This is our second time for 3rd grade, but this child is so different from the first! Bible: James Math: Teaching Textbooks 3 History: Mystery of History 3 (with brother) Science: Apologia Science (co-op class), not sure which one they are doing yet English: Cursive, Marie's Words, First Language Lessons 2, All About Reading 3 and 4, Spelling You See B or C (this is a new one for us!) Foreign Language: Greek Alphabet Code Cracker Elective: PE (co-op class) I think that's it, along with some family read alouds, but I feel like I'm missing something.....

This is our first time for 7th grade, and this is for my 'tech savvy' boy Bible: James Math: Teaching Textbooks 7 History: Mystery of History 3 (co-op class) Science: Apologia General Science (co-op class) English: Megawords 1, IEW SWI-B, Fix It! Grammar, Marie's Words, 2 Progeny Press guides Foreign Language: Greek Alphabet Code Cracker Elective: KidCoder Programming I think that's it, along with some family read aloud a, but I feel like I'm missing something.....

I had to double check my signature to remember what we switched! ;-) DS11 Switched from Life of Fred: Decimals to Teaching Textbooks 6. He needed to strengthen his long division and multiplication skills before continuing with Life of Fred, and he may wind up doing both Dropped Grammar Revolution as WordSmith Apprentice had as much grammar as he could stomach at a time in it already Instead of doing Apologia Botany as a family, he is doing it on his own. The other kids aren't ready for it DS8 Dropped Sonlight B and are doing Story of the World 2 instead. He didn't mind it, but I hate reading from Usbourne history spines and it seemed like that was what they mostly used Will finish All About Reading 2 around Christmas and start #3 He's hit a wall in All About Spelling, so will supplement until he's ready to go back (not sure with what yet) DD5 Nothing, she's the easy one! :-) We will need a new handwriting book soon, or go on to copywork as she's almost done with her first one. For me, this is a really good list. I guess after 7 years I'm learning to be more realistic! :-)

My son loved the Rush Revere series: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s?k=rush+revere

My 6th grader will be doing Apologia's botany this year on Mondays/Wednesdays (with the 2nd grader doing coloring pages from Apologia's website and other sources), and my 2nd grader will be listening to Quark on Tuesdays/Thursdays (with hopefully the 6th grader listening in) and we will do experiments and projects on Fridays. Ideally, but we will see how it plays out! :-)

Yes. :-) I am only teaching 3 out of my 5 next year (2 are too young) and I have had to let go of what I thought our homeschool would look like not just because of the time I have to teach, but also because of my children's personalities. I am moving my soon-to-be 6th grader to a more independent curriculum and slightly straying from the 4 year rotation. I combine when possible, delay grammar until 3rd, and just aim for exposure in Latin. I am also starting to use workbooks more than I ever thought that I would. It's not my ideal, but I know it's still a lot better for our family than anything else would be!

We just finished AAS 5, and I did not like it as well. A lot of the book seemed to be "look at this word, and help your kid figure out how to spell it." I am going to R&S this next year for my son because of that as well as I like the idea of him spending more time on a word list than what we were doing. He is the kid that likes to figure out the easiest way to do work, so he would memorize the rule in order to pass the spelling list just to move on. With R&S, though, I am going to incorporate the AAS word review box by making flash cards of all the words and then reviewing previously learned words each week with him. I hope some of this helps!

All that you really need is the workbook. It has the CD for the songs as well as the teacher guide in the back. I used it with my 3rd grader (at the time) and his little brother (in Kindergarten) would go around chanting, "Meum praenomen est?" (I may have misspelled that!) So, even though he wasn't doing the worksheets he was still learning from it. :-)

We did not use ECC with an 8th grader, but we have used it. The idea behind the book basket is that it is not required reading, but you would only put books for the current week in the basket. Also, I believe that in lieu of the book basket for 7th and 8th grade, you would use the supplement instead which is scheduled (http://www.mfwbooks.com/item/11882/7th-8th-Grade-Supplement-for/) Hope that helps!

We did TC in 5th, planning on WS for 6th, and WWS1 for 7th. :-)

This is the link to where Susan talks about her recommendations for after WWE3.... http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/509138-if-youre-using-wwe-or-wws/

With AAR, you don't have to spend a certain amount of time on it. It is very flexible and the amount you spend will be based on your child, but they do recommend you do it every day. Some people at a timer for 15 minutes and just continue on from where they stopped each day. I do love AAR, I just hate the cost! :-) HTH!

My DS 10 uses it as his main curriculum. He loves it and says that it is the only math he didn't forget over the summer because it's actually interesting. You can see if your library has it so that you can try it before you buy it. HTH!

I will be homeschooling 3 next year (6th, 2nd, and K) with 2 littles running around. For K, we just focus on reading, handwriting, and math. 1st through 4th we combine history with SOTW, and history is independent for 5th and beyond (with afternoon reviews). Science is combined or outsourced and we use Apologia. I like the progression of language arts (and history) that Timberdoodle recommends for 5th and up (except spelling. We've used AAS before but this year we are trying Rod & Staff to see how that works). We are going to try ELTL with audio books for 1st through 4th (it flopped with daily readings). We have quiet time in the afternoons where they have to sit on their bed and free read. We do read aloud in the afternoon while they have a snack or play with legos. Math is different for each kid as they each have different learning styles, so the oldest gets mom for teaching first, then does their independent work and we rotate through to the youngest who doesn't have independent work yet. I also have bins of educational toys or online options like ABC Mouse or Prodigy Math for them to use while they wait for Mom. We are pretty much done with 'seat work' by lunch and just save read alouds and art for the afternoon. It's what works for us!

Since you like hands on and STEM, you might like this: http://www.timberdoodle.com/Complete_Homeschool_Curriculum_PreK_p/999-0000.htm It's a schedule and a variety of several publishers's curriculum for Pre K that is very hands on, and if you already have some of it, you can just buy the schedule. Hope it helps! :-) ETA: We love RightStart Math too!