I think she is looking for the self paced history for 2 to 6th grade not the Omnibus ones.

I think you recognized the most important thing which is you absolutely can not outsource spiritual formation to the church. That is and always will be found in the family and under the leadership of parents. Your church is there to support that...but ultimately it is you. This is coming from me as a former youth director...your faith must be lived out authentically. They have to see that you love God and how that infuses the rest of your life and the choices you make as a family in how you invest your time. So, I would not discount what you are doing even though it doesn't feel cohesive. It isn't a script. That being said...I just heard Kara Powell speak. This is a book she has written called Sticky Faith. It was really powerful what she had to share: https://www.amazon.com/Sticky-Faith-Everyday-Ideas-Lasting/dp/0310329329/ref=pd_sim_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0310329329&pd_rd_r=ECTFJFHPH8BC6HWCP81C&pd_rd_w=fikik&pd_rd_wg=rsSLi&psc=1&refRID=ECTFJFHPH8BC6HWCP81C https://www.amazon.com/Sticky-Faith-Guide-Your-Family/dp/0310338972/ref=pd_bxgy_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0310338972&pd_rd_r=2ENZMDH37Z4KACDRTCEC&pd_rd_w=mfUOB&pd_rd_wg=3AhI4&psc=1&refRID=2ENZMDH37Z4KACDRTCEC She also has a couple of guides out for teens called Can I Ask That? These are the books that tackle those super hard questions that young people really want to know about. I also quite liked George Barna's Revolutionary Parenting which based on the research that he writes about in his book Raising Spiritual Champions. https://www.amazon.com/Revolutionary-Parenting-Research-Shows-Really/dp/1414339372/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1414339372&pd_rd_r=ECTFJFHPH8BC6HWCP81C&pd_rd_w=fikik&pd_rd_wg=rsSLi&psc=1&refRID=ECTFJFHPH8BC6HWCP81C https://www.amazon.com/Transforming-Children-into-Spiritual-Champions/dp/080101879X/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=080101879X&pd_rd_r=68JXQRCNDX65JCZQXNVV&pd_rd_w=Eljwi&pd_rd_wg=CqakZ&psc=1&refRID=68JXQRCNDX65JCZQXNVV

Possibly the Human Body Detectives?

Tania, Thanks for this link. I was looking at a Canakit Raspberry Pi 3 kit...but this looks much more interesting with the projects guide.

Maybe something from youthdigital.com or compuscholar,com. They have courses. I think Homeschool Buyers Co-op has deals for both and other providers. ETA: There's a free two month access for one of two courses from compuscholar.com on HSBC so you can try it out for the summer and see if he likes their format.

maybe reading the spark notes may help you paired with a literature guide? http://www.sparknotes.com

It was much easier to pull off a 800 on Math 2 than Math 1 in my experience.

Are you thinking about skipping 3A and 3B because of placement? There's good stuff in all the books. In particular, 3A's geometry was pretty challenging for both my husband and I as it introduced topics neither of us have ever seen. They are worth doing IMO. I use Beast a level behind where my son is in Singapore on purpose so that the focus is on problem solving skills and not mastering fundamentals.

I looked at my old email notifications. The sales have been in the spring around March. Then May or June. And then sometimes in Dec.

It does get incrementally harder if that is what you are asking. The lessons are super short. 10 minutes for us. 15 tops maybe. You can easily compact the whole thing by combining day 1 + day 2 and day 3 + day 4. This is what I do. A lot of users do it double speed. Or in our case, if we did it 5 days a week, then we finish 2 1/2 weeks of scheduled lessons. That's what I did with WWE1 and with WWE2. Looking back I can see how the process works up over time to build the skill of narration by the questions. I'm pretty pleased from where we started just naming a fact from the reading selection to being able to narrate an actual summary in 2 or 3 sentences without getting sidetracked by unimportant details from the selection. Also, spend as much time as you need to repeat for dictation. I break it up into phrases and add each bit until he is able to repeat the whole thing. I am actually surprised at how well dictation is going. I expect it will get harder as the dictation passages in WWE3 are longer.

Maybe The Complete Book of US History. https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Book-United-States-History/dp/1561896799 Right grade level, colorful, inexpensive.

32 weeks but it is divided unevenly. Sept- early Dec. Jan to mid-May. 85% of our classes run for a full year. It's up to the teaching parent.

I'm pretty sure that the teacher behind language city is the one who taught French at online G3.

If you have not worked mental math strategies then those problems are going to look overwhelming. The Fan Math Express Math Strategies workbooks are pretty good for teaching these skills incrementally with practice. The problem pages in CWP assume that you have been learning the strategies that lead up to those problems. If you haven't been doing it, then it will seem too much. If you have not done any mental math strategies, you may want to start at level one. IMO, addition/subtraction/multiplication/division facts aren't really mental math strategies, but part of your tool box you use to do mental math if that makes sense. I found my son gained a much better sense of mathematical relationships and a much better working understanding of the commutative properties of addition and multiplication working on this skill set of these mental math strategies (if they are not just memorizing the strategy but understand why it works that way).

I don't know anything about the Catholic program...but LFC is in our plans for this year because he likes the activities and games that make it fun. I need Latin to be enjoyable for us to continue on. He likes the supplemental Headventureland. So that is pretty much why we are doing LFC.

I started Chinese before K. I'm not a native Mandarin Chinese speaker. Latin and French are both in the mix as well right now. So, not crazy to me. =)

Oh...she shared the link for the syllabus with me for the Latin for Younger Learners class here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fPRNUSKjXNWCOJSnzOiW-z9a08Kce-fUohnfxkqy2Uk/mobilebasic?pli=1

I have a friend locally who did it. She didn't like it because she felt like it was too unstructured/free form. I think she prefers a more structured class/program so I think it was more a style issue if that makes sense. ETA: She is into languages for her daughter. For example, she has her daughter (Caucasian) attending a Chinese school on the weekend plus she has a Chinese tutor during the week. I won't send my own son (we are American born Chinese) to that school because it would be too intense for him, and the style of instruction is very Chinese (think strict and bordering on harsh/rigid) as they are taught be overseas born Chinese teachers. I share this because it probably gives you an idea of why it wasn't a good fit for my friend.

bluejay... I wrote a long review about SM here: https://lifeatwarpspeed.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/singapore-math/

If your student needs more explicit instruction, I would suggest Fan Math's Process Skills in Problem Solving instead of CWP. CWP does not have instruction which can be an issue for users unfamiliar with Singapore Style word problems.

There's lots of math to occupy kids before algebra. Add in more challenging things like Zaccaro, Borac, Hard Math or MOEMS. You can do Michael Serra's math books as well. Jacob's Mathematics a Human Endeavor is filled with topics outside of the traditional math sequence. There are some interesting math offerings on Gifted Homeschoolers Forum this summer and fall. I love what regentrude said as well. This is pretty much what I am aiming for.

CWP = Singapore Math's Challenging Word Problems

@runningmom80 Did you have an update on how you liked the classes over there? I was wondering about the age ranges. Are they pretty firm on those?

Perhaps SM Intensive Practice Books and Challenging Word Problems. If I was doing BA as a spine and wanted to supplement for review, that's the way I would go. If you were looking for even more problem solving type problems. Zaccaro or Borac would be good.

Hmmm, my preference is 3-5, 3-6, 4-6 but not 4-8. I prefer group middle school grades together 6-8. Anyhow, I think Rebecca Keller's Real Science-4-Kids would work. While it is secular, it is Christian friendly. It's a little light to me for 6-8 graders. I'm using Dr. Wile's series for elementary to teach 3-5. I'm going to teach the next one (Science in the Age of Reason) for 3-6 next year as some of the kids want to continue with me. Possibly Apologia Elementary Chemistry and Physics would work as there are a fair number of labs in there for each chapter.