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  1. Some people unschool. It's not at all impossible to fix. Have you chosen a math? Or a language arts? Jump in there. Make sure that what you start with is sustainable for you right now. Maybe just do language arts and math for now, and leave the rest to documentaries. After a few weeks of consistency, then add another subject. But don't overload right away and risk crashing for yourself, either, you know?
  2. Level 3 would be fine. The definitions get memorized in levels 1 and 2, so when they get presented in level 3 you'll need to take a bit of extra time and review to memorize them.
  3. I'd be done at $20,000. I'm pretty sure I'd also be done at 1/2 hour commute every single day. The school offers a lot, but honestly the way you describe what they do and what the admission requirements are makes me think it would be pretty stressful and high-achievement oriented.
  4. Vocabulary from Classical Roots is workbook-based for grades 4/5/6.
  5. That may be location-dependent. I can't imagine there's a huge percentage of Trump supporters in the homeschool community around me, though there might be one or two. But I mean, if you find you're in a community where they harass you or your kids for any reason, there's a major problem with the community.
  6. It makes more sense to me working it backwards from how he said it. He's using six tens for 60, but then taking away one from each because it was 9s instead of 10s. So that's the 9*6 part. But you wanted 9*8, so he needs two more 9s, which is the doubled 9 he said first.
  7. Of those, I've only used Rightstart. I've literally never heard the criticism that kids can't move from 10 to 11. It hasn't been an issue for my three kids. In any math kids occasionally have trouble moving from one ten to the next, that's a developmental thing and works out at some point. Jumps around too much? It's pretty calculated jumping around. It's not a purely mastery program, and if parents want mastery then it will no doubt bother them. Most kids do occasionally need breaks for the subconscious to chew on the material for a while and are ready to leap forward again later, so I'm not a fan of pure mastery. How large are large numbers? It works addition through the thousands in the second level. It does millions and billions in level E. (D?) So, age 9? It's not super late, and of course you're free to introduce it yourself earlier if you want. Consider looking for materials used to save some money.
  8. What about Rightstart G and H? It's a geometric approach to middle school math, it's not high school geometry.
  9. Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind is working for us.
  10. Well, History of the World doesn't have a Modern one (yet?) so in the sense of needing modern history, there isn't one. Yes, you could use SOTW vol 4 as a framework this year, if you're willing to add plenty of higher level work to it. The Great Books approach would be great for that, and at least SOTW would give her somewhat of a sense of the timeline. For grade 10 are you talking about using SOTW 1&2? I really wouldn't. Vol 1 is written to the young. It is not at all suitable for grade 10 work, even if you add other books to it. Or maybe you were talking about the high school series? If you want to catch up a year and do modern again for grade 12, I would do History of the Ancient World as a read-aloud during the summer, with no assigned work, then do Medieval and onward for grade 10.
  11. Put away the lessons. Read aloud. In four months, try lessons again.
  12. Start with pictures before equations. Or cubes, or something. One colour for each thing, until you get the balance, it until it makes sense. So for this, (I'll imagine you have an infinite selection of coloured cubes) you could put three grey cubes (castles) and one gold cube (kings.) Okay, that's the first part. Maybe you'll have to adjust based on later parts, maybe not. So the next part, 7 princesses per King. YES! It's comparing to the same thing (Kings) in both parts, so no adjusting required. Phew. So you can toss 7 blue cubes out to represent your princesses, and you don't need to change the number of Kings or castles. Then you can look at what you have, and hopefully see what's needed for the equations. Would that kind of visualization process help you?
  13. One of the amazing things about homeschooling is realizing that not everything needs to be challenging... 😉 I'd say use what you have, let it be easy. That's okay!
  14. Try your local library first, if there's one nearby. My kids are really liking the YouTube channel Geography Now, but there is occasional language so you might want to preview. The BBC is also a wealth of educational videos on various topics, sorted by age. I wouldn't swear they cover geography but it's worth a gander.
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