This is a bit broad of a question. Do you have a specific foreign language in mind? For one kid? All kids? All together or separately? Teach it yourself or outsource? Are you fluent (or at some other level) in the language you have in mind?

Would you consider a German style card game? I think Bohnanza is great fun with the age spread you are talking about. Also possibly, Bang! if you are open to that theme. https://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-RGG155-Bohnanza/dp/B00008URUS https://www.amazon.com/Da-Vinci-Bang-4th-Edition-x/dp/B001RU7UNW/ref=sr_1_1?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1545097398&sr=1-1&keywords=bang

If you are looking for a real abacus, I have this one which has a nifty reset button which is totally worth the extra $10. https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Mountain-Imports-Vintage-Wooden/dp/B00SQW8EYS/ref=sr_1_5?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1544600397&sr=1-5&keywords=abacus This series is easy to use. It's incremental and step by step with illustrations as to what your hand should be doing. I only linked the level 1 instruction book. There are two workbooks that go along with level 1. SAI Academy publishs 3 levels. https://www.amazon.com/Abacus-Mind-Math-Instruction-Level/dp/1941589006/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1544600485&sr=1-3&keywords=abacus

I tend to fall in paper hard copy textbook. Read a number of studies about how the brain processed information on screens versus pages. Also the eye strain issue is a concern for us because he already wears glasses. Generally speaking he is staring at a screen too much as it is.

Runningmom80, I'm hearing that there is currently a flood of new students so the current time availlability of teachers is not reflective of what I've seen of normal availability. Also, time slots will open up when if other families end up having to cancel their slot. If you are on FB, do join the LIngobus (Parents Only) group. It's a good place to get reviews of various teachers.

We've been using Lingobus (Immersion) this year and it's been great. It's the first time EVER in years of doing Chinese where he looks forward to it and doesn't complain about it. His spoken fluency has greatly improved which has been our problem since his written and reading is pretty good. I also have used Better Chinese and Sage Books. However, having a live teacher one on one has really improved his Chinese. If you want to get a couple of free classes, you can use my referral code K9ADVJ https://www.lingobus.com/study. Schedule is very flexible. Teachers are random in the beginning until you start to get one a few times in a row then it shows up in your frequently used teachers. You can see 3 of those and their schedule seperate from the general schedule. Cancel classes up to 24 hours in advance with no penalty. They do offer sibling classes so you can probably save doing that. They offer a free demo class for you to try. Not sure if you can squeeze in a demo quick enough, but they are running a 50% off class bundles sale for Black Friday. For a solo class it gets the cost down to about $10 if you do the biggest bundle. Sibling classes are a little more.

My son does a weekly co-op, math circle, computer science circle, chess club, Math Olympaid at the local elementary school, piano, tennis, mixed martial arts, and golf. He is no longer doing swimming or basketball. He also does cotillion, Awana, and youth group. I stopped coaching his Lego team this year because I just couldn't devote the amount of time to that and wrangling my toddler.

I did an astronomy class for 1st to 3rd graders. They loved that class. I also did Song School Latin which was also very much a hit for that age group.

I definitely wrote about that student fee when I completed the survey.

Depends on your goal. I can tell you why I use CA standards here on my blog. https://lifeatwarpspeed.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/singapore-math/

Would your boys enjoy some of the MOOC courses that are out there? LIke the MIT courses, Coursera or Edex

I think RR does speak that fast in real life. Or at least he did when at the event I just went to last year here in SD.

You might want to look at Kitchen Table Math books. If I remember correctly, we already were doing SM 1 as well. We used SM with the Intensive Practice and Challenging Word Problems as well as the Fan Math Express Math books. I added in Beast Academy later a level behind. We did lots of other math as well like Zaccaro, Ellison, and Borac. Abacus Math books by SAI Speed Math Academy is something I came across later, but I would have liked to introduce it earlier.

We went to AOPS pre-algebra after SM5 and only doing BA5A and Jousting Armadillos. I actually made him to JA fwhich is really pretty easy compared to AOPS PA because I used it (for the 8 weeks) we did it as a transition to going to a math book that is nearly all text and to get some practice reading and working through a textbook. We didn't have to do JA, but I think it made the transition easier for him. He is a mathy kid and uses AOPS pretty much on his own unless he runs into some roadblocks with the challenge problems. Edited to Add: Forgot that JA was super useful in getting him to show his work and to organize it neatly without also dealing with what can be pretty challenging work in AOPS. This was well worth the 8 weeks we vested in AOPS. It is absolutely critical to show your work and keep it neat and organized. Graph paper helps with this. One change I would make is Attached Mama's idea of doing the chapter review and challenge after you complete the next chapter. So do ch.1, skip review/challenge, go to ch. 2 up to reiew/challenge, go back to ch. 1 review/challenge, go to ch. 3, etc. I didn't adopt this approach until ch 8, but I think it is working out pretty well.

It's in the Activity Guide for the book. It isn't hard to manage as they are arranged by chapter and reading section. There are examples of what they should be narrating as well.

Attached Mama, what a great idea to do review/challenge a chapter behind. I just implemented it today since we just wrapped up a chapter.

Some people use it stand alone. I didn't. I used SM with Beast behind. I found there is was value in the way SM approaches math, so perhaps using not a full curriculum on top of Beast isn't what you would want but I think SM Intensive Practice and Challenging Word problems would we worthwhile. Tons of other resources out there as well like Glen Ellison, Cleo Borac, Zaccaro, Borenson, etc for kids who are gifted at math.

This sounds pretty normal since you weren't doing Beast Academy prior. It's written discovery style. How long a student takes to transition is pretty individua? Whether or not they can do it independiently, it is also pretty individual to the student. My son is able to do AOPS PA independently but he has had a lot of math under his belt prior to this. Plenty of kids out there that don't use this text independently.

We did Jr. Analytical Grammar. We finished it within 2 months. It's super quick and thorough.

+1 on what maptime said. I was wondering where this was going. No regrets...we are about 2/3 the way through WWE3 and dabbling in IEW. I did jump off over the summer working through an outlining book because of some other stuff we are tackling this year. He picked up writing a paragraph from an outline very quickly because he already had a lot of the skills that have to be in place before you actually put pencil to paper. It's worked out very well since he is now tasked with writing more this year across other subjects. Mine just turned 10, and I am glad I just let things be for awhile.

Schole Academy, Wilson Hill and WTMA has female math teachers as well.

I left it intact and just used a composition notebook.

Hmmm... if you did IEW-A (plus being 12), I think you would want to do IEW-SICC B. IEW-A would be redundant.

One Minute Mysteries...there are lots of these books out there. Lollipop Logic series from Prufrock Press. The older series is Logic Safari. These might be too workbook-y for you. I like Mind Benders from Critical Thinking Company as well. Where you use grids to deduce from the clues in the text. Logic Links is a pretty fun game. Rush Hour is also a fun game as well.

We used the revised Latin for Children A from Classical Academic Press and have moved on to LFC B. He likes it a lot.