An excellent easy to do series for this is EPS's Paragraphs series. It's meant to be used for remediation in 6 to 8, but I used it at the recommendation of another boardie for my son in 3rd and 4th grade. http://eps.schoolspecialty.com/EPS/media/Site-Resources/downloads/program-overviews/S-paragraph_book.pdf Also, Treasured Conversations does such a good job as well with teaching you to write a paragraph.

Just popping in to ask whether or not she is using a planner. I think this planner is designed so well to organize your subjects and time. For homeschoolers, the best one to use is the smaller version because the time section starts from 8 am versus the larger version starts with afternoon hours for traditional school students. There's a video at the bottom that explains how it works. It is available on amazon. https://products.orderoochaos.com/

Avancemos is what WHA uses for their Spanish classes.

FWIW, my son did LFC A at Schole and LFC B at WHA. He enjoyed both. He really likes Kelly Songer and will continue with her because he will be moving to LA1 with her. I only switched to WHA because the sections at Schole last year were way too early for my not a morning person son. I don't think you can go wrong with Schole. I really like the revised version of LFC which is a lot more engaging.

Did someone mention this one in Monterey? You do have to be in the military to attend though. I have friends who went to this program. http://www.dliflc.edu/home/about/

I made inquiries with both organizations and they said that if the school you would be attending allows your student to join their team that is a way as well. The rules permit it at the discretion of the school. I was able to get my son on the MOEMS team at our local elementary. They meet weekly, but I opted out of that. They were fine with me working with him at home and just bringing him to the contests. I am hoping to get the same access when he reaches middle school age. I started the conversation with the organizers well a year and a half before he aged into the team. I did make sure that I volunteered and contributed to making it happen. I'm about to start making the inquiries for him for the junior high level soon as it is about a year and half away. Our local schools don't run elementary level Science Olympiad. Oops, I forgot to say that for MOEMS, you can have a team as small as one. You just have to organize it as your own school of whatever number. They just don't allow homeschoolers to compete under "homeschool." It's been awhile since I checked the SO rules, but I think the members just all have to reside in two bordering counties. You would only be competitive in individual events. I am pretty sure you can't have charter school students on a homeschool team. It would be challenging to muster enough to be competitive at the team level since there are events that are judged simultaneously. I do think it can be done. I just didn't have the bandwidth to organize something like this with a toddler in the mix now. SO is a lot of work. Lots more than MOEMS because for that you can be as simple as offering the contests and not creating a whole program around it.

Did you start with contacting College Board to get a list of schools who are willing to take outside students and work from that list? Even then, it does not mean they will do it, but it would narrow things down.

You could incorporate narration in your history since you are using America's Story. Found this for you: https://welltrainedmind.com/a/tips-for-narration/

You can take a look at SWB's comments about the progression between WWE and WWS here: http://downloads.peacehillpress.com/samples/pdf/WWEandWWSexplanation.pdf?utm_source=Catalog&utm_medium=Print&utm_content=Page%2B9&utm_campaign=2014%2BCatalog&page=10 I think the suggestion above to do WWE3 (can probably do it at double speed) is probably a good one because of the narration skills it teaches. You can see that I am using Treasured Conversations (written by 8FilltheHeart) which is easy to do and not burdensome for a kid like mine. I have IEW which I would not suggest that you use because it doesn't sound like your student is a reluctant writer or needs a lot of scaffolding. I used an Outlining 5-8 book by Remedia Publications which was effective for practice outling and writing from an outline. It would maybe take a month to complete. It's quick and relatively easy to do. I also have the Killgallon books that SWB recommends, and WTMA uses for their Pre - Expository Writing class that comes before WWS1 in Expository Writing. You can read about that here: http://sentencecomposing.com/ Sentence Composing for Elementary School by Don Killgallon, ISBN 0325002231 Paragraphs for Elementary School by Don Killgallon, ISBN 9780325047942 Sentence Composing for Middle School by Don Killgallon, ISBN 9780867094190 Paragraphs for Middle School by Don Killgallon, ISBN 9780325042688 ETA: I think that perhaps the Outling Book would get you closest to narration skills.

For us, we had some bumps in the beginning where he was not showing his work and his thought process. My DH and I decided that this was a hill that we wanted to him to conquer and had him work slower if he needed to complete it. As we progresses, he was producing work like the photo @seaben shared. Not quite as neat when he was rushing, but he was able to put together something written out when asked to work thoughtfully. I saw corresponding improvement on how he started to approach the contest in Math Olympiad this year. He laid out his work very neatly in a way that made it easy for him to recheck his work. I think it also paid off when he sat for AMC8 without test prep and got a decent score of 11. He has since told me that he is convinced he would have done better now that he finished PA because they covered geometry that appeared on the AMC8. ETA: I will say that on the proof problems. I let him attempt it, but generally that was too difficult for him to write out. When I went back over it with him, he was able to verbally explain his thinking on the proof. So, those I did not make him write out.

I would think colleges would know think that a Rhetoric class is rigorous and does involve writing. Shakespeare looks like a literature credit. You don't have to do all your English credits as writing credits. I can tell you that I most definitely avoided the Rhetoric class in college which was well known to be difficult and opted for a Comparative Lit class to satisfy an English credit I needs for General Ed. I did get one credit covered via AP Language & Composition. My husband took Rhetoric and told me that it was one of the toughest classes he took at our U.

We did Math Kangaroo as well. I would suggest you might want to take a look at Glen Ellison's Hard Math for Elementary. I saw others on here recommend it on here. https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Elementary-School-Glenn-Ellison/dp/1489507175

According to WTMA, your student is ready for WWS if they can complete day 2 & 3 of week 1: Narrative Summaries. They have a rubric for you to evaluate. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6peV77xQYK_VkkyUVV0Sk1TNVk/view ETA: SWB says that there is nothing wrong with using WWS1 at half speed for a younger student. Mine is the same age as yours. I have decided not to use it for another year because he does not enjoy writing. This is a STEM kid through and through. He did complete WWE 1-3 already.

Yes, you use a notebook, binder paper or graph paper. There is very little white space in these books.

For a lot of kids, seeing the AOPS PA book can be overwhelming. There are no pictures and it's over 600 pages long. It's a textbook full of densely written text. There's a solutions guide that you get to help. There is no instructor guide as the text is written to the student. It could be a shocker coming from a colorful SM textbook. The setup is completely different from SM. The approach is discovery so students are supposed to work through the text problems to arrive at concepts that they wanted the student to grasp. It does not explicitly teach a concept if that makes sense. That may frustrate students who are not used to a math textbook that intends for students to wrestle and to get only get 75% to 80% correct the first time trhough. Tough sell to kids who may be used to getting everything correct.

Thank you for asking this question. I'm nowhere near this yet, but it has confused me greatly when I read about these courses. Schole Academy also has Rhetoric classes as well. It sounds like both Schole and WHA are emphasizing persuasive speech and writing and a similar sequence of pre-requisite classes. This is the description from Schole: High school students enrolled in this Rhetoric 1 course will study and practice the art of rhetoric: persuasive writing and speaking. Using Rhetoric Alive! Book 1—which explores the principles of winsome speech as developed by Aristotle—the course guides students through a study of the theory and application of the essential components of persuasion: the 3 appeals, the 3 types of speech, and the 5 canons of rhetoric (see below). Along the way, students encounter, discuss, and analyze classic examples of rhetoric, spanning from Pericles’s “Funeral Oration” to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Students also develop their own rhetorical skill through workshops, imitation assignments, and oratory presentations. This course equips students to speak and write persuasively with wisdom and eloquence. 3 appeals 3 types of speech 5 canons Ethos (speaker’s credibility) Deliberative (exhort or dissuade) Invention Pathos (audience’s emotion) Ceremonial (praise or blame) Organization Logos (argument’s reasoning) Judicial (accuse or defend) Style Memory Delivery Incoming students should have a working knowledge and familiarity with the informal fallacies (a good preparation would be Scholé Academy’s Informal Logiccourse or The Art of Argument text), and an ability to apply the principles of formal argument construction (along the lines of Scholé Academy’s Formal Logiccourse or The Discovery of Deduction text). Students who have additionally completed Scholé Academy’s Persuasive Writing course or The Argument Builder text are also well prepared to embark on this journey into Rhetoric 1. This sounds similar to WHA's description of Rhetoric and Logic sequence, but this does not sound that similiar to WTMA which seems writing focused.

We did SM 5A/5B, BA though 5B, Jousting Armadillos and now he is finished AOPS PA.

I will add the suggestion that if you would like explicit instruction on bar modeling and Singapore style word problems, you may want to consider Fan Math Process Skills in Problem Solving. We were fine with CWP as I was comfortable with teaching bar modeling to my son without instruction. Other moms have found the Fan Math books more helpful as it explicitly demonstrates and teaches this.

Perhaps you should find out what is being taught at the high school. You could run into problem if your high school follows an Integrated Math progression.

I think it is pretty early for people to have firmed up their plans. You would likely get more response in April or May. Plenty of providers have not even posted schedule much less opened enrollment.

I can understand why homeschoolers aren't opting to use AOPS. Doing the math, I can pay for about 3 high quality online outsourced classes for what it costs for one year of math at AOPS. The math doesn't work for me. I'm willing to support him as he studies AOPS, but I'm not married to the curriculum either. A lot of homeschooling families are willing to do that or do the less expensive online option. These other families have a lot of disposable income and a willingness to outsource this out. I also get that there's a certain demographic who is willing to spend that much money on a math class. It's my demographic. I completely get the mentality because lots of them are among my friends and family. Of course, according to the math, my path to opt to homeschool is $$$ compared to their path because we are losing a second income.

Maybe not @SeaConquest, lots of Asians have moved to the north Dallas suburbs. In Plano, the population of Asians doubled since 2000. It's around 20% now. I have a doctor friend from college who lives there. There are Asian groceries there as well. Not sure if the Asian number includes Asian Indians, but I have heard those numbers have increased significantly as well due to the increase in tech jobs in North Dallas.

Totally not surprised they picked Fremont. I used to live there. It's also not a surprise which neighborhood in Fremont they picked.

There's one thing that has been a challenge that I heard about from one of my friends IRL who is on the staff of a private classical academy is Latin. Everything else they could "catch" up on but Latin was something that she said the students needed to get up to speed.

There is a LOT of grammar in LFC. I would not use this for a 2nd grader without a good grasp of English grammar and can read and write well.