Thanks all! That mades a lot more clear!! I found a text for Belgian History, so that would also be covered. Then I only have to find a 19th century history text (Europe and Africa or World)...

I liked the look of 20th World Century from the IB program, it covers also almost anything of our examrequirements, but I see so many more IB History books: https://global.oup.com/education/secondary/curricula/ib-diploma/history/?sortfield=relevance&search_input=&region=international&view=&prevNumResPerPage=10&start=0&numResultsPerPage=50 Can somebody explain to me how the IB History program is mentioned? I don't think a student covers all those titels... And are some easier then others? Geared to different grades perhaps?

We are all three ill or tired, so we just did a take it slow day

Did you see some of the samples? They make me still doubting. Some of them will be better then I will ever can offer. The other side how to use it in our Belgian situation. A textbook will never expire...

We used LL7 and now LL8. Dd reads the whole book first, and then make the assignments I give. most often she reads the books in free time and does the assingments during classtime. It seemed a little bit odd to me if a child WANTS to read to say: sorry you have read enough this week, you have to wait until next monday... Of course is patience a good attitude, but we don't practice that during reading books.

Dd uses BJU since grade 2, so you would expect she would be used to the testsytem. although BJU Lifescience still has many multiple choice and T/F questions dd failed several tests last year. You can't make them 'just from memory' or after 'reading twice'. You will have to study it.

English, French, Latin, are the main foreign languages, Greek, Spanish and German are just fun projects for now. English 5 days a week French / Latin twice a week, together 40 - 60 minutes; one week focus on French, one week focus on Latin. Our goals (and level) for each Language is different at the moment. It's our 4th year English; 3rd year French and 1st year Latin. (Last year she did Spanish instead of Latin).

You can do it with only the readers and the worktexts. We did it, this way and it was just fine for use (but we are ESL users).

I'm not started yet, but I'm not intending reading this aloud. Even not with one child. I like the concepts they use to introduce and to explain geography. That's what I'll use. I doubt about the narration postcards. It is not practical for 'recordkeeping' and I doubt it will be 'interesting' here. We do have 'notebooks' with one page blank and one page with lines probably we'll use that.

Yes we do, and it works for us. Bible 30 minutes Math 30-40 minutes English Writing and Grammar 10-20 min. and so on. There is a marge she has to stay in. We start at 8.30 with a 30 minute break at 10.00 End at 12.00 for lunch (and coffee for me :-) start again at 13.30 until 15.00 On wednessday we work only until 12.00.

OT to Tara: I do speak Dutch indeed Esther

I have for 2nd grade English: Reading, Writing and Grammar, Spelling from BJU. We do like Reading and Spelling right now, it's a great program, Writing and Grammar is a little bit to tough for us (My child is young and English is not our main language), so I'll waite with that a little while. I can't without the TM of spelling, but de TM of Reading contains only questions for discussion not the answers of the excerises, so it's not very useful to me. The TM of English and Writing is also a great tool to me, but I have to wait with it until our child is ready for it. (Grammar isn't taught in that grade here)

Did you think of working with lapbooks? Some are free, en those which are to pay for are reproducible within one family (I alwys choose the E-book version) I also use hands-out books and easy-make and learn projects (scholastics) once you bought te book the pages are reproducible. It's maybe not so classical in the way you write less and craft more but it could be an option. Esther (B)

I agree that Christian Studies could be a great choice. I like it very much. Our child is younger (and English is a foreign language to us) so we work with Bible Truths (BJU). It's very easy going I think, but that's no problem to us (not all subjects have to be tough ;-) .) Bible Truths has less writing, and more creative excercises I tought, but I do only know the first years of it. Esther (B)

My first and favourite one is: 'So you're thinking about homeschooling' from Lisa Wechsel. It describes several families en their different homeschooling styles, very informative, but written like a novel. And it has some pages with 'what to do next' (names of publishers, links, books etc.) at the end. Esther (B)