I know you can get a discount of some kind at the homeschool buyers co-op

well isn't that frightening!!!! If that boy is innocent I hope they get him home quick.

at the Co-op it is being sold in bundles. Is that the difference

oh I cut out the writing a long time ago and I know what you mean about the pictures. :grouphug:

wait!! McRuffy has colorful workbooks, cutting and pasting and games??? Gonna have to check that out too. I am seriously lovin all you people right now. :grouphug: The tears are gone and I am feeling much better.

alright I am definitly going to find a way to do this with more hands on activities and movement (I did that with Horizons Math and it works) and I went ahead and purchased a subscription to click n read since it is for sell at the homeschool buyers co-op right now. We will see if he likes working on the computer. I am also going to look at happy phonics since we play a lot of math games. Maybe it will work for reading too. He is asking me to read to him now so I will do some more research later. He really is the cutest sweetest thing. 100el just isn't working for him and I need to accept that. I am going to go hide it so I don't have to look at it anymore today ;p

When I started How to Read in 100 Easy Lessons with my 6yr old son it was amazing. I loved hearing him sound things out and nearly cried with joy when he read his first three letter word. Now we are only on lesson 22 and I want to pull my hair out. He has become an extream wiggle willy. I can't get him to focus at all and after saying every sound he immediatly starts moving around and looking at other things and looses focus. I just had to stop in the middle of the lesson and send him to his room so I didn't just spank him out of frustration. I have tried taking a break from lessons and I have tried doing it everyday so it is routine. I just can't open that yellow book anymore. :crying: I need something new that will work for my ADD wiggle willy boy. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas or thoughts??? My stomach is literally nausous from holding in my frustrations so I didn't take them out on him. He is just so sweet and smiles the whole time he is jumping around and looking around. gah:confused:

Thank you so much for all of your replies. TOG and science are definitly just icing on the cake but my son gets very bored with just math, phonics, and handwriting everyday. I probably need to hit Mardel and pick up a book on what exactly my son is expected to learn in first grade soI KNOW we have the basics covered. Thanks again for the suggestions everyone. I am off to research your suggestions :)

very nice. Thanks!

Alright I am super new at this and I know I am going to use Tapestry of Grace, Horizons Math, and A Reason for Science for my 1st grade son next fall. What else do I need? Grammar? Spelling? Handwriting? Any suggestions? Am I missing anything? This year we are doing 100EL Horizons math A reason for handwriting and reading lots of books :) sometimes we play with science and history.

So my son is in Kinder and we are going through How to Read in 100 Easy Lessons? What should I buy for first grade. I was looking at Happy Phonics and Explode the Code because he is a bit of a wiggle willy but is that just another program to teach him to read like 100EL or are those programs for someone who can already read? Am I making any sense? Any advice here is appreciated because I really didn't even consider homeschooling until the middle of his Kindergarden year a couple of months ago. Everything is new to me. Thanks so much Jamie