My daughter was 7 I believe when we read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It is one of her favorite books. We've read it twice. We read half of Matilda with an audio book and never finished it. We recently read the BFG (she is 9) and she loved it. I would have been okay with her reading the BFG at 7 or 8.

Kim and Duncan I am 9. Can you put my fan art up on your video.

I spelled the bigger words out.... so that's how she knew which order. She is 9.....

Thank you :) I will do Writing With Ease style writing using books she will enjoy. I appreciate everyone's input! Reading is for sure the priority. A lot of it is confidence.

3rd grader, No real history background because when i tried before she hated it. Like, to the point of tears. Slow reader. I want to work on getting her faster. Loves science, doesn't love math but is good at it. Reading: Happy Phonics and McGraw-Hills, Read and Learn with Classic Stories (Someone posted a way of using HP with a reader, and I loved it. I already have these readers. She will read and tap when she doesn't know a word, and then we will work on those sounds/spellings with Happy Phonics) Science Apologia Zoology 2 with the lapbook CD & some anatomy on the side through real books because she likes that. Math Beast Academy grade 3 + Math Mammoth grade 3 I am going to let her flip flop. I was also thinking about getting a Math through baking book that I thought would be a nice breather on fridays. History SOTW Vol 1. I played her the audio version and she claimed to love it. She is an audio learner. (Which i think is why she is good at math, so much of it is done verbally.) So I thought i'd get the audio + paper back and the activity book. Art and music are just whatever tickles our fancy that week. And I have her doing P.E. this year. 1 day a week as a classical P.E. type, and 2 days a week where she is practicing volley ball skills. We are going to be doing couch potato to 5K starting tomorrow because we want to do a bubble bash 5K in October.

We did Apologia Zoology birds last year and plan on doing underwater creatures this year. We liked it a lot. The experiments are fun and use household stuff which makes it easy. My daughter loved it. I plan on sticking with Apologia.

I am thinking about moving to Washington state. Can any one link me to the laws on a site I don't have to sign up for? Washington parents, what has your experience been like?

My daughter is ready for 3A Beast Academy. Part of me really wants to do both MM and BA since MM went so well last year. She doesn't like MM, but I personally am really impressed with how things are explained. I feel like it helped ME do basic math easier and quicker just reading the lessons to her. I think it is a great program, she on the other hand just wants to do BA. I am torn. I'm thinking about just getting 3A MM and 3A BA and seeing how it goes juggling, and then purchasing the rest of BA as we go along. Do you think it is over kill? She did really well with MM aside from being bored. But I was thinking If I cut the # of problems by half she won't dislike it so much. Last year she did ALL the problems. Opinions??

Are there any all in one type curriculum where science is the base? My daughter is reluctant to do anything other then science, although she is good at math. Is there a curriculum out there that is built around science? Edit to add: She is 8 and a slow reader, but we are finally making progress in reading. So yay!

So i've decided to just embrace the fact that we will likely be doing school through the summer every year to keep us caught up and also to delve more into things she likes a lot. So, here is what I have planned. She hasn't really done history. I tried an online history with her this year, but it didn't go well (for me) so i dropped it. I want to try Story of The World. I never realized how inexpensive it was, or else I would have tried it a long time ago. Also, i want her to play Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego. It helped me tremendously as a kid, I won a school geography bee simply from playing this game lol. She responds so well to "game" learning. She rejected geography hardcore after using A Child's Geography, Explore His Earth. So i hope the game will reintroduce the topic to her in a more exciting engaging way so that we can start doing more hands on things with it during the next school year. So that will cover history/geography for a while. For math, she loves Life of Fred, so I was thinking since she is really good at math, we can just go through these books and keep it casual for the summer. I also have an animal math book around here somewhere that I lost shortly after buying >.< That i think she will enjoy doing for some easy breezy math and next year start Beast Academy which she is really looking forward to. For grammar, I have been doing free online sheets, but I just saw the book Fix it, and it looks great, so I thought we'd get the first book. For science I am getting her Sassafras Science Adventures Vol 1 and Vol 2 (zoology and anatomy respectfully.) As well as Blood and Guts. She loves science to death, and I suspect these will only last through the summer. We also have EdTechLens The Rainforest Journey. I think we will do the Rainforest Journey during the school year maybe. She keeps requesting Apologia Anatomy for the school year, so we might do both, or just Anatomy, I don't know. We will see where her interest lie closer to the school year. Reading is still a struggle. So we are still just sloshing along with her reading to me and me helping her. She gets spelling (cause its a lot like math if you think about it...) and is quickly picking up parts of speech, but the actual reading part is hard for her.

She has just taught herself division with 1s and 2s using the game. I told her on the first gate, "How many times can 1 go into 2?" and bam... she has 1s and 2s... It has yet to show her threes...

Thank you ladies! Today went very smoothly. ♥ I let her go long enough to prove she had it down, and then moved on. Multiplication is going to come easy for her. One of the things we did today was skip counting by 3s, (something we have done 1 other time for fun) and she would do one, then I would do one, and then she would do one... she missed once, and caught herself. So, i'm just going to trust her brain. lol I can't project my own 3rd grade math fears on to her and I can't repeat the things that happened to my brother and husband through the public school setting because of those fears. Homeschooling -is- largely in part about believing and trusting in your childs abilities so that they can work at their own speed. The plan is, just let her soar, and support her when/if it stops being easy. In fact, today... letting her skip around some, when we were done she immediately got onto the kindle, and downloaded the 3rd grade version of a math game she likes and is playing it. ♥ ♥ Thanks guys. :)

I just saw that they sell Beast academy in parts. I thought it was all sold together. It doesn't look too expensive at all... So maybe I will just let her blast through MM and order 3A Beast Academy... She already wants to do Anatomy over the summer... If she likes Beast Academy, maybe she will want to do that through the summer as well. I can let her work on MM, read life of fred, and we have this other math book she really wants to do (which i said we'd do in between workbook 2A and 2B for MM) It is beneath her skill, but will hopefully reinvigorate her math drive since it is all zoo related. I really am confident she knows 2A already... so maybe I'll use it more for review.

So as of right this minute, the only things in the book she doesn't know is the multiplication. With the clocks, she found it unbearable, so rather then go through the subject straight through, i had her do one page of it, and a page of something further in the book. Maybe with B2 (which i have looked through quit a bit and know she knows 80% of, and can pick the other up way easy because it is just an extension of things already covered >.<) I'll flip back and forth between the stuff she knows, and the multiplication. I see for A3 she needs to know how to write in the multiplication table in 12 minutes... which is crazy, i can't even do that. lol But she is a verbal learner, and I can see her picking it up quickly. So maybe we will work on that a lot as well. If we were to just go straight through the book Starting January 1rst, she would get done by the end of February unless the multiplication really stumps her... Had I done math every day with her, she'd have finished the A2 and B2 already. I've promised her that if she can get this done we will do something different for 3rd grade. We have read the first lesson of Beast Academy, and she seems into it. I just don't know if i am hurting her in the moment. I have a brother who was not challenged enough and he dropped out. My husband was not challenged enough and ended up getting his GED instead (he just graduated college valedictorian... His grandfather is a master engineer which includes a masters degree in math.) So she has these brilliant genes, and I don't want to hold her back BUT I also went my 3rd grade year missing out on math and it hurt me a lot... so I am scared of her not having a strong foundation too. Agh being a parent is hard... For the record I did give her the placement test... she just learned it quickly and continues to learn it quickly. Even with long gaps... in fact i'd say with gaps she comes back stronger. xD

Yes I meant beast academy. Lol monster university is a movie. Lol