After semi-retiring from 16 years of homeschooling, I have lots of treasures for sale. Check it out in the classifieds. You people are great. I’ve soaked up so much advice from you all for many years as a lurker, but just this year was brave enough to start posting a little. You’re just all so smart and I sincerely appreciate how dedicated you all are to your children! I’ve tried to price my books very fairly, but if you want to make a reasonable offer, please do. I need to downsize my book storage to make room for grandbabies visiting! This will probably be the first/biggest batch of offerings, but there will be more since I’m plum tired out tonight, and also I will be doing more sorting/cleaning as time goes by. I’m saving some of my best ones for my 20yo daughter that wants to homeschool and for the rest of my “partial†homeschooling and also for homework help/reference. So anyway, take a look.

After semi-retiring from 16 years of homeschooling, I have lots of treasures for sale. Check it out in the classifieds. You people are great. I’ve soaked up so much advice from you all for many years as a lurker, but just this year was brave enough to start posting a little. You’re just all so smart and I sincerely appreciate how dedicated you all are to your children! I’ve tried to price my books very fairly, but if you want to make a reasonable offer, please do. I need to downsize my book storage to make room for grandbabies visiting! This will probably be the first/biggest batch of offerings, but there will be more since I’m plum tired out tonight, and also I will be doing more sorting/cleaning as time goes by. I’m saving some of my best ones for my 20yo daughter that wants to homeschool and for the rest of my “partial†homeschooling and also for homework help/reference. So anyway, take a look.

I'm a little slow here, but just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents. Hands-on isn't for everyone, some kids grasp the abstract just fine without the concrete. It seems like I read somewhere not to quiz, or not to ask what is 9-2, as it puts pressure on them to formulate the right answer, and some kids REALLY don’t like the risk of being wrong. It works better to let them recognize, find, or search for the right answer among a few options. This can build confidence, then later the “drill†can be presented. You'll get it figured out!

I agree with pretty much everyone here--go ahead with the next level, and the next, etc. since it's phonics. Off the top of my head, the only thing I can forsee that might happen is that the successive books might not quite "fit" her as well since they're likely written at a higher interest level, even though they fit her at her academic level. But who knows, this may not be the case. If that situation does pop up, just find another program. It's been good for my girls to sometimes do a subject twice from two different authors/programs, since the content varies a little, and the scope can too, so it's a very enriched way to learn! Good job! Many would like to be in your shoes :)

We have a lot of grandparents' names used as middle names in our family.

Wonderful! Thanks everyone.

My dd used blue level/grade 5 for one year, mainly just for the vocabulary in context feature. I got both the student edition and teacher edition on Amazon. I also know Kolbe Academy sells them, but I believe you have to be registered with them to be able to purchase the teacher edition from them. I believe you can register for just one course with them--or at least you used to be able to as of a few years ago. We didn't use the tests.

Need tried-and-true moist and chewy brownie recipe that uses cocoa powder, not baking chocolate, chocolate syrup, etc.

Maybe audible.com??? It looks like they have 639 titles listed in the kids - nonfiction category. I saw a book on volcanoes, one on black holes, and one about "Adventures in Sound", for example.

I have at least one very independent learner, so I know what you mean! I see some nice suggestions here so far. Here's a second suggestion for Science (secular): Science Fusion 3rd grade To keep it independent, you skip the "Inquiry" lessons, which, although they make up about 25%-ish of the total lesson count, they are mostly of a supplemental nature, and not the core concepts. There are also independent digital lessons to go along with the book lessons, but they essentially teach the same thing as the book. Here's a third suggestion for Science: Purposeful Design Science 3rd grade

It's been 4 weeks today that both my two youngest (10 and 12) started public school for this year (12yo began in Feb. last year), and I'm still a wreck! I'm giving myself about 2 more weeks (I don't handle major changes well); by then I will probably have adjusted. That's neat that you have a combined program and that your kids like it! I'd prefer combined, but there's not much available like that where we live (pretty rural/conventional).

We hesitated to announce #5. With us, some of the comments were not just about how many kids we had, but how old we are going to be when #5 graduates (54 and 60). It's not that we started having babies that late (I was 22--that's not old!), but they were spread out a bit: 2 1/2 to 5 years between each one. Oh, and Congratulations!

Hahaha, I was just going to say raw plain cabbage. Someone often grabs a raw chunk when I'm cutting it to make cole slaw. Also, 12yo has been eating raw green beans lately, although she gets that one from her dad who always eats a few when he's picking them in the garden.

Just a suggestion, you could have more grades per course in the 9th and 10th and work towards less in 11th and 12th and that way she would be prepared for college. Use regular/questions/"homework" assignments as more grades in addition to the unit tests in Kolbe.

It has been around 6 years since I had to deal with this, but it seems like yes, there is only one code for homeschoolers and it doesn't matter that it shows NY. Like Sebastian said, it's probably since that's their location. My memory could be wrong, but I'm just saying what I think I remember.