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If she liked that, she would probably also really like the self-paced Bible courses as well.

I just came across this free convention online from HomeScholar (Lee Binz). She has Dr. Callahan, Dr. Wile, Andrew Pudewa doing sessions. They are free for 24 hours after being broadcast. Pretty sure everything is from a Christian point of view though as all the speakers are Christian. Get daily inspiration from a variety of experts on what happens after homeschooling high school. This is important as you prepare for the next stage in life. (See the full article for descriptions & times for each class listed below.) Dr. Jay Wile · Tuesday, 2/13/2018 - Advice For Students Headed to Colleg · Monday, 2/19/2018 - Textbook Myths and How to Deal with Them Dr. Dale Callahan · Thursday, 2/15/2018 - How to Find Your Calling · Thursday, 2/22/2018 - Entrepreneurship After High School Hal & Melanie Young · Monday, 2/12/2018 - Playing in the Big Leagues · Tuesday, 2/20/2018 - Struggling Learners in High School & College Andrew Pudewa · Friday, 2/16/2018 - Strategies for Winning the College Writing Game Woody Robertson · Wednesday, 2/21/2018 - Study Like a Genius: Unlocking Your Brain Lee Binz · Friday, 2/23/2018 - Super Scholarships for Humble Homeschoolers

Perhaps, the Hard Math books by Ellison? I've been using the Elementary ones which have been plenty challenging. There's some easy stuff in there, but it goes quickly to more challenging. Sort of like remember this...then let's do this with what you know. Topics that were covered that may be of interest to you are base numbering systems, tesselations, cryptarihms, interesting extensions about primes, interesting explorations about distributive property and squares (but I remember seeing some of this in Beast at some point), modular arithmetic, combinatroics, interesting exploration of prime factorization, He also does math topics you have familarity with but there is exploration into aspects of those topics that aren't generally seen in regular curricula. I've only seen that sort of discussion pop up in Beast. So it just explores math not normally covered which is something you totally have the luxury of doing because time is on your side. We will likely get the next middle school level because it's been a good experience. Not sure which level you would like better though. My son is doing JA and wrapped up HOE recently so I would imagine he's a a similar level? My son gets plenty out of the elementary level and has worked about 1/2 way through. I also have Mathematics: A Human Endeavor which does not require algebra for it to be used.

If you are thinking about History of US by Joy Hakim, the concise edition published by K12 (you can easily get these used for a good price). There are four volumes versus the 11 volume one which is targeted to middle schoolers. It would work for your 9 year old and possibly as a read aloud for the youngers. It's what I am using right now with my 9 year old.

My son loves VP self-paced history. It would make the most sense to save your American history read-alouds for the last two courses in the series. You can take them out of order, but the latter courses feel older and the topics are more mature (lots of wars that are more present). I found that the last two years are pretty much American-centric in history so it isn't a "world" history at all for those two courses. So if you are worried she will miss out doing the VP series, she won't being missing that at all. What she will be missing is a world history. I also have to be honest and say that while I really like the program, it is very Euro-centric/Western Civilzation focused. This as opposed to Story of the World for example. As you can tell by my siggy, I use multiple history program because 1) my kid really likes it and 2) every program has a particular slant or emphasis. I find value in each program I use. Hope this helps put your mind at ease about missing American history.

I am wondering about this as well as I signed up for my son to do Math Kangaroo at the RSM center.

I would put them at the grade level they are working at. Prodigy is just for practicing skills anyways, it takes you through an assessment to identify areas of mastery and areas of weakness and is designed to be adaptive. FWIW, when I put mine in a 5th grade last year when he was doing SM5/BA4, it ended up assessing him at 6th grade. Hope that helps.

It's a bit more complicated than that as you would be forming a legal entity like a non-profit or a corporation. There are legal organizing documents and other things you would have to be in compliance with. Filing a tax return (990 or 1120). A business license to operate. You would need some sort of board of directors to oversee the group. You definitely would need liability insurance for the school and for the board of directors. If you are a legal school, you definitely are going to be on the hook for making sure that anyone you hire or allow to volunteer has been adequately screened to avoid anyone with a criminal background. If you are hiring anyone, then you have to deal with employment law and compliance issues, adequate supervision of any employees and volunteers, and payroll. Plus someone competent will need to do the accounting as well. It gets complicated really fast.

RS4K has been a favorite over here. We also really like Berean Science (Dr. Wile's elementary series). I have used Apologia, but the only one I really liked out of the elementary so far was the Chemistry & Physics one. I have the Anatomy one, but I haven't used it yet. We've done all the other ones. I have Shepherd Sicene Life Science on the shelf. I like what I've seen flipping through it, but I haven't used it yet. It's on deck for next year.

Have you looked at the second and third books after Jousting Armadillos? That would be what I would look at or Jacob's. http://www.arborcenterforteaching.org/publications/?category=Arbor+Algebra

I think it is amazing you are doing language at this deep of a level and want to. My kiddo is so STEM pointy that languages take more background role. I keep it alive and active, but it's not more than that right now or ever has been. It's all about pursuing science and math.

This is interesting. How do the fees work out? If you completed Spanish 3 and Spanish 4, were you charged a full year tuition for each course?

CompusScholar (used to sell as KidCoder and TeenCoder under Homeschool Programming a few years back) has classes. They've been around for a really long time. http://www.compuscholar.com/homeschool/

If you have a Costco membership, they often have these sorts of workbooks in the warehouse at a good discount off retail prices. They stock a lot in late spring for the lead into summer as there is high demand for these sorts of workbooks to keep skills fresh over the summer breaks.

At least with the last three, there are reputable online providers for those to support higher studies.

Well, for us, we have 3 going on. However, it's more like one tends to dominte at any given time (either Latin or French). We swap those out depending on what we have going on. We always give Chinese some degree effort to keep it running along most of the time and active. I'm looking at increasing Chinese effort though it's a band width issue since we have a lot of other stuff going on right now. It is something I do think about as we plug along how to make this actually work once we start thinking about high school credits so I have already resolved that unless my son expresses a strong desire to pursue a Latin studies, I am okay with bowing out of Latin after middle school. On our current pace, he will complete Latin Alive within his middle school years. We are committed to keeping Chinese for heritage reasons. French is easy enough for me to teach him with right now because it's what I learned back in the day. Though I think Spanish might be useful given we are in CA.

My impression was that the MK Canada test is easier than the US one based on the Canada tests that my son did and the actual ones in the US. The questions are identical to US one, but the US one seems to have more questions in total and more that are on the higher point value questions.

There's also this lending library of dissection alternatives including models. You just have to pay for shipping I believe. http://thesciencebank.org/index.php?route=common/home

Would she be okay with virtual alternatives? http://www.pcrm.org/research/edtraining/dissectionalt/wata/online-alternatives

Try looking at Edhesive courses. https://edhesive.com/courses Their Java one is an AP course though. The intro class is python. I'm pretty sure the Intro class is $125.

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Just a quick update, I just noticed that for Schole Academy, the course description for Latin for Children A & B is now 3x a week for 45 to 60 minutes. I know that Schole has a policy of students may not miss more than 6 classes and they don't record for later viewing as a standard. You can request to view the class if you miss, but it is on a request basis. There are no times scheduled yet, but I am guessing it must be a MWF schedule as that would make the most sense. The schedule is going to dictate whether we continue with Schole or switch to WHA.

All the feedback on TPS seems to be from years ago or only about their high school English classes? It doesn't seem like there's much discussion about this provider on the forums. I'm curious about the quality of courses, any specific teachers who were great, the level work load of specific classes, are the grade level accurate, what the platform is like, and what the interaction in the classes are like.

Roadrunner, WTMA offers that but not as a single course. You have to pair the Lit with the History course to get the integrated GB course.