Has anyone heard of and/or used Williamsburg Academy. I saw a mention of it in a group that I moderate. It is secular and out of Utah. They offer middle and high school courses. Live, self-paced and independent study options. I wasn't looking for anything new, but it sparked my interest because there are courses that are pretty unique. For example, there are variety of leadership courses in middle and high school which I really haven't seen anywhere else. These are soft skills (social emotional intelligence) that I am extremely interested in. The fine arts electives are pretty interesting as well. Some of the middle school science courses are pretty interesting and different. That's about as far as I poked around on there. https://www.williamsburgacademy.org/about-us/ ETA: downside of leadership classes. They meet 25 minutes Mon-Thurs.

It seems like people are looking for secular online options. I came across this one in another group I am in. They are a multi-subject provider of middle and high school courses. Live and self-paced options. https://www.williamsburgacademy.org/about-us/

How about Jacobs: A Human Endeavor?

Have you checked this master thread of online classes?

I stumbled across this youtube channel called How to Make Everything. It is a definite winner. I was curating videos for a science class that I am helping with. It's a pretty interesting look for adults and kids at so much of what we take for granted for very low prices and convenience when we go to the store. This is the description of the series. Today, getting what you need is as easy as a trip to the store; from food to clothing, energy, medicine, and so much more. Andy will discover what it takes to make everything from scratch. His mission is to understand complex manufacturing and production processes that are often taken for granted, doing it all himself. Each week he'll travel the world to bypass the modern supply chain in oder to harvest raw materials straight from the source. Along the way, he’s answering the questions you never thought to ask. Andy is learning How To Make Everything! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfIqCzQJXvYj9ssCoHq327g/featured

I would say this would be a problem as Prodigy isn't meant to teach math. It's designed for math practice for skills already learned. If you need it fairly independent, perhaps you should look at an online program like Aleks, CTC Math, etc.

Out of curiosity...if he does really well with IEW, then why would you not consider using IEW's writing classes?

Order out of Chaos planners. She designed them with her son's challenges in mind. ADHD, EF deficiencies, and learning issues. We used this planner this year and things have gone so much more smoothly because he could see what the day and the week looked like and prioritize accordingly. We could have productive conversations about what days to plan to do X and not have arguments about how he is sure he has time to do X, Y or Z later. https://products.orderoochaos.com/

I like the Kilgallon book though. I like that they have interesting sentences from books that students are interested in reading. NY Times isn't going to be high on my kid's interest list. Not going to break the bank at under $20 and saves me work on finding sentences.

Or basically what Kilgallon's Sentence Composing series does....

I used Berean Builders. Dr. Jay WIle's elementary series. ETA: I taught it for 3 years beginning with Ancient World. I would have taught it a fourth, but I have a toddler who is glued to me.

I think you mentioned that you like Schole. Have you considered just the lit or the history for Ancients? I really liked the response I got from Adam Lockridge about the classes. It's a much more manageable workload than GC at WHA sounds like. It's at the top of my list when my son gets to that point.

Totally not a book rec, but there is a Great Course video series on nuclear physics. Maybe your library system has it? https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/nuclear-physics-explained.html

There are sales at mulitple times during the year. I seem to remember a sale going on sometimes during the summer. It's not always predictable though. You can delay the start date, but usually there is a time limit they place of how late you can schedule the start date. Unless they have changed that policy, I am guessing for this sale, you would have to probably schedule a start by 9/1. I'm sure though that there will be at least a sale or two before you finish the first course unless you are super fast. No, you don't have to do the history and Bible to do Omnibus. Even though we've done all of history and Bible, I didn't opt to go with Omnibus because I am looking for more interaction and discussion with Great Books. If you want it to be independent, then when they can read. VP recommends starting at 2nd grade.

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Perhaps these Chinese character practice sheets will help. I would think they definitely would with kanji. http://chineseprintables.com/ Or you can order inexpensive practice workbooks like this. I saw people commenting that they were using them for Japanese. I get them at the Chinese bookstore. https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Character-Practice-Book-Package/dp/B008AMJ8TO

You might want to look at the 1 on 1 tutoring with Better Chinese's Discovering Chinese curricula path if you are looking for something that is designed to take your student to SAT2 proficiency. I'm suggesting this as it looks like you might be looking for a high school credit worthy class. https://www.live.betterchinese.com/

It's not impossible if you have a math accelerated student. Pretty sure that's what my son was doing in 2nd grade because he was doing SM 5A at the end of 2nd grade. So, it is early and not typical.

Some moms in our co-op are doing a History's Heros class so similar name to the American Heros one above.

If geometry (or any other higher math course) is completed prior to high school, you are supposed to self-report. This is the guidance from UC on that. That being said, this is the guidance, but it does not necessarily mean this is the actual answer that you will get from UC as a friend who works as a college counselor locally said she attended a UC counselor workshop and this is not what was being said at that meeting. http://www.sscs.cc/files/all_schools/guidance/UC Math Progression.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1pSA3LVRpPhPaxPIN-ZbuZkovF1-IG6s1UZ27dqhxfVYLaU1gcEQWiUQw If you are on FB (you might want to join just to access this group), I highly recommend this group. It is a goldmine of information. It is specifically for CA homeschoolers applying to college and specifcally addresses UC and CSU admissions which is highly specific if you are an in-state applicant. There are lots of experienced people on here from charter or PSA/PSP and college counselors who are in frequent contact with UC and CSU. http://www.facebook.com/groups/CollegeSeekers/

You can use them in any order, but it makes more sense to start from Ancient IMO. This series would be hard to correlate to your time period because as you move closer to modern times, you will have multiple volumes to cover in a year to make your history cycle because of the sheer amount of discoveries that are covered. I really liked how it helps kids make the connection how this discovery led to that discovery and that led to this scientist being inspired to do this. When kids study science, it is often divorced from historical context and culture and it just is taught as this is what we know but very little about how we know it and maybe some of the mistakes that were made along the way. This was also really useful to me to show that in science how we can and should be willing to experiment, theorize, and make mistakes as we try to answer questions. Also, it was great for kids to see science is not a field of study done in isolation. It is collaborative and important to engage with what others are doing as well as it improves our own work. I found it really educational for me as well to teach this series at our co-op. Not sure if that is the exact answer you are looking for. This is what Dr. Wile says about trying to do this chronologically. http://blog.drwile.com/science-and-history-synchronized-sort-of/

Whatever you do, be sure to keep copies of all of your labs since you are not going the a-g certified course route. A local homeschooling mom (two in college now) who does college consulting says that her son's science course was audited. They wanted to see copies of all the labs that were completed.

Does she understand that that for 16 + 4 that 16 is really 10 + 6? or rather 1 group of 10 plus 6 and that adding 6+4 gives you another group of 10? I'm wondering if she truly understands how place value works. I got a cheap set of poker chips off Amazon and marked them with a sharpie. 1's white, 10's red, 100's blue. I used small whiteboard and divided up the board into 3 sections. I had my kiddo work addition and subtraction problems by phyiscally moving the chips. So you would tell her that the basic rule in place value is that you can only have 0-9 before you have to exchange out 10 chips for the next bigger chip and move that to the next column. So for 16 +4. she would have 1 red and 6 whites in the 10's and 1's column. Then when she tries to put 4 more whites in she sees that 10 of them is too many and see has to exchange the 10 whites for 1 red. If she is working 16 +7. I usually have the ones arranged in groups of 5 (vertically or horizontally up to you) because 5 is easy to see and kids seem to easily recognize you need two sets of 5 to make 10. Then she would see XXXXX X and have 7 chips in her hand. She would use up 4 of those chips and know she needs to change out that for a 10 chip and move it to the left. She might not be seeing that that the new chip means that she now has a new group of 10 that is added to the original group of 10. The two red chips would show her visually that there are two groups and the 10 written on the face tells her the value of that group.

Are you on Facebook? There's a coach in AZ who runs an online homeschool chess club. They do lessons twice a week and run online tournaments on Wednesdays and Saturdays. You can learn more about it here: https://www.facebook.com/homeschoolchessclub/ My son has played with them for the past year and a half. There is an option to do the tournaments only. The tournaments do have a small entry fee of $5.50. It's done Swiss style with 3 rounds of play. The top 10% receive medals that get mailed to them.

Perhaps Center for Lit's Teaching the Classics? https://www.centerforlit.com/teaching-the-classics