I just use the Cross Seven videos. It makes memory work and learning the history timeline super easy. Some of the songs are groaners, but all in all it is worth every cent for my family. We did a whole cycle this school year and I am happy with how much my kids memorized, especially since it didn't add anything to my teaching load (other than streaming a video to the TV each morning). I do not use their printed books. I use the video memory work as a review system, and only spend about 20 minutes once a week talking about the new material to memorize, because we learn about it in our other school lessons. I think the combo of songs and chants with nice visuals and hand motions works pretty well.

Yes. Have you tried No-Fenol from Huston enzymes? We used that until DD started to outgrow the problem to a level we could work with. I forget why, but we also had to make sure her dietary sulfur and magnesium intake was decent. It seemed to help in the long run.

My five year olds love Salsa Spanish videos from GPB.

Athanasius by Simonetta Carr is a nice picture book.

I like using Adventures in Phonics B as a follow-up to Alpha Phonics. I have the PDF so I can print out whichever pages I need for the kids to work on. I think it is a thorough intro to phonics for spelling, and it is very get-er-done and low prep.

Sounds normal to me.

There is not really a "Singapore Way" of performing mathematical operations. The series teaches the same traditional algorithms that are taught in schools. The difference is that the series helps you present more than one way to think about how to solve problems, and introduces learning how to problem-solve using pictures rather than relying only on verbal hints and abstract algorithms. You can show the child the mental math processes that are recommended in the series and then move to whatever problem solving method is easiest for your child to do. But you don't need to worry about missing traditional ways of problem solving with Singapore. It is all in there.

I agree that Hey Andrew is probably the most independent and it moves at what I think is a good pace for beginners. We use Hey Andrew and Elementary Greek.

You could pair a couple of weekly written narrations with Climbing to Good English. Personally I think that would be enough for language arts in the middle grades, along with a lot of reading.

Christian Biographies for Young Readers by Simonetta Carr

My kids train six days days a week, but with a coach or in a class only one to four times per week (depending if they want to compete soon or not). It is the same as violin practice or math. The more often they practice, the quicker they progress.

Headventure Land by CAP has lots of Latin games and mini movies. My kids play on there once a week or so.

A couple of unregulated rivers are going over tonight in central CA and parts of Manteca are being evacuated due to a levee breech (apparently some farmers fixed it right away, however). My family is okay. We live near a levee, but it is one that is frequently maintained. There are supposed to be 60 mph winds tonight which may lead to power loss, but mostly I feel bad for all the people evacuating problem areas. Many are lower-income rural families who don't have much of a choice about living in flood prone areas. Such is life in California.

We are using Rightstart G between Singapore 5 and Foerster, and I think it is just perfect for us. We are also using Advanced Math for Young Students, and love that, too. And parts of AOPS Prealgebra. Don't have time to list what I like about it but just thought I'd mention it.

I think many people do either phonics or spelling, but not both. I have never felt the need for reading comprehension programs, either. You probably could drop the reading comprehension worksheets, too, and do something like oral narrations for more of a challenge without more pencil work. (That can be incorporated into history or science, too).

I will try to simplify it but I am not sure if I can help... To round a corner... it will give a radius. Say, 1 cm. So you take your corner, and draw a line parallel to one side of the shape, 1 cm inside from the side. And then you take the other side of the shape, and draw a line 1 cm inside, parallel to that side. The place where they cross each other is the middle point for making the arc. You put the middle of the arc compass there and draw a circle in the 10 mm hole (1cm). It will round the corner. The part that was sort of confusing for us was that they tried to show exactly where the original side stopped and new rounded edge began. If you draw a line at a right angle from the guide lines you first drew, each starting at the place where they crossed each other, you will hit the point on the original sides where they start the arc.

Yes, what is your question about it?

MWB Foerster Algebra 1 Medieval classic lit reading list and discussions Church history, just various biographies Elementary Greek 3 Latin Alive 1, and CAP Latin Reader (3rd one) Exploring Creation with Biology Science in the Scientific Revolution (just reading through) Destinos and Easy Spanish Step by Step French in Action and Rosetta Stone French Rod and Staff English 7, grammar lessons only Writing and Rhetoric 7-8 Sequential Spelling

Singapore math SOTW and Cross Seven Lively Latin Writing Through History level 2 CTGE 5 Writing and Rhetoric 3-4 Science- whatever interests her, independent reading library books, Science in the Ancient World Elementary Greek 2 Misc. Lit and McGuffey Destinos

My babies are starting first in the fall! SOTW and Cross Seven BFSU Singapore math McGuffey primer Cursive and copywork Adventures in Phonics B and whatever is left of Alpha Phonics if we haven't finished it yet

Singapore 3 SOTW and cross Seven BFSU and Science in the Ancient World Wise Owl Polysyllables Building Spelling Skills, CLP 2nd McGuffey Reader Writing and Rhetoric 1 CTGE 3 Cursive copywork GSWL Salsa Spanish

Rod and Staff English 6 (grammar lessons only) Writing and Rhetoric 3 and 4 Sequential Spelling online Typingclub.com Lively Latin 2 Rightstart G and Singapore 5b Elementary Greek 2 Easy Spanish Step-by-Step and Destinos SOTW and Cross Seven Novare Earth Science Ancient classic lit reading list, discussion (probably mostly audiobooks for this kid) Science in the Ancient World, reading through independently Evan Moor Daily Geography 6 Looks like a lot but some of it will be done with the 7th grader and some with the 5th grader too. I have to buy just 2 workbooks since this is kid number two and we own almost everything already. Yay!

It is too stressful for me to get everyone done with school at the same time. I am doing school (with lunch break) from 8 am to about 5 pm. I have plenty of down time to type an email or check social media during the day, or switch the laundry, read to the kids, etc. But not much else happens during school time. The more kids you have the less likely it is you can all finish early. Checklists cut down on my stress too because I can see exactly who has done what. I have had to switch up my routine and change my expectations every six months or so, ever since I started homeschooling several years ago. That's just life with growing kids... they keep us on our toes. :-)

I have read bits and pieces of BB to the kids that match up with BFSU lessons. But I wasn't too happy with that mash up, so my oldest is currently working through Science in the Ancient World independently and answering the mid-level questions in a notebook. She is going through a "great-books" ancient history literature study so it matches up with that just fine. Since we did BFSU already she skips the experiments. I will have my son do the same next year and they will both continue the series along with their great books studies chronologically. For my second set of kids I am planning to read through the BB science books along with SOTW. We are still going to do BFSU though. I think they each hit two different important aspects of science. But for us it definitely works better to correlate BB with SOTW rather than trying to match it with BFSU like I tried to do at first.

There is another wet storm coming this next week. You will have to watch and see what roads are affected the day or so before you travel. They might be beautiful by then... or blocked, who knows. I hope you end up with a nice trip! I hope to make that drive with my kids sometime. Here is a site you can check: http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/roadinfo/display.php?page=us101