You can file any time during the year too, if you forget or change schools. They keep it open. And if you are with a PSP, make sure they don't still want you to file your own affidavit. Even though HSLDA says you don't have to becausw the PSP will, I know of at least one PSP that expects members to do it themselves (and didn't say so last year).

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Alpha Phonics, Math Playground online manipulatives and thinking blocks, Salsa Spanish, Typing Club, Education unboxed, Duolingo, Prodigy math, the Baldwin Project at mainlesson.com, Ambleside Online, Code.org, Mystery Science....

When my kids start writing around 3rd grade they all start off like that. This is what I do. "Susie, imagine Daddy just came home, and you walked right up to him and said, 'Frogs died.' Would Daddy know what you were talking about?" And then Susie laughs and comes up with a sentence that could be repeated to Daddy that makes sense without the context of the question. Don't know if that type of exercise would help your DD but it has helped mine! :-)

We finished the A thread in vol. 2 with just a cheap digital scale that measures grams. It worked out fine.

I appreciate your post... we are a few years away from high school, but we have our sights set on UC's.

Another middle school earth science option is Novare. It is old-earth, and my 6th grader is enjoying it. Just fyi in case you hadn't heard of it yet. :)

I like Climbing to Good English, and Evan-Moor.

For Greek, I highly recommend the first two levels of Hey Andrew before beginning any other program. The Greek alphabet is a hurdle and Hey Andrew spends a lot of time on it. We do Hey Andrew for Greek and Getting Started with Latin at the same time, so that my kids are well prepared for other Greek and Latin programs. Getting Sarted with Latin also prepared my kids for Greek because it introduces the concepts of conjugations and declensions and all that.

Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding is socratic-based.

We are using it this year. It is very nice looking! We just finished the first chapter, and there were two paragraphs that discussed Christian views, with scripture, about how the earth seems to be designed by God specifically for life and for declaring the glory of God. I didn't see anything specifically Christian in Ch. 2. Ch. 3 is about half Christian material, because it is about how Christians ought to think about earth science. Ch. 4 moves on to minerals and there isn't any Christian references in the whole chapter. So, the Christian content is in there, but it's not on every page.

My 11 yr old just started 6th a month ago, and we had used Singapore through 5B. She began Rightstart G and is 25 lessons in at this point. She loves it. It isn't too hard, and is the perfect change for her. She has already been applying what she's learned to her art in her free time. She does it four days per week. She also does a section once a week from Advanced Math for Young Students: a First Course in Algebra. It seems to working quite well. The plan is to go through AOPS prealgebra for 7th, or even before, depending on how long it takes to finish Rightstart G. My kids are not particularly good at math, but Singapore seems to have accelerated the typical math instruction sequence. So we are spending a bit more time enjoying the math options in the middle grades.

I am right there with you... it is interesting to me too. Have you read anything by Sister Miriam Joseph? I haven't before now, when I just found this article. http://classicallatin.org/what-are-liberal-arts

If I am remembering correctly, Sayer's essay was published in the National Review (William F. Buckley's periodical) which is where Wilson first read it himself. I remember that during the 90s there was an interest among some protestant educators for returning to the educational practices of the Puritans and Calvinist reformers. This sort of happened at the same time Wilson began publishing. Although he certainly had a huge hand in creating new resources and the spread of ideas, he certainly did not found the modern classical education movement. I found the Liberal Arts Tradition by Clark and Jain to be helpful for grasping a better concept of traditional classical education, including through the medieval era.

There's a good list of stuff here: http://blog.prepscholar.com/complete-list-of-high-school-electives

I just found out about this yesterday... I like it because we have already been using Sequential Spelling: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/621119-sequential-spelling-is-now-online/

I don't think so, which is part of the reason why I am sticking with doing it offline with little chalkboards for my 2nd and 4th graders. But my 5th grader is ready to move on to typing. He struggles with spelling and has been doing it on paper for five years, so I think switching to online typing will help him at this point.

We use this paper too. I love it.

$10 per kid per level. If you take the placement test, you will get a general feel for how it works. It is pretty much the same set up as the placement test, but it shows the correct answer if you type it wrong and you have to type it correctly. I got it for one of my kids and it seems to work well. It has a robot type voice that reads the words but it isn't bad. I am a get-'er-done type of homeschool mom, so I give it a thumbs up. I will still be keeping a couple of my other kids on a different level of SS together with me dictating the words, but at least the kid I got this online version for can accelerate without me having to spend the extra time on it.

Yay! Thanks for sharing. We use SS and I will have to look into the online thing and see if it will help make getting spelling done even easier.

This is great! Thanks a bunch!

For the first few weeks after delivery, homeschooling was pretty much the only thing I could do.... because as others mentioned, I could do it from the couch while nursing. I always encourage moms to think about getting help with housework so they can spend as much time on the couch as possible!.

My son loves audio books and science, but most of my audio library is history-oriented. Does anyone have suggestions for sciencey audio books a 10 year old boy might enjoy?

My DH is a registered Choctaw and it matters most for health care. NAs have special health care programs and are exempt from certain "Obamacare" laws, which can have a financial impact for some families. And as others mentioned it can affect college admission. But that doesn't mean you have to put NA on every form that asks ethnicity or go out of your way to embrace a new culture. ETA... I should clarify... I didn't mean you shouldn't embrace Choctaw culture... since your grandmother felt compelled to hide her culture from you because of intense discrimination, I think your family is more than justified to reclaim NA cultural heritage and identification as your own if you wish. I know my DH's family feels that by identifying as NA they are taking back something that was stolen from their family. But it isn't something you legally have to do on every form that asks for ethnicity.

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