I totally agree! I switched my daughter, when she was that age, to MUS. She really "got" decimal street. In fact it drove me a bit crazy after a while because she wanted to play decimal street all the time! However, now that she is in grade 6 I am glad that she solidified place value. I only did MUS with her while learning place value, otherwise we used SIngapore and she was fine with everything else and is still doing Singapore (at home). Best of luck,

There is also www.aleks.com . It is in Spanish. I haven't used it, but it looks good.

:driving: You gotta laugh..you are just motoring along! Stuff happens..boy could I tell you stories about things I've done...No harm done for sure. That is the great part!

That is so heartwarming to read! Congratulations!!! :hurray:

Buy it through horriblebooks.com or bookdepository.co.uk Ok-horriblebooks.com is the FUNNIEST site! Thanks for letting me know about it. I always meant to thank you as well for your recommendation for Galore Park French (we love it, so thank you very much!). Now, latin. Oh my, I might just OD my kids on languages...

Dear Abeille, I just read your post and although I don't have much advice to give I certainly can relate (especially about the english project- that is the kind of thing that happens around here too!) I am just in the process of figuring out what to do with my son as well. I have a 12 yr old son (in 7th grade) and what I will start with is Writers INC. Now, I haven't received it yet, so I can't really comment on it. Also, it is more of a resource than a curriculum. I certainly can understand that he might not want to do FLL, MCP or WWS so maybe Writers Inc would seem "grown up" to him if you could find a way to use it or incorporate it with FLL, MCP or WWS. So I'm not very much help, but I certainly understand your concern.

Well, I must say I get this from time to time. As they get older (entering the logic stage!) this happens more often. But I certainly liked what Aly said and I am going to use that next time! Concise and to the point. Basically, explaining the reasons (i.e.: you need to know this for university, etc) are important from time to time. But often, in my children's case, it is their "try" at procrastinating. So what I say to them when they start is, "It is your choice, be a garbageman (or woman) if you want. Life is full of choices." Just my 2 cents.

Thanks everyone! I am still trying to decide- yes, on one hand my rational side says to do TT and then my perfection side says, go with Singapore. How interesting that Liping Ma has a series! I have her book, back from the days when I hschooled, so I will check out her series. Maybe that would work. Thanks so much.

Sorry, I meant "Teaching Textbooks"- LOL!

Hi All, It has been awhile since I have been on the board. After hsing 6 years I put the kids in school, where they have been for starting on their 3rd year. They have done well, making straight A's and not having homework. My daughter started this year having homework because we put her and her brother in french immersion (to give them more of a challenge). But I found out this week that her math skills are poor. Very poor. She couldn't multiply one digit by three digit (and she is in grade 6). This worried me so I pulled out her grade three Singapore math book (from when we hschooled) and showed her that she was able to do it then! Ok, so that didn't go over well. I didn't mean to insult her, just to make her realize that she can do this. She says that no one in her class can and that they are told to use calculators. Ok, my worst fear ever! So the long and the short of it is: now that we afterschool and they are tired when they get home, have little time etc (and math was never her strong suit) should I have her use Teaching Textbooks? I think she would be more willing to do her math with TT, but I also know that I could convince her to do Singapore. But once I introduce TT it would be hard to switch her then to Singapore. She was looking at her old Singapore books last night and even though she would place in 4a/b (maybe even review 3 a/b) she realized that she had a problem. You know, if I was hschooling full-time again I would certainly do Singapore but with so much on her plate I am unsure... anyone else had a similar problem? Thanks so much, Trish

Well, I might be able to help a little as my 11 yr old son has been using Khan for well over a year now. He has his own account, that way it keeps track of his progress. He has asked me to be his coach but I never have as I just look over his progress on his account. Now as a teacher, or tutor I think it would be quite useful to sign up as her coach to generate different reports to show her parents. The way my son does Khan is that he started at the beginning watching the videos where needed, and progressed through the Knowledge Map. The Knowledge Map is great in that it give the children a little bit of choice in what they want to learn (ie: it is not linear) and therefore giving them a sense control. However, of course there are some things you do have to do before others. Because I haven't really used it much and my son is gifted and very motivated mathematically, I really just let him go with it. I have watched some of the videos (like my son , I LOVE math) and they are very well done. I can only say that for our family, Khan Academy has worked amazingly well. Sorry I can't more specific on the signing up process- I hope someone else will chime in. :) All the best, Trish

I looked at the books you mentioned Saille from amazon and the English Vocabulary book (the pricier one ) looks wonderful. It isn't exactly what I was looking for, but what a great reference book! However, amazon nor chapters sell it here in Canada. I will look around though. I think for now, I will forget about attached derivaties to the words they learn (it is too time consumming and frustrating). Except for the obvious ones like "fossa" which is quite easy to tell that the derivative "fossil" comes from it. However, with level B it does get harder. I will also look into Vocabulary Vines. Maybe that is more what I want anyway! Thank you to everyone who answered- and I will keep my eye out for that poster- now that would be great!!:001_smile:

Hi Everyone, I am wondering if there is a book, or dictionary of sorts, that lists the derivatives for latin words? We are doing Latin for Children and are looking up the derivatives for the vocab in the dictionary, but it is very time consuming and frustrating. I really would like them to relate the derivates to the latin words more. I also don't really want to switch programs (we are on B) although I certainly don't love this program but it is doing an good job and is generally quite easy on my part. ANy thoughts?? Thanks so much

They are fantastic! My kids loved them (boy and girl) and so do I. We have been listening to them off and on for two years now.

because my two kids hate it (and I really wish they liked it!). Funny how different people can be. :)