2 or 3 or 4 sentences. I bought the Fable level and she loves it so much more! I am still doing both because I think short summaries are a skill that should be learned, but she loves the creativity in Fable too. Next year I will prob. drop WWE and just do W&R narrative 1 & 2

Just used the 25% off for Language lesson through lit :)

Thanks!

I used both AAR pre for my 4yr old DS, then switched to Logic of english foundations A for him this year for his K5 year. I totally could have skipped AAR, LOE totally gives you everything you need. There is no actual sit down and read letters on a page until halfway though the book. The entire first half is phonemic awareness activities.