Arizona has large homeschool communities. Most of them are Christian groups. (I think that is normal everywhere?) We are also a major snowbird destination.

Here is my Core D chronological list w/ notes. Hope it helps! Early Native Americans: The Very First Americans, North American Indians, Incans Aztecs Mayans, The Corn Grows Ripe, Tikta’ Liktak 1492 Pedro’s Journal 1527 Walk the World’s Rim 1540 The Tree in the Trail 1607 Pocahontas and the Strangers 1609 A Lion to Guard Us 1621 The Thanksgiving Story; Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims 1687 The Witch of Blackbird Pond - the Puritans in the Connecticut colony 1706-1790 Benjamin Franklin - Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia 1700s early - Om-kas-toe 1707 The Courage of Sarah Noble 1721 The Secret of the Sealed Room - Benjamin Franklin is a character 1732-1799 George Washington - Meet George Washington, George Washington: Our First Leader 1743-1826 Thomas Jefferson - Meet Thomas Jefferson 1750 The Skippack School - German immigrants 1756 The Matchlock Gun 1760s Sign of the Beaver - after French and Indian War “Seven Years War†1765-1815 Robert Fulton - Robert Fulton, Boy Craftsman 1765-1825 Eli Whitney - The Story of Eli Whitney 1767ish Calico Bush - pioneers in Maine, The Bears on Hemlock Mountain (no date indicated, I based my guess off of “Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, To the Inhabitants of the British Colonies," which were published in the Pennsylvania Chronicle between December 2, 1767, and February 15, 1768) 1773-1838 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1774 And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, Mr. Revere and I 1775-1783 American Revolutionary War - Toliver’s Secret, Phoebe the Spy 1775 Johnny Tremain (Forbes) 1777-1778 The Winter at Valley Forge 1783 Sarah Whitcher’s Story 1784 The Cabin Faced West 1787 U.S. Constitution - If You Were There When They Signed the U.S. Constitution 1788-1812 Sacagawea - Naya Nuki 1788-1850 Adoniram Judson: Bound for Burma - first missionary from North America 1800-1816 The Journeyman - immigrant painter 1803 Louisiana Purchase - REFERENCE POINT, NOT A BOOK 1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition (Neuberger) 1812-1815 The War of 1812 - Justin Morgan Had a Horse 1835 Swift Rivers - early logging Minnesota 1890? Wyoming granted statehood in 1890. Stone Fox is undated, but takes place in Wyoming. Today? Vostaas History “Spinesâ€: The Landmark History of the American People Vol. 1, The Light and the Glory, From Sea to Shining Sea Does not include non-history books: Bible, American Indian Prayer Guide, Lawn Boy, The Candymakers, A Child’s Introduction to Poetry

I opened an account on a different site and re-linked it. Hopefully that solves the problem!

Oh, no! OK, I will try a different program. Thanks for letting me know!

Just trying to make it easier for kids to figure out how knowledge translates to grades... Feel free to print and use, if you like. Edited to link to a place that doesn't report as suspicious. :) http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/How-Well-Do-I-Know-This-Grading-Poster-1603223

Yes, please!

:iagree: What she said! Really, you can do it. If you want to homeschool, just jump in. Our first year back homeschooling I had hyperemesis and then a baby. So, our daughter's only real subject was math - the rest was just reading books. She stayed at grade level with math, learned social studies and some science through reading, and increased her reading level by five grades. She also had plenty of time to hang out in the garden and do lots of art projects. Even at its minimum, homeschooling was successful for us and I don't doubt it would be for you too. :)

It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to take a good look around and see that she wasn't bitten by something while sitting in her box.

We use the activity guide mainly for the mapwork and review questions, but it is worth it for us.

I stick with curriculum until the urge to throw it against the wall gets really, really hard to resist. ;)

I wasn't trying to say that I am completely anti-boredom or that I feel the need to skip books. I think we have all been in the situation where a kid is upset and asking, "Why do I have to do this again?" and you look down and see a problem type that has been aswered 100% correctly the last 50 or so times similar sets were presented. On occasion, that is fine; I just would not want to subject anyone to a whole year of that! I do understand the need for mastery... You have no idea how many times we've had crying fits about TimezAttack. :lol:

Calming Tea: Thank you. We are 1/4 of the way through 4 and haven't purchased the 5th year books. So, if anything, I would want to skip 5, but it sounds like we shouldn't. My daughter just gets so bored when she feels like things are repetitive... Silver Moon: Thank you for sharing your experience with both 4 and 5. That was really helpful. I do let my girls work ahead, but then life happens and we miss days and never really get any farther ahead than we should be. :)

Calming Tea, we are in Horizons 4 and I was actually thinking it may be too easy. I have the workbooks for six, but no manual. Since you have both 4 and 5, would you mind comparing the Scope & Sequence for both years and telling me what concepts I would need to teach to skip? I don't think we need the review. I know it is a lot to ask, so if you don't have time, I completely understand. Thank you.

Harold and the Purple Crayon How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World The Runaway Bunny

From the "File" drop-down menu if I select 'print' it will allow me to send to printer or download as a PDF, but if I select 'share' it allows me to send a sharing link. You can choose for the link to be view only or to have both viewing and editing priveleges. Does that help? I hope so!