I'm a new Scholaric user in the process of setting up the 2016-2017 school year. Is this still how the Scholoric site works? Or has it changed in the last year and a half? I just wondered, because I was hoping to be able to bump everything one day later. Sick days, etc happen, and I assumed this would be possible.

Ditto! I need to figure something out very soon, but I just haven't found another option I like.

I have an iMac, and I'm seriously considering going with the OLLY program for my lesson planning and records keeping. I've read a fair amount on it. It appears to be buggy, but it literally meets all my needs. The Dropbox storage gives me peace of mind, and I wanted to avoid an online or subscription based tracker. Background info: I began schooling my daughter kindergarten five years ago. My lesson planning has been a joke. We always finish our books. We always complete at least 180 days of school. Beyond that, I tend to fly by the seat of my pants, planning 1 day to 1 week in advance. I'll start out with a paper planner, but I tend to abandon it a few months into the school year. Recently, I've gotten other areas of my life organized and decluttered. Now it's time to tackle school. We'll begin school on the third day of August, so I'm working to having things ready to roll by that date. In addition to planning lessons, keeping record, etc., for this year, I'd like to know if I could work backwards with my record-keeping. I'd like to be able to use OLLY to record the books we used in the past, our past school attendance, and comments. I don't intend to create full-blown lesson plans, obviously. Also, any other information about OLLY that you would like to have known before you began using it? Suggestions and tips are welcomed. I know OLLY isn't flawless, but I'd really like it to work for me if at all possible. Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the input. I appreciate it!!

My daughter is seven. We're doing "third grade" this year, I suppose you'd call it. When we finished schooling earlier this summer, I did my research and purchased our books for the coming year. At the time, I also purchased all three of the level 3 Rod & Staff English items. When I began to prepare to resume schooling, I looked again through our books for the purposes of lesson planning. There's just too much here. Since she's my first child, I'd just like some confirmation that using the curriculums I mentioned in the title (we do spelling separately) will not be going too light for this stage of schooling. Would anyone with experience using this combination care to weigh in on this? Thanks!

What reading level does this book target?

Thanks for all the suggestions! I'm looking into all of them, and I appreciate everyone taking the time to answer my questions.

The background information: I have a 6 year old daughter, and we're in our third year of school. We've used A Beka for everything so far, but we won't be doing that this year. We started with cursive, and I had her use it for all school writing in any subject. Now she can write beautiful cursive if she tries, but only on tablet paper or in the answer spaces that A Beka provided. When she writes notes, stories for fun, etc, she prefers to print. Her print is a very sloppy mixture of capital and lowercase letters. I can usually read it, but sometimes it takes some effort. Here's what I'm after: 10-15 minutes per day spent evenly divided between printing and cursive. I've looked around some. I really like the look of New American Cursive, but would that book be too young for her? She never liked the handwriting portion of school, so I'm hoping to find something less painful than what we've been doing. That leads me to the second part of my question. Should I simply allow her spelling to also serve as her handwriting? I'm considering a homemade curriculum, Spelling Power, Vocabu-Lit, and Spellwell so far. Any suggestions there would be welcome as well. I don't want it to be a huge time suck for either of us. (I've already got lots of one on one time in other areas, and I don't want it to be a source of loads of busy-work.)